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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Develop design for a network
   • Work health and safety (WHS)/occupational health and safety (OHS) requirements and workplace procedures for a given work area are identified, obtained and applied
2. Scope of the network design is determined from design brief and/or in consultation with relevant person/s
3. Business requirements for existing and projected business model, organisational and information technology management structures are analysed in accordance with workplace procedures
4. Design is developed to include business priorities, growth, growth strategy, regulatory framework, risk and relevant cost in accordance with workplace
5. Existing and planned technical and environment goals of the enterprise are evaluated and documented in accordance with workplace procedures and design specifications
6. Design is developed with relevant technical factors in accordance with workplace procedures and design specifications
7. Client access, end-user needs and usage patterns, and disaster recovery requirements are evaluated and documented
8. Design specifications, analysis and evaluations are documented in accordance with workplace procedures and design specifications
9. Network specification is presented and discussed with relevant person/s
10. Alterations to the network specification resulting from the presentation/discussion are negotiated with relevant person/s in accordance with workplace procedures
    • Alternative network infrastructures and technologies are applied to network design
11. Network design is developed with required wide area network (WAN) infrastructure, internet connectivity, and implementation and management strategies
12. Risk management strategies are sought, obtained and incorporated into the network design
13. Network design is reviewed and adjusted to rectify any anomalies in accordance with workplace procedures
14. Network design proposal is documented in accordance with workplace procedures
15. Network design is presented and discussed with relevant person/s
16. Alterations to network design from the presentation/discussion are negotiated with relevant person/s in accordance with workplace procedures
17. Optimised project charter design is documented and approval obtained from relevant person/s
18. Implement and manage a network
    • Server and client systems are installed and configured in accordance with design specifications and network industry standards
19. User and group objects security is implemented in accordance with network specifications
20. Directory services, data storage, shared resources, web, remote access and network security are managed to ensure operation of the network is in accordance with workplace procedures and design specifications
21. Issues/problems are analysed to provide effective solutions in accordance with workplace procedures and design specifications
22. Quality of work is monitored in accordance with workplace procedures and relevant industry standards
23. Diagnose network malfunctions
    • Network operation is monitored using network diagnostic tools and malfunctions are diagnosed to determine cause in accordance with workplace procedure and design specifications
24. Network malfunctions are rectified using appropriate tests of the network in accordance with workplace procedures
25. Approaches to issues/problems are analysed to provide most effective solutions
26. Report network management activities
    • Finalised project charter documentation is written and forwarded to relevant person/s in accordance with workplace procedures
27. Network service records are maintained in accordance with workplace procedures

Range Statement

Range is restricted to essential operating conditions and any other variables essential to the work environment. Non-essential conditions may be found in the UEE Electrotechnology Training Package Companion Volume Implementation Guide.

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Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria on at least one occasion and include:

analysing business requirements analysing technical requirements analysing resources, services, network infrastructure, protocols and hosts, transmission control protocol and internet protocol (IP) hardware, planned upgrades, support and network and systems management applying alternative network infrastructures and technologies to network design applying relevant work health and safety (WHS)/occupational health and safety (OHS) requirements, including the use of risk control measures designing a network in accordance with design specifications and relevant industry standards diagnosing and rectifying the cause of network malfunctions documenting justification for network solutions evaluating and documenting client access, end-user needs and usage patterns, and disaster recovery requirements implementing and managing an enterprise network implementing network design obtaining and incorporating risk management strategies obtaining approval for network design specification presenting network specification reporting network management activities configurating of user and group objects, groups configuring accounts via a directory service, searching for objects, use of templates for creating user accounts and resetting accounts installing and configuring domain name system (DNS) servers, and creating and configuring DNS zones and records installing and configuring dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP), managing and maintaining DHCP, implementing and maintaining IP address management implementing network connectivity solutions, implementing network address translation (NAT) and configuring routing implementing network policy server and configuring a RADIUS server, including RADIUS proxy implementing IPv4 and IPv6 addressing and implementing distributed file system implementing high performance network solutions determining scenarios and requirements for implementing software-defined networking (SDN).

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria and include knowledge of:

design network considering company size, user and resource distribution, various site connectivity, bandwidth, service performance, availability and scalability, data and system access patterns, network roles and responsibilities and security considerations design and management of DHCP design and management of DNS design of network connectivity and remote access solutions design of core and distributed network solutions design of an advanced network infrastructure design and manage business continuity and data availability design and manage identity management components plan for network and application services problem-solving techniques relevant business requirements relevant manufacturer specifications and operating instructions relevant network diagnostic tools relevant network infrastructures relevant risk management strategies relevant technical requirements relevant WHS/OHS legislated requirements relevant workplace documentation, including network design proposal relevant workplace instructions, quality, policies and procedures.

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