Reference no: EM133097869

B9IS121 Network and Systems Administration - Dublin Business School

Assessment - Design and implementation of a proof of concept system using virtualisation technology, accompanied by a fully documented technical report and demonstration.

Part A
Design and deploy a network, physical or virtual, capable of hosting the resources mentioned part B, including DHCP, naming services etc.

Part B

The aim of the project component is to test the student's ability to research, design, implement and report on relevant technologies related to system administration that they have developed. The project must involve technical development of an artefact or proof of concept system; therefore pure research projects are not appropriate.

Subject areas for this project cover a wide variety of areas, some covered in class, others requiring independent research. Applicable system administration technologies are:
• Network File System (NFS)
• Server Message Block (SMB)
• Domain Name System (DNS)
• Kerberos Authentication

• Network Information Service (NIS)
• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
• Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM)
• Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
• WebNFS
• OpenSSH & OpenVPN
• Container managers
• Web services
• Cloud technologies
• Private clouds
• Peer-to-peer systems
• Build Automation
• Software Defined Networking
• ... you are free to incorporate any other technology but that must be in addition to some of the aforementioned technologies above

For your implementation you can use any technology / software / hardware to deliver projects (provided licensing laws are not broken), such as Virtual Box, AWS, Azure, OpenStack clouds, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker containers etc. You must use source control management, such as GitHub, to manage your code and/or configuration files, and must commit your progress daily.

Your final report should be a technical document detailing your artefact and containing a reflective section describing your learning experience.

Project:
- Project Report - the quality of the project report. A technical document is required with a max word count of 3000 words. The format you choose must be of high industry level, professional standard. This should include a reflective paragraph describing your learning experience.
- Research, Analysis and Design - the extent of the background research and overall understanding of the project subject area; the quality of the analysis of the project; and the quality of the overall and detailed design of the system to be implemented.
- Completeness and Correctness - how complete your final artefact / deliverable / proof of concept system is and that they are valid.
- Achievement - the value and the usability of the project, including the project report and any software designed / implemented.
- Project Management - the overall ability of the group/individual to carry out a project successfully.
Presentation:

Presentation - the quality of the presentation of the project. Presentation will be a maximum of 10 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. Your presentation must include a DEMO of your artefact which clearly show your chosen technologies setup and working correctly. (For example if you chose to implement SMB then your demonstration must clearly show the smb.conf configuration file and any other files as well as file sharing successfully working between Windows and Linux). Presentations will take place in class and you will be advised of the date. A schedule will be circulated closer to the submission date with details of your presentation time.

Attachment:- Network and Systems Administration.rar