MAKERERE UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL

BACHELOR OF BUSINESS COMPUTING/BACHELOR OF OFFICE

AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT YEAR III

ENTERPRISE AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT 2

QUESTION AND MARKING GUIDE

QUESTION

Suppose you want to build a computer network, one that has the potential to grow to
global proportions and to support applications as diverse as teleconferencing, video-on-
demand, electronic commerce, distributed computing, and digital libraries. What
available technologies would serve as the underlying building blocks, and what kind of
software architecture would you design to integrate these building blocks into an
effective communications service?

MARKING GUIDE

CONSIDEARTIONS IN BUILDING A NETWORK

Three major steps are followed
• Analysis of requirements
• Network architecture
• Implementing network software

Analysis of requirements will include the following

• Connectivity-links nodes and clouds
• Point to point 3 MARKS for a good
• Multiple access explanation of any of
• Switched these technologies
• Packet switching
• Internet works

• Cost effective resource sharing- multiplexing

• STDM 6 marks
• FDM
• Support for common services
This will include identifying common communication patterns 2 marks
Reliability of network will also be considered.

• Performance , consider bandwidth and latency (2 marks)

Network architecture
Considerations will include: layering and protocols, OSI architecture. (2.5 marks)

Implementing network software

Considerations will include API sockets, protocol implementation issues. Example
application can be client server (2.5 marks)