Week3

Week3 Written Assignment

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Instructions

Use the APA format for papers, etc. Use spell check, grammar check, etc., to make sure that your papers are submitted in professional form with no keyboarding or grammatical errors.

Answer my question by 11 p.m. on Wednesday evening (minimum 300 word response).

Academic dishonesty (plagiarism and cheating) will not be tolerated. If you are caught engaging in any form of academic dishonesty, you will automatically fail the course.

Questions:

1. A developer in your company is building a new application and has asked you if it should use TCP- or UDP-based communications. Provide her with a brief discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of each protocol.

1. Your boss wants to know if DHCP is appropriate for both server and PC environments. Provide her with your opinion and be sure to include a discussion of how DHCP works.

1. Describe the three basic types of network topologies and provide a sample diagram of each type

1. Describe the three-way handshake process used to initiate TCP