ShortAnswer
Brandi Davis
NT1210: Introduction to Networking_V1.0 > Week 1 > Submit Short Answer Assessment > Short Answer
Key Networking Concepts and Terminology
1. What are open standards, and what, if any, are the advantages of such standards? Specifications for hardware or software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced with that of another vendor. Although many vendors may have contributed to an open standard, and one may have contributed more than others and even have great influence, an open standard is not completely controlled by a single vendor.
2. In general, why would a layered architecture be viewed as beneficial?
The Benefits of Layered Application
Other applications will be able to reuse the functionality exposed by your layers. You will be able to distribute your layers over multiple physical tiers. This can make a very good impact on your application by improving performance (sometimes), scalability and fault tolerance.
The maintenance of your application is easier because of the low coupling between layers.
Adding more functionality to your application is made easier.
Layers make your application more testable.
Building a well formed layers makes the orientation in your application easier.
Having your application not layered means that you have to deal with all security threats in one place which is very difficult. Having your application distributed to layers makes it much easier for design and implement
3. What is a protocol and why would one be used? Provide an example of a technological protocol or a society-based protocol.
A Network Protocol Rules of Network Protocol include guidelines that regulate the following characteristics of a network: access method, allowed physical topologies, types of cabling, and speed of data transfer. Some
NT1210: Introduction to Networking_V1.0 > Week 1 > Submit Short Answer Assessment > Short Answer
Key Networking Concepts and Terminology
1. What are open standards, and what, if any, are the advantages of such standards? Specifications for hardware or software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced with that of another vendor. Although many vendors may have contributed to an open standard, and one may have contributed more than others and even have great influence, an open standard is not completely controlled by a single vendor.
2. In general, why would a layered architecture be viewed as beneficial?
The Benefits of Layered Application
Other applications will be able to reuse the functionality exposed by your layers. You will be able to distribute your layers over multiple physical tiers. This can make a very good impact on your application by improving performance (sometimes), scalability and fault tolerance.
The maintenance of your application is easier because of the low coupling between layers.
Adding more functionality to your application is made easier.
Layers make your application more testable.
Building a well formed layers makes the orientation in your application easier.
Having your application not layered means that you have to deal with all security threats in one place which is very difficult. Having your application distributed to layers makes it much easier for design and implement
3. What is a protocol and why would one be used? Provide an example of a technological protocol or a society-based protocol.
A Network Protocol Rules of Network Protocol include guidelines that regulate the following characteristics of a network: access method, allowed physical topologies, types of cabling, and speed of data transfer. Some