Free quiz · Appendix B of Book 3 · Warehousing and logistics
Score your warehouse network diagram
Open your current drawing, the real one. Pick one answer per question.
(a) is worth 5, (b) is worth 2, (c) is worth 0. Pick the answer that is true right now.If you have to think about it, it's (b) at best. Verbal knowledge doesn't count. If the answer lives in your head and not on the page, it's (c).Check, don't remember. Look at one real device or cable and compare.This is the warehousing and logistics scorecard from Book 3, Draw Secure Warehouse Network Diagrams Pick another industry .
Most low scores come from a drawing typed by hand that stopped matching the network. Draw the warehouse standard from your NetBox data with the free tool, or read the free chapter first: Warehouse 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: your 3PL clients' security teams score your segmentation from it and insurers price the policy partly from it. For automated material handling, IEC 62443-3-2 is the usual reference for zones and conduits (ZCR 3) and their drawings (ZCR 6.3).
Part 1. Who it's for 1. The general manager asks what stops the dock if the network fails. Your drawing...CHAPTER 2 (a) has an overview page that answers it in plain words.(b) answers it, but only for someone who knows what a VLAN is.(c) is not the document anyone would hand them.2. Who is your drawing for?CHAPTER 1 (a) Separate pages for separate readers: at least an overview, a logical page and a physical page.(b) One big page that tries to serve everyone.(c) Mostly the person who drew it.3. The title block on each page shows...CHAPTER 2, 13 (a) site, date and revision, filled in on every page.(b) the site name and a date from some time ago.(c) the logo.4. The legend...CHAPTER 4 (a) explains every color, line style and symbol, and every page follows it.(b) exists, but some pages improvise.(c) is a matter of interpretation.Part 2. Zones and addresses 5. The warehouse floor on your drawing is...CHAPTER 3 (a) split into zones: operations, network management, one zone per automation area, and safety on its own.(b) split into office and warehouse.(c) one box called WAREHOUSE.6. Carriers, client portals and the cloud WMS connect to your site...CHAPTER 3, 9 (a) through an integration DMZ that is drawn, with each outside party ending there.(b) through the firewall, somehow.(c) through a cloud labeled INTERNET.7. Pick any routed subnet on your drawing. It appears...CHAPTER 4 (a) in exactly one zone, with VLAN ID, name, gateway and routing table (VRF).(b) in a zone, but without its gateway.(c) in a spreadsheet somewhere else, possibly.8. Your firewalls and other boundary devices are drawn...CHAPTER 4 (a) across the boundary they enforce, with each interface and the zone it faces.(b) near the boundary, roughly.(c) as a brick-wall icon in the corner.9. Your VLAN names...CHAPTER 4, Appendix H (a) follow a written pattern, and every VLAN has a zone.(b) mostly follow a pattern, with a few leftovers from commissioning.(c) include at least one called TEMP, NEW or a date.Part 3. The building 10. Pick a cable on the drawing and walk to it. The label on the drawing...CHAPTER 5 (a) matches the label on both ends of the real cable.(b) matches one end, or did once.(c) There is no label on the drawing, or on the cable.11. The links between switches show...CHAPTER 5 (a) which VLANs each trunk carries, and the members of each port-channel.(b) "trunk".(c) a line.12. Your long fiber runs to the far IDFs and outbuildings show...CHAPTER 6 (a) the media grade (for example OS2 or OM4) and the optic on each end.(b) "fiber".(c) a line, which might be fiber.13. Firewall pairs, switch stacks and conveyor or sorter rings are drawn...CHAPTER 7 (a) member by member, with rings closed and their blocking point shown.(b) as pairs, but the rings are straight lines.(c) as single boxes.14. Your Wi-Fi is drawn as...CHAPTER 8 (a) controllers, access points and an SSID table with each SSID's VLAN and zone, plus radio links as radio links.(b) access points on a floor plan, without SSIDs or VLANs.(c) a cloud over the floor.Part 4. Who talks to whom 15. The conversations between handhelds, WMS, WCS, sorter PLCs and printers are drawn...CHAPTER 9 (a) as one-way lanes from initiator to responder, with protocol and port.(b) as lines with arrowheads at both ends.(c) They aren't drawn.16. When a client asks "can anyone reach your conveyor network from outside?"...CHAPTER 9, 10 (a) the drawing shows the important denied paths explicitly.(b) the drawing shows what is allowed; the rest is implied.(c) you answer from memory and hope.17. Your flow register or zone matrix...CHAPTER 10, 16 (a) gives every pair of zones an answer, and was compared with the firewall rules in the last twelve months.(b) exists, but nobody has compared it with the firewall.(c) What flow register?Part 5. Keeping it true 18. IP addresses, serials and VLAN tables on the drawing come from...CHAPTER 12 (a) one source of record, such as NetBox, and are refreshed from it.(b) a spreadsheet that is updated most of the time.(c) whoever last typed into the shape.19. The last time anyone compared the drawing with reality...CHAPTER 13, 15 (a) was within 90 days, and the differences and unknowns are in a dated gaps list.(b) was before the last peak season.(c) was handover day.20. A 3PL client wants a diagram for their security questionnaire. You can produce a copy without management IPs, serials or circuit IDs...CHAPTER 14 (a) in under ten minutes.(b) in an afternoon, carefully.(c) by sending the whole thing and hoping nobody looks.Your result Answer the questions above Your tier appears here as you go.
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Network Diagrams by Industry · Book 3
Draw Secure Warehouse Network Diagrams: From Dock Door to Warehouse Wi-Fi
Every question names the chapter that fixes it, so every low score is a reading list.
The rest of the book: Conveyors, sorters, handhelds and AGVs, heavy Wi-Fi, and the dock, carrier and client connections. One-time payment, 14-day refund.
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