For all questions, your answer must be short, complete, concise, and to the point. Your answer must not deviate too far from the correct one.

1-Elaborate on why we cannot use an entity administrative processes and provisioning as a good analogy for a system requiring Network Management.

2-Discuss the process of ensuring data delivery between a user and a given application in the context of VLAN and firewalls environment.

3-A company has multiple branches remotely and served by different networks. These networks do communicate with each other. It is widely accepted that a management network should be independent of these networks to ensure its reliability and that its rate of availability should higher and be independent of the rate of availability of the other networks. Briefly elaborate on these facts and provide an example of your own.

4-List the main phases of a typical network management life cycle and provide examples of tasks that occur at each level and at what level switching services and network traffic for the purpose of an upgrade belong.

5-While an MIB is not a database, provide an example of instances when data is collected about an MIB and saved in a database and for what purpose the data should be stored.

6-Why objects in the MIB are considered flat and everyone of them constitute a leaf in the MIB object identifier tree. Why this type of structure is more robust in the context of MIB structure? Try analogy with other type of structures.