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Do you think that the Internet, LAN, and extranets fully converge in your department? Why or why not?
Review the above room requirements to conclude what type of network media is most appropriate for this situation?
Insurance Insurance, a multi million-dollar life insurance firm, has asked you to help troubleshoot the network at its corporate headquarters.
What factors shape the profitability of the mobile wireless provider industry?
You have been tasked with reconfiguring the network for your company, which has grown considerably over the past year.
What type of testing program (Prototype or Pilot) would you recommend to test the video conferencing among the remote offices?
Think about a time where you had to design a network. If you have not had this in your own work experience, create a fictional scenario
In 150 words or more, what are the advantages and disadvantages of using standard protocols and reference models such as the Open Systems Interconnection?
The most common transmission medium is the twisted pair. In 200 words or more, describe the advantages of the medium
Compare the advantages and disadvantages of the four primary types of LANs; contention bus, token bus, token ring, and wireless
Question: What are packets and routers? What is an IP address? Describe the advantages of private and public IP addresses.
Describe the purpose of each component of a wired LAN. Describe the major LAN protocols.
IEEE has defined numerous protocols used with TCP/IP at the OSI data link layer.
Give two reasons why the group of people who administer an organization's security policies should be separate from the group of people who administer.
Although IPv6 addresses are assigned hierarchically, a router does not need to parse an address completely to select a route.
Read the MIB specification to find the definition of variable Ip Routing Table that corresponds to an IP routing table.
If encryption software is available on your computer, measure the time required to encrypt a 10 Mbyte file, transfer it to another computer, and decrypt it.
Are users aware that SMTP transfers messages in ASCII, and that anyone watching network traffic can see the contents of an e-mail message?
Some organizations use firewalls to isolate groups of users internally. Give examples of ways that internal firewalls can improve network performance.
Assume your organization intends to adopt IPv6. Devise an address scheme the organization will use to assign each host an address.
Consider a host that forms a link-local address by encoding its 48-bit Ethernet address with the standard link-local prefix.
DNS allows access by both TCP and UDP. Find out whether your local operating system allows a single process to accept both TCP connections.
What is the advantage of allowing arbitrary managers to read variables in all routers? The disadvantage?
Consider the implementation of an SNMP agent. Does it make sense to arrange MIB variables in memory exactly the way SNMP describes them?
It is possible to translate some application protocols into others. For example, it might be possible to build a program that accepts an FTP request.