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(1) This document is an assignment for a Diploma in Information and Communication Technology course on networking essentials. It provides background information on computer networks and how the Internet was developed before outlining six questions for the assignment. (2) In the 1970s and 1980s, researchers wanted to share data between computers at different universities. However, each direct connection was expensive, so they developed the concept of computer networks where data could hop between multiple connected computers to reach longer distances in a cost-effective way. (3) To build the Internet, engineers broke the large problem into smaller independent problems involving links, connecting different internetworks, transporting data, and applications. These became the four layers of the TCP

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Networking Essentials

(1) This document is an assignment for a Diploma in Information and Communication Technology course on networking essentials. It provides background information on computer networks and how the Internet was developed before outlining six questions for the assignment. (2) In the 1970s and 1980s, researchers wanted to share data between computers at different universities. However, each direct connection was expensive, so they developed the concept of computer networks where data could hop between multiple connected computers to reach longer distances in a cost-effective way. (3) To build the Internet, engineers broke the large problem into smaller independent problems involving links, connecting different internetworks, transporting data, and applications. These became the four layers of the TCP

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Diploma in ICT

Diploma in Information and Communication Technology

Networking Essentials

Assignment

Student Full Name

Batch No 52
Student No
Due Date 30/09/2022

1
Diploma in ICT

Answer all the questions.

A computer network, or data network, is a digital telecommunications network which allows nodes
to share resources. In computer networks, computing devices exchange data with each other using
connections (data links) between nodes.
In the 1970s and 1980s, people working at universities around the world wanted to send each other
data and messages using these computer-to-computer connections. Since the cost for each
connection was so high and increased with distance, computers generally only had connections to
other nearby computers. But if the computer that you were connected to was connected to another
computer and that computer in turn was connected to another computer, and so on, you could send
a message a long distance as long as each of the computers along the route of the message agreed
to store and forward your message.
To engineer and build a system as complex as the Internet, engineers try to break a single
challenging problem into a set of smaller problems that can be solved independently and then put
back together to solve the original large problem. The engineers who built the first internets broke
the overall problem into four basic sub problems that could be worked on independently by
different groups. They gave these four areas of engineering the following names: (1) Link, (2)
Internetwork, (3) Transport, and (4) Application. We visualize these different areas as layers
stacked on top of each other, with the Link layer on the bottom and the Application layer on the
top. The Link layer deals with the wired or wireless connection from your computer to the local
area network and the Application layer is what we as end users interact with. We informally refer
to this model as the “TCP/IP model” in reference to the Transport Control Protocol (TCP) used to
implement the Transport layer and Internet Protocol (IP) used to implement the Internetwork layer.

1. Identify different types of transmission media and their characteristics (10 marks)
2. Identify main types of network and discuss suitable network type for a Branch wise
organization. (10 marks)
3. Explain different types of Network Topologies and their pros and cons (20 marks)
4. Find out different types of protocols and their benefits for a network (20 marks)
5. Identify Network layers and explain the tasks of each layer (20 marks)
6. What is the difference between connection less and connection oriented services? (20 marks)

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