A network technician is attempting to locate a switch connected to the fourth floor west side of the building.
Which of the following will allow quick identification of the switch, when looking at a logical diagram? naming switches, using names like Switch1, Switch2 etc. for example won’t help when you need to know where the switches are located. convention like SW1-FL4-WS where SW1 identifies the item as a Switch with the number 1, FL4 identifies the location as Floor 4 and WS further identifies the location as West Side. Using this convention, switch number 2
A.
Building layout
B.
Patch panel labeling
C.
Packet sniffing
D.
Naming conventions
Explanation:
The building in this question has several floors and the floors are large enough to be identified by area such as ‘west side’ etc. It is likely that a logical diagram of the network in such a building would be quite complicated and the network is likely to have several switches.
A naming convention is a standard for naming items, in this case, networking components. When it comes to
In a building with multiple floors with each floor large enough to be defined by area names, you could a naming
on the third floor east side would be named SW2-FL3-ES.