Free quiz · Appendix B of Book 2 · Education
Score your school network diagram
Open your current drawing, the real one. Tick each question you can answer yes. Each yes is worth 5 points.
Partly means no. "Most of it has a zone table" is a no.Verbal knowledge doesn't count. If the answer lives in your head and not on the page, it's a no.Check, don't remember. Look at one real device or cable and compare.This is the education scorecard from Book 2, Draw Secure School Network Diagrams Pick another industry .
Most low scores come from a drawing typed by hand that stopped matching the network. Draw the school standard from your NetBox data with the free tool, or read the free chapter first: School network zones .
What auditors check What an audit-ready network diagram includes: every security zone with a guarded edge and the device that enforces it; every connection to outside networks, wireless included; the VLANs and subnets in each zone; a flow register of what may cross each boundary, under default deny; and an owner, a date and the source it was drawn from. Score yours below: each question names the chapter that fixes it.
Who asks for it: schools that take E-Rate discounts generally must certify compliance with the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), which needs a filter on internet access; student records are protected under FERPA; and cyber insurers price the policy partly from this drawing. What your district must document is a question for your E-Rate consultant or counsel.
Part 1. Audiences 1. Is there more than one page, each made for a different reader: at minimum a plain-words overview, a zones-and-VLANs page and a closets-and-cables page?CHAPTER 1 2. Could your superintendent or a board member read the overview and say, in their own words, what is protected from whom, without meeting a single VLAN ID?CHAPTER 2 3. Does each page carry a title block naming the school, its date and its revision, and does one legend hold for the whole set?CHAPTER 2, 4 Part 2. Zones 4. Are students, staff, the front office, guests, school services, building systems and management drawn as separate zones (or, where they aren't separate yet, drawn as planned zones)?CHAPTER 3 5. Does every routed VLAN appear in exactly one zone's table, with its ID, name, subnet and gateway?CHAPTER 4 6. Is the device that enforces traffic between zones drawn, with an interface (or transit) per zone, so a reader can see that no zone routes straight to another?CHAPTER 4 7. Are cameras, door controllers, HVAC, PA, bells and clocks in a building-systems zone of their own, apart from the servers that manage them?CHAPTER 3 8. Does the drawing show where internet filtering happens for students and guests?CHAPTER 3, 9 Part 3. Closets, cables and wireless 9. Is every closet drawn with its room number, including the ones in shared rooms, and every portable classroom with its feed?CHAPTER 5 10. Does every drawn backbone link carry the label printed on the real cable, and do LAGs show their members and trunked VLANs?CHAPTER 5 11. Does each closet show its PoE budget against what it powers, plus its UPS, and does each uplink show its media type and optic?CHAPTER 6 12. Are the firewall pair, the core pair and every switch stack drawn member by member, with at least three failure scenarios written as "what happens, what people notice, how to put it back"?CHAPTER 7 13. Does a register list every SSID with its security, VLAN and zone, and does it match what a phone in the hallway actually sees?CHAPTER 8 14. Are links between buildings (the stadium, the portables, the bus yard) drawn as what they are: fiber, copper or a radio pair, with both radios as devices?CHAPTER 5, 8 Part 4. Conversations 15. Are the important flows drawn from initiator to responder, with ports, and marked permitted, conditional or denied (including state testing and casting)?CHAPTER 9 16. Is every outside party with a way in (camera and door vendor, HVAC contractor, summer integrator) drawn with where they land and what approves their session?CHAPTER 9, 10 17. Can a written register or zone matrix tell you, for any two zones, what may pass between them, and has someone reviewed it within the past year (the August week before students return is the natural slot)?CHAPTER 10 Part 5. Keeping it true 18. Do typed facts (IPs, serials, VLAN tables, cable labels) come from one source of record, such as NetBox, instead of being typed into shapes?CHAPTER 12 19. Has the drawing been compared against the network since the last summer project, with the differences and unknowns kept in a dated gaps register (Appendix G, WS-11)?CHAPTER 13, 15 20. Could you produce a copy for the insurer, the E-Rate consultant or a vendor, with management IPs, serials and circuit IDs removed, in under ten minutes?CHAPTER 14 Your result Tick the questions above Your tier appears here as you go.
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Network Diagrams by Industry · Book 2
Draw Secure School Network Diagrams: From Classroom to Campus Network
Every question names the chapter that fixes it, so every low score is a reading list.
The rest of the book: Staff, student, guest and building systems zones, Wi-Fi for thousands of Chromebooks, and the district WAN. One-time payment, 14-day refund.
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