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COIT20264 - Network Design

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit provides the students with the skills and knowledge required to design wired and wireless networks. The unit equips the students with the approaches used to gather business and user requirements, and analyse them together with the security policies of the organisation. It then engages students in a comprehensive design of the network using the Top-Down Network Design methodology. The unit includes campus, branch, WAN, wireless and Internet edge designs as well as testing and documentation.

Details

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 9
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Prerequisite: COIT20261 Network Routing and Switching

Co-requisite: COIT20262 Advanced Network Security

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Presentation and Written Assessment 40%
2. Written Assessment 60%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

Past Exams

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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 95.65% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 44.23% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Teaching team
Feedback
Students do not get formal feedback early in the term.
Recommendation
Review assessments and their due date to introduce formal feedback earlier in the term.
Action Taken
Assessment 1 due date was moved to Monday of Week 7 instead of Monday of Week 9 which allowed to provide formal feedback to students earlier in the term.
Source: Students' feedback
Feedback
Some parts of the workshop contents are out of date and should be updated with the latest networking applications.
Recommendation
Review the workshop materials and update.
Action Taken
The unit delivery format was changed in Term 1 2023. Instead of a weekly three hour workshop, a weekly two hour lecture followed by a two hour tutorial were introduced. Latest technologies to be considered in wireless network design and WAN design were discussed in the lectures.
Source: Student feedback
Feedback
Link content to real-world applications.
Recommendation
Prepare lecture slides containing some examples with details of the latest technologies to be used in wireless LAN and wireless WAN design technologies and make them available on Moodle.
Action Taken
Nil.
Source: Teaching team
Feedback
Include prototype implementation of designed network.
Recommendation
Review the assessments to include prototype implementation on the cloud and/or using in-house hardware available in campus networking labs. Use of Cisco Packet Tracer networking simulation tool is another option to consider.
Action Taken
Nil.
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Prepare the user, business and security requirements of the organisation in relation to network design.
  2. Analyse the user, business and security requirements.
  3. Compare and contrast the possible alternative logical and physical network designs.
  4. Design a network by applying the top-down network design methodology.
  5. Create the final documentation of the designed network.
  6. Justify that the designed network satisfy the requirements.

Australian Computer Society (ACS) recognises the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA). SFIA is in use in over 100 countries and provides a widely used and consistent definition of ICT skills. SFIA is increasingly being used when developing job descriptions and role profiles.

ACS members can use the tool MySFIA to build a skills profile at https://www.acs.org.au/professionalrecognition/mysfia-b2c.html

This unit contributes to the following workplace skills as defined by SFIA. The SFIA code is included:

  • Network Planning (NTPL)
  • Project management (PRMG)
  • Network Design (NTDS)
  • Availability Management (AVMT)
  • Capacity Management (CPMG)

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 - Presentation and Written Assessment
2 - Written Assessment
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
Advanced Level
Professional Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 - Knowledge
2 - Communication
3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills
4 - Research
5 - Self-management
6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
Advanced Level
Professional Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 - Presentation and Written Assessment
2 - Written Assessment