Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Ministry of Higher Education ‫المملكة العربيةالسعودي ة‬

Najran University ‫وزارة التعليم العالي‬
Faculty of Computer Science and ‫جامعة نجران‬
Information Systems
Department of computer Science
‫كلية علوم الحاسب ونظم المعلومات‬
‫قسم علوم الحاسب‬

Student Name: Student ID:

Academic Year 1443H/1444H (2022/2023)
Second Semester
Lab Assessment
Course Name: Data communications and networks
Course Code: 329CSS-3
Total Marks: 10 points

Instructions:
• Write clearly your name, ID in the specified space above.
• Please answer all questions in the space provided in this booklet.
• This exam has 2 pages including cover page.
• Read each question completely before attempting to solve any part. Use tools that specified if you
need.
• Look at all questions and all parts before starting the examination. Different questions have
different levels of difficulty. The order of the question in the exam need not show the simplicity or
difficulty of the question.
• You must attach the steps, commands and screen shots of your output in

• You must Upload the Two files pdf for your answer and the PKT file.

• If any student does copy and paste content from the internet or class material or between each other then it
is considered as cheating and plagiarism.
• Cheating will result fail in the several courses.

• This table is for official use, please do not write anything on it.
Section CLO 6 Total
Number
Question 1
Number
Student’s
Score

Maximum 10 10
Score

Instructor:
Name: Dr. Aisha Mashraqi
1
 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Higher Education ‫المملكة العربيةالسعودي ة‬
Najran University ‫وزارة التعليم العالي‬
Faculty of Computer Science and ‫جامعة نجران‬
Information Systems
Department of computer Science
‫كلية علوم الحاسب ونظم المعلومات‬
‫قسم علوم الحاسب‬

[Related CLO # 6:] [Setup different types of network using proper network simulator.]

Question 1:

An university institution Plane to build network as network administrator design and configure a network
for the university that has 5 buildings each building has 10 hosts, based on your knowledge in the course
such as network devices, transmission media ….. etc addressed the issues? and then perform the operations
in the remaining questions.

1. Design network topology that provides high data transmission and security. Please explain and
analyze your answer. (3 marks)
2. Configure the IP address dynamically of the devices in the network in class C also set the
subnet masks (1.5 mark)
3. Write your observation after applying Simulation and real time scenario. (1.5 mark)
4. Regarding to the analyzing the network performance apply your skills and the topologies that
you study for measuring the above network performance and monitoring the network
configuration then explain your answer. (2 marks)
5. The institution wish to allocate a subnet for each building that each building has 2 department
has equal number of hosts. Design the network topology and IP addresses and explain your
answer. (2 marks) please note that this question as an illustration question.
  We used a hierarchical design topology to design the university network.
 Every building contain of three switches one switch for each department and one main switch that connect the
two switches of the two department.
 each department in each building has its own switch that connect the hosts so the performance and security is
high.
 All the main switches in all the buildings are connected to a Router so every host in any building can
communicate with any host in the other building
 Host in the same building are communicating through the switches
 The DHCP service is configured in the Router so that all the hosts gets a dynamic IP address.
 We create a five DHCP pools in the router one for each building.

Network addresses Subnet mask Default route

192.168.0.0-192.168.0.15 255.255.255.240(/28) 192.168.0.1

192.168.0.16-192.168.0.31 255.255.255.240(/28) 192.168.0.17

192.168.0.32-192.168.0.47 255.255.255.240(/28) 192.168.0.33

192.168.0.48-192.168.0.63 255.255.255.240(/28) 192.168.0.49

 192.168.0.64-192.168.0.80 255.255.255.240(/28) 192.168.0.65

 We use ping to check the connectivity between all the hosts

Router configuration:
!
version 12.2
no service timestamps log datetime msec
no service timestamps debug datetime msec
no service password-encryption
!
hostname Unversity_Router
!
!
!
!
!
ip dhcp pool building1
network 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.240
default-router 192.168.0.1
ip dhcp pool building2
network 192.168.0.16 255.255.255.240
default-router 192.168.0.17
ip dhcp pool building3
network 192.168.0.32 255.255.255.240
default-router 192.168.0.33
ip dhcp pool building4
network 192.168.0.48 255.255.255.240
default-router 192.168.0.49
ip dhcp pool building5
network 192.168.0.64 255.255.255.240
default-router 192.168.0.65
!
!
!
no ip cef
no ipv6 cef
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
interface FastEthernet0/0
ip address 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.240
duplex auto
speed auto
!
interface FastEthernet1/0
ip address 192.168.0.17 255.255.255.240
duplex auto
speed auto
!
interface FastEthernet2/0
ip address 192.168.0.33 255.255.255.240
duplex auto
speed auto
!
interface FastEthernet3/0
ip address 192.168.0.49 255.255.255.240
duplex auto
speed auto
!
interface FastEthernet4/0
ip address 192.168.0.65 255.255.255.240
duplex auto
speed auto
!
ip classless
!
ip flow-export version 9
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
line con 0
!
line aux 0
!
line vty 0 4
login
!
!
!
end