Title: Exam 1
Course: KVCC CPT207 > Section: Assessments

1.      In this question you are tasked with starting the process of planning an IP Network. Your first job will be to select a business type (I would recommend this be something that you would be interested in). I will leave this process up to you and this selection will determine the specifics of the rest of your scenario. As a note you may use a calculator to determine these numbers.

a.       What is the business type?

b.       How many hosts do you think you will need on the network? How did you come up with this number?

c.        What amount of expansion would you think would be necessary in the future? Why?

d.       In total how many hosts would you foresee as being necessary for this network currently and for growth in the future?

e.       Once you have determined the number of hosts you are going to select your IP address range that accommodates your needs? Why did you select this range?

f.         You will need to subnet your chosen range down further to divide up to your network to reach around your necessary amount of hosts. What subnet did you select? How many hosts does this support?

g.       In class we discussed the idea of statically and dynamically assigning IP address information. Define each and identify which one you would select for this scenario.

2.      In the above question you use a subnet mask to divide up the network to align with your number of necessary hosts. The following questions are on subnets and subnet masks.

a.       What is a subnet?

b.       How does a subnet mask factor in?

c.        Why do we use subnets with specific focus on why they are applicable in business?

d.       What are the class based subnets for IP address ranges A,B, and C?

e.       What is a classless subnet?

f.         Give a basic explanation of CIDR notation?

g.       You need to create a network that has 4 subnets. Use a calculator to figure out this answer. Note there is more than 1 possible answer.

h.       What range did you select?

1.      ii. What is your IP address info?

2.      iii. What subnet mask will be used?

3.      iv. How many subnet bits are used?

4.      v. What is the number of mask bits used?

5.      vi. How many hosts can exist on the subnet?

6.      vii. What is the host address range?

3.      In class we talked about structured cabling and how this relates to the design of a network. The following questions relate to this topic.

a.       Summarize structured cabling in your own words?

b.       Why do you think that this topic is important to a business?

c.        Further describe some of the specific areas of structured cabling

i.        Backbones

1.      ii. Horizontal Cabling

2.      iii. Work Area

3.      iv. Telecommunication rooms

4.      v. Equipment Rooms

5.      vi. Entrance Facility

d.       Take the same business that you selected in the question 1 and examine it in terms of structured cabling. How would this network be laid out using the above list of areas? You do not need to get into specifics such as pricing but please summarize the basics.

e.       In your opinion is using structured cabling a must when it comes to laying out a network? Why/Why not?

f.         If you could add or change anything to this framework what would it be? Why?

g.       What would you remove? Why?

4.      We are beginning to discuss cloud computing in reference to servers in class and how they can effect a business. The following questions are related to this topic:

a.       Define the cloud in your own terms?

b.       How can using cloud servers help benefit a business?

c.        Taking the same business from the previous questions how could you incorporate cloud computers into that environment?

d.       Contrast the cloud computers with that of in house servers. Which would provide the better result for that business style?

e.       Estimate the costs for in house and cloud servers.

f.         If this was your business which style of server would you choose? Why?

g.       Conduct some quick research and see if you can determine what other businesses in the same field decide on using. Is your finding in line with what you decided upon? If different defend your stance.

h.       The cloud is a term that is being thrown out often today and it seems that everyone is pushing in this direction. In your opinion are things ready to go in this direction or are we in an area that is still very much a hobbyist environment? Should we use these services to supplement our network or should we embrace things wholly and go completely cloud based? Support your stance with evidence.

i.         How can we improve on cloud computing? What features or options would you add or change?

Attached Files: | - KVCC CPT207_NetworkDesign_Mgmt_Asessment 1.pdf