Worksheet 11.5.

3: Baseline
1. What does a baseline consist of?
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2. What time is optimum to take a baseline reading of your network?
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3. What are a few measurements that should be taken when performing a baseline?
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4. What can be done to reduce heavy bandwidth users once they are identified?
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5. What network monitoring application can use a lot of bandwidth and should be used
during down times?
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6. What is mapping of utilization patterns used for?
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7. When is a good time to use network monitoring software?
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8. How could you as an administrator find out if employees are gaming or web surfing?
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