Kepha Kaunda has installed a note book computer Y and a desktop computer X to form a local area network (LAN) connecting to the internet through...

      

Kepha Kaunda has installed a note book computer Y and a desktop computer X to form a local
area network (LAN) connecting to the internet through a 10 Megabite (MB) broadband
connection in his bedroom. The configurations on the computers are as follows
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Required .
i. Kepha Kaunda wants to connect an external digital video disk (DVD) writer to desktop X
State two different types of external DVD drives and briefly describe how Kepha Kaunda
could install DVD writer to each of the external DVD drives
ii. ' hr desktop X, the size of the cache is smaller than that of the random access memory
(RAM)
iii. Briefly explain what Kepha Kaunda should do to enhance the performance of desktop X
iv. Identify six factors that might affect the connectivity of desktop X and note book Y in the
LAN

  

Answers


Kavungya
(i) Types of DVD drives
- DVD-R: Can write to a blank disc once and cannot be re-written. It is compatible with
most DVD players
- DVD-RW: Can be written and rewritten and is compatible with most DVD players
- DVD+RW: Can be written and rewritten to.

(ii) Since the cache memory cannot be increased, he can increase the size of RAM which
increases the size of the virtual memory.

(iii) Factors which may affect connectivity
- Incorrect software configuration
- Incompatible protocols
- Inadequate bandwidth allocation
- Large volume of data to be processed'
- System infection by viruses
Kavungya answered the question on May 13, 2019 at 11:11


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