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EDEXCEL BTEC Level 2 Certificate in ICT Systems and Principles
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Introduction to Communication Technologies
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07/10/2010
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All the work you submit for this assignment must be your own. You must reference any source information used from your research appropriately. Plagiarism is taken very seriously. Any work found to have been plagiarised from another student, manual, textbook, internet, intranet or any other source will be handed back to you for resubmission. A repeat occurrence will lead to the implementation of the College’s disciplinary procedures.
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Scenario:

For the last 6 months you have been working in a technical support role at InComputing.co.uk. Your work mainly involves fixing PCs and installing and updating software.

A new vacancy has arisen in the Communications Team of the company.
You are to apply for this new job as a progression from your current role – not to mention the extra money you will be paid!

Task 1: Know the difference between LANs & WANs
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To accompany your application for the networking job, you have been asked to prepare a document that demonstrates your awareness of networking. This will be used to shortlist for the job.

Produce a document describing Local Area Networks (LANs) and Wide Area Networks (WANs). You should explain, with the aid of diagrams, the difference between the two network topologies.

Student note:

The verbs in bold are the verbs which describe the type of evidence which must be produced (e.g. describe, explain, evaluate and predict). Each verb will lead to

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