Chapter 5 Essay

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Chapter 5 Review Questions 1. You are asked to upgrade a bus topology LAN at a friend’s house to a star topology LAN. Your friend wants to connect three computers and a printer and use the Ethernet access method. His computers do not contain wireless NICs. At minimum, which of the following devices must you add to his current networking hardware? C. A hub 2. Which of the following topologies is susceptible to signal bounce? B. Bus 3. What type of topology is required for use with a 100Base-TX network? A. Star 4. Your school’s network has outgrown its designated telco rooms, so you decide to house a few routers in an old janitor’s closet temporarily. However, since the closet has no power outlets, you will have to supply the routers power over the network. If you’re lucky, your LAN already uses which of the following Ethernet standards that will allow you to do that? B. 100Base-T 5. What is the minimum cabling standard required for 10GBase-T Ethernet? C. Cat 6 6. Which of the following is a potential problem with daisy-chaining hubs on a 10Base-T network? A. Exceeding the maximum network length 7. Why is packet switching more efficient than circuit switching? B. In packet switching, packets can take the quickest route between nodes and arrive independently of when other packets in their data stream arrive 8. You are part of a team of engineers who work for an ISP that connects large data centers, telephone companies, and their customers throughout California and Oregon. Management has decided that the company can make large profits by promising the utmost QoS to certain high-profile customers. Which of the following switching methods will best guarantee the promised QoS? C. MPLS 9. What happens in CSMA/CD when a node detects that its data has suffered a collision? D. It signals to the network that its data was

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