Rationale of the Case Study:

- Case Study will allow the students to understand real world problems. Case studies expose students to a wide range of industries, organizations, functions and responsibility levels. This provides students the flexibility and confidence to deal with a variety of tasks and responsibilities in their careers.

INSTRUCTIONS

- Students are advised to go through assessment purpose, assessment objectives, questions, marks distribution, feedback to students, guidelines, late submission policy, rules, regulations and plagiarism policy etc. carefully

LEARNING OUTCOMES

1. Prepare Test environment for mail server.

2. Analyse various mail server Administration scenarios.

Task 1:

Write a work proposal about the requirements to perform Task 2. Submit a work proposal for this assignment by the end of week 7.
A report needs to be submitted in an MS Word document having the following things:

- Understanding of deliverables - a detail description of deliverables
- General overview of proposed plan - initial understanding and solution
- Resources identified
- Time schedule

Task 2:

Please read the following case study carefully and answer the questions given below.

A Multinational Construction Company is in operation for more than a decade with different departments in operation for planning, designing and architecture, all the departments in the company regularly interacts with each other and also with external contractors and engineers through email communication system for constant, frequent, timely access and file sharing among other members.
Due to the old architectural renderings of Mail Server, currently it clogged the company's e-mail servers affecting workflow and impeding progress on projects. So it caused a major disruption on their operation as they mainly depended on e-mail communication with clients.
So the above said company approached you to take over the matter and do the necessary steps to implement a stable and reliable communication systems infrastructure by considering the key benefit factors such as,
- Provide a Contingency Plan for Critical Situations
- Ease of use flexible Operations
- On time Service Level Commitment
- Expertise Support Continuous synchronization for latest file versions
- Able to provide Disaster Recovery (DR) Solution for Critical Systems

Assume that you have been assigned with the complete responsibility of getting the work done. As a first step, you are asked to get a case study proposal for the proposed cost effective communication system. You must do a research based review of literature on the available communication systems; short list the preferred communication system, based on your study and critically analyze their services and provide a detailed report that will answer the following questions:

Question 1:

Critically compare and contrast your preferred communication system with other communication systems in terms of work flow and administration scenarios. Provide justification for your choice.

Question 2:

Analyse the various risk factors associated with implementing the recommended communication systems. Also discuss on how it can be minimized.

Question 3:

Recommend the company to deal with your suggested communication systems by submitting a detailed design report in the form of a network trial environment for mail server communication.

Question 4:

To support your case study analysis report, Identify and analyze research based article related to your recommended communication system, include the article summary of your reflection in your report and also refer the article link as evidence.

Task 3:

Be ready for a viva with your teacher to demonstrate your knowledge in preparing the assignment. Produce evidences (if any) during your presentation.

Note: Task 3 is compulsory. No marks will be awarded to task 2 without viva.

Evaluation Criteria:

You would be evaluated on the following:

- Originality of answer, i.e. writing in your own words with some amount of referenced material with proper literature underpinning.
- Oral examination: Your Assignment marks are based on the VIVA which will be conducted upon submission of assignment. The VIVA will be based on the questions/tasks given in the assignment. ZERO mark will be awarded to the student if she / he is absent for VIVA.

- Correct information analysis and presentation in document form.
- Adequate referencing and citation provided.
- Examples can be provided.