NetRider 2009 Competition Introduction
Preparation for the Competition – 4weeks of time from the start of our Final Year Project to complete studying all CCNA syllabuses.
- Network Fundamentals
- Living in a Network
- Centric World Communicating over the Network Tools
- Commands for constructing and maintaining networks
- Application layer functionality and Protocols
- OSI Transport Layer
- OSI Network Layer
- Addressing the Network
- OSI Physical Layer Planning and Cabling
- Networks Configuring and Testing Your Network
CCNA 2: Routing Protocols and Concept
- Introduction to Routing and Packet Forwarding
- Static Routing
- Introduction to Dynamic Routing Protocols
- Distance Vector Routing Protocols
- RIPv1VLSM and CIDR
- RIPv2The Routing Table: A Closer Look
- EIGRPLink-State Routing Protocols
- OSPF
CCNA 3: LAN Switching and Wireless
- LAN Design
- Basic Switch Concepts and Configuration
- VLANs
- VTP
- STPInter-VLAN Routing Basic Wireless Concepts and Configuration
CCNA 4: Accessing the WAN
- Introduction to WANs
- PPP
- Frame Relay
- Network Security
- ACLs
- Teleworker ServicesIP Addressing Services
- Network Troubleshooting
Information Technology Infrastructure Library v3
Introduction
- Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of concepts and policies for managing the IT services, developments and operations.
- ITIL gives a detailed description of a number of important IP practices with comprehensive checklists, tasks and procedures that any IT organization can tailor to its needs.
What we will learn in ITIL?
This course has 11 study units, with exercises and assignments spread throughout the course to reinforce the knowledge gained.
- Service Management as a practice
- Service Life cycle
- Generic Concepts & Definitions Key Principles & Models
- Processes
- Functions
- Technology & Architecture Implementation Considerations
- ITIL Qualification scheme Complementary Industry Guidance
Benefits of ITIL
- Increased user and customer satisfaction with IT services
- Improved service availability, directly leading to increased business profits and revenue
- Financial savings from reduced rework, lost time, improved resource management and usage
- Improved time to market for new products and services
- Improved decision making and optimized risk
Green Computing
Green IT refers to environmentally sustainable computing or IT. It is the study and practice of designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of computers, servers, and associated subsystems such as monitors, printers, storage devices, and networking and communications systems efficiently and effectively with minimal or no impact on the environment.
- Use power management feature that helps to reduce cooling requirements, noise, operating costs for energy and cooling, and lower power consumption.
- Server Virtualization allows running multiple independent virtual operating systems on a single physical computer.
- VMware ESX Server abstracts processor, memory, storage, and networking resources into multiple virtual machines.
- VMware VMFS allows multiple installations to access the same virtual image.
- VMware Virtual SMP allows a single machine to use multiple processors simultaneously.
- Having a bigger drives help to conserve power to get rid all the older, smaller hard drives and install a new, bigger one. It also has a higher in storage density, which helps to reduce power consumption.
- If replacing 11 legacy drives with a modern, high-capacity drive, eventually get a 16% increase on capacity and use 81% less power. Furthermore, it can save 93% more floor space.
- Economizers that make use of “free cooling”.Going lights (mean improved security, improved response time) improves more than data center energy costs.Obviously the more you limit access, the less cooling escapes as doors are opened and less energy is used to maintain proper temperatures.
- Other less obvious lights out benefits include improved security, reduction in damaged cabling and equipment, less theft and misappropriations of equipment, lowered insurance costs, quicker response times, and better allocation of your IT talent.
- With remote bios level access to servers, the ability to do remote power "cold boots", and the ability to be notified when environmental thresholds are exceeded, IT Managers have the ability to draw on their best IT resources regardless of their physical location. Today's remote access hardware is OS independent and with virtual media enables you to remotely do major software updates and patches.
Conclusion,
Our project is to creating and developing complex network using Packet Tracer 5.2 to simulate in “real-life” network scenario. Even though we have the foundation of technical skill, is a best practice to implement ITIL life cycle to manage and organize the IT infrastructure to deliver more efficiencies and effectiveness to the services. Beside knowing how to manage them well, in the organization, we need to think of going green computing as it can helps to save cost, reduce energy consumption from the data center, going paperless, recycling of raw material.
