Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for the design and installation of an internetwork
- Prepare for given work according to occupational health and safety (OHS) and environmental requirements with appropriate personnel
- Identify safety hazards and implement risk control measures in consultation with appropriate personnel
- Determine nature and scope of the internetwork from job briefs and appropriate personnel
- Obtain operating instructions, manuals, hardware and software testing methodologies
- Consult appropriate personnel to ensure the task is coordinated effectively with others involved at the worksite
- Design an enterprise internetwork
- Produce enterprise internetwork topology after considering technical requirements, physical and financial constraints and expansion projections
- Determine network devices and network resources according to enterprise procedures
- Produce the internetwork design including network security and router and switch configurations to meet design specifications and enterprise procedures
- Install and configure a designed internetwork
- Install network hardware to network topology design plan according to enterprise procedures
- Determine network addressing scheme for network connectivity and verify using calculations
- Configure routers and switches to perform the logical connection of the internetwork
- Conduct connectivity and performance tests to verify the network installation meets the design specification
- Troubleshoot internetwork and internet connectivity according to manufacturer's specifications and enterprise procedures
- Complete and document network design and installation