Question

Victoria Estate (VIC-RE) is interested in the growing tourism market and open an office to launch services for people who travel on holidays and cannot look after their properties (houses or units) while they are away. This new office currently has 7 employees whose PCs are linked by a small LAN. Each PC shares files and services (such as printing) to the others on the LAN. What type of network model is suitable to build a small LAN for this new office? Describe the advantage and disadvantage of this model. [5 marks ]

please answer fast in 30 minutes and the subject is data commniucations and network.

Answer 1

Question-   Victoria Estate (VIC-RE) is interested in the growing tourism market and open an office to launch services for people who travel on holidays and cannot look after their properties (houses or units) while they are away. This new office currently has 7 employees whose PCs are linked by a small LAN. Each PC shares files and services (such as printing) to the others on the LAN. What type of network model is suitable to build a small LAN for this new office? Describe the advantage and disadvantage of this model.

Answer-  A Local Area Network (LAN) is a group of computer and peripheral devices which are connected in a small area such as home, school and office. It is a network useful for sharing resources like files, printers, games, and other application.

So, Local Area Network(LAN) is most suitable to build a small network.

Advantages-

1. Easy to manage data in LAN as data is at only one place, which makes it more secure.
2. Computer resources like printers and hard-disks can share local area networks. This reduces the cost of hardware.
3. We can use the same software over the network instead of purchasing the licensed software for each computer in the network.

Disadvantages-

1. The initial cost of installing Local Area Networks(LAN) is quite high.
2. The LAN admin can also check personal data, files of every LAN user, so it does not offer good privacy for other computers.
3. Local Area Network requires a constant LAN administration as there are issues related to hardware failures and software setup.