1. On your sheet of paper, draw a basic bus topology with four computers attached to the backbone, or bus. Label the computers A, B, C, and D. 2. Now imagine that the user at computer A needs to open a file on computer D, in a peerto-peer fashion. What path do you think the data will follow from A to D and then from D to A? Add this path, as a dotted line, to your network diagram. 3. On the opposite side of your paper, using no more than half of a page, draw a star topology with four computers attached to a central connectivity device. Label the workstations E, F, G, and H. 4. Imagine that the user at computer E wants to open a file that is on computer Hs hard disk, in a peer-to-peer fashion. With a dotted line, draw the path you think data would take between these two computers. 5. Now add a printer and a server to your star-topology network drawing. With the addition of a server, you have changed the network from a peer-to-peer network to a client/server network. The printer has become a resource that all the workstation users can share. 6. Suppose the new server is configured to provide all necessary services to the entire startopology network, including print and file services. Now if computer G sends a document to the printer, what path do you think the documents data will take to the printer? Draw this path as a dotted line on your network. 7. Often, modern networks are not simple star, bus, or ring topologies. Sometimes two or more star-shaped networks are connected via a bus to create a star-bus topology. On the same sheet of paper, draw a second star topology network that consists of three workstations, labeled I, J, and K, and is linked to a central connectivity device. 8. Now draw a line between the two connectivity devices to indicate a bus-style connection between the star-based networks. You have now designed a hybrid star-bus topology network. 9. Suppose that workstation J wants to print to the printer you added in Step 5. Using a dotted line, draw the path you think workstation Js document will take to the printer. Remember that the server still controls all print functions for that network. 10. Of the three different kinds of networks you worked on in this project, which one do you think would allow for the easiest expansion? 11. Considering the amount of hardware and cabling involved, which of the three networks would be least expensive to implement?