Instructions

Background: Kamehameha Institute is an organization that provides educational offerings to non-traditional students via the Institute’s website in a three-tier web, application, and database configuration. The State of Hawai’i regulates the educational sector, driving the need to ensure Kamehameha follows the State’s strict security and regulatory requirements. Kamehameha’s leadership is also very concerned with the threat posed by the online theft of their unique intellectual property. Additionally, the number of Hawai’ian entities breached by threat actors is on the rise. Thus, security, privacy, and compliance are all important considerations for the Kamehameha network architecture.

Your boss, the Kamehameha Institute’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) has tasked you to design a network infrastructure for three facilities located in the Hawaiian Islands of Honolulu, Hilo, and Lihue. The COO stipulated that you must provide for strengthened defenses to protect Kamehameha’s cultural heritage. After meeting with the COO, the two of you drafted the following set of requirements for your network design:

• Each of the facilities has three floors:
  

  • The first and second floor of each building requires 150 network connections each for machines connected to the management network used by administrators to manage the network devices
  • The third floor of each building requires 75 network connections for the servers
  • All sites require redundant connectivity to the other sites (e.g., Internet redundancy between the sites can be accomplished through a single Internet connection and a point-to-point link between the sites or two Internet connections provided by separate vendors along with point-to-point VPN connections between the sites)

• Each datacenter is a redundant failover environment to the other datacenters (Hilo, Honolulu, Lihue)
• A constant connection between the three locations, carrying at least 75 Mbps of data
• All servers at all locations must have redundancy
• Protection from intrusions is required and should be documented
• A plan to verify security and failover measures is required

Submission: Using a network diagramming tool such as Microsoft Visio, or free tools such as LibreOffice Draw or Draw.io available at https://draw.io (no sign-in or registration required), create a network diagram (drawing) specific to the organization that encompasses the three facilities and also depicts any necessary interconnections. Figure 1 shows the draw.io ‘new network diagram’ dialog window:

Figure 1. Draw.io New File Dialog Showing the Network Diagramming Templates

Your diagram should include enough detail to show the topology interconnections. The viewer should be able to understand the Kamehameha Institute’s network environment and be able to implement the architecture you develop. Ensure that you properly cite any external sources.

One of the keys to producing a viable network diagram is labeling the objects consistently and descriptively. Think about what you would want to know about a network device if you logged into it with little prior information. Consider location, floor number, or other pertinent information. At a minimum, include the following elements:

• IMPORTANT: Your network diagram must include an identifying label (e.g., callout box) that includes your class and section, assignment title, your name, and the date. Edit the items in italics. Your assignment will not be accepted if this element is missing:

Example Network Diagram Callout Box.

CMIT 350 6980

Project #1 Network Diagram

Student Name: Name

Date: 6/22/2010

• Any necessary hardware
• Site-to-Site (WAN) connections (e.g., leased line connectivity, satellite, etc.)
• Annotate the following values for each of the Sites:
  

  • Network ID
  • Useable Range
  • Subnet Mask
  • CIDR Value
  • Broadcast Address

• All devices require hostnames complying with the following naming conventions:
  

  • Routing Devices: Rx; where x is the site number incremented by a value of 1 for each routing device
  • Switching Devices: Sx; where x is the site number incremented by a value of 1 for each switching device
  • Servers: SRVx where x is the server number incremented by a value of 1 for each server

• For each site routing device, implement a private ip addressing scheme using a range suitable for corporate infrastructure and include the following:
  

  • management vlan
  • production vlan

• High availability

When finished, export the diagram as a PDF document (Note: You will need to use this diagram again in Project 3, so ensure you save the xml source file!) and submit it to the Assignment folder. Figure 2 demonstrates how to export your draw.iodiagram as a PDF document:

Figure 2. Draw.io ‘Export’ as Function to PDF

Assignment 1

In this assignment we will begin to identify different examples of works of the imagination that we want to use in our essays, and begin the reflection and critical thinking necessary to better understand how we want to talk about them

Identify at least three works of the imagination (see Unit 1 Essay Assignment for what we are considering “works of the imagination” for this essay).

Draft a paragraph on EACH example. Please include the following for each example:

• everything your reader needs to know about the example; and
• explain how your imagination interacted with this particular example.

Examples may be from our class readings, but it is not required. Please remember that for this essay we are assuming your reader knows nothing about you or the examples your are using, including the class readings.

Please finish this part before today’s midnight. Thank you!

Unit 1 Essay: Literature as Works of the Imagination

Background

In the first weeks of class, we have have considered “literature,” as “works of the imagination.” Or, to put it another way, literature as something that is made up. It may be based on something real, but ultimately the artist has created something new that did not previously exist. Not only does an author use their imagination to create their work, but we also use our imaginations to interact with their work. Another way to think about this is to simply consider your response to a particular work and explore why you have this particular response.

Essay Prompts

Please choose ONE of the options below:

Option 1

How does your imagination allow you to interact with works of the imagination (i.e. visual art, poetry, plays, fiction, television shows, movies, video games or songs)?

Option 2

The writer George Orwell has this to say in 1946:

There is no such thing as a genuinely non-political literature, and least of all in an age like our own, when fears, hatreds, and loyalties of a directly political kind are near to the surface of everyone’s consciousness. Even a single taboo can have an all-round crippling effect upon the mind, because there is always the danger that any thought which is freely followed up may lead to the forbidden thought (Orwell).

Speaking of our current cultural and political climate, Masha Gessen says:

We live in a time when intentional, systematic, destabilizing lying—totalitarian lying for the sake of lying, lying as a way to assert or capture political power—has become the dominant factor in public life in Russia, the United States, Great Britain, and many other countries in the world. When we engage with the lies—and engaging with these lies is unavoidable and even necessary—we forfeit the imagination. But the imagination is where democracy lives. We imagine the present and the past, and then we imagine the future (Gessen (Links to an external site.)).

How does our current cultural and political climate impact how you interact with works of the imagination?

Essay Requirements

• Develop a thesis that directly responds to one of the two prompts above.
• To support your thesis, discuss at least three specific works of the imagination and how you use your own imagination to interact with them. You may use examples from the class readings so far, but it is not required.
• Please assume your reader knows nothing about you or the works you are discussing.
• Please make your essay at least 2 pages long.
• Please type, double-space, and format your essay in 12-point font with 1-inch margins.
• Please provide a title to your essay.
• See grading rubric for further details.

The project involves writing up a 4 page paper on a macroeconomic topic and its impact on the economy as a whole. The following is a list of topics to choose from, but you can also email me with your own ideas.

1. House sales —discuss the rise and fall of the market in different regions
2. Hyperinflation – e.g. Zimbabwe, the Great Depression, etc.
3. National savings rate of the USA.
4. Agriculture and the effects of global warming
5. Energy demands in the U.S. or China
6. Fiscal policy differences regarding Democrats and Republicans
7. Unemployment rates in various states
8. What factors contribute the most to economic growth?
9. In what ways does franchising contribute to an overall economy?
10. The pros and cons of child labor in the globalized world.
11. Developing nations and advancement of technology
12. Emerging economy in India/Brazil/South Africa, etc.
13. Paying for education in various countries
14. Cleaning industrial pollution costs
15. Legality of marijuana in the U.S.
16. Cash and debit vs. buying with credit

Start with an introduction page that establishes the topic and its importance, and gives some details and statistics (be sure to cite your sources).

Discuss the topic with regard to its effect on the global or U.S. economy in the next two or three pages. Posit the arguments or the pros and the cons of the concepts being examined. How things might change about the concept in the near term?

Conclude with a page or so conclusion that summarizes the topic, expresses any limitations in the literature you examined or information you feel you would need to expand upon or change your opinions, and where future research would need to go to deal with the issue at hand from here.

This is the first of three papers that will lead you to, and be part
of, your final paper. You will need to choose a company that has or
could have a marketing problem that needs to be solved. It can be a
for-profit or nonprofit organization. Your final paper will combine the
Milestones, reflecting feedback received, and add to them. See the full
description of the final paper in the course syllabus.

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The Milestone 1 paper will identify and describe your chosen company,
what business it is in, and set out the problem that needs to be solved.
This is a
situational analysis. See the description on page 246 of your textbook. Paper length: 3-4 pages. not including title page and references.

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All papers in this course are to be in APA format, with a title page,
running head, and references. APA is in 12- point Times New Roman,
double-spaced throughout. See
this reference for more details on APA style.

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Remember, papers may only be submitted as Word documents.