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34. Prime Computer Services Ltd. is an international educational organization. It is planning to set up its India
campus in Mumbai with its head office in Delhi. The Mumbai office campus has four main buildings—
ADMIN, ACCOUNTS, EXAMINATION and RESULT. As a network expert, you have to suggest the best
network-related solutions for the problems raised in (i) to (v), keeping in mind the distances between the
buildings and other given parameters. [5]

Head Office MUMBAI CAMPUS
EXAMINATION ACCOUNTS

ADMIN RESULT

Shortest distances between various buildings:
ADMIN TO ACCOUNTS 55 m
ADMIN TO EXAMINATION 90 m
ADMIN TO RESULT 50 m
ACCOUNTS TO EXAMINATION 55 m
ACCOUNTS TO RESULT 50 m
EXAMINATION TO RESULT 45 m
DELHI Head Office to MUMBAI CAMPUS 2150 km
The number of computers installed at various buildings are as follows:
ADMIN 110
ACCOUNTS 75
EXAMINATION 40
RESULT 12
DELHI HEAD OFFICE 20
(i) Suggest the most appropriate location of the server inside the MUMBAI campus (out of the four buildings)
to get the best connectivity for the maximum number of computers. Justify your answer.
(ii) Suggest and draw cable layout to efficiently connect various buildings within the MUMBAI campus for
wired connectivity.
(iii) Which networking device will you suggest to be procured by the company to interconnect all the
computers of various buildings of the MUMBAI campus?
(iv) The company is planning to get its website designed which will allow students to see their results after
registering themselves on its server. Out of the static or dynamic, which type of website will you
suggest?
(v) Which of the following will you suggest to establish online face-to-face communication between the
people in the ADMIN office of the Mumbai campus and the Delhi head office?
(a) Cable TV (b) Email
(c) Video conferencing (d) Text chat
Ans. (i) Server should be installed in Admin department as it has the maximum number of computers.
(ii) Star topology

EXAMINATION

RESULT ACCOUNTS

ADMIN
(iii) Hub/Switch
(iv) Dynamic
(v) Video conferencing

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