Step 1. Determining network configuration

The office network uses dynamic addressing. Your next step is to verify that workstations are using this service. You are also requested to find some key information about yourworkstation's network configuration.

Ensure your Windows workstation is running TCP/IP protocol and is set up to obtainan IP address dynamically using DHCP. If not, perform the appropriate configuration and let it take effect.

Using the utilities of your choice, determine and record below the following network

configuration information for your workstation:

IP address

Subnet mask

MAC address

Default gateway

DNS server address

DHCP server address

Date and time of DHCP lease obtained Date and time of DHCP lease expiry.

Step 2. Planning network fault tolerance procedures

The workstation hosting the shared folders needs to be properly protected from allnatural disasters ranging from hard-drive failures to floods and fires.

In order to protect the system from a hard-drive failure so that access to the data is available immediately after the hard drive fails (with no delay), what two most commonly used fault tolerance methods would you recommend? (Hint: suggest two different RAID levels).

Assuming the workstation has been shipped with two identical hard drives, what additional hardware would be necessary to implement each of the two methods?

What additional fault tolerance method would you recommend in order to protect the workstation from the other natural disasters like floods and fires? Does this method protect against hard-drive failures as well? If so, why would you not use itinstead of (as opposed to in addition to) the methods discussed above?

Develop a backup strategy for the workstation assuming that the amount of time it takes to perform backups must be kept to a minimum, but it is not important how long a restore procedure would take in the unlikely event that it would have to be performed. Assume the company operates 5 days a week from Monday to Friday, that a full backup is done every Friday, and that there must be a backup taking place each working day. In the spaces below specify the type of backup that shouldoccur each day.

Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday.

Step 3. Researching and compiling virus information

All three offices of the Environmental Research company are connected to the Internet and therefore are at risk of being infected by viruses. Antivirus software has therefore been installed at all three locations, but new viruses emerge on an almost daily basis and have to be looked out for. One of your assignments is to monitor virusactivity in the regions in which the three offices are located.

Using the services of Kaspersky Lab (http://securelist.com/statistics/), find and compilethe following information:

For each of the three company offices, write down the type of threat that was mostprevalent in the country where the office is located within the last 30 days. Determine which office is statistically most vulnerable to which type of threat. Foreach of the 3 countries and each type of threat write down the largest number of threats detected per day in the last 30 days. (Hint: Clicking on a country in the world map displays statistics for that country)

For each type of threat, write down the names of the 2 most prevalent threats, infections and attacks. Are they the same or different in the 3 countries? Determineand write down information about each of the malware such as its class, platform and publication date.