Network Design Principles
Hierarchical Network Layers
Cisco Enterprise Architecture
FLASH1
FLASH2
100
This principle breaks the complex problem of network design into smaller and more manageable areas.
What is Hierarchy or Hierarchical?
100
These are the three layers of a hierarchical network design.
What are Access, Distribution & Core?
100
This approach reduces network cost, while maintaining most of the benefits of the three-tier hierarchical model.
What is "collapsed-core"?
100
In this layer of the hierarchical enterprise LAN design model, PoE for VoIP phones and access points are considered.
What is Access?
100
This networking trend allows for employees to use their personal devices in the workplace to connect seamlessly to the corporate network.
What is BYOD?
200
This principle states that he network must remain available for use under both normal and abnormal conditions.
What is Resiliency?
200
This layer employs Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) inspection.
What is Access
200
This basic network module is the fundamental component of a campus design.
What is Access-Distribution?
200
In a hierarchical network design, these layers may be combined into a collapsed core for smaller networks.
What are Core and Distribution
200
This network trend allows teams or individuals located in different time zones to work together, socialize, to innovate or to contribute to the production of something.
What is Online Collaboration?
300
This principle suggests that by separating the various functions that exist on a network into modules, the network is easier to design.
What is Modularity?
300
The devices in this layer acts as the demarcation point between broadcast domains.
What is Distribution?
300
This basic network module is a generic block used to identify services (e.g. LWAPP, unified communications, policy gateways)
What is Services?
300
The network design for a college with users at five sites is being developed. Servers used by all users will be located in which module of the campus network architecture.
What is Data Center?
300
This layer of the Cisco Collaboration Architecture contains unified communications and conference software such as Cisco WebEx Meetings, WebEx Social, Cisco Jabber, and TelePresence
What is Applications and Devices?
400
This principle suggests a network that has the ability to modify portions of the network, add new services, or increase capacity without going through a major upgrade.
What is Flexibility?
400
Considerations in this layer includes avoiding CPU-intensive packet manipulation caused by security, inspection, quality of service (QoS) classification, or other processes.
What is Core?
400
This basic network module is responsible for managing and maintaining data systems (server farm)?
What is Data Center?
400
A network engineer wants to redesign the wireless network and make use of wireless network controllers that manage the many deployed wireless access points. In this network design module of the campus network architecture should the centralized wireless network controllers be located.
What is Services?
400
This Cisco technology allows diverse network devices to connect securely, reliably, and seamlessly to enterprise network resources.
What is Cisco AnyConnect?
500
You should determine this before creating a network design, so that you can determine the complexity of the network.
What is network size?
500
The devices in this layer should provide redundancy and load balancing.
What is Distribution?
500
This basic network module is the Internet edge and WAN edge which offer connectivity to voice, video and data outside the enterprise.
What is Enterprise Edge?
500
This network module is the fundamental component of a campus design.
What is Access-Distribution?
500
These submodules make up the Enterprise Edge?
What are E-commerce networks and servers, DMZ, Remote Access and VPN, and WAN?
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