Assosa University

College of Computing and Informatics

Department of Information Technology

Course name: System and Network Administration

Program: Information Technology
Target Group: IT 4th year, 2nd semester
Assignment: based on your group
G means group
Your assignment must be meet the following criteria
- Do not miss the introduction and summery of your assignment content.
- Minimum page: 10
- Copy and paste the assignment content from some reference leads invalid your work
- Graph and diagram must be incorporate in your work
- The graph and diagram must be clear and describe the diagram that available in
your assignment
- Do not forget citation
- Submission date 26/01/2013 E.C
- Sent to your teacher via e-mail
- There is presentation when you come to the university
G1. Aspects of System Administration
1. Storage
- RAID
- logical volume management
- device formatting
2. Disks
- Storage models
a. Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
b. Network Attached Storage (NAS)
c. Storage Area Networks (SAN)
d. Cloud Storage (Examples: EBS, S3)
- Disk interfaces
- Physical disk structure
- Partitions
3. Basic filesystem concepts

1
 - The UNIX filesystem and windows file system
G2. System Administrator
A. What is system, administrator and system Administrator?
B. Job of system Administrator
C. System Administration is a profession with what career path it need?
D. What depth of knowledge need to be system administrator?
E. Three Pillars of Exceptional System Design
- Scalability
- Security
- Simplicity
G3. Automating Administrative Tasks (in case of sys and net admin)
A. The 7 cardinal virtues of System Administrator
- Flexibility
- Ingenuity
- attention to detail
- adherence to routine
- persistence
- patience
- laziness
B. Benefit of Automating task
C. Approaching Automation: Three basic categories
- Scripting
- Programming
- software development
D. Things to automate
E. Backup Vs Recovery
G4. Networking
A. Types of network based on size and structure
B. Network Topology
C. OSI and TCP/IP reference model
D. Addressing (IP and MAC)
E. Protocol (ARP, RARP, SMTP, HTTP, POP)
F. Routing protocol (RIP, OSPF, ISIS, EIGRP, BGP)
G. Where do IP addresses come from?
G5. Monitoring tools and IPv6
A. SNMP
B. DNS
C. Load balance
D. IPv6 basic information

2
 E. IPv6 mode of communication
F. Transition from IPv4 to IPv6
G. IPv6 abbreviation methods
H. IPv6 Address Scope
G6. System Security
A. Security
B. Where does security come into system?
C. What is risk?
D. Physical Security
E. Types of Software Vulnerabilities
F. Types of Attacks
G. System usability Vs system security
G7 & G9. Transmission and security
A. Transmission media
B. Types of Antenna
C. Network
D. Internet, intranet and extranet
E. Encryption and Decryption (with example)
F. Firewall
G. Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability
H. Authentication and Authorization
I. Introduction to RADIUS
J. Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
G8 & G10. Windows Network Concepts
A. Short history of windows OS
B. Overview of UNIX OS
C. Overview of windows server
D. Work group
E. General editions of Windows Server 2008-2012
F. Web Server
G. HPC Server
H. Improvement of Windows Server 2008 over 2003
I. Windows Server 2008 includes five Active Directory roles
J. Compare and contrast between UBUNTU and window 10 OS