Assignment No.

01 (SOLUTION FILE) Total Marks: 20

Semester: SPRING 2010
IT430 E-Commerce Due Date:21/04/2010

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Objective

To integrate the knowledge that you have gained in units already studied in the course. (Lectures 1-6)

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Assignment

Q1: Write down the functionality of Hub, Bridges, Routers, Repeaters and Switches; also write down on which
layers of OSI model these network devices work? [10]

Name Functionality OSI Model Layer

Hub
Bridges
Routers
Repeaters
Switches

Answer 1:

Name Functionality OSI Model Layer

These provide central connection point for a Hubs work at the first or
Hub LAN. They organize cables and relay data Physical layer
signals to all computers.
A Bridge is a combination of hardware and Bridging occurs at the data
Bridges software. It has its own operating system. It link layer of the OSI model,
helps to conserve the bandwidth of a
network. It indicates how many bits can be
transmitted across a network in a given time.
Routers use a combination of hardware and Routers are on the third layer,
Routers software to forward data packets to their the Network layer.
destination on the internet. They are more
efficient and sophisticated than bridges and
switches
 Repeaters regenerate signals. A repeater . Repeaters work only at the
Repeaters would amplify the entire electric signal it physical layer of the OSI
receives. However, it has no capabilities of network model.
directing network traffic

A switch is also a combination of hardware Switches operate at the Data

Switches and software having its own operating Link or second layer. Switches
system. Like bridges, the switches are also are "intelligent" hubs.
used to increase the bandwidth of a network.
However, in case of a switch, a network is
virtually divided into small segments called
Virtual LANs or VLANs.

Q2: Perform the conversions

(a) 110 Decimal to Binary (2)

(b) 10011000 Binary to Decimal (2)
(c) 11011100 Binary to Decimal (2)
(d) 11111100 Binary to Decimal (2)
(e) 3009 Decimal to Binary (2)

[Note: Show the stepwise procedure of all conversion. 0.5 marks are awarded if only answer is written.]

* For part e, first convert it to decimal and then convert decimal to binary.

Answer 2:

(a) 110

2 110
2 55 – 0
2 27 – 1
Answer: 1101110
2 13 – 1
2 6–1
2 3–0
1-1

(b) 10011000

= (27*1) + (26*0) + (25*0) + (24*1) + (23*1) + (22*0) + (21*0) + (20*0)

= 128 + 0 + 0 + 16 + 8 + 0 + 0 + 0
= 152
(c) 11011100

= (27*1) + (26*1) + (25*0) + (24*1) + (23*1) + (22*1) + (21*0) + (20*0)

= 128 + 64 + 0 + 16 + 8 + 4 + 0 + 0
= 220

(d) 11111100

= (27*1) + (26*1) + (25*1) + (24*1) + (23*1) + (22*1) + (21*0) + (20*0)

= 128 + 64 + 32 + 16 + 8 + 4 + 0 + 0
= 252

(e) 3009

2 3009
2 1504 - 1
2 752 – 0
2 376 – 0
2 188 – 0
Answer: 101111000001
2 94 – 0
2 47 - 0
2 23 – 1
2 11 – 1
2 5–1
2 2–1
1-0

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