Assignment-1: Server management and Operating Systems (T3-2018)

 

 

	Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines
Unit Code	BN206
Unit Title	System Administration
Assessment Type	Individual Assignment
Assessment Title	Assignment-1: Server management and Operating Systems (T3-2018)
Purpose of the assessment (with           ULO Mapping)	This assignment is designed to assess students’ knowledge and skills related to the following learning outcomes: a)      Understand various server management systems b)      Manage emerging tools and techniques for system management
Weight	15%
Total Marks	40
Word limit	1000-1200 words
Due Date	Week 7, Friday, 4th January 2019 by 11:55PM through Moodle (Melbourne and Sydney)
Submission Guidelines	•     All work must be submitted on Moodle by the due date along with a title Page. •     The assignment must be in MS Word format, 1.5 spacing, 11-pt Calibri (Body) font and 2.54 cm margins on all four sides of your page with appropriate section headings. •     Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and listed appropriately at the end in a reference list using IEEE referencing style.
Extension	 If an extension of time to submit work is required, a Special Consideration Application must be submitted directly through AMS.  You must submit this application three (3) working days prior to the due date of the assignment. Further information is available at: http://www.mit.edu.au/about–mit/institute–publications/policies–procedures– and–guidelines/specialconsiderationdeferment     Without a granted special consideration, late submissions will be subject to penalty as per the information on late penalty in the unit description.
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: http://www.mit.edu.au/about–mit/institute–publications/policiesprocedures–and–guidelines/Plagiarism–Academic–Misconduct–PolicyProcedure. For further information, please refer to the Academic Integrity Section in your Unit Description.

 

 

 

 

Dr Mohammad Mohammad                                                                               November, 2018

 

 

Purpose of the Assessment:

 

This assignment provides students with in depth knowledge and advanced professional skills to manage and maintain network servers. Students will be able to enquire some of the windows, Linux and other Operating System features, various performance Monitoring Systems and other software related to system management. They will also be able to know about the various tasks performed by the system administrator.  In addition to that, the overview of the modern day operating systems is also necessary to keep up with the current trend. This assignment is designed to acquire a theoretical view of the existing features of Server operating system such as windows and Linux and compare them.

 

Submission Guidelines:

Your report should include the following:

 

• A cover page (topic name and assignment title), identifying student (name and ID), name of the lecturer and name of the tutor.
• The assignment must use 11-pt Calibri (Body) font and at least 1.5 cm line spacing with appropriate section headings.
• Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report and listed appropriately at the end in a reference list using IEEE reference style.
• It should follow standard report guidelines.

 

The assignment must be submitted through Moodle only. The assignment submission will not be accepted if you do not upload it to Moodle on or before due date and time.  

 

 

Description of the assignment: One from the topics below will be selected randomly for you. Read articles and technical configuration about the topic. These articles can be searched online or from a journal. Provide a report (1000 – 1200) word limit, which should include the following headings:

 

• Introduction
• Background and related areas.
• Explanation of the topic
• Technical details
• Advantages and Disadvantages
• Improvements about the topic that has been made over years
• Conclusion
• References

 

Preparation instructions:

 

• Do not use WIKIPEDIA as one of the source articles.
• Use IEEE style referencing and be sure and properly reference any diagrams/ graphics.
• In all cases, concentrate on the aspects of the topic that concern server-client approach (either from software and hardware aspect or both) or relation to networking
• You may provide cross platform advantage and/or disadvantage of the topic.

Topics may include:

1. Server Management and backup and the current technical trends such as:
   • Cloud Storage
   • Server Virtualization Monitoring Tools
   • Data Intelligence
2. Content Distribution Network (CDN) and the current technical trends such as:
   • Value-added CDN services
   • Multi-CDN approach
   • Web Application Firewall (WAF)
3. Distributed Computing Systems and the current technical trends such as:
   • Multimedia services
   • Distributed systems as utility
4. Linux Operating System vs Windows Operating System and the current technical trends such as:
   • Mobile Operating System
   • Kernel
5. Hyper Threading Technology and the current technical trends such as:
   • Multithreading
   • Processor architecture
6. Performance and Service Monitoring Systems and the current technical trends such as:
   • Measuring System Performance
   • Monitoring and Reporting
7. Security issues in Networking and the current technical trends such as:
   • End-to-End Secure Cloud Services
   • Web Applications and Web Server Protection

 

 

Marking criteria

 

Section to be included in the report	Description of the section	Marks
Structure and introduction to the Topic	Structure, Introduction to the Topic and history about the topic	8
Explanation of the topic with Technical details	Detail explanation of the topic with features of the topic	10
Advantages/Disadvantages of the Topic	Explain features of the topic, advantages and disadvantages of the topic	10
Improvements	Suggest emerging tools and techniques for managing the considered topic	6
Conclusion and references used in the Report	Your learning from this topic and conclusion and IEEE referencing style	6
Total		40

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marking Rubric 

 

Student Name:   Student Id:   Submission Due: …. /…. /2018    Date Submitted: .…/…/ 2018				Marker’s Name:	Mark Achieved in report:   /40
Grade Mark	HD 32-40	DI 28-31	CR 24-27	P 20-23	Fail <20
	Excellent	Very Good	Good	Satisfactory	Unsatisfactor y
Structure and Introduction   /8	All topics are pertinent and covered in depth.  Ability to think critically and source material is demonstrated	Topics are relevant and soundly analysed.	Generally relevant and analysed.	Some relevance and briefly presented.	This is not relevant to the assignment topic.
Explanation of the topic with technical details   /10	Demonstrated   excellent ability to think critically and sourced reference material appropriately	Demonstrat ed  excellent ability to think critically but did not source reference material appropriatel y	Demonstra ted   ability to think critically and sourced reference material appropriate ly	Demonstrate d   ability to think critically and did not source reference material appropriately	Did not demonstrate ability to think critically and did not source reference material appropriately
Advantages/ Disadvantages     /10	Excellent use of creditable sources. Accurate referencing.  Obvious that outstanding effort made	Extremely good effort	Good effort made but not outstandin g	Made some effort.  For example, Web searches only	Very little attempt to reference. Lazy effort with inaccuracies
Improvements /6	Excellent work in researching	Extremely good efforts	Good effort made but not	Tried to some extent	Very little efforts
	about the topic		outstandin g effort made but not outstandin g
Conclusion and References   /6	Logic is clear and easy to follow with strong. Clear styles with excellent source of references.	Consistency logical and convincing. Clear referencing style	Mostly consistent logical and convincing. Generally good referencing style	Adequate cohesion and conviction. Sometimes clear referencing style	Argument is confused and disjointed. Lacks consistency with many errors