CompTIA Network+® Study Guide

1.8. Review Questions

1. You need a network that provides centralized authentication for your users. Which of the following logical topologies should you use?

   1. VLANs

   2. Peer-to-peer

   3. Client/Server

   4. Mesh

2. You need a topology that is scalable to use in your network. Which of the following will you install?

   1. Bus

   2. Ring

   3. Star

   4. Mesh

3. Which of the following physical topologies has the least likelihood of having a collision?

   1. Bus

   2. Star

   3. Ring

   4. Mesh

4. In a physical-star topology, what happens when a workstation loses its physical connection to another device?

   1. The ring is broken, so no devices can communicate.

   2. Only that workstation loses its ability to communicate.

   3. That workstation and the device it's connected to lose communication with the rest of the network.

   4. No devices can communicate because ...