QUESTIONS :
1. An Organization has set up its new office in Mangalore for
its Office and Web based activities. It has four buildings as
shown in the diagram given below:
As a network expert, provide the best possible answer for the
following queries:
i) Suggest a cable layout of connections between the buildings
and topology.
ii) Suggest the most suitable place (i.e. buildings) to house the
server of this organization.
iii) Suggest the placement of the following device with
justification: a) Repeater b) Hub/Switch c) MODEM
iv) Suggest a system (hardware/software) to prevent
unauthorized access to or from the network.
v) The organization is planning to link its Office situated in the
city to another Office in a hilly region where cable connection
is not possible. Suggest an economic way to connect it with
reasonably high speed.
vi) Suggest the technology out of the following for setting-up very
fast Internet connectivity among buildings of the
Organization:
1. Optical Fibre 2. Coaxial cable 3. Ethernet Cable
vii) Suggest a device and the protocol that shall be needed to
provide wireless Internet access to all smartphone/laptop
users in the campus of the Organization, Mangalore.
viii) What will be the best possible connectivity out of the
following, you will suggest, to connect the new set-up of
offices in Mangalore with its London based office?
• Infrared • Satellite Link • Ethernet Cable
ix) Which of the following will you suggest to establish online
face-to-face communication between the people in the
Accounts Office of Mangalore campus and DELHI Head Office?
(a) E-mail (b) Text Chat (c) Video Conferencing (d) Cable TV
ANSWER :
i) Cable Layout :
Star Topology
OR
Bus Topology
ii) Building Research Lab, because it contains the maximum
number of computers.
Server is placed following 80:20 rule which states that 80% of
the Network traffic should be local and 20% should be outside
traffic.
iii)
a) ( For layout1 : )
Repeater should be placed between Store & Research to
amplify or avoid loss of signals because the distance is
between them more than 70m.
(For layout2 : )
Repeater should be placed between Accounts & Store to
amplify or avoid loss of signals because the distance
between them is more than 70m.
OR
Repeater should be placed between Accounts & Store,
Store and Packaging, Accounts & Packaging, Store &
Research to amplify or avoid loss of signals because the
distance between them is more than 70m.
b) Hub/Switch would be needed in all the buildings to
interconnect the group of cables from the different
computers in each building.
c) MODEM in Building Research because it has Server.
iv) Firewall
v) Radio Waves as they can bend and travel in any direction.
(Suitable for hilly terrain)
vi) Optical Fibre
vii) Device Name: WiFi Router OR WiMax OR RF Router OR
Wireless Modem
Protocol : WAP OR TCP/IP OR VOIP
viii) Satellite link
ix) Video Conferencing
NOTE :
• For LAN suitable medium :
➢ Optical Fibre as an effective/ fast medium
➢ Coaxial Cables as an economic medium
• For WAN (between cities and countries) suitable medium:
➢ Satellite for efficient/ high speed communication (but
costly or expensive)
➢ RadioWaves for economic medium in hilly regions
➢ Dial-up/ broadband Connection for economic medium
in non-hilly areas
