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Plan and Manage Troubleshooting Advanced Integrated IP Networks

ASSESSMENT 1

Question 1
1.1. Explain advanced network solutions and their importance in establishing network infrastructure in business.

1.2. What does advance networking solutions rely on?

Question 2
2.1 What is routing and types of routing?
2.2 Review router operations.
2.3 Explain configuration and verification procedures to undertake router operation and routing.
2.5 Explain virtual local area networks (VLANs) switching and inter-switching communications.
2.6 Explain configuration, verification and troubleshoot procedures to undertake virtual local area networks (VLANs) switching and inter-switching communications.

Question 3
3.1 Review different deployment schemes in wireless sensor networks.

Question 4
4.1 What is an iDevice operating system (iOS) Device, and What is the usage of iOS?
4.2 Explain IP networking models and their types.

Question 5
5.1What is IOS (Internetwork Operating System), and how it works?
5.2Explain services in which IOS is embodied.
Question 6
6.1What do you understand by IP network topologies? Explain any two network topologies.
6.2Explain IP network architecture and further define different layers of network architecture.
6.3 Explain any four (4) fundamental IP network elements.

Question 7
7.1 What is network testing, and why it is important?
7.2 Identity and describe network testing use cases.
7.3 What is network monitoring? Explain network monitoring protocols.
7.4 Explain any two (2) network monitoring tools.

Question 8
8.1 What are network standards?
8.2 Define network protocols and their types.

Question 9
9.1 What is the importance of network threat mitigation strategies for an organization?
9.2 Explain any two (2) network threat mitigation strategies.

Question 10
10.1. What are VLAN technologies, and Why It Is Used?
10.2 Explain different layers of VLAN technologies.

ASSESSMENT 2
Skills Test:
This assessment task requires the student to:
• plan and monitor internet protocol (IP) networks for performance and reliability.
• evaluate, design, and implement a structured troubleshooting plan.
• use network testing and monitoring tools.
• produce a maintenance plan for monitoring routing protocols and configurations.
• implement tests of advanced network solutions

To do so, you must complete the following activities:
Activity 1: Develop a plan to monitor and manage the IP network to optimize its performance and reliability.
Activity 2: Plan the isolation of network segments for troubleshooting.
Activity 3: Plan the testing sequences and scenarios of network infrastructure.
Activity 4: Select appropriate network testing and monitoring tools and software application to suit the specific network troubleshooting and monitoring sequence.
Activity 5: Manage and monitor strategies for network monitoring structure.
Activity 6: Produce a routine internetwork operating system (IOS) device maintenance plan to include monitoring of routing protocols and router configurations.
Activity 7: Isolate sub-optimal internetwork operations at the appropriate open systems interconnection (OSI) model layer
Activity 8: Produce a plan for troubleshooting and monitoring security issues related to IOS services for mission-critical applications.
Activity 9: Produce a plan for troubleshooting and monitoring internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) and version 4 (IPv4) interoperability.
Activity 10: Test switch-to-switch connectivity, access ports and loop prevention for the virtual local area network (VLAN) based solution.
Activity 11: Test private VLANs
Activity 12: Test switch virtual interfaces (SVI)
Activity 13: Test switch support of advanced services
Activity 14: Troubleshoot switch configuration.

Case study
Company profile:
Enetworks solutions' is a top networking company in Australia. Enetwork solutions is a computer technology, IT and network consulting company with its headquarters in Sydney, Australia. Our main objective is to provide product and services in the area of networking. The company place greater emphasis in understanding the customer need, budget and resources.
The company provide following network product and services:
• Manage Network services
• Network Consulting Services
• Network Integration Services
• Next-gen Campus networks
• Troubleshooting and monitoring of IP networks
• Management and monitoring of complex network
• Network Infrastructure planning
• Centralised network management
• Software-defined networking
• Testing of complex networks
• Modernising and rationalising their networks to meet data demand.
In addition to the above company provide services line network engineering, orchestration, network transformation, assurance, operation centres, etc.
New Project alongwith requirements:
The training organisation has integrated advance networks in their campus. The network consists of physical and virtual networks and protocols that serve the dual purpose of connecting all users and systems on the LAN to the data center and cloud and facilitating access to network data and analytics.
In a LAN, multiple local computing devices are connected via switches, routers, VLANs and ethernet or WIFI connections to share applications and data. Enterprises often run VPN software that encrypts user data when connecting to websites or servers outside of a LAN.
The training organisation is facing the following issues in their integrated IP networks
• Duplicate IP Addresses
• IP Address Exhaustion
• DNS Problems
• Slow Internet Performance
• VLAN trunking issues
• Physical Interface/Connectivity Issues.
• Physical Interface Speed/Duplex Issues
• Unexpected traffic drops
The training organisation has approached your company to plan, manage and implement troubleshooting and monitoring strategies to ensure reliability and performance on advanced integrated internet protocol (IP) networks.
You are the Network Engineer in your company. The management of the organisation wants you to plan and manage troubleshooting advanced integrated IP networks. This includes:
• Planning the strategies for troubleshooting and monitoring the performance of advanced integrated IP networks.
• Managing and monitor troubleshooting strategies for complex enterprise networks
• Implementing test plans for advanced network solutions
Task conditions:
The purpose of this assessment task is to plan and manage troubleshooting advanced integrated IP networks.
The assessment task will be completed in your training organisation Advance Networking Lab. Your trainer/assessor will supervise you in performing this assessment task.
The student will work as a Network Engineer in this assessment.

The Network Engineer will make sure the following equipment/ facilities are available to plan and manage troubleshooting advanced integrated IP networks:
• Computer
• Internet
• MS Word
• Printer or e-printer
• LAN
• Switch
• Router
• Advanced network solutions

Task Instructions:
• The student will plan and monitor the performance and reliability of internet protocol (IP) networks. He will evaluate, design and implement a structured troubleshooting plan.
• You'll assess, devise, and implement a structured troubleshooting plan.
• You'll plan and handle troubleshooting advanced integrated IP networks using network testing and monitoring technologies.
• You will prepare a maintenance plan for monitoring routing protocols and configuration andimplement tests of advanced network solutions.
• You will also develop a maintenance strategy for monitoring routing protocols and configurations and conduct sophisticated network solution tests.

Task Environment:
This assessment task will be completed in a simulated environment prepared by your training organisation.
The simulated environment will provide you with all the required resources (such as the equipment and participants, etc.) to complete the assessment task. The simulated environment is very much like a learning environment where a student can practice, use and operate appropriate industrial equipment, techniques, practices under realistic workplace conditions.
The roles and responsibilities of the Network engineer are:
• To create a strategy for monitoring and managing the IP network to improve its performance and reliability.
• Prepare to isolate network segments for troubleshooting procedures.
• Plan the network infrastructure is testing sequences and scenarios.
• To suit the specific network troubleshooting and monitoring sequence, select appropriate network testing and monitoring instruments, as well as software applications.
• To suit the specific network troubleshooting and monitoring sequence, select appropriate network testing and monitoring instruments, as well as software applications.
• Make a plan for routine internetwork operating system (IOS) device maintenance that includes monitoring routing protocols and router configurations.
• Identify and isolate suboptimal internetwork operations at the appropriate open systems interconnection (OSI) model layer.
• Create a strategy for troubleshooting and monitoring security issues with IOS services for mission-critical applications.
• Create a plan for troubleshooting and monitoring the interoperability of internet protocol versions 6 (IPv6) and 4 (IPv4).
• For the virtual local area network (VLAN)-based solution, test switch-to-switch connectivity, access ports, and loop prevention.
• Test private VLANs, switch virtual interfaces (SVI) and switch support of advanced services.
• To troubleshoot switch configuration.
Roles and responsibilities of trainer/supervisor are:
• To provide a site where complex network installation may be conducted.
• To provide hardware's and software's
• To provide organisational guidelines
• To make available computers
• To provide local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) systems, including voice and video hardware and software.

Activity 1: Develop a plan to monitor and manage the IP network to optimise its performance and reliability.
This part of the activity requires you to develop a plan to monitor and manage the IP network to optimise its performance and reliability in your training organization and document the outcomes using ‘Template 1.'
The plan must be prepared by including the following parameters:
• The type of information is available to collect.
• Identify the critical devices IP network.
• Identify Network Data Sources
o Flow Data
o Packet Data
o Wi-Fi Data
o Device Data
• Discover Devices and Applications Running on Your Network
• Apply the Right Network Traffic Monitoring Tool e.g.
o NetFlow Analyser
o Packet Analyser
o Network Monitoring Reports
• Monitor Traffic from Specific Network Manufacture
• Optimise Network Traffic
o Overall Network Performance Optimisation
o Optimisation Using Forensic Analysis
o Optimisation of Voice, Video and Unified Communication
o Optimisation to Quality-of-Service Levels

Activity 2: Plan the isolation of network segments for troubleshooting.
This activity is a continuation of Activity 1.
This part of the activity requires you to Plan the isolation of network segments for troubleshooting in your training organization and document the outcomes using ‘Template 2'
The plan the isolation of network segments for troubleshooting must be based on the following parameters:
• Apply technologies at more than just the network layer.
• Use the principles of least privilege and need-to-know.
• Separate Hosts and Network
• Zooming in the Authorization Process
• Network Traffic Whitelisting

Activity 3: Plan the testing sequences and scenarios of network infrastructure.
This activity is a continuation of Activity 2.
This part of the activity requires you to Plan the testing sequences and scenarios of network infrastructure in your training organization and document the outcomes using ‘Template 3'.
To plan the testing, you need to conduct the following sequences and scenarios of network infrastructure:
• Server/Client Infrastructure
• Data Migration
• Infrastructure Testing in Cloud
• Network-level Testing.
• Installation/ Uninstallation/ Deployment
• Test Environment Infrastructure
• TDD approach

Activity 4: Select appropriate network testing and monitoring tools, and softwareapplication to suit the specific network troubleshooting and monitoring sequence.
This activity is a continuation of Activity 3.
This activity requires you to Select appropriate network testing and monitoring tools, and software application to suit the specific network troubleshooting and monitoring sequence in your training organization and document the outcomes using ‘Template 4'.
Template 4: Select appropriate network testing and monitoring tools, and softwareapplication to suit the specific network troubleshooting and monitoring sequence.

Activity 5: Manage and monitor strategies for network monitoring structure
This activity is a continuation of Activity 4.
This part of the activity requires you to Manage and monitor strategies for network monitoring structure in your training organization and document the outcomes using ‘Template 5'.
To manage strategies for network monitoring structure, you need to:
• Understand what devices make up your network.
• Configuration & change management
• Make sure the right person is alerted to problems.
• Monitor all your layers.
• Prepare for future network expansion.
Afterwards, to monitor strategies for network monitoring structure, you must undertake following general monitoring techniques and protocols.
• Ping
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
• Syslog
• Leveraging the Power of Scripts

Activity 6: Produce a routine internetwork operating system (IOS) device maintenance plan to include monitoring of routing protocols and router configurations.
This activity is a continuation of Activity 5.
This part of the activity requires you to produce a routine internetwork operating system (IOS) device maintenance plan to include monitoring of routing protocols and router configurations in your training organization and document the outcomes using ‘Template 6.'
To do so you need to plan and document the following procedures:
• Obtain IOS Updates
• Router Memory Architecture
o Run-from-Flash Routers
o Run-from-RAM Routers
• Upgrade Run-from-Flash IOS Images
o Use Dual Flash Banks
o Use the Flash Load Helper
• Upgrade Run-from-RAM IOS Images

Activity 7: Isolate sub-optimal internetwork operations at the appropriate open systems interconnection (OSI) model layer
This activity is a continuation of Activity 6.
This part of the activity requires you to isolate sub-optimal internetwork operations at the appropriate open systems interconnection (OSI) model layer in your training organisation and document the outcomes using ‘Template 7'.
Isolation sub-optimal internetwork operations at the appropriate open systems interconnection (OSI) model layer differs based on the protocol family.
To do so you need to research and identify the appropriate open systems interconnection (OSI) model layer.
Afterwards, to isolate suboptimal internetwork operation address the following area units:
• Data-link layer addresses,
• media access control (mac) addresses, and
• Network-layer addresses.

Activity 8: Produce a plan for troubleshooting and monitoring security issues related to IOS services for mission-critical applications
This activity is a continuation of Activity 6.
This part of the activity requires you to produce a plan for troubleshooting and monitoring security issues related to IOS services for mission-critical applications in your training organization and document the outcomes using ‘Template 7'.
To plan troubleshooting issues related to IOS services for a mission-critical application, you need to research and identify the following IOS troubleshooting tools and techniques:
• Use Router Diagnostic Commands
• Using show Commands
• Using debug Commands
• Using the ping Commands
• Using Cisco Network Management Tools
Afterwards, to plan to monitor security issues related to IOS services for mission-critical applications, you must address and document the following aspects:
• TDRs and OTDRs
• Breakout Boxes, Fox Boxes, and BERTs/BLERTs
• Network Monitors
• Network Analyzers

Activity 9: Produce a plan for troubleshooting and monitoring internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) and version 4 (IPv4) interoperability.
This activity is a continuation of Activity 8
This part of the activity requires you to produce a plan for troubleshooting and monitoring internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) and version 4 (IPv4) interoperability in your training organization and document the outcomes using ‘Template 9'.
To produce a plan for troubleshooting & monitor IPv6 and IPv4 interoperability, you must fulfil the following objectives:
• Make addressing table.
• Evaluate Network Operation
• Gather information, create an action plan, and implement corrections.

Activity 10: Test switch-to-switch connectivity, access ports and loop prevention for the virtual local area network (VLAN) based solution.
This activity is a continuation of Activity 9.
This part of the activity requires you to Test switch-to-switch connectivity, access ports and loop prevention for the virtual local area network (VLAN) based solution in your training organization and document the outcomes using ‘Template 10'.
To test switch-to-switch connectivity for the VLAN based solution, you must perform:
• Performance/Reliability Test
• Multivendor Interoperability Test
• MIB Verification Test
• IP Multicast Test
To test access ports for VLAN based solution, you must consider the following configurable parameters for test:
• Test period.
• Host
• Port
• OS Username and OS Password
• Confirm Password
• SSL
• Detailed Diagnosis
Afterwards, you must document measurements made by the test.
To test loop prevention for the VLAN based solution, you need to enable and configure, and document loop prevention solutions for VLAN.

Activity 11: Test private VLANs
This activity is a continuation of Activity 10
This part of the activity requires you to Test private VLANs in your training organization and document the outcomes using ‘Template 11'.
To do so, you need to conduct the following steps:
• Connect to your VLAN.
• Open your packet analyzer program
• Scan the incoming packets.

Activity 12: Test switch virtual interfaces (SVI)
This activity is a continuation of Activity 11.
This part of the activity requires you to Test switch virtual interfaces (SVI in your training organisation and document the outcomes using ‘Template 12'.
To do so, you need to :
• Make sure that the VLAN this SVI represents exists in the VLAN database.
• Use ‘autostate' feature to bring the SVI up
• Make sure that the SVI VLAN is allowed through the trunk

Activity 13: Test switch support of advanced services
This activity is a continuation of Activity 12.
This part of the activity requires you to test switch support of advanced services in your training organization and document the outcomes using ‘Template 13'
To do so, you need to conduct the following testing procedures:
• Basic Bit Error Rate Testing (BERT)
• RFC 2544 Testing
• Multi-stream Testing