1. a global organisation has offices located in different countries around the world and wishes to connect these together with a network that can transfer data and telephone calls between each office. Explain how the Internet could be used to provide this network.[10]

2.Explain the types of networking media would be most appropriate for the following scenarios and justify the reasons for selecting it.

a.Two hundred end users in a large office block working for a financial trading company with fast changing financial data.[5]

b.An IT research lab researching big data search and storage solutions with data centre research facilities located across a large geographic area.[5]

c.A festival venue based at a farm with a fixed broadband connection, where several thousand festival goers attend a festival several times a year and for the remaining time the fields are used for sheep grazing.[5]

3.Discuss why fibre optic cables are more suitable than copper wired or wireless media for high voltage AC environments.[5]

Total Mark = 30 Marks