Exam 13: Network Design and Management

Baseline studies are most effective when they are initiated during a time when the network is experiencing severe problems.

Computer network technology changes at breakneck speed.

____ means that if something is going to cost one dollar one year from now,you need to put away less than a dollar today to pay for it.

Typically,a switched network reaches saturation when its network utilization is at ____ percent.

A reliability of exactly 1.0 means the network or device is reliable 1 percent of the time.

___________________________________ is the average time a device or system will operate before it will fail.

A new parameter that might have an impact on metropolitan area design is the ____.

Once a baseline is created,the results can be used to identify network weaknesses and strengths.

Computer networks are mission-critical systems,and designing a new computer network or increasing the capacity of a current system requires careful planning.

The ____ includes the time needed to bring the system back up to normal operation.

Provide an example of capacity planning using linear projection.

A protocol analyzer is also known as ____.

In a payback analysis,the ____ Cost is a one-time cost that occurs in Year 0.

What are the SDLC phases?

A metropolitan area connectivity map shares some of the characteristics of wide area maps and some of the characteristics of local area maps.

In a wide area connectivity map,external sites,such as suppliers or external agents,are denoted by circles containing the letter ____.

____________________ is the amount of time necessary for the metropolitan area network to reconfigure itself or reroute a packet,should a given link fail.

____________________ calculates the probability that a component or system will be operational for the duration of a transaction of time t.

____________________ involves predicting one or more network capacities based on the current network parameters and multiplying those capacities by some constant.

When calculating a computer system benefits,you do not need to include intangible benefits.