COMP3014 Data Communications Lab 2

Winter 2013

Student Names: ______________________

______________________ Lab Value: 2%

Due Date: Thursday February 14, 2013

Total Value: 5 marks Grade ___/5 Percent: __________

Verified by your Professor: ______________________

Section 1 (value 1 mark)

Cabling

Using the Internet, lookup and briefly describe each of the following categories of UTP.

Category Speed (Mbps) Distance

Cat 5: _______ _________
Cat 5e: _______ _________
Cat 6: _______ _________
Cat 7: _______ _________

Coaxial Cable
What type of data (signals) can Coaxial Cable Carry?

What does the term impedance mean?

What impedance does RG-58 have?

In your own words describe “Guardbands” and where would you find them?

Fiber-Optic Cable
What two types of devices are used to send light signals through fiber-optic cables?

List the 3 type of fiber-optic cables.

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____________________________
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Terms
Describe the following terms: (no one word answers)

Attenuation:

Crosstalk:

Parity Checking:

Cyclic Redundancy Check:

Satellites
What is a transponder?

Approximately how many transponders can be found on one satellite? __________

Iridium Project
Using the Internet, lookup the Iridium Project.
What is it and what industry is it typically used for?

GPS
What is a GPS? (Provide a brief describe this technology)

Provide 3 uses for this technology in today’s living.

________________________________________
________________________________________
________________________________________

IEEE 802.11b
What is this standard?

What is the speed of this standard? ____________________

What is the maximum distance? ____________________

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IEEE802.11g
What is this standard?

What is the speed of this standard? ____________________

What is the maximum distance? ____________________

Section 2 (value 1 Mark)

Number Binary Conversion

Convert the following decimal numbers to binary: (Do not use a calculator)

128 ______________________
255 ______________________
1025 ______________________

Convert the following binary numbers to decimal: (Do not use a calculator)

11111110 ______________________
01111111 ______________________
100000000 ______________________

Using the ASCII 7 conversion chart from chapter 2 in your text convert the following words to
binary, also indicate how many binary bits it took to create each word.

text ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ Total bits: ______

data ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ Total bits: ______

task ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ Total bits: ______

Mainframes

What is another name for a mainframe computer? ___________________________________

What is IBM’s newest mainframe’s name?

List 2 different Operating Systems that will run on IBM’s newest mainframe. (Windows is not
one)
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__________________________________

Network configurations

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Describe the differences between Point to Point and Multipoint.

LAN vs WAN

What communication medium is used in each?

LAN

WAN

Bluetooth

What is “Bluetooth”?

What is the difference between Bluetooth and Wi-Fi?

What is a “piconet”

What GHz band does Bluetooth operate at? _____________________

What is “scatternet”?

What is a Bluetooth dongle?

ZigBee

Use the following URL to answer the questions below: http://www.zigbee.org/

What is the IEEE standard for this technology?

__________________

What is the total number of devices that this technology can support on a single network?
__________________

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List 3 (three) areas of daily use that you may find this technology being used.

_________________________________
_________________________________
_________________________________

Section 3 (value 1 Mark)

Microsoft Server 2008

What is Hyper-V?

Datacenter edition

How much RAM does this version support? __________________

How many processors will it support? __________________

What is “RRAS”?

Enterprise edition

How much RAM does this version support? __________________

How many processors will it support? __________________

What is Microsoft’s AD-DS?

What container types are used in this technology?

Security Groups
What are the 4 Active Directory security groups used in Windows Server 2008?
___________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________

What is the purpose of Kerberos in Server 2008?

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MPEG Information

What do the letters in the acronym mean? _________________________________

When was “MPEG-1” standard first released? ___________________________

When was “MPEG-M” standard first released? ___________________________

Multiplexers

List 2 Multiplexing Technologies

___________________________
___________________________

Wireless

What do the letters in the acronym “WEP” (in terms of security) represent?

Provide a description of this technology.

What is a more secure Wireless security protocol?

What is the purpose of a “SSID”?

List three ways you can secure a wireless network.

Routers

What are the two main types of routing protocols used with an organization?
__________________________________________
__________________________________________

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Routing Protocol on CCNA Exam

What do the letters in “EIGRP” routing protocol mean?

What is “Poison Reverse”?

What is “Split Horizon”?

CSMA/CD

Describe CSMA/CD?

Which type of network uses this technology?

CSMA/CA

Describe CSMA/CA.

Which type of network uses this technology?

Section 4 (value 1 Mark)

MCA Micro Channel Architecture

Who invented this architecture?

What was it to replace?

What are some of the reasons why this technology did not become more popular?

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Wide Area Network Communications

Answer the following questions regarding T1, T2, T3, and T4 communications:

T1 T2 T3 T4

What are the speeds of each?

How many ds0’s are there in each?

Other Technology

Provide an explanation of “Blu-ray” technology?

What is a “Slingbox” and how does it work?

Answer the following questions in regards to a device called the “Kindle”

What is a Kindle? : _______________________________________
What O/S does it use? : _______________________________________
What is the standard memory available? : _______________________________________

What is “Wi Di” by Intel? : _______________________________________

What Operating System is used on Apple’s Tablet? : ____________________________

Section 5 (value 1 Mark)

Arithmetic Checksum

This is a form of error detection used by sender and receiver.

Letters are converted to binary, then the decimal value is calculated and all is totaled, the same
process takes place at the other end

The following exercise will demonstrate this. This will be what the sender is sending as far as
data goes

Convert the following 7 bit ASCII binary values to letters and words:
Word
1010100 1101000 1101001 1110011 _________________________
1101001 1110011 _________________________
1100001 _________________________
1010100 1100101 1110011 1010100 _________________________

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Convert the following 7 bit ASCII binary values (from above) to decimal numbers:
Word
1010100 1101000 1101001 1110011 _____ _____ _____ _____
1101001 1110011 _____ _____
1100001 _____
1010100 1100101 1110011 1010100 _____ _____ _____ _____

Now add up the decimal numbers and record the total: Total: ___________

The following is the data stream that the receiver actually received

Convert the following 7 bit ASCII binary values to decimal numbers:

1010100 1101000 1100001 1010100 _____ _____ _____ _____

1101001 1110011 _____ _____
1100001 _____
1010100 1100101 1110011 1010100 _____ _____ _____ _____

Now add up the decimal numbers and record the total: Total: ___________

There was an error?

Explain how you know: