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3. What sort of factors should you consider when developing an Australia wide
telecommunications network?
4. User(s) are complaining of delays when using the network. What would you do?
5. What are some of the problems associated with operating a switched LAN?
6. Name some of the ways of combining TCP/IP traffic and SNA traffic over the same
link.
7. Your staff are all working on several problems affecting several users, and you receive
a call that there is a problem affecting many users at a remote site. What would you do?
8. What are the differences between a meshed and a star topology? Describe some of the
advantages and disadvantages of each in a WAN context.
9. What sort of factors would you take into account in calculating utilisation levels on a
link?
10. What is the essential difference between primary rate (Macrolink) and basic rate
(Microlink) interfaces on an ISDN service?
11. What advantages does Fame Relay have over ISDN as a carrier service?
13. What are the minimum and maximum sizes of packets in an 802.3 Ethernet protocol?