Question 15

Your LAN has undergone a redesign to accommodate new applications' bandwidth requirements. As the head of the project team, you must direct the team to come out with a sound yet economical recommendation.

The requirements are:

a.       There are one Windows 2000 Domain Controller and one SQL Server 2000 serves the needs of 35 local users.

b.       Each user needs to be able to collaborate between them and access the network servers at 10 Mbps bandwidth.

c.       Other department in your company will use not higher than 2.5 Mbps bandwidth from the network servers.

Which of the following best fulfills the above requirements?

a. Install two Catalyst 1900 switches and configure the servers to use 100 Mbps ports. Assign dedicated 10 Mbps to the end-user ports.

b. Replace existing 10baseT hubs with 100BaseT hubs to improve overall performance

c. Separate the servers' network segment from the users through the use of a router. This segregation will provide more bandwidth.

d. Put a bridge between the servers' network segment and the users.

e. Retain existing hubs but separate the network segments with multiple VLANs.