Question 1
Explain what might happen if two stations are accidentally assigned the same hardware address?

Question 2
If sharing reduces cost, why are shared networks used only for local communication? Discuss.

Question 3
Say one day when you try to log on to office network from your workstation you encounter the following error message. No domain server was available to validate your password. You discover that the workstation has been working as it should until now. No other workstations are experiencing the problem and the server is up. With your knowledge from this course, determine in what Layer of OSI is this problem caused. Justify your answer.

Question 4
You are the Network Solution Architect Network of your IT Department and your department has recently struggling with several key network issues. Due to the business opportunities, your company is planning to move to a new building and you have been assigned do a study on the existing network problems before moving to a new building. Your input and findings should be based on the followings which later to be incorporated in the final presentation to the stakeholders:-
- Introduction of your company/ department
- Network diagram at your company
- Problem with the existing network architecture
- The proposed solution to cater the existing problems