CIS3003 Assignment 2

Due date: 28 April 2014 Weighting: 15%  

Part A: Mini Case Study (2 pages in total)
You are to provide a one page essay for the following mini case questions (total of two pages) from the textbook. The essay is to be a 1.5 line spacing response to the following mini case.
Pat’s Engineering Works (textbook edition 11 page 263)
(15 marks)
The essays do not require in text references or a list of references.

Part B Hands on
You are to go through the Hands on exercise 5A on page 187 of the textbook. You will need access to a networked computer with access to the PING, ARP and TRACEROUTE tool. For some of the activity if you have a restrictive firewall you will need to search for a looking glass type services and modify your report accordingly (Goolge looking glass tools). The exercise has a number of activities for you to perform but for the assignment we only need the output and discussion for the following activities. IF you are using non Windows machines the commands may be slightly different.
IPCONFIG: Finding your computer settings
PING: Finding other computers
ARP: Displaying Physical Address
TRACERT: Finding Routes through the Internet
Each of the activities listed include a number of deliverables that you will need to attach as part of your assignment submission. For the output of the commands use the screen capture capabilities. Under Windows use Cmd Alt Print Screen keys combinations to capture the current active window and then paste into word document. For Mac OS use Command-Shift-4, then space, and then click a window you want to capture
(15 marks)

Part C: Report (10 pages for body of the report)
Management has identified that in order to provide employees with mobile access a more flexible networking environment needs to be created. Since the organisation uses a typical client server network design, management feels that it would be a simple and reasonably inexpensive process to add extra…