Basic Operations and Concepts Judging Criteria

Category Possible Points
Make a patch cable 10
Make a crossover cable 10
Installing a wiring box with Cat5 Connector 10
Design a network based upon a given scenario involving broadcast and collision domains 10
Configure network settings based upon a given scenario 10
Configure users and groups 10
Configure an IIS web server 10
Configure a FTP Server 10
Set up a shared network printer 10
Set up a network firewall 10
Total Possible Score: 100

Design a network based upon a given scenario involving broadcast and collision domains (10%)

Meets General Learner Outcome (GLO)

Meets HCPSII
  • Career and Life Skills: Technological Literacy
  • Education Technology: Basic Operations and Concepts
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Configure network settings based upon a given scenario (10%)

Meets General Learner Outcome (GLO)

Meets HCPSII
  • Career and Life Skills: Technological Literacy
  • Education Technology: Basic Operations and Concepts
Criteria: Team must configure client machine and web server to use static IPs in order to establish connection with other network devices on the WAN.
10 - 8 Team correctly configures both computers to have static IPs, and both computers can connect to the judge's computer.
7 - 4 Team correctly configures both computers to have static IPs, but only one of the two computers can connect to the judge's computer.
3 - 1 Team attempts to, but incorrectly configures network settings.
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Make a patch cable (10%)

Meets General Learner Outcome (GLO)

Meets HCPSII
  • Career and Life Skills: Technological Literacy
  • Education Technology: Basic Operations and Concepts
Criteria: Make a working Category 5 patch cable. You will only be allowed to use up to 4 RJ-45 jacks.
10 - 8 Patch cable is neatly crimped with no wires exposed. Cable tested and working. Cable made in under 5 minutes.
7 - 4 Patch cable is neatly crimped with no wires exposed. Cable tested and working. Cable takes more than 5 minutes to make.
3 - 1 Patch cable has exposed wires. Cable tested and not working.
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Make a crossover cable (10%)

Meets General Learner Outcome (GLO)

Meets HCPSII
  • Career and Life Skills: Technological Literacy
  • Education Technology: Basic Operations and Concepts
Criteria: Make a working Category 5 crossover cable. You will only be allowed to use up to 4 RJ-45 jacks.
10 - 8 Crossover cable is neatly crimped with no wires exposed. Cable tested and working. Cable made in under 5 minutes.
7 - 4 Crossover cable is neatly crimped with no wires exposed. Cable tested and working. Cable takes more than 5 minutes to make.
3 - 1 Crossover cable has exposed wires. Cable tested and not working.
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Installing a wiring box with Cat5 Connector (10%)

Meets General Learner Outcome (GLO)

Meets HCPSII
  • Career and Life Skills: Technological Literacy
  • Education Technology: Basic Operations and Concepts
Criteria: Team will install wiring box with CAT5 connector jack using predetermined wiring scheme.
10 - 8 Team is able to assemble wiring box and punch down correctly CAT5 wire to the connector jack in under 15 minutes. Patch cable inserts correctly and establishes network connection between client machine and Linksys Router.
7 - 4 Team is able to assemble wiring box and punch down correctly CAT5 wire to the connector jack but takes longer than 15 minutes. Patch cable inserts correctly and establishes network connection between client machine and Linksys Router.
3 - 1 Team is able to assemble wiring box and punch down correctly CAT5 wire to the connector jack, but does not establish network connection. Team has to bypass wiring box and plug client machine directly into the Linksys Router.
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Configure users and groups (10%)

Meets General Learner Outcome (GLO)

Meets HCPSII
  • Career and Life Skills: Technological Literacy
  • Education Technology: Basic Operations and Concepts
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Configure an IIS web server (10%)

Meets General Learner Outcome (GLO)

Meets HCPSII
  • Career and Life Skills: Technological Literacy
  • Education Technology: Basic Operations and Concepts
Criteria: Team will create a new directory inside InetPub/WWWRoot called yourschoolname and place inside of it 2 HTML documents that you will produce. The team will configure the default website to point to this new directory.

HTML Page 1 will contain a page with your school name, team member information (Name, grade), and an image of every team member. All images need to be placed inside a sub-directory of yourschoolname called images.

You may work on this page in advance of the competition. Just bring a disk with this htm file and images to the competition.

HTML Page 2 will contain a web page with your network diagram based upon your given scenario.

10- 8 Website contains both pages correctly placed in newly created directory. All image files reside in a directory called images. Both pages contain all the specified information.
7 - 4 Website contains both pages correctly placed in newly created directory, but no default page is set and calling up the URL produces a blank page. All image files reside in a directory called images. Both pages contain all the specified information.
3 - 1 Website contains both pages, but directions are not followed explicitly.
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Configure a FTP Server (10%)

Meets General Learner Outcome (GLO)

Meets HCPSII
  • Career and Life Skills: Technological Literacy
  • Education Technology: Basic Operations and Concepts
Criteria: Team needs to allow their yourschoolname directory to have FTP access from the judge's computer. Judge should have both upload and download privileges to only that particular directory on the server.
10 - 8 Judge is able to both upload and download a file from his networked computer.
7 - 4 Judge is able to upload and download files, however, the judge's access is not limited to just the yourschoolname directory.
3 - 1 Judge can connect but is not able to accomplish either uploading or downloading from his networked computer.
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Set up a shared network printer (10%)

Meets General Learner Outcome (GLO)

Meets HCPSII
  • Career and Life Skills: Technological Literacy
  • Education Technology: Basic Operations and Concepts
Criteria: Team is able to connect and print to a standalone network printer with its own static IP address.
10 - 8 Team is able to print the "ALLPAU.doc" in under 5 minutes.
7 - 4 Team is able to print the "ALLPAU.doc" in under 10 minutes.
3 - 1 Team is able to print the "ALLPAU.doc" in under 15 minutes.
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