Which of the following refers to a small and single site network?

Which of the following refers to a small and single site network? Correct Answer LAN

The correct answer is option 2 i.e. LAN.

  • A local-area network (LAN) connects the computer hardware in a localized area such as an office or home.
  • Typically, LANs use wired connections to link the computers to each other and to a variety of peripheral devices such as printers.
  • Most often, a LAN is confined to a single room, building or group of buildings, however, one LAN can be connected to other LANs over any distance via telephone lines and radio waves.
  • A system of LANs connected in this way is called a wide-area network (WAN).
  • The difference between a LAN and WAN is that the wide-area network spans a relatively large geographical area. Typically, a WAN consists of two or more local-area networks (LANs) and are often connected through public networks.
  • The following characteristics differentiate one LAN from another:
    • Topology: The geometric arrangement of devices on the network. For example, devices can be arranged in a ring or in a straight line.
    • Protocols: The rules and encoding specifications for sending data. The protocols also determine whether the network uses a peer-to-peer or client/server architecture.
    • Media: Devices can be connected by a twisted-pair wire, coaxial cables, or fiber optic cables. Some networks do without connecting media altogether, communicating instead via radio waves.

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Your network uses TCP/IP as the only network protocol. Devices on the network are configured to use IP address from the private 10.0.0.0 range. All the client computers on the network runs Windows 2000 Professional. The network includes Windows 2000 Server computers and UNIX servers. User's print jobs are sent to shared printers on a Windows 2000 Server computer named PrintServ that directs the print jobs to print devices attached directly to the network. You have a high-capacity print device that is attached to one of the UNIX servers. The UNIX computer uses the LPR printing protocol, and it's IP address is 10.1.1.99. The name of the printer queue is GIANT. You want users to be able to connect to this printer from their computers. What should you do?