Six lawyers and one secretary work together in the same building and are connected via a LAN to a central server.
Six lawyers and one secretary work together in the same building and are connected via a LAN to a central server. Each has their own workstation.
(a) Outline the concept of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model in communication across a network.
(b) Outline, with an example, the function of protocols.
The LAN has one server, which is connected to the internet. The workstations are connected to the server by cable. There is also a wireless connection.
(c) Outline one advantage and one disadvantage of allowing wireless access to the server.
Print jobs are sent to a shared printer from all workstations and added to the print queue in the order in which they are sent. A priority is given to each job based on the number of pages requested.
The jobs sent to the printer are held in a collection of objects. Each object includes the priority that has been given and the time it was sent to be printed.
If any job has been waiting more than 10 minutes it is moved to the front of the queue and is the next to be printed.
(d) Outline the steps needed to search the collection and return the next job to be printed.