Lan operating systems
Associate Level Material
Appendix B
LAN Operating Systems Scenarios
Read the three scenarios below and answer the questions that follow each scenario.
1. You are the network administrator for a new company that has 10 users and that plans to add 5 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? How would the pieces and components of this network relate to each other? Define each component.
Being the network administrator of the company I would install a server-based network because it allows to add more users when needed and each user has their own logon credentials which allows setting up each user with its own security restrictions. It would be setup as a LAN which gives us the ability to communicate with each user and the network administrator knows everything that is going on. The network switch would allow all computers to be linked to each other and share information through the network.
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 the components of this type of network.
A peer-to-peer network would be a LAN where all the users in the network have access to every file that is saved to the servers. The peer-to-peer network is setup with a switch or another type of networking medium, it allows each computer on the network to act like a server or a client computer which allows them to share and be able to restrict certain files that are saved on each individual computer.
3. You are the administrator of a client-server environment.
What kind of network would you install? How would the pieces and components of this network relate to each other? Define each component of a typical client/server environment.
I would install an internetwork, which are various LANs that are linked together by a
Appendix B
LAN Operating Systems Scenarios
Read the three scenarios below and answer the questions that follow each scenario.
1. You are the network administrator for a new company that has 10 users and that plans to add 5 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? How would the pieces and components of this network relate to each other? Define each component.
Being the network administrator of the company I would install a server-based network because it allows to add more users when needed and each user has their own logon credentials which allows setting up each user with its own security restrictions. It would be setup as a LAN which gives us the ability to communicate with each user and the network administrator knows everything that is going on. The network switch would allow all computers to be linked to each other and share information through the network.
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 the components of this type of network.
A peer-to-peer network would be a LAN where all the users in the network have access to every file that is saved to the servers. The peer-to-peer network is setup with a switch or another type of networking medium, it allows each computer on the network to act like a server or a client computer which allows them to share and be able to restrict certain files that are saved on each individual computer.
3. You are the administrator of a client-server environment.
What kind of network would you install? How would the pieces and components of this network relate to each other? Define each component of a typical client/server environment.
I would install an internetwork, which are various LANs that are linked together by a