Week 1 CheckPoint - LAN Operating Systems Scenarios

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.

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.

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.