It-240 Week 1- Lan Operating Systems Scenarios

It-240 Week 1- Lan Operating Systems Scenarios

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Appendix B

LAN Operating Systems Scenarios

Read the three scenarios below, then answer the questions that follow each scenario.

  1. You are the network administrator for a new company that has 10 users and plans to add five more users within a year. The files need to be accessed by all 10 users and each user must have different security rights. What kind of network would you install and how would the pieces and components of this network relate to each other? Define each component.

For this scenario, I would use a client/server network. This network would be more than enough to handle their 10 users and allow for much more growth over the years to come. With technology the way it is today, I would go with a wireless router in this case and install wireless cards in the computers, if they did not already have them. In the future they could add more routers as needed. This will eliminate the need for many wires.

  2. You are the network administrator for a company that has a peer-to-peer network. How would the pieces and components of this network relate to each other? Define all of the components of this type of network.

A peer-to-peer network does not have a dedicated server. All computers in the network are equal to one another. Each user uses their computer to send and receive services to one another.

  3. You are the administrator of a client-server environment. What kind of network would you install and how would the pieces and components of this network relate to each other? Define each component of a typical client-server environment.

Well, if it is a client-server environment then I would install a client/server network just as in the first scenario. Again, here I would use a wireless router maybe with an extended range depending on how many computers there will be in the network. I could also install multiple routers throughout the building.