Universiti Teknologi MARA
Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
ITT400– Introduction to Data
Communication and Networking
GROUP PROJECT: CREATE A NETWORK
Topic:
Class: RCS2402A
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Student Name
Student ID
1 Siti Nadzirah Binti Parsikun
2020967883
2 Nur Irham Atikah Binti Mohd Rafee @Sukiman 2020960105
3 Anis ‘Aisyah Binti Md Nazri
2020952631
TOTAL
MARKS:
Signature
ITT400 EVALUATION FORM
TOPIC
MEMBERS
1. SITI NADZIRAH BINTI PARSIKUN
2. ANIS ‘AISYAH BINTI MD NAZRI
3. NUR IRHAM ATIKAH BINTI MOHD RAFEE @ SUKIMAN
CLASS
RCS2402A
DATE
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
1. Presentation: Organization
Weight
(W)
Score
(S)
(1-10)
(**Refer rubric)
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Present in a clear, engaging, charming and appropriate form.
2. Presentation: Delivery skills
Use proper language; speak clearly, loudly and at appropriate pace,
effective eye contact, presentable attitude and confident.
3. Presentation: Demonstration
▪
Creative, engaging, and detailed presentation of all aspects of project.
Adding
extra value.Group collaboration
4.
Presentation:
The group members contribute equally and are engaged in the project.
5. Report: Introduction
Provide overview & objectives of assignment. Explain the role of each
group member in completing the task.
6. Report: Analysis of topic
Discuss the topic/issue by stating the technology involved or processes.
7. Report: Conclusion
Explain on what has been achieved and learned throughout the process
of completing the assignment. Include advantages and
limitations/problems working in groups and recommendation for
improvement.
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2
1
1
3
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Total Marks (100)
Marks
(W*S)
ITT400 GROUP ASSIGNMENT REPORT EVALUATION FORM RUBRIC
No
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2
3
Assessment
Excellent (8-10)
Criteria
Presentation is wellPresentation:
organized and provides
Organization
logical transitions between
topics
Good (6-7)
Presentation is wellorganized; provides
transitions between
topics
Satisfactory (5)
Presentation is
disorganized in spots;
some transitions are
unclear or missing
Poor (1-4)
Presentation is
disorganized;
transitions unclear or
missing
Presentation:
Delivery skills
Speakers are usually
audible, make
frequent eye-contact
with audience, and
use inflection of
voice. Lacked
confidence.
Detailed presentation
of all aspects of
project; makes
effective use of visual
or audio aids.
Speakers
are sometimes
inaudible, eye-contact
is sporadic; inflection
is flat or ineffective.
Lacked confidence.
Speakers
are inaudible; no
eye-contact; no
inflection. Not
confident.
Presentation covers all
aspects of project, but
explanations are
incomplete or unclear;
makes use of visual aids
Aspects of the
project are missing;
explanations are
incomplete or
unclear; no use of
visual aids.
Some team
members do not
contribute and are
not engaged
Speakers are confident,
enthusiastic, audible,
maintains excellent eyecontact with audience
throughout, and uses
inflection of voice
effectively
Creative, engaging, and
Presentation:
Demonstration detailed presentation of all
aspects of project. Makes
creative and effective use
of visual and audio aids.
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Presentation:
Group
collaboration
Each member contributes
equally; team members
are engaged throughout
All team members
contribute and are
engaged throughout
Some team members
do not contribute
sufficiently or are not
engaged
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Report:
Introduction
Provides exceptionally
clear context supporting
rationale for assignment;
clear objectives. Detailed
explanation on the roles
of each member.
Provides clear
context supporting
rationale for
assignment; clear
objectives. Clearly
explained the roles
of each member.
Provides context
supporting rationale
for assignment &
objectives.
Adequately explained
the roles of each
member.
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Report:
A detailed discussion on
the topic/issue by stating
the technology involved or
processes.
A clear and accurate
discussion on the
topic/issue by stating
the technology
involved or processes.
A poor explanation on
the topic/issue by
stating the technology
involved or processes.
Include detailed findings
and lesson learned from
the project.
Include the
findings. Some
lesson learned
from the project.
Include the findings
or lesson learned
from the project.
Analysis of
topic
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Report:
Conclusion
Poor statement of
context
supporting
rationale for
assignment &
objectives. No
explanation on the
roles of each
member.
Incorrect
explanation on
topic/issue.
Lesson learned not
included in the
report.
Table of Contents
1.0
Introduction ................................................................................................................... 1
2.0
The Task......................................................................................................................... 2
2.1 How to create a Simple Local Area Network ................................................................ 2
2.2 Topology Drawing .......................................................................................................... 6
2.3 List the equipment .......................................................................................................... 7
2.4 Network testing............................................................................................................... 7
2.5 Setting up a file sharing ................................................................................................12
3.0
Conclusion....................................................................................................................14
References ..............................................................................................................................15
1.0 Introduction
A local area network (LAN) is a series of devices, linked together in one physical location such as
a building, office, or home. A LAN may be small or large, ranging from a one-user home network
to an enterprise network in an office or school with thousands of users and devices. LANs are
usually used to set up home or corporate networks in private households or in businesses. This
helps the different devices to connect with each other. An example of a LAN is that a small
organization uses to link their devices together. A system that connects electronic office devices
such as computers and printers to one another and forms a network inside an office, building or
group of buildings.
The advantages of the Local Area Network (LAN) are, first, sharing of resources that all resources
are connected to one network and can be shared with the other computer if any computer requires
any resources. Resource forms include DVDs, printers, scanners, modems, and hard drives. So,
for each machine, there is no need to buy separate resources and it saves money. Second is
securing of data, It is more safe to hold data on the server. And if you want to modify or delete
any data, you can easily do so on one server computer, and modified data can be accessed by
other computers. You may also grant access or withhold access to specific users so that data on
the network can be accessed by only approved users. Third, communication is easy, fast, and
timesaving, data and messages can be shared in an easy and efficient way on LAN computers.
It also saves time and easily makes our jobs work. Each user is able to share messages and data
with any other LAN user. From any device on the network, the user can log in and access the
same data placed on the server.
Disadvantages of local area network (LAN) are first limitation of distance Within a house or
surrounding building local area networks are usually rendered and do not spread to the wider
area. Second, server crashes may affect all computers, if any file on the server is corrupted or
the hard drive fails, all attached computers face trouble working correctly. Lastly, setting up a LAN
is expensive, setting up a LAN is costly because there is special software needed to build a server.
Communication devices, such as hubs, switches, routers and cables, are also expensive. For a
large office, a special administrator is required to manage and troubleshoot LANs.
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2.0 The Task
2.1 How to create a Simple Local Area Network
Step 1:
a) Firstly, select and drag “Switch” from Network Devices, 3 laptops from End Devices. Then
connect all laptops with switch0 using copper straight-through connection. For laptop 0,
use “FastEthernet0/0 connect to switch using “FastEthernet0/1”.
Figure 2.1.1: Connection between Switch0 & Laptop 0
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b) Secondly, connect laptop 1 to switch0 using copper straight-through. From laptop 1 use
“FastEthernert0/0” connect to switch0 using “FastEthernet0/2”.
Figure 2.1.2: Connection between laptop 1 and switch0
c) Then, proceed with laptop 2 and connect to switch0 using copper straight-through. For
laptop 2, use interface “FastEthernet0/0” connect to switch0 using “FastEthernet0/2”
Figure 2.1.3: Connection between Laptop 2 and Switch0
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Step 2:
Click at Laptop 1, select “Dekstop” then choose “IP Configuration”.
Figure 2.1.4: Desktop Menu for Laptop
Step 3
a) Insert IP Address “192.168.1.5”, Subnet Mask “255.255.255.0” and Default Gateway
“192.168.1.1” in the form as showed at figure below.
Figure 2.1.5: IP Configuration Laptop 0
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b) Insert IP Address “192.168.1.6”, Subnet Mask “255.255.255.0” and Default Gateway
“192.168.1.1” in the form as showed at figure below.
Figure 2.1.6: IP Configuration Laptop 1
c) Insert IP Address “192.168.1.7”, Subnet Mask “255.255.255.0” and Default Gateway
“192.168.1.1” in the form as showed at figure below.
Figure 2.1.7: IP Configuration Laptop 2
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2.2 Topology Drawing
In this project. our group decide for using Star Topology to connect all devices in creating
network for each other.
Figure 2.2.1: Star Topology
The Star Topology is a network topology in which all the clients or machines on the
network are connected through a central device known as a hub or switch. Each
workstation has a cable that goes from the network card to the hub or switch device. One
of the major benefits of the star topology is that a break in the cable causes only the
workstation that is connected to the cable to go down, not the entire network as it is with
the bus topology.
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2.3 List the equipment
Equipment that need to be used
a) Laptop: Our group using laptop because it can connect to switch for create simple LAN
network
b) Switch: Our group using Switch because it allows us to set IP address on interface
level. To manage switch, we need to assign IP Address to others laptop that connected
with switch.
c) Copper Straight-Through: Our group using Copper Straight-Through to connecting all
devices. It is standard Ethernet cable that used to connect two devices such as
between switch to laptop.
2.4 Network testing
Explain the network testing that can be conduct to the proposed network:
1. First, we need to identify the network configuration of each nodes connected through
our
network. To identify, we need to click every laptop, “Laptop0”, “Laptop1”,
“Laptop2”.
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Then we need to check every Laptops’ ip address one by one. It is because every
devices have different ip address. To check the ip address we need to click the
laptop, then go to Desktop and click the IP Configuration.
Figure 2.4.1: Ip Configuration Laptop0
Figure 2.4.2: Ip Configuration Laptop1
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Figure 2.4.3: Ip Configuration Laptop2
2. After that, we need to test the network connection of each nodes connected through our
network.
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First, we need to select the Laptop one by one, then click “Desktop” and select
“Command Prompt”
Figure 2.4.4: Display command prompt.
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Lastly, we need to ping the ip address to each laptop, one by one. To ping, we
need to type “ping 192.168.1.6” for the first laptop, “ping 192.168.1.7” for the
second laptop and “ping 192.168.1.5” for the third laptop,
Figure 2.4.6: Ping ip address 1st laptop.
Figure 2.4.7: Ping ip address 2nd laptop.
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Figure 2.4.8: Ping ip address 3rd laptop.
3. If this message appears, that is mean the network connection of each nodes is successful.
Figure 2.4.9: Display each node is successful.
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2.5 Setting up a file sharing
Figure 2.5.1: File Sharing Between Three Laptop
1st Step: Select “Simple PDU” or known as mail icon then click at Laptop 0 and Laptop 1.
This is the way to send file from laptop0 to another laptop.
2nd Step: Next, do the same step as 1st step for the rest of the laptop as shown in figure
2.5.1 above.
3rd Step: Afterwards, click the simulation to run the file and then wait for the file result
whether it is successful or opposite.
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Figure 2.5.2: File Sharing Between Three Laptop
4th Step: The status will be display under the PDU list window and display all the file that
been transfer successful. Figure 2.5.3 show that the file has been transfer successful.
Figure 2.5.3: File Sharing Status
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3.0 Conclusion
A Local Area Network (LAN) using both wired and wireless topology has been proposed in this
work using Cisco Packet Tracer with some major principles in a single network. The LAN was
used to logically group clients on the network and data packets were routed from one system to
another with the assistance of a router and switch settings. It is also worth noting that the
configuration and requirements are for the initial prototype and can be further established and
further improved. To enhance support and coverage, functionality can be added.
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References
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diagrams.net. (2020, November). Draw.io. https://app.diagrams.net/#G1r3va35RivnnbSbSfphrjBeL90DLX8zT
Junaid Rehman. (2020). Advantages and disadvantages of local area network (LAN) - IT
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Sahidul Islam. (2016, March 26). (15) Router Configuration and File Transfer In Cisco Packet
Tracer - YouTube. Router Configuration and File Transfer.
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ulIslam
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