The checklist below is not part of the assessment, but is provided to help you organise your research and report writing. It should not be used as a guide to the assessment.
Demonstrating your understanding of the purposes and key characteristics of LANs includes: the information in your written discussion annotated diagrams with written discussion, images, and drawings as appropriate.
Checklist for 91377 "Local Area Networks"
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- describe what the user will mainly use a specific LAN for
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Found magazine article and looked at some forum discussions -(link to URL)
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- compare and contrast the characteristics and the purposes of peer to peer LANs and client/server LANs
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- explain why the components have been used in a LAN (local area network) to achieve the desired characteristics
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- explain how the connection technologies allow the components to function in a specific LAN (common wired, optical and wireless technologies, LAN architecture specified in terms of physical topologies and logical topologies)
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- discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the common cable, fibre and wireless technologies for connecting the components of a specific LAN.
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- explain how the different purposes of the components determine the connections between them and how data typically flows along them
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- identify and explain the layers in the TCP/IP networking model and the role of this model in a specific LAN architecture
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- explain IP (Internet Protocol) addressing with reference to static addresses and dynamically obtained addresses
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- discuss IP addressing schema including the consequences for static addresses and dynamically obtained addresses
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- describe the access control method used in Ethernet architecture
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- discuss how the access control method used in Ethernet architecture manages Ethernet traffic on a LAN.
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