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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Install and configure network
   • Prepare and confirm, with relevant personnel, the physical and logical structure of a LAN design to resolve hardware and software compatibility conflicts
   • Prepare file server and install network server software
   • Execute workstation boot procedures and verify network and work station functionality
   • Document network physical connections and workstation characteristics
2. Set up network facilities
   • Configure set-up procedures for a network print server, network printer and a shared file system
   • Connect a bridge or router between two networks
   • Set up a gateway for a network
   • Set up a logical disk or volume structure
3. Administer user accounts
   • Create a user account and a user log script
   • Produce a document of network users for notification of their access rights and privileges
   • Add and delete users to maintain an up-to-date user list
   • Establish disk quotas for users
   • Develop common user security procedures and set up user profiles
4. Install common applications
   • Install and configure an application in client-server mode
   • Establish security and multiple access to an application
   • Set up and configure an email client and browser for the client
5. Install and configure systems applications
   • Configure a backup system for redundancy, according to customer policy
   • Administer disk fault tolerance and redundancy techniques
6. Maintain system integrity
   • Implement system integrity and system monitoring techniques to provide a reliable customer data network
   • Use diagnostic software to detect and isolate system faults
   • Produce a report on network performance and fault occurrence for the customer, with recommendations for improving the integrity of the data communications network

Performance Evidence

Evidence of ability to:

establish and configure a data communications network

set up and maintain systems, facilities, applications, and software

administer user accounts

diagnose and isolate system faults.

Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided at least once.

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Knowledge Evidence

To complete the unit requirements safely and effectively, the individual must:

determine features and operating requirements of data communications software and hardware for network systems

outline manufacturer’s requirements of testing software and equipment

summarise test methods and performance requirements

describe typical issues and challenges that occur when administering a data communications network.

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