IT642 Unit 5 – Individual Project: Network Administration Procedures and Processes Guide

Assignment Details

Unit 5 – Individual Project (250 points)

Description

Key Assignment Structure

Network Administration Procedures and Processes Guide

· Use Word

· Title page

· Course number and name

· Project name

· Your name

· Date

· Table of Contents (TOC)

· Use an autogenerated TOC.

· This should be on a separate page.

· This should be a maximum of 3 levels deep.

· Be sure to update the fields of the TOC so that it is up-to-date before submitting your project.

· Section Headings (create each heading on a new page with “TBD” as content, except for sections listed under “New Content” below)

· Project Outline

· Architecture Evaluation

· Network Administration Processes

· Network Administration Procedures

· Best Practices Evaluation

· Implementation of the Network Administration Procedures and Processes Guide

Case Study: Problem 5

Education Community Services Group (ECSG) has gone through a thorough process to evaluate its network administration architecture and compare its existing processes and procedures to best practices. As a result of this evaluation, ECSG has integrated this review with the information technology (IT) infrastructure deployment of an upgraded network architecture to help identify gaps in processes and procedures and to implement a Network Administration Processes and Procedures Guide to manage the infrastructure. It is time to finalize the implementation plan and communicate it to the senior leaders and IT management staff at ECSG.

Part 1: Final Deliverable for Key Assignment

Week 5: Implementation of the Network Administration Processes and Procedures Document

Throughout this period you have consulted with ECSG stakeholders from senior management and IT management. You have documented their requirements for a Network Administration Processes and Procedures Guide and helped the team coordinate the new processes and procedures through the ECSG change review process and gain the approvals necessary to implement the content of the guide. The process that ECSG senior management and IT management has asked you to follow is to provide an implementation document for the Network Administration Processes and Procedures Guide and to create a PowerPoint presentation to present to the key stakeholders who will manage the daily operations of the network going forward.

The final deliverables for the Network Administration Processes and Procedures Guide are as follows:

· Network Administration Processes Update

· Describe the network administration processes that are necessary to manage the IT infrastructure.

· Network Administration Procedures Update

· Describe the network administration procedures that are necessary to manage the IT infrastructure.

· Network Administration Best Practices Evaluation

· Discuss the steps that the organization can take to migrate the current network administration processes and procedures toward the network administration best practices adopted throughout the industry.

· Network Administration Processes and Procedures Guide

· Develop the implementation project plan for the Network Administration Processes and Procedures Guide.

· Identify the work activities that are necessary to implement the guide, including requirements for budget and resources.

· Identify which resources on the implementation tem will perform each work activity.

· Publish the project schedule and an implementation time line.

· Publish the milestones to implement the network administration processes and procedures guide.

· Submit the final version of the Network Administration Processes and Procedures Guide

· Complete the guide as specified in the requirements from ECSG.

· Ensure your table of contents matches the guide sections throughout the document

· Name the document “yourname_IT642PBL_IP5.doc.”

Please refer to the worked example that follows for an example of this assignment based on the problem-based learning scenario. The worked example is not intended to be a complete example of the assignment, but it will illustrate the basic concepts that are required for completion of the assignment, and it can be used as a general guideline for your own project. Your assignment submission should be more detailed and specific, and it should reflect your own approach to the assignment rather than just following the same outline provided in the worked example.

Note that the worked example includes material from previous worked examples. The new material will be found under the Week 5 sections of the Table of Contents.

The worked example is provided here to help with this assignment.

Part 2: Advocacy

Advocacy PowerPoint

Senior Management and the IT organization must approve your implementation plan to move forward with finalizing the Network Administration Processes and Procedures Guide. You have been invited to a Question and Answer session with this group, and you want to put forth a professional presentation advocating the implementation of the guide. As preparation for attending this session, you will develop a PowerPoint presentation of 8 slides (not including the slides for the title and reference sections) with the following details:

· For your recommended network administration processes and procedures, include a detailed notes section in the slide to explain the need for these updates to the IT infrastructure.

· Provide reference source information for each slide to support your content and implementation in accordance with APA guidelines.

· Name the document “yourname_IT642PBL_IP5.pptx.”

Please submit your assignment.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials. Find resources on how to write academically and use APA citations, including an example of Masters-level writing , in the Writing Style Guide for Master’s Students .