NIELIT ACC case studies
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NIELIT ACC sits within the examination and certification work of the National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology (NIELIT), a Government of India institution headquartered at NIELIT Bhawan, Dwarka, New Delhi. NIELIT describes itself as the country's premier institution for examination and certification in the field of Information, Electronics and Communications Technology (IECT), and as a leader in industry-oriented quality education and training. The NIELIT ACC case studies are 5 cases and about 4,584 words.
1A district transport office: re-segmenting a flat network before voice and video arrive
A district transport office has 58 desktop users on two floors. The LAN grew organically: three 24-port unmanaged switches are daisy-chained from a single router, every device shares 192.168.1.0/24, and DHCP is served by the router from a 60-address pool.
872 words, about 4 min2Ransomware at a district cooperative bank branch: first hour, backups, and reporting
A district cooperative bank runs its core banking application from a central data centre, but each of its 25 branches keeps a Windows Server file server for scanned KYC documents and a small payroll share. On Monday at 09:20 one branch reports that its files now carry a .locked extension and a ransom note demands payment in cryptocurrency.
929 words, about 5 min3Solar-powered LoRa sensor nodes dying in winter: an energy budget judgement
An environmental monitoring project has 30 solar-powered nodes in the Himalayan foothills. Each node has a 12 V 7 Ah sealed lead-acid battery, a 5 W panel at fixed tilt, and a controller that switches between panel and battery.
959 words, about 5 min4Replacing a 20-year-old beneficiary system: build, buy or stabilise first
A district rural development office runs a beneficiary registration system written in 2004 in Visual Basic 6, with an Access 2003 database on a shared folder. Forty clerks across four blocks enter muster rolls and generate 11 statutory reports whose formats the state revises almost every year.
904 words, about 5 min5A 40-seat online examination lab built from donated hardware
A government college is converting a hall into a 40-seat computer lab for online proctored examinations. Donations have produced 26 desktops (a mix of Core 2 Duo and i3 machines, 2 to 8 GB RAM, several with no OS licence sticker), 9 CRT monitors and 5 LCD monitors.
920 words, about 5 min