Ashford U INF 325 / INF325 Class Answers
INF325 / INF 325 / WEEK 1 DQ 1 NETWORK MANAGEMENT
Network Management
In network management, why is it important to carefully consider decisions that will lock the firm in for a long period of time? Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.
INF325 / INF 325 / WEEK 1 DQ 2 ETHERNET NETWORK
Ethernet Network
You can place both TCP/IP clients and servers and IPX clients and servers on the same Ethernet network, and each client will talk to its server. How do you think this is possible? (Hint: Consider the Ethernet frame in Figure 2-9). Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.
INF325 / INF 325 / WEEK 1 ASSIGNMENT COMMERCIAL INTERNET EXPANSION
Week 1 Assignment Commercial Internet Expansion
Commercial Internet Expansion. Answer the following Questions from Chapter 1:
a. What was the Acceptable Use Policy in place on the Internet before 1995?
b. Why did commercial activities on the Internet become acceptable in 1995?
c. What are the carriers that provide Internet service?
d. Why do they need to be interconnected?
e. At what locations do ISPs interconnect?
f. Did e-commerce collapse after the dot-com failures of 2000 and 2001?
INF325 / INF 325 / WEEK 2 DQ 1 UTP CORD PROBLEM
UTP Cord Problem
A tester shows that a UTP cord has too much interference. What might be causing the problem? Give at least two alternative hypotheses, and then describe how to test them. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.
INF325 / INF 325 / WEEK 2 DQ 2 MANAGED SWITCHES
Managed Switches
What are managed switches and what benefits do they bring? Refer to figure 6-15 and provide a simple written example as it applies to business outlining and what type of command, manageability, and problem diagnosis managed switches are capable of. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.
INF325 / INF 325 / WEEK 2 ASSIGNMENT LEASED LINES
Leased Lines
Answer the following “Test Your Understanding” questions using APA style and form:
a. Below what speed are there different leased line standards in different parts of the world?
b. What is the exact speed of a T1 line?
c. What are the speeds of comparable leased lines in Europe?
d. Why are fractional T1 and E1 speeds desirable?
e. List common fractional T1 speeds.
f. What are the most widely used leased lines?
g. What leased line standards are used above 50 Mbps?
Be sure to support your answers with concepts from the reading.
INF325 / INF 325 / WEEK 3 DQ 1 WPA
Why should you protect your wireless network with WPA?
What aspects of WPA would you recommend to the average home-user with wireless access?
List one or two things you learned about wireless security issues from the video.
INF325 / INF 325 / WEEK 3 DQ 2 REMOTE ACCESS MANAGEMENT
Why is centralized access point management desirable?
What functions should remote access management systems provide?
INF325 / INF 325 / WEEK 3 ASSIGNMENT MOBILE SERVICE
Mobile Service
Answer the following “Test Your Understanding” questions from Chapter 8 using APA style and form:
a. What are smart phones?
b. What changed from 1G cellular technology to 2G technology?
c. Compare typical 2G speeds with 3G speeds.
d. What are likely to be typical download speeds for early 4G systems?
e. What speeds will 4G support eventually?
f. At what generation did video downloads and reasonably fast web access become feasible?
g. What generation is sufficient for high-definition video and very fast web access?
INF325 / INF 325 / WEEK 4 DQ 1 ROUTING
You suspect that the failure of a router or of a transmission line connecting routers has left some of your important servers unavailable to clients at your site. How could you narrow down the location of the problem using what you learned in Chapter 9? Be specific
INF325 / INF 325 / WEEK 4 DQ 2 P2P
Do you think that pure P2P architectures will be popular in the future? Why or why not? What have been your experiences, if any, with P2P applications? Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.
INF325 / INF 325 / WEEK 4 ASSIGNMENT SECURITY PLAN
Security Plan
Why is security primarily a management issue, not a technological issue? Also, provide some specific bulleted points on what you would include in a security plan if you were the Information Technology Director of a small firm
INF325 / INF 325 / WEEK 5 DQ 1
As a manager, how would you monitor the driving forces of change mentioned in the text?
How would you tackle a gap analysis?
How would you handle scalability issues?
INF325 / INF 325 / WEEK 5 ASSIGNMENT FINAL PAPER
Final Analysis
Using APA form and style, answer the following items from Chapter 3 in the text on policy and implementation in network security:
a) What is a policy?
b) Distinguish between policy and implementation.
c) Why is it important to separate policies from implementation?
d) Why is oversight important?
e) Compare the specificity of policies, implementation guidance, and implementation.
f) Distinguish between standards and guidelines.
g) Must guidelines be considered?
h) List the three types of oversight listed in the text.
i) What is vulnerability testing, and why is it done?
j) Why is it important for policy to drive both implementation and oversight?
Use complete sentences integrating vocabulary from the course and citations from the text and other sources to support your thorough analysis of each item.