Lab-based activities
Week Beginning (Napier/JWatt/Lauder): 6 Oct 2003
[Activities]
The concepts of decimal, hexadecimal and binary
conversions are important in networking, as many
network addresses uses these techniques. The activities
in this weeks practical are intended to revise the
concept of hexadecimal, decimal and binary conversions.
[Background]
Lab
Activity 1.1 |
 Conversion
(Binary, hex and decimal) [Link]
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Lab
Activity 1.2 |
Conversion
(Binary, hex/decimal) [Link] |
Lab
Activity 1.3 |
Exponent
format [Link] |
Lab
Activity 1.4 |
Bit
rate calculation [Link] |
Additional Activities
The additional activities for this week are:
Activity
2:1: Match the Layer |
In
this activity you should drag the term used
in the red boxes at the bottom of the exercise,
and place it in correct layer of the OSI model.
Practice the exercise, and determine your
lowest time to complete the exercise.
[Link] |
and:
Activity
2:2: Match the Protocol |
In
this activity you must pick up the network
protocols which are defined in the brown boxes,
and place them in the correct layer of the
OSI model. Practice the exercise, and determine
your lowest time to complete the exercise
[Link] |
and:
Activity
2.3: Test |
Please
conduct the following test which is based
on Unit 2. [Link] |
and:
Challenge
The challenge for this week is:
Challenge
1 |
A
break in a cable will cause a digital pulse
to be reflected off the break and return to
the source. In this challenge you will be
told the time it takes a pulse to reach a
break and return to the source, and you must
determine where the break in the cable is.
After you calculate your result, please submit
your answer [Link]
[Current votes]
... but remember sometimes Ask
the Audience? is wrong... ;-) |
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