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Unit Details ICTICT511 – IT Strategy
This unit requires each student to undergo adequate practice and
preparation prior to undertaking the assessments in a
classroom/simulated environment.
Students are required to complete ALL summative assessments listed
elow in order to be deemed “Competent” in this unit of competency
Assessment
Methods
Written Questions
Assessment 1
Case Study
Assessment 2
Questions
Assessment 3
Issue Date March 2018
Version 1.2.1
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Unit Summary
The unit objectives, prerequisites, co-requisites and other pertinent information about this unit
is described at https:
training.gov.au/Training/Details/ICTICT511
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General Instructions for Students
As these are considered practical units to be conducted in a simulated environment, this may include
a closed meeting room, office, or even the classroom (if it represents a working office environment).
You trainer will act as an office supervisor and will provide all relevant information for an assessment.
• Answer all parts of the assessment
• Type your answers (do not submit handwritten assessments)
• Answer in your own words (do not copy slabs of text from sources)
• Do not cheat. Anyone caught cheating will automatically be marked Not Satisfactory for this unit.
There are NO EXCEPTIONS to this rule.
In order to achieve competency, all assessment tasks must be completed to a Satisfactory standard
Note:
All references made to workplace and or employer, are directly related to the trainers and facilities at
VIT.
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Assessment 1: Written Assessment
Student Name: ______________________________________________________________
Student ID No: ______________________________________________________________
Student Instructions:
• Your answers should be on a separate document using word processing software such as
MS Word & or other software (hand written submissions are only acceptable with prior approval
from your Trainer)
• Your document should be professionally formatted and include
o Your Name
o Your Student ID
o Unit Code
o Assessment Number (i.e. ICTICT511 Assessment 1)
• Please reference to each question number and retype each question with your answers
• This is an open book assessment, you must answer every question and provide enough
information to demonstrate sufficient understanding of what has been asked to achieve
competency. Please ask your Traine
Assessor if you are unsure what is sufficient detail for an
answer
• Ask your traine
assessor if you do not understand a question. Whist your traine
assessor
cannot tell you the answer, he/she may be able to re-word the question for you or provide further
assistance based on the Institute’s “Reasonable Adjustment Policy”
• Answers should be your own work, in your own words and not plagiarised, nor copied.
However, if an answer is cut & pasted (such as a definition), then the source should be
eferenced
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Instructions to Students
Read the questions below and provide written answers (not longer than 300 words for each
answer) for each question. Type, do not handwrite, your answers.
1. identify and describe how methods of analysis and planning approaches, such as cost-benefit
analysis, and SWOT analysis, can be applied to technical problems and management
equirements
2. You are a network administrator in a company ABC. You have found out that the company is
unning very old hardware, and is running an unsupported version of Windows (Windows Me)
on those computers. What would you advise them about the security implications of running
an unsupported version of Windows on their network?
3. You are a network administrator in company ABC. You are monitoring the disk spaced used
of the company servers. You find the total capacity available is 10TB, of which 8TB is
cu
ently in use. Furthermore, you find that monthly space usage is increasing by 300GB on
average. What would you advise them about when they should upgrade their disk capacity
and why?
4. You are a network administrator in company ABC. The company has asked you to investigate
what operating systems are in use by the organisation, so they can forecast their future
licensing costs. What tool(s) could you use to gather information about what operating
systems are in use?
5. When using an analysis technique like SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats)
Analysis, which factors apply (i) to the external environment; and (ii) the internal environment
of the company? Why do we need to look at both the external and internal environments when
doing strategic planning?
6. When attempting to identify technology and product directions for evaluating and forecasting
vendor and technology trends in IT, what are two factors that can influence the direction of
technological evolution?
7. You are a network administrator for Great Games (GG), a games company that runs its game
servers in the Google Cloud Platform. Cu
ently GG runs a pool of 6 N1-Standard machines
unning Windows 2012 in GCP, each of which is priced at $70 per month. GG budget is for
each 50 users per server, and as each user pays $5 per month to play, this gives GG a
healthy margin on their infrastructure costs i.e. 50 x 5 = $250 of income per server, giving GG
a margin of $180 per server per month. (Assume there are 300 users in total)
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GG knows from past experience that once games server CPU utilisation goes beyond 70%
per machine, the performance for games players will be unacceptable.
(i) What tool could you use under Windows 2012 to monitor CPU usage across all the six
games servers?
(ii) Having monitored CPU usage across all six servers, and found it to be on average
85%. How many N1 servers do you have to add to the pool to get utilisation down to
elow 70%, and what will this do to the cost-efficiency (margin) GG has on each of its
deployed servers (you can assume that the number of users stays at 300)
Assessor Use Only
Assessor Comments
Satisfactory (S) Not Satisfactory (NS)
Assessor Signature: _______________________________ Date: _____________
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Assessment 2: Case Study
Instructions to Students
This assessment task can be undertaken in groups of up to three students per group. You need to list
your group members in the introduction to the report. You should use the provided report template to
help you structure the report (see Learner Resources for the subject). Each student needs to attach a
copy of the group report to their assessment summary when they hand in their tasks
Read the scenario below and write a report that addresses the requirements listed at the end of the
scenario
Scenario: You are the lead network administrator for XIT, a private college based in Australia. XIT
has recently decided to venture into the Chinese educational market, whereby Chinese students will
e able to enroll in courses that are delivered purely online, and thus will be able to complete the
courses without ever leaving China. XIT has been able to procure some ready-made courses from a
content provider, and your task is to design a network infrastructure that will both support the delivery
of those courses and fit the cu
ent business strategy of XIT.
XIT cu
ently has an internal IT staff of 5 people, supporting an internal network of around 200
computers. IT staff are spending a lot of time fixing hardware, and patching operating systems, and
the CEO is keen to reduce some of these costs. The inhouse IT manager has advised the CEO that,
to support the proposed China business, the number of IT staff would have to be increased by three
people and the number of extra servers needed would be ten, based on an expected demand of 500
students initially (i.e. 50 students per server). The cost of this extra hardware and software has been
estimated by the IT Manager at $125,000 with the three extra staff also costing $75,000 per person.
The CEO of XIT is unsure as to whether XIT should invest a lot of money up front in expensive
network infrastructure, as the demand for courses from China is hard to predict. The CEO does not
want to invest in a lot of network infrastructure if the demand for the courses does not eventuate, so
he is interested in minimising his up-front investment costs. The CEO wants a solution that will
support 100 students initially, but is also a flexible solution that will ‘scale up’ as needed e.g. if many
more Chinese students enrol than expected, he wants to make sure he has a network infrastructure
that can support that. He also wants a solution that will minimise the demands on in-house IT support
staff, as he is not keen to add to the payroll unless absolutely necessary.
The CEO has asked you to come up with a plan for a cloud-based network infrastructure, that does
not involve a lot of upfront expenditure, and can ‘scale up’ if required, should the demand for courses
suddenly increase. He has heard about cloud computing, and a Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
salesman has convinced him that GCP is the cloud provider he should be using. The salesman has
also had a GCP technical architect prepare an initial design for the CEO about what GCP resources
would be needed to support an initial cloud deployment (to support 100 students). The learning
management system (LMS) that is being used by XIT has a