Question

• Offer any suggestions, constructive critiques, and/or feedback on the questions in order to improve upon the network design questions?

• Users

• How many users will have access to the network?
• Will all users have the same administrative access, or will you need different levels of privileges?

• Organization Growth

• Do you plan on expanding and adding more users in the near future?
• Will you offer new services that would require adding more specialized equipment?

• Security

• Would you like to have users be able to have remote access to the network?
• Does the company collect sensitive information that will need an extra level of protection?

• Physical space within which to deploy the network devices

• What type of equipment will also be used? (i.e. computers, laptop, printers, scanners, copy machines)
• Will the cables be ran across the floor, through the walls/ceilings, or in another way?

Answer 1

The questions that I would like to ask on the above criteria are as follows:

1. Users:
   • ​How is the network working for the users? Please suggest any upgrade that the users would require?
   • Are you able to perform each and every activity on the network? What are the plan on making user comfortable with the network?
2. Organization Growth:
   • How to impact on the growth of the organization with the help of the network?
   • What are the reasons behind no growth of the organization due to the network?
3. Security:
   • How can we increase the security of the network?
   • What are the issues with the security that you were able to find out on the network that needs to be looked at?
4. Budget:
   • ​​​​​​​What is the budget that needs to be invested in making the network better than now?
   • Is the budget being wasted on the network where the investment is not required?
5. Scope:
   • ​​​​​​​What are the scopes of the network that needs to be worked on?
   • How is the network working according to the users?
6. Scalability:
   • ​​​​​​​Is increasing the scalability of the network be a good idea? If yes why?
   • What can we obtain by increasing the scalability of the network?
7. Physical space within which to deploy the network devices:
   • ​​​​​​​Is there a requirement of extra physical space for network devices?
   • What are the network devices that need to be attached to the existing network?

Hence, these are the questions for all the scopes of the networks mentioned in the questions.