Critical Thinking Questions Case 9-1 You Have Taken a New

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Critical Thinking Questions Case 9-1 You have taken a new job as a network administrator. Although you have been an IT professional within your organization for a number of years, this particular responsibility is a new one for you, so you have been studying network topologies, for example. If you are charged with setting up a network for your team and there is one device whose reliability you are concerned about, which of the following network topologies is a bad idea for you?

• A) bus
• B) ring
• C) star
• D) intranet

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