Case-Based Critical Thinking Questions Case 7-2 Gabrielle Is the Network

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Multiple Choice

Case-Based Critical Thinking Questions Case 7-2 Gabrielle is the network administrator at a medium-sized company. One of her responsibilities is to purchase network devices to maintain the company network. Gabrielle realizes that to improve network performance, she needs to buy and install a ____, which identifies the device on the network for which the data is intended and sends the data to that device only.

• A) switch
• B) node
• C) bus
• D) bridge

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Definitions:

Normally Distributed

A distribution of probabilities that exhibits balance around the mean, with a higher occurrence rate for data close to the mean compared to data farther from the mean.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of numbers, found by dividing the sum of all values by the count of values.

Standard Deviation

A measure indicating the amount of variation or dispersion from the average in a set of data.

Standardize

The process of making values comparable by subtracting the mean and dividing by the standard deviation.