Copy and paste from the following data to produce each assessment task. Write these in plain English and spell out how, when and where the task is to be carried out, under what conditions, and what resources are needed. Include guidelines about how well the candidate has to perform a task for it to be judged satisfactory.
Required skills
literacy skills to:
conduct and document a wireless survey
develop a cut sheet or cabling map
document installed networks with appropriate labelling of cable terminations
technical skills to:
attach a network device to the LAN
configure a workstation or server within a network environment
implement and configure networks
install and configure operating system
install hard disk drives
open, edit and save word-processing documents
research skills to gather information to determine NAS requirements.
Required knowledge
overview knowledge of:
advantages and disadvantages of NAS versus direct attached storage (DAS) devices
Australian Computer Society Code of Ethics
common hard drive types and connectors
common network cable types and connectors
common network topologies
implementation and configuration of networks
RAID configurations.
The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included.
Topology may include: | bus hierarchical hybrid ring star. |
Storage requirements may include: | amount of data to be stored minimum free space required temporary storage space type of data to be stored: bit torrents databases streaming media user data files websites. |
NAS may be: | built from basic components produced by vendors: Buffalo Connex D-Link Hewlitt-Packard LinkSys NetGear Network Appliance Reldata Seagate Synology Western Digital. |
Operating system may include: | Citrix HP-UX IBM AIX Linux variants: ClarkConnect Fedora FreeNas Naslite OpenFiler Red Hat SME Server Ubuntu Mac Microsoft Windows (client and server versions) Novell SUSE Linux Sun Solaris. |
Applications may include: | deployment servers domain controllers file servers gaming server media server print servers structured query language (SQL) server user workstations web server. |
Hard disks may include: | Firewire parallel advanced technology attachment (PATA): EIDE IDE serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) eSATA SAS SCSI (multiple variations). |
Media may include: | fibre optic STP UTP wireless: infra-red radio satellite. |
Standard may include: | Cat5, 5e, 6 and 7 EIA/TIA 568A EIA/TIA 568B FDDI IEEE 802.11 (a, b, g or n) RJ45. |
Network address may include: | IPX or SPX address transmission control protocol or internet protocol (TCP/IP) address. |
Hostname may include: | computer name DNS name NetBeui name. |
Copy and paste from the following performance criteria to create an observation checklist for each task. When you have finished writing your assessment tool every one of these must have been addressed, preferably several times in a variety of contexts. To ensure this occurs download the assessment matrix for the unit; enter each assessment task as a column header and place check marks against each performance criteria that task addresses.
Observation Checklist