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Lab Sheet
Lab require students to demonstrate completed lab exercises to their lab tutors in order to gain assessment marks.
Objectives
1: Briefly investigate some networking technologies
2: Determine the names and function of numerous networking organisations designing standards
3: To develop understanding of binary, octal, and hexadecimal number systems
Lab Task 1 - Networking technologies and standards
Your first task in this lab is to find and briefly describe 3 prescribed technologies and 2 others of your own choice. Your description of each technology should be no longer than 2 paragraphs.
One web site that documents many networking technologies is the webopedia site at All technologies that we will investigate throughout the semester can be found at many sites on the Internet, so please do not feel restricted to the mentioned website.
Five technologies to investigate are:
1. 10Base-2
2. NAS - Network Attached Storage
3. Cat-5 cabling
4. Your choice
5. Your choice
Lab Task 2 - Networking Standards Organisations
There are many standards organisations that develop and maintain networking standards (like those investigated by you in task 1) that underpin networking.
Most standards organisations are commonly referred to by an acronym. Some such acronyms are listed below.
• ISOC
• IAB
• IETF
• ICANN
• W3C
• IEEE
• ITU
Your task is to define each acronym, i.e., to find the full name of the standards organisations and briefly describe their main roles. Limit each discussion to one or two paragraphs at most.
Lab Task 3 - Number systems
Using the Windows calculator in programmer view
The Windows calculator allows us to convert numbers from one numbering system to another. The calculator assists us to learn how to convert between numbering systems and helps us checking the correct answers when doing number conversions by hand.
Search the calculator via the start menu of a Windows machine and run the calculator program.
From the View Menu, select Programmer (Alt 3 will also put you in Programmer view).
Write the equivalent decimal representations to the right of the 7 bit patterns above.
Attachment:- Lab Sheet.rar