Case Project 1-1

Networking Gadgets Inc., currently employs 8 people but plans to hire 10

more in the next 4 months. Users will work on multiple projects, and only users
assigned to a project should have access to the project files. You’re instructed to
set up a network to make it easy to manage and back up yet still provide
centralized storage for project files. Would you choose a peer-to-peer network, a
server-based network, or a combination? Why?

Answer: I would choose a combination because server-based networks centralize

resource access and allow for streamlined access to resources. Server-based
networks also provide tighter security than peer-to-peer networks. Server-based
operating systems are also tuned for resource sharing. Peer-to-peer networks
however would allow people who are assigned to the same project to share project
files with each other and allow those people to give restricted access to others that
are not assigned to the same project as them.