The assignment is broken into weekly sections, each section consisting of two tasks. the first task is to answer the assignment questionsAnd thesecond task for each week is to develop your own short-answer question and sample answer. This question should be relevant to the topics covered for the particular week,and pleaseTry to base the question on an area of content that you found challengingyou could develop a question relating to anything from hardware components, basic network communication/terminology through to network models
WRitten ASSESSMENT TEMPLATE - PAGE ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION Due date: Friday Week 11 (11:45 PM AEST) Part: Written Assessment Weighting: 30% of total assessment. Submission: Electronic (see course website for details) Instructions While it should not be necessary to use literature/online resources to complete this assignment, please ensure you cite and reference any such materials using the Harvard format. DO NOT copy content directly from either the text or Internet resources: this assignment is to be in your own words. You will lose marks if you do not use your own words! Please complete your assignment using this submission template file, inserting your responses where indicated. DO NOT delete the marking criteria page – changes are permitted to the formatting of other pages including the headers and footers. Please fill in the following details: Student Name Student Number Week One Assignment Question: It is common to be running several programs at once on your PC or laptop, for example, listening to music while you are browsing webs. How is this possible? Describe two ways that your PC or laptop can do, or appear to do, two or more things at once. Your answer: Your question: Your sample answer: WRitten ASSESSMENT TEMPLATE - PAGE 7 Week Two Assignment Question: The company Things-Connected has 8 workstations in a wired LAN with a 100 Mbps switch. It was suggested to the admin officer to replace the switch with a wireless Access Point (AP) that uses the 802.11ac standard and operates at 1 Gbps. Assuming all workstations were simultaneously using the LAN, would the AP deliver faster or slower speeds to the users? Explain your reasoning by including estimates of effective bandwidth for each case. Your answer: Your question: Your sample answer: Week Three Assignment Question: Describe the difference between a network’s physical topology and its logical topology; explain the advantages and disadvantages of a physical star topology. Your answer: Your question: Your sample answer: Week Four Assignment Question: Things-Connected facilities in West end, Queensland (Townsville), are two office buildings 180 meters apart, each with its own LAN. To connect the two networks, the budget-conscious facilities manager suggests using Category 6 of Unshielded Twisted-Pair Cable. · Is this a suitable advice? · Give two other media connectivity options, outline their advantages and disadvantages Your answer: Your question: Your sample answer: Week Five Assignment Question: Complete the following table by nominating the network layer names and the protocols associated with the following tasks: · Ensure that the information sent by the web server reaches your browser · Route messages between your PC and the server over the Internet · Allow the web browser software and the web server software to understand the messages sent between them · Encapsulate data in frames Your answer: Complete this table: Task Layer Protocol Ensure that the information sent by the web server reaches your browser Route messages between your PC and the server over the Internet Allow the web browser software and the web server software to understand the messages sent between them Encapsulate data in frames Ethernet Your question: Your sample answer: Week Six Assignment Question: Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), is the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet. As of 31 December 2017, the percentage of users reaching Google services with IPv6 reached 22.6% for the first time in regular measurements, growing at about 5.8% per year, although varying widely by region. As of December 2017, about 33% of Alexa Top 500 web servers support IPv6. List 3 advantages of IPv6 and briefly comment on how IPv6 improves or enhances security. Explain how it is that IPv4 and IPv6 can co-exist in the same network. Your answer: Your question: Your sample answer: Week Seven Assignment Question: A switching table below has the following entries: MAC Address Port # 03-17-2B-00-00-5D 3 03-17-2B-00-10-61 2 03-17-2B-00-00-4C 1 03-17-2B-00-10-22 4 Port 4 is connected to a hub. The following events occur: · The entry for 03-17-2B -00-00-5D expires. · An additional device (03-17-2B-00-11-4A) is connected to the hub on port 4. · Device (03-17-2B-00-10-22) is disconnected from the hub on port 4 and connected to port 5. · A new virtualised machine (03-17-2B-00-10-7B) is started on the server connected to port 2. Draw the switching table at the end of these events. The order of entries is unimportant: Your answer: Complete the following table: MAC Address Port # Your question: Your sample answer: Week Eight Assignment Question: Firewalls can be effective against worms but are generally of no use against viruses. Why is this? Your answer: Your question: Your sample answer: Week Nine Assignment Question: Cloud computing is an information technology (IT) paradigm that enables ubiquitous access to shared pools of configurable system resources and higher-level services that can be rapidly provisioned with minimal management effort, often over the Internet. Cloud computing relies on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economies of scale, similar to a public utility. Cloud-computing providers offer their services according to different models. Explain the three basic service models including one example for each. Your answer: Your question: Your sample answer: Week Ten Assignment Question: Things-Connected has special management software that only runs on Windows. The admin officer has a problem that his desktop was replaced by a MacBook Pro running macOS. How could virtualisation help to solve this problem? What type of virtualisation would be used? Give an example of the name of a product that could be used. Your answer: Your question: Your sample answer: MARKING SHEET - DO NOT DELETE Assignment Question Student Question Criteria 0 Incorrect/No Response 0 No question provided or minimal attempt 0.5 Limited /Partially incorrect response OR response is not in the student’s own words 0.5 Simplistic question/sample answer that does not demonstrate an understanding of the topic area OR sample answer is not in the student’s own words 1 Correct response but could have more detail 1 Good question that has some challenge, but could be more challenging and/or the sample answer needs more detail/explanation 1.5 Excellent response with good detail 1.5 Excellent and challenging question with a detailed sample answer Week Marks Awarded Marks Awarded 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TOTAL Comments: