3. INF 325 Week 1 Commercial Internet Expansion (Ash)
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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?
4. INF 325 Week 1 DQ 1 Network Management (Ash)
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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.
5. INF 325 Week 1 DQ 2 Ethernet Network (Ash)
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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.
6. INF 325 Week 2 DQ 1 UTP Cord Problem (Ash)
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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.
7. INF 325 Week 2 DQ 2 Managed Switches (Ash)
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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.
8. INF 325 Week 2 Leased Lines (Ash)
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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?
9. INF 325 Week 3 DQ 1 WPA (Ash)
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WPA. View Why you should protect your wireless network with WPA. After viewing
the video, 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. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.
10. INF 325 Week 3 DQ 2 Remote Access Management (Ash)
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Remote Access Management. Why is centralized access point management desirable?
What functions should remote access management systems provide? Respond to at
least two of your classmates’ postings.
11. INF 325 Week 3 Mobile Service (Ash)
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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?
12. INF 325 Week 4 DQ 1 Routing (Ash)
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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.
Respond to at least two
of your classmates’ postings.
13. INF 325 Week 4 DQ 2 P2P (Ash)
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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.
14. INF 325 Week 4 Security plan (Ash)
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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.
15. INF 325 Week 5 DQ 1 Questions for Managers (Ash)
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Questions for Managers. 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? Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings
16. INF 325 Week 5 Final Analysis (Ash)
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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?