Analyzing Business Requirements
- Analyze the existing and
planned business models.
- Analyze the company model and
the geographical scope. Models include regional, national,
international, subsidiary, and branch offices.
- Analyze company processes.
Processes include information flow, communication flow,
service and product life cycles, and decision-making.
- Analyze the existing and
planned organizational structures. Considerations include
management model; company organization; vendor, partner, and
customer relationships; and acquisition plans.
- Analyze factors that influence
company strategies.
- Identify company priorities.
- Identify the projected growth
and growth strategy.
- Identify relevant laws and
regulations.
- Identify the company's
tolerance for risk.
- Identify the total cost of
operations.
- Analyze the structure of IT
management. Considerations include type of administration,
such as centralized or decentralized; funding model;
outsourcing; decision-making process, and change-management
process.
Analyzing Technical
Requirements
- Evaluate the company's
existing and planned technical environment and goals.
- Analyze company size and user
and resource distribution.
- Assess the available
connectivity between the geographic location of worksites
and remote sites.
- Assess net available bandwidth
and latency issues.
- Analyze performance,
availability, and scalability requirements of services.
- Analyze data and system access
patterns.
- Analyze network roles and
responsibilities.
- Analyze security
considerations.
- Analyze the impact of
infrastructure design on the existing and planned technical
environment.
- Assess current applications.
- Analyze network
infrastructure, protocols, and hosts.
- Evaluate network services.
- Analyze TCP/IP infrastructure.
- Assess current hardware.
- Identify existing and planned
upgrades and rollouts.
- Analyze technical support
structure.
- Analyze existing and planned
network and systems management.
- Analyze the network
requirements for client computer access.
- Analyze end-user work needs.
- Analyze end-user usage
patterns.
- Analyze the existing disaster
recovery strategy for client computers, servers, and the
network.
Designing a Windows
2000 Network Infrastructure
- Modify and design a network
topology.
- Design a TCP/IP networking
strategy.
- Analyze IP subnet
requirements.
- Design a TCP/IP addressing and
implementation plan.
- Measure and optimize a TCP/IP
infrastructure design.
- Integrate software routing
into existing networks.
- Integrate TCP/IP with existing
WAN requirements.
- Design a DHCP strategy.
- Integrate DHCP into a routed
environment.
- Integrate DHCP with Windows
2000.
- Design a DHCP service for
remote locations.
- Measure and optimize a DHCP
infrastructure design.
- Design name resolution
services.
- Create an integrated DNS
design.
- Create a secure DNS design.
- Create a highly available DNS
design.
- Measure and optimize a DNS
infrastructure design.
- Design a DNS deployment
strategy.
- Create a WINS design.
- Create a secure WINS design.
- Measure and optimize a WINS
infrastructure design.
- Design a WINS deployment
strategy.
- Design a multi-protocol
strategy. Protocols include IPX/SPX and SNA.
- Design a Distributed file
system (Dfs) strategy.
- Design the placement of a Dfs
root.
- Design a Dfs root replica
strategy.
Designing for Internet
Connectivity
- Design an Internet and
extranet access solution. Components of the solution could
include proxy server, firewall, routing and remote access,
Network Address Translation (NAT), connection sharing, Web
server, or mail server.
- Design a load-balancing
strategy.
Designing a Wide Area
Network Infrastructure
- Design an implementation
strategy for dial-up remote access.
- Design a remote access
solution that uses Routing and Remote Access.
- Integrate authentication with
Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS).
- Design a virtual private
network (VPN) strategy.
- Design a Routing and Remote
Access routing solution to connect locations.
- Design a demand-dial routing
strategy.
Designing a Management
and Implementation Strategy for
Windows 2000 Networking
- Design a strategy for
monitoring and managing Windows 2000 network services.
Services include global catalog, Lightweight Directory
Access Protocol (LDAP) services, Certificate Services, DNS,
DHCP, WINS, Routing and Remote Access, Proxy Server, and
Dfs.
- Design network services that
support application architecture.
- Design a plan for the
interaction of Windows 2000 network services such as WINS,
DHCP, and DNS.
- Design a resource strategy.
- Plan for the placement and
management of resources.
- Plan for growth.
- Plan for Decentralized
resources or centralized resources.
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