CASE #3

1.XYZ Corp’s Nashua, NH, facilities are two office building located 400 feet apart, each with its own LAN. To connect the two networks, you plan to dig a trench and lay cable in conduit between the two buildings. You want to use fiber-optic cable, but your budget-conscious facilities manager wants to use thin wire Ethernet. What’s the best reason you can use to justify fiber-optic cable in this case?

Ans: D – Fiber-optic leaves more room for growth, and for future needs for increased bandwidth, than thinnest does.

2.Ans: B – The proposed solution delivers the required result but only one of the two optional desired results. Why? Because Fiber optics is possible to support the speed of up to 100 mbps.
Required result: The network must support speed of up to 100 Mbps.
Optional desired result: The network should be as secure as possible from electronic eavesdropping. To stay within TVBCA’s budget, the network should also be inexpensive as possible.
3.Ans: B - The proposed solution deliver the required result and only one of the two optional desired solution. The Category 5 UTP is capable to operate at speeds of up to 100 mbps.

4.Ans: B - The proposed solution deliver the required result and only one of the two optional desired result.