1330 B. E.7th Semester (IT) Examination, December-2006 SYSTEM AND NETWORK ADMINISTRATION Paper-IT -403-E TIme allowed: 3 hours
Maximum marks: 100
Note: Attempt-any five q1!-estions. 1.
(a) What are the responsibilities of a network administrator?
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(b) State and briefly explain any five system components that are to be managed by system administrator. 10 2.
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What is security planning ? Discuss various security categories.
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Compare the Windows and UNIX operating systems based upon the following criteria: (i)
File system
(ii) Memory management (iii) Device management. 4.
(a) What is the format of Class-A, Class-B and Class~C , addresses? Discuss subnet addressing with the help of example. 14 (b) Briefly explain system's performance tuning.
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(a) What are the various levels at which security can be implemented in a system? Discuss how security is implemented. 15
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(b) What do you mean by open source software? How it is useful ? 6.
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(a) Discuss any two methods to prevent denial of service attacks. 10 (b) Write and explain any two techniques for TCP/IP trouble shooting.
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(a) Write the procedure followed for configuration and . authentication in dial up method. 10 (b) What do you mean by a process? What are its various states? How process activities can be monitored? 10
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(a) What do you mean by a firewall? How it is different from IDS ? / 7 (b) Differentiate between static and dynamic routing. 7 (c) Write and briefly explain the process for configuring a proxy server. 6
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