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B. E.7th Semester (IT) Examination, December-2006

SYSTEM AND NETWORK ADMINISTRATION

Paper-IT -403-E
TIme allowed: 3 hours Maximum marks: 100

Note: Attempt-any five q1!-estions.

1. (a) What are the responsibilities of a network
administrator? 10
(b) State and briefly explain any five system components
that are to be managed by system administrator. 10

2. What is security planning ? Discuss various security

categories. 20

3. Compare the Windows and UNIX operating systems

based upon the following criteria:
(i) File system
(ii) Memory management
(iii) Device management. 20

4. (a) What is the format of Class-A, Class-B and Class~C

,
addresses? Discuss subnet addressing with the help
of example. 14
(b) Briefly explain system's performance tuning. 6

5. (a) What are the various levels at which security can be

implemented in a system? Discuss how security is
implemented. 15

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(b) What do you mean by open source software? How
it is useful ? 5

6. (a) Discuss any two methods to prevent denial of service

attacks. 10
(b) Write and explain any two techniques for TCP/IP
trouble shooting. 10

7. (a) Write the procedure followed for configuration and .

authentication in dial up method. 10
(b) What do you mean by a process? What are its various
states? How process activities can be monitored? 10

8. (a) What do you mean by a firewall? How it is different -

from IDS ? / 7
(b) Differentiate between static and dynamic routing.
7
(c) Write and briefly explain the process for configuring
a proxy server. 6

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