Transport Network Design Assignment-Pearson BTEC Level 5 Higher National Diploma in Computing and Software Development (Edexcel HND)

Higher National Certificate/Diploma in
Computing
Assessment Brief
Student Name/ID Nawoda Deshan Balasooriya
Number M19941109004
Unit Number and 15: Transport Network Design
Title
Academic Year 2020
Unit Tutor Mr. Dhishan Dhammearatchi
Assignment Title Create and Configure a fault tolerant
organizational Network
Issue Date 02nd July 2020
Submission Date 02nd August 2020
IV Name & Date Mr. Nimesh Pollwaththage – 29th July 2020



Submission Format
The submission is in the form of a single documents and a file:

1. A detailed report that provides more thorough, evaluated or
critically reviewed technical information on all of the topics;
2. GNS3 File should be attached.

You are required to make use of headings, paragraphs, subsections
and illustrations as appropriate, and all work must be supported
with research and referenced using the Harvard referencing
system.




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,Unit Learning Outcomes
LO1 Explore LAN design principles and their application in the
network design process

LO2 Implement a network using LAN design principles based on a
predefined set of requirements
LO3 Produce an appropriate WAN solution to a set of organisational
requirements
LO4 Solve a range of network related problems using appropriate
troubleshooting techniques and methods
Assignment Brief and Guidance
*Please note that assignment guidance is for reference only and should be more specific
in detail to meet customised needs.

Assessment Scenario
You are been recruited as a Network Engineer for XYZ Education
(Pvt) Ltd. The organization is newly formed and requires your
expertise to create the network with the information provided
below:
 There are Three (03) departments in the Head Office (HO) and those are: 1)
Human Resource; 2) Engineering; 3) Labour;
 Indicated number of individuals are working as mentioned: 1) Human
Resource – Three (03); 2) Engineering – Five (05); 3) Labour – Five (05);
 All the departments need to be separated through a separate switch;
 Use the last usable IP address as the default gateway;
 Servers are recommended to be proposed;
 All the users are connected to the Internet.
 There are two (02) branches that are connected;
 The branches are having a flat network (VLAN 01);
 If using a Routing Protocol EIGRP is to be used;
 HSRP is the fault tolerance protocol to be used
 DHCP to be used for the LAN users and for the servers a static IP address
range to be used

The detailed report should include evaluation and critically reviewed
technical notes on all of the expected topics.

Task 01

Required to submit a report
1. An introduction to provide an overview of the report
2. Explain the following:



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,  Discuss and evaluate LAN design principles based on business needs;
Evaluate LAN design models; LAN redundancy; Evaluate the need for
redundancy at router level to be used in the proposed network;
 Identify the bandwidth requirement for the proposed network and
select a suitable type of communication;
 Discuss the network devices and server types which needs to be
discussed in detail;
 Discuss the need of different server types used in the network;
 IP Addressing table with scalability;
 Design an appropriate network diagram as per the scenario;
 Logical Network Diagram/s needs to be indicated;
 If Spanning tree protocol is been used explain the need of it

Task 02

Required to submit a GNS3 file with in the indicated:
1. Justify the need of the devices that were chosen;
2. Explain the connection types and the need of using the chosen;
3. Explain and justify the entire physical network implemented;
4. Performance of testing of the implemented network

Task 03

Explain the differences between the logical and the physical
network diagrams
Task 04

Discuss the security measurements that can be proposed. The
student is supposed to work on implementing a secure channel
between the Head Office and the Branches

*Please access HN Global for additional resources support and reading for this unit. For
further guidance and support on report writing please refer to the Study Skills Unit on HN
Global. Link to www.highernationals.com




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, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria


Pass Merit Distinction

LO1 Explore LAN design principles and their application in the
network design process
LO1 & 2
P1 Examine the network M1 Analyse the switch and D1 Evaluate different
design models and features of router redundancy protocols implementations of link
scalable networks based on a and their effectiveness in aggregation using
given set of business needs supporting scalable EtherChannel to solve
networks bandwidth and load issues
P2 Discuss LAN redundancy,
bandwidth and load related
issues and possible solutions
with reference to Layer 02 and
Layer 03 of the OSI model

LO2 Implement a network using LAN design principles based
on a predefined set of requirements

P3 Select LAN devices based M2 Analyse different switch
on features and requirements, redundancy protocols and
and apply basic configuration their effectiveness in solving
commands for network redundancy issues.
connectivity

P4 Implement a LAN design
M3 Analyse Layer 3
with Layer 2 and Layer 3
redundancy
redundancy using switch and
implementations for IPv4
router redundancy protocols
and IPv6.

LO3 Produce an appropriate WAN solution to a set of
organisational requirements

P5 Examine WAN M4 Analyse the benefits and LO3 & 4
technologies and select the drawbacks of private and D2 Evaluate troubleshooting
appropriate one for a set of public WAN technologies methods and their
enterprise requirements. P6 M5 Evaluate features and effectiveness in solving
Configure WAN protocols as benefits of different VPN enterprise-wide networking
part of an enterprise network types based on organisational issues.
solution. needs

LO4 Solve a range of network related problems using



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