Assignment
COMPETENCIES
1. Networking Fundamentals
The graduate selects appropriate protocols, topologies, architectures, and devices to facilitate growth within existing networks.
2. Routing and Switching
The graduate designs appropriate local area network (LAN) configurations to meet projected organizational networking needs.
3. Wireless Networking
The graduate designs appropriate wireless networks to meet projected organizational networking needs.
4. External Connectivity
The graduate designs appropriate wide area network (WAN) configurations and connections to external networks to meet projected organizational networking needs.
5. Storage Area Networks
The graduate designs enterprise data storage solutions to meet projected organizational data storage needs.
6. Network Applications and Virtualization
The graduate recommends appropriate network applications and virtualization technologies that support network infrastructure.
7. Performance and Network Management
The graduate evaluates whether network performance meets organizational availability, stability, and speed requirements.
8. Network Security
The graduate recommends network security best practices in the design of new and existing networks.
INTRODUCTION
Western County Bank is a small community bank that makes a modest profit by providing small business and personal loans to customers within the county and surrounding areas.
For this task, you will use the attached "Western County Bank Scenario" to create a proposal that meets the networking and data storage needs of Western County Bank.
REQUIREMENTS
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. An originality report is provided when you submit your task that can be used as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
A. Create a network diagram that meets the networking needs of Western County Bank based on the attached scenario that includes a representation for eachof the seven layers of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model for the following:
• components
• logical functions
• interconnectivity devices
Note: A representation from each of the seven layers of the OSI model can be provided on the network diagram or in a discussion.
B. Explain how your network addresses the needs of Western County Bank in the following areas:
1. local area network (LAN) configuration
2. wide area network (WAN) configuration
3. mobile network configuration
C. Create a data storage diagram that represents how you would meet the data storage needs of Western County Bank based on the attached scenario that includes all seven layers of the OSI model and address the following:
• components
• logical functions
• interconnectivity devices
Note: A representation from each of the seven layers of the data storage model can be provided on the diagram or in a discussion.
D. Discuss your modifications to the existing infrastructure for Western County Bank by doing the following:
a. Discuss how you would evaluate whether network performance meets organizational availability, stability, and speed requirements.
E. Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.