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INTRODUCTION TO NETWORKING
Group Assigment (50%)

Intake:  APU1F2109CS(CYB), APD1F2109CS(CYB), APU1F2109CS(IS), APD1F2109CS(IS),

APU1F2109CS(DF), APD1F2109CS(DF) APU1F2109SE APD1F2109SE, APU1F2109CS,
APD1F2109CS, APU1F2109IT, APD1F2109IT
Hand Out Date: Week 3 [12th Oct. 2021]
Due Date: Week 10 [30th Nov. 2021] – Ind. Asgn. and Week 14 [28th Dec. 2021] – Group Asignment
Word Count Limit: 2500 words.
Lecturer: Mr. Joshua Samual / Ms. Noris Ismail
Email:[email protected] / [email protected]
This assignment aim is to allow students to design and configure a LAN topology by applying basic
principles of wired and wireless network, together with configuration of network devices (including
routers & switches) by using Cisco Packet Tracer simulation tool. Students are also expected to be
able to design their IP addressing scheme with subnetting to segment their network.

1.Assessed Learning Outcomes:

CLO2: Form the local area network design and configuration using simulation tool for the
given scenario. (A2, PLO6)
CLO3: Work in a team to justify the topology and IP addressing plan based on the network
design (A3, PLO4)

Note: PLO6 –Digital Skills. PLO4 – Interpersonal Skills.

2. Scenario:
Seagate.co manufactures computer storage devices. The company provides external hard drives,
internal hard drives, and other computer devices for the demand in south east asia. Seagate.co is
located in Penang, Malaysia. This company emphasis more on employee values and provide an
environment where the employee can learn, think, innovate and build the project. Seagate.co started
in 1988 as a one-man-shop and have been growing organically ever since. Recently the CEO of
Seagate.co announces an opening of another branch in Cyberjaya by mid of 2023. Meanwhile, the
CEO wants to restructure the existing network infrastructure in Penang building and wants to lay
down a new network infrastructure. The Penang building has got two floors and the same with the
new building in Cyberjaya.

The first floor in both the building have a reception area, waiting room, CEO room, CTO room,
Administrative office, Cafeteria, Finance and Sales, Security and Delivery departments. The second
floor in both the buildings contains R&D, Manufacturing, Server room and technical assistant
departments to monitor the network, staff’s rest area and two conference rooms. All staff will be
using PC’s with a suitable office environment and each department contains voice over internet
phone (VOIP) to communicate with each other and a printer in each department that is connected in
a network. Both blocks have a necessary IoT infrastructure such as CCTV.

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Your team is appointed to assist with the proposal to plan for a suitable network design for this new
project. The main objective is to identify the requirement and conduct a research to propose for a
suitable topology diagram with necessary network devices and IP addressing scheme to make it
work. You must connect these buildings with a bandwidth of no less than 100 Mbps.

Your research should include :

 Layout of the building
 Number of hosts (per room / building)
 Justification of the Topology
 IP Adressing scheme

The findings and outcome of your research should be arranged in a proper flow to be presented to
the Technical team who are involved in the full design of the network. In addition, prepare a Cisco
Packet Tracer diagram as a proof of concept for your research work.

3. Important Instructions for online submission:

1. This assignment contains two parts. Individual and Group (Refer the Rubric)

2. The Individual assignment should be submitted individually by the students on 8th week of the
sem.

3. The group assignment should be completed in a group of not more than 4 members. The group
assignment must be submitted by the group leader.
4. Select the team leader among the group members for the group assignment.
5. All submission should be done in Moodle
6. Double check the work before online submission (Peer Evaluation form and Self-Reflection,
etc).

3(a). General Instructions.

1. The assignment should attach front cover, table of contents and attach the completed Work
Breakdown Structure (WBS) must be digital signed and agreed by all group members.
2. You are required to build a complete computer network environment for the scenario,
supported with a good research work.
3. Design the floor plan using any designing tool with very good justification and provide
configuration of the logical network diagram using Cisco Packet Tracer Submit. the softcopy
of floor plan and network diagram (configuration) together with the assignment.
4. Your report must be typed using Microsoft Word with Times New Roman font size 12. Report
should be in 1.5 spacing.
5. The report has to be well presented and should be typed. Submission of reports that are
unprofessional in its outlook will not fare well when marks are allocated.
6. The report should have a one (1”) margin all around the page as illustrated below:

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1 inch 1 inch

1 inch

1 inch
The Typed Text

1 inch

1 inch
1 inch 1 inch

7. Plagiarism is a serious offence and will automatically be awarded zero (0) mark.
8. All information, figures and diagrams obtained from external sources must be referenced using
the Harvard referencing system accordingly.

4.Work Breakdown Structure:

CLO2: Form the local area network design and configuration using simulation tool for the given
scenario
(PLO6: Digital Skills)

Introduction
- Objective
- Assumptions (number of hosts, rooms, labs, etc.)
Student 1 Student 2 Student 3 Student 4
KL (1st floor) KL (2nd floor) Penang (1st floor) Penang (2nd floor)

Floor plan-(Layout) Floor plan-(Layout) Floor plan-(Layout) Floor plan-(Layout)

Individual Justification Justification Justification Justification
Component
Network diagram and Network diagram Network diagram Network diagram
configuration and configuration and configuration and configuration
(Packet Tracer) (Packet Tracer) (Packet Tracer) (Packet Tracer)

CLO2: Work in team to justify the topology and IP addressing plan based on the network design

(PLO4: Interpersonal Skills)

KL : Penang:
 TTopology and IP Addressing  TTopology and IP Addressing
Group Justification Justification
Component
Demonstration

For students who have to re-do the assignment (failed the 1st attempt), produce the assignment
individually. Complete both sections and choose one building design for the new submission.

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5.Assessment Criteria: Marks Breakdown

Group Assignment
Assessment Criteria
Marks Awarded
Digital Skills (60 marks) Weight Student 1 Student 2 Student 3 Student 4

Floor Plan & Justification 10

Analysis & Justification 10

Network Diagram 10

Configuration 10

Demonstration 10

Referencing 10
Teamwork Skills (40 marks) Weight

Topology Justification 10
IP Addressing Plan &
10
Justification
Documentation 10

Alternate Roles 5

Peer Evaluation 5

Total Marks 100

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6.Peer Evaluation and Reflection

PEER EVALUATION FORM

**To be filled up by individual student and include with soft copy the document.

Student Name / TP Number :

Please answer ‘Yes’ / ‘No’

Myself Member 2 Member 3 Member 4
TP NO: TP NO: TP NO: TP NO:
Participated in group
discussion
Helped to monitor group
progress
Contributed useful ideas
Completed work on time
Submitted good quality of
work
Communicated
effectively with group
members
Helped others with their
work when needed
Good relationship with
group members
Overall was a valuable
member of the team

Self-Reflection (what I did best and what I should improve in future):

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7.Marking Rubrics

Individual Components (60%)

0-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 9-10
Marking Criteria
(Fail) (Marginal Fail) (Pass) (Credit) (Distinction)
Not able to use Show minimal Show ability to use Show good ability Proficient use of
a proper tool / ability to use a a proper tool / to use tool / tool / software to
software to proper tool / software to design software to design the floor
design the floor software to the floor plan. design the floor plan.
plan. design the floor plan.
plan. Appropriate floor Very detailed floor
Floor plan is not plan design but Good floor plan plan design, with
Floor Plan
visible. Simple floor plan with less detail. design with good
produced, with sufficient detail. representation.
no label and
legend Creativity shown in
the design

Almost no Limited Sufficient Good Very good

requirement requirement requirement requirement requirement
analysis and no analysis. analysis to design a analysis and analysis and
justification of floor plan. comparison of comparison of
the network Very less detail in facts. facts.
Analysis &
devices justification of the Minimal
Justification
(positioning) network devices justification of the Sufficient Good justification
presented. (positioning). network devices justification of the of the network
(positioning) network devices devices
provided. (positioning) but (positioning) with
lack of critical sufficient critical
discussion. discussion.
Not able to Able to show Able to show good Able to show very Proficient in using
show good skills sufficient skills in skills in using Cisco good skills in Cisco Packet Tracer
in using Cisco using Cisco Packet Packet Tracer tool. using Cisco Packet tool.
Packet Tracer Tracer tool. Tracer tool.
Network tool. Feasible network Very good quality
Diagram Minor issues in diagram, meeting Good network of network
network diagram the minimum diagram, showing diagram, with some
Network (not feasible). requirement of a complete layout complexity of
diagram is not network. of the network design
clear.
Weak Limited Good configuration Very good Outstanding
configuration configuration skills. Able to configuration configuration skills.
skills. Not able skills. Only able to perform good level skills. Able to Complex
to fully meet minimum of configuration on perform some configuration on
Configuration configure the requirement on router and PCs complex routers, PCs and
design. the configuration configuration on switches.
on router and PCs routers and PCs

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Not turn up for Major issues in Minimal issues in Successful Successful network
project configuration configuration – not network configuration (able
demonstration. (some parts are fully working configuration to ping to all
unable to ping). according to the (able to ping to all devices)
proposed plan devices)
Excellent skills in
Demonstration Able to modify the Able to modify modifying network
network the network configuration
configuration with configuration during
help of friends without any help demonstration
during during
demonstration demonstration

Not able to use Minimal use of Full use of Good use of Very good use of
referencing referencing tools referencing tools in referencing tools referencing tools in
tools in in Microsoft Microsoft Word. in Microsoft Microsoft Word.
Microsoft Word. Word. Word.
Sufficient number Very good quality
No in-text Minimal in-text of references and Recent source of of references used,
Referencing citation and citation and citation in the references used, with proper citation
very minimal references used. report. No issue in with proper and reference list
references. Minor issues in the referencing reference list. for all facts and
Major issues in the referencing format Limited in-text diagrams used
the referencing format. citation in the
format. report

Group Components (40%)

0-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 9-10

Marking Criteria
(Fail) (Marginal Fail) (Pass) (Credit) (Distinction)

Not able to Propose Propose complete Propose good Propose very good
propose for incomplete Topology with Topology with Topology with
suitable Topology with minimal justification, justification,
Topology
Topology. weak justification justification suitable for the suitable the
Justification scenario scenario with
supporting
evidence.
No explanation Almost no Appropriate Good technique Very good
to justify the relevant technique chosen chosen for IP technique chosen
selection of explanation to for IP addressing addressing plan for IP addressing
technique for IP justify the plan and and plan and
IP Addressing addressing plan selection of segmentation. segmentation. segmentation.
Plan & and technique for IP
Justification segmentation addressing plan Minimal Lacking of Supported with
and segmentation explanation to supporting extensive research
justify the plan evidence to work for technical
justify the plan accuracy

No table of Table of content Table of content Good structure Very good structure
content and exist but without included with and flow of and flow of
page page numbers, proper page documentation documentation,
Documentation numbering, font report structure numbering, with appropriate appropriate header
size and type not standardized standardized report header & footer & footer with very

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are not structure & good appearance
standardized Assignment headings. Good
requirements are introduction and Very good
partially Proper introduction conclusion of the introduction and
Incomplete completed. conclusion of the report conclusion of the
assignment report report.
requirements

1 2 3 4 5
Marking Criteria
(Fail) (Marginal Fail) (Pass) (Credit) (Distinction)

No clear Attempt to Able to Clear evidence of Very clear evidence

evidence of Demonstrate the demonstrate the ability to assume to assume alternate
ability to ability to assume ability to assume alternate role as a role as a group
Alternate Roles assume alternate roles as alternate roles as a group leader and leader and member
alternate role as a group leader group leader and member to to demonstrated in
a group leader and member with member with some achieve the same practice.
and member. limited effect and effect and require goal.
require minor
improvements. improvements.

No clear Able to foster Able to foster Able to foster High ability to

evidence of relationship and relationship and good relationship foster good
Teamwork ability to foster work together work together with and work relationship and
good with other group other group together with work together
(Based on peer relationship and members towards members towards other group effectively with
evaluation and work together goal achievement goal achievement members towards other group
reflection effectively with but with limited with some effects, goal members towards
document) group effect. but still require achievement. goal achievement.
members. improvements.

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