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Network Architecture : Peer-to-peer network

Peer-to-peer network is a device can be a client and a server. It
is suitable for small network. It does not require the separate
server to share resources and exchange data. It can do the
simple task such as sharing printer and transfer files. correct

No scalable. It cannot extend the network connectivity

the explanation for
because it does have the switch and router. It just share the this should be
resources between the two device only. changed
Not secure. It does not provide any data integrity, data
authorization and data encryption. Therefore, it is more
vulnerable to security threats.

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 Network Components Example

Device End Device such as laptop, computer

Media Wired cable such as copper wire cable

correct
Services web hosting services

correct

Unicast Multicast

It is a one to one communication between It is a one to many communication between can be

the end devices which means one sender the devices which means one sender and improved
and one receiver only many receiver. instead of
writing many
E.g. When one person wants to send a E.g. When one person wants to stream
receiver, write
message or an email to a specific recipient, online video content to multiple recipients
a group of
such as sending an email from one simultaneously, such as online video
receiver
individual to another. streaming to a group of viewers.

Mid Term Past Year 2

 Bandwidth

It is because throughput have include some of the factors such

as latency and traffic. Therefore, it will delay the rate of data
transmission. Throughput measures the actual amount of data
transmitted within a given period of time. correct

Delay the rate of data transmission. For example, the source

host want to sent a message to the destination host, but due to
latency factors, the message need to delay for data to transmit
from source to destination. answer can be improved
Latency is the amount of time, including delays, for data to travel from one given point to another. Latency can occur during
transmission and when the devices processing the packet or when there is network congestion. High latency degrades the
network performance.

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 Data link layer provide communication between end device
network interface card.
Data link layer also need to accept the frame and encode the
frame and create the signal into a pattern of sounds such as
electrical pulses, light pulses and electromagnetic signals
which represented the bits in each frame
Data link layer also provide the error detection and reject the
corrupt frame. If the frame is corrupted, the data link layer will
discard the frame. correct

X : Logical Link Control

correct
Y : Media Access Control

IEEE 802.3 / IEEE 802.11 / IEEE 802.15 correct

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 Full-duplex communication half-duplex communication

Both device can transmit and receive data Both device can transmit and receive data
on the media simultaneously on the media but not simultaneously
correct

E.g. Ethernet switch provide full-duplex E.g. Bus topology connect with Ethernet hub
communication provide half-duplex communication

Bus topology connect with the Ethernet Hub provide full-duplex

communication correct, but got mistake half-duplex

Ethernet switch operates in full-duplex communication correct

Wrong. This is not a proper MAC address because it should be

a total of 12 hexadecimal inside the MAC address but the above
MAC address only have a total of 10 hexadecimal. correct

Yes. This is a proper MAC address. It fulfil the format with dash
and the dash in front only have two hexadecimal correct
can improve the answer
yes, the MAC address has 12 valid hexadecimal characters, where each two hexadecimal characters are
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separated by hyphen '-'.
 correct
It is a broadcast frame. It is because the destination MAC
address is all FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF which is a format for the
broadcast frame. The destination IP of the host portion is 255
which is also indicates that it is a broadcast frame

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) will be activated in this

scenario. Because the ARP only include the IP address
(192.168.2.2) and MAC address (11-22-33-BB-BB-BB) for the
Printer 1 but does not have the PC1(192.168.2.4) IP address and

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 MAC address (11-22-33-DD-DD-DD)

Explanation on how the communication will work:

1. Laptop1 will refer the ARP table to find the destination of MAC
address (11-22-33-DD-DD-DD) of PC1 that is mapped to the IP
Address (192.168.2.4) as they are on the same network.
2. If the Laptop1 does not find any matches for the destination
of MAC address in PC1, Laptop1 will send the ARP request
which is a broadcast frame to every devices which is router,
PC1 and Printer1. In this case, Laptop1 will need to find whose
device of the destination IP address is 192.168.2.4.
3. A broadcast frame is received and processed by every
device on the local network. Only the device which is PC1 IP
address (192.168.2.4) will reply to the ARP request as it is
associated with the target IP address in the ARP request.
Therefore, the Laptop1 will receive the reply from the PC1, and
it will record the destination of PC1 MAC address associated
with IP address in the ARP Table
correct, good

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