assignment for internetworking technologies
Page 1 of 8 FINAL ASSESSMENT IN REPLACEMENT OF FINAL EXAMINATION BN202 INTERNETWORKING TECHNOLOGIES Day/Date Monday, 21 June 2021 Reading time 2:15 PM Writing Time 2:30 PM End Time 6:30 PM Duration 4 hours plus 15 minutes reading time Venue MIT, Online Unit Coordinator Dr Sadia Aziz Moderator Dr Rajan Kadel Total Marks 60 Marks (this Final Assessment is worth 45% of the unit) No. of pages Eight (8) Pages (including this cover page) Student ID: _________________________________________________________ Student Name: _______________________________________________________ BN 202 – Internetworking Technologies – Final Assessment - Trimester 1, 2021 Page 2 of 8 BN 202 – Internetworking Technologies Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines Final Assessment in Replacement of Final Examination School School of Information Technology & Engineering Course Name Bachelor of Networking Unit Code BN202 Unit Title Internetworking Technologies Trimester T1 2021 Assessment Author Dr Sadia Aziz Assessment Type Individual Assessment Title End-of Trimester Final Assessment in replacement of Final Examination Purpose of the assessment (with ULO Mapping) Main objective of this assessment is to enable students to understand networking devices, gather requirements for a given business case study and plan a network design. After successful completion of this assessment, students should be able to: a. Discuss the significance of internetworking for contemporary organisations. b. Explain human factors in achieving business and technical goals through planning and design. c. Develop architectural internetworking design for the business and application domains. d. Explain the current and future state of the internetworking infrastructure and its applications. e. Apply a process to support the administration and management of internetworking Weight 45% of the total assessments Total Marks 60 Due Date On Final Examination Date Time On Final Examination Date Submission Guidelines All work must be submitted on Moodle. The assessment must be in MS Word format, 1.5 spacing, 11-pt Calibri (Body) font and 2 cm margins on all four sides of the page with appropriate section headings. Reference correctly, if applicable, using IEEE for SITE or APA for School of Business. Deferral According to the MIT Assessment Policy and Procedure Section 5.3.5, a student may apply to a Head of School to defer an examination or an equivalent assessment in exceptional circumstances. An Application for Special Consideration and supporting documentation must be submitted directly to the School's Administration Officer via your MIT AMS login: https://online.mit.edu.au/ams. You must submit this application no later than three working days after the due date of the specific piece of assessment or the examination for which you are seeking Special Consideration. Academic Misconduct Academic Misconduct is a serious offence. Depending on the seriousness of the case, penalties can vary from a written warning or zero marks to exclusion from the course or rescinding the degree. Students should make themselves familiar with the full policy and procedure available at: https://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institute-publications/policies-procedures- and-guidelines/AcademicIntegrityPolicyAndProcedure https://online.mit.edu.au/ams https://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institute-publications/policies-procedures-and-guidelines/AcademicIntegrityPolicyAndProcedure https://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institute-publications/policies-procedures-and-guidelines/AcademicIntegrityPolicyAndProcedure BN 202 – Internetworking Technologies – Final Assessment - Trimester 1, 2021 Page 3 of 8 For further information, please refer to the Academic Integrity Section in the Unit Description. BN 202 – Internetworking Technologies – Final Assessment - Trimester 1, 2021 Page 4 of 8 ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTIONS INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES: 1. The Final Assessment is scheduled for the Final Examination period. 2. The questions will be released on the unit Moodle page. 3. You are not permitted to use mobile phones or other tools to chat with anyone during the assessment. 4. You must upload your completed work to the Submission Link on the unit Moodle page. This automatically submits the work through Turnitin. Completed work must be uploaded before the end of the assessment duration. 5. This is an individual assessment task. You must complete it on your own. You are not to discuss it with any other students during the timeframe set to complete the Final Assessment. Academic integrity rules and penalties apply. 6. You MUST write in your own words. Do not copy and paste from the Internet as you will not receive marks for this and you will be penalised for plagiarism. 7. The Final Assessment consists of 3 Sections: Section 1: Knowledge Questions - 15 Marks Section 2: Networking Design Questions – 15 Marks Section 3: Case Study B - 30 Marks 8. Answer all questions from BN202 Internetworking Technologies perspective. 9. Apply the terms, concepts and ideas that have been introduced and discussed in the unit to demonstrate your learning. 10. Type your answers in the Question and Answer Paper (MS word document). 11. Proofread and edit your work before submitting. BN 202 – Internetworking Technologies – Final Assessment - Trimester 1, 2021 Page 5 of 8 SECTION 1: ANSWER FIVE QUESTIONS [Total: 3x5=15 Marks] Application Layer Question 1 Explain the statement "HTTP is a stateless protocol." In some cases, the state of the clients needs to be remembered by the server. How can it be achieved using HTTP? [3 Marks] Question 2 Explore the options of streaming content (selected from millions of videos) to hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users and which one is better in terms of services and scalability? [3 Marks] Question 3 User-centered design can be involved in the success or failure of any design. Justify this statement. Also, list two applications with good interface design and two with bad interface design. [3 Marks] Question 4 Draw a diagram using the congestion control mechanism of TCP Reno and Tahoe. Do not copy the diagram from lecture slides or the Internet. You have to use your own data for this diagram. The diagram should be very clear and properly labelled. [3 Marks] Question 5 Explain the following terminologies in your own words. 1. Piggybacking 2. Fast retransmission 3. MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) 4. Reliable data transfer 5. Fragmentation and reassembly [3 Marks] BN 202 – Internetworking Technologies – Final Assessment - Trimester 1, 2021 Page 6 of 8 SECTION 2: Network Design and Terms [Total: 3+6+6=15 Marks] Question 6 Calculate the latency (total delay from first bit sent to last bit received) for the following: A sender and receiver are separated by two 2-Gigabit/s links and a single switch. The packet size is 10000 bits, and each link introduces a propagation delay of 20 microseconds. Assume that the switch begins forwarding immediately after it has received the last bit of the packet and the queues are empty. [3 Marks] Question 7 Write the steps involved in data transmission from source PC1 to destination PC2 given in figure 1. Steps should include how data pass through all layers on each device from source to destination. [6 Marks] Figure 1: Network with two LANs BN 202 – Internetworking Technologies – Final Assessment - Trimester 1, 2021 Page 7 of 8 Question 8 Figure 2: Network with VLANs For the network given in figure 2, create VLANs according to the figure in the Cisco packet tracer and paste your screenshots from the Cisco packet tracer. [6 Marks] BN 202 – Internetworking Technologies – Final Assessment - Trimester 1, 2021 Page 8 of 8 SECTION 3 – Research based business case studies [Total: 15+15=30 Marks] Question 9: [5x3=15 Marks] Case Study- MelbFinance Network Design MelbFinance is a new small business loan located in a small suburb of Melbourne. They have three departments which are marketing, management, and finance. The company is on a building having four levels on it. Each floor has ten computers used by these three departments separately. Answer the following five questions. a. Prepare a brief project scope that includes the project objective, deliverables, milestones, and limits. b. List five questions you wish to