Competency
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency:
- Maintain simple web services
Scenario
Your company is planning to increase the size of your IT maintenance department. To ensure that potential new employees are familiar with web services and the issues your company deals with on a regular basis, your manager developed three situations that the potential new employee will be asked to address and present as part of the interview process. Your manager asked you to review the situations and provide a written situation report that identifies the potential causes of each situation, as well as possible solutions that could be implemented to address each. Your responses will be used to provide examples to the interviewing team so they know what they should be looking for during the potential employees presentations.
Directions
In your 35 page situation report, you will identify the potential causes of each of the following situations and provide possible solutions that could be implemented to address them.
SITUATION ONE:
The web service for new user registration is not working. The user is unable to register using the sign-up form on the site, but has not specified which portion of the sign-up form isnt working. The user is receiving a 400 Bad Request error code from either the social media sign-up or the new user account sign-up.
Complete these and then provide a solution to address the error.
SITUATION TWO:
A rival company had a data breach of customer personal data that has prompted your manager to conduct a review of security. She has asked you to consider SQL injection and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. For each vulnerability, you need to identify the security risks it poses to your web service and describe the security patches available to counteract it.
SITUATION THREE:
The companys website was mentioned on a high-profile social media site. This led to an increase in traffic on your service. Your manager asked you to provide solutions on how to avoid service downtime. She emphasized that uptime requirements need to be above 95% overall. Within your response, describe how redundant systems and maintenance windows impact uptime requirements.
What to Submit
To complete this project, you must submit the following:
Situation Report (35 pages)
A written report that identifies potential causes, risks, and appropriate solutions that are applicable to each of the situations.
