Diablo Valley College Change and Configuration Management Presentation
Part 1 - Change and Configuration ManagementPrior to beginning work on this interactive assignment, review the below resources:The Practice of System and Network Administration: Vol. 1. DevOps and Other Best Practices for Enterprise ITPart VII: Change ProcessesChapter 32: Change ManagementChapter 33: Server UpgradesChapter 34: Maintenance WindowsChapter 35: Centralization OverviewChapter 36: Centralization RecommendationsChapter 37: Centralizing a ServiceCISSP: Certified Information Systems Security Professional Study GuideChapter 13: Security Operations (Links to an external site.): Change and Configuration ManagementThree Examples of Successful Change Management Practices (Links to an external site.) (Faucheux, 2009)Configuration Management & Change Management System: Differences (Links to an external site.) (Prakash, n.d.)Guide for Security-Focused Configuration Management of Information Systems (Links to an external site.) (Johnson, et.al, 2011)Configuration Management: Best Practices White Paper (Links to an external site.) (Cisco Systems, 2006)As a reminder, interactive assignments are student led, with replies from the students rather than the instructor. For this interactive assignment, you will continue in your role as the recently hired system administrator for a fictitious organization of your choice. The organization is expanding and so is the website traffic. The current web hosting provider will no longer be used, so the organization will need to move the existing web pages to a new in-house web server. Additionally, the organization wants to add content pages for the new products that will be sold as well as add functionality for an online store. Unfortunately, you have discovered that there are no properly documented change management and configuration management processes.For the interactive assignment, you need to include the phases of the configuration management process and present documentation that provides an explanation for each phase of process the organization should follow. Please include any additional items that you feel are necessary, such as obtaining baselines and how to change baseline configurations.In your submittal,Provide an outline of the steps for the change management and configuration management processes of the new server as well as the website that needs to be updated and hosted. This information should discuss the change management process for updating the new web server and keeping it secure.Identify the owner of the website and where it is being hosted.Identify who is responsible for the security of the website and when it was last updated.Identify who will be responsible for updating the new website and where it will be hosted.Identify the importance of written signatures from the stakeholders to begin and indicate when the project endsProvide documentation of the change management and configuration management processes.Part 2 - System Administration Presentation Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review the below resources:The Practice of System and Network Administration: Vol. 1. DevOps and Other Best Practices for Enterprise ITPart VI: Helpdesks and SupportChapter 31: DocumentationPart VII: Change ProcessesChapter 32: Change ManagementChapter 33: Server UpgradesChapter 34: Maintenance WindowsChapter 35: Centralization OverviewChapter 36: Centralization RecommendationsChapter 37: Centralizing a ServiceCISSP: Certified Information Systems Security Professional Study GuideChapter 13: Security Operations (Links to an external site.): Change and Configuration ManagementThree Examples of Successful Change Management Practices (Links to an external site.) (Faucheux, 2009)Configuration Management & Change Management System: Differences (Links to an external site.) (Prakash, n.d.)Configuration Management: Best practices White Paper (Links to an external site.) (Cisco Systems, 2006)The final assignment for this course is an accumulation of previous weeks’ assignments in which you will utilize all the skills you have acquired in this course. You have learned how to write the documentation for several system administration tasks for the fictitious company where you have been working. Now you will combine these documentations into a single project consisting of a presentation. The final presentation asks you to revise the work you did in Weeks 1 through 4 as you complete the new tasks listed in the guidelines below.For this presentation, you will continue in your role as the system administrator. You have been asked to give a presentation for the attendees at the annual League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA) event as a subject matter expert (SME) in system administration. For your talk, you will provide examples of typical system administration tasks as these tasks are performed at your fictitious job.PresentationThe presentation portion of your final assignment needs to be completed in PowerPoint. Your presentation will have the following major sections:IntroductionHow Technology Affects Your Organization in a Positive WayConcept Map and Documentation for Support of a ServiceSystem Security PracticesAssessment of the Roles and Responsibilities At Your Fictitious CompanyChange and Configuration ManagementConclusionNote: You may wish to include visual enhancements in your presentation. These may include appropriate images, a consistent font, appropriate animations, and transitions from one content piece to the next and from slide-to-slide. Images should be cited in APA Style as outlined by the Writing Center. It is recommended that you access Garr Reynold’s Top Ten Slide Tips (Links to an external site.), which provides useful assistance with creating successful presentations, and the Writing Center’s How to Make a PowerPoint Presentation (Links to an external site.) resource.In your presentation,Provide a welcoming statement and thank the audience for coming today.Provide an overview of change management, as well as a brief introduction of your organization and your role as a system administrator (Introduction).Describe the tasks involved in system administration (Introduction).Incorporate the instructor feedback and your Week 1 Assignment in a final draft of how technology affects your organization in a positive way.Incorporate the instructor feedback, your Week 2 Interactive Assignment, and the peer feedback in a final draft of your concept map and documentation for support of a service.Incorporate the instructor feedback, your Week 3 Interactive Assignment, and the peer feedback in a final draft of your system security practices.Incorporate your instructor feedback, and peer feedback, as appropriate, in a final draft of your assessment of the roles and responsibilities at your fictitious company.Incorporate your Week 5 Interactive Assignment, the instructor feedback, and the peer feedback, as appropriate, in a final draft in your Change and Configuration ManagementSummarize all sections of the project (Conclusion).Reflect on how the tasks discussed in the paper are only a small part of system administration (Conclusion).The System Administration PresentationMust be eight to 10 double-spaced slides in length (not including title and references slides) and formatted according to APA Style (Links to an external site.) as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft Word (Links to an external site.).Must include a separate title page with the following:Title of paper in bold fontSpace should be between title and the rest of the information on the title page.Student’s nameName of institutionCourse name and numberInstructor’s nameDue dateMust utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Writing Center resources.Must use at least three scholarly, peer-reviewed, credible sources in addition to the Limoncelli, Hogan and Chalup text.The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for this assignment.To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view this UAGC Library Quick ‘n’ Dirty (Links to an external site.) tutorial, which introduces the University Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.Must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.).Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center. See the APA: Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Writing Center for specifications.