IT Manager's Handbook: Getting Your New Job Done
This is a how to be an IT manager book, and it covers every area possible and then some.
TABLE OF CONTENTS IT Manager's Handbook: Getting Your New Job Done
Chapter 10: Data Networks
What You Will Learn
- What data networks are
- What the difference between database, application, Web, and file and print servers is
- How to configure a server
- What the difference between MS Windows NT/2000 Server, Novell Netware, and Unix systems is
- What the important issues in LAN and WAN design are
- What the key LAN and WAN technologies are
- How to manage and expand LANs
- The important issues to know when designing a WAN
- How to manage WANs
- How to install, manage, and expand a cable plant
- Whether you need remote access
- What the advantages and disadvantages of telephone remote access are
- What the advantages and disadvantages of direct line remote access are
- What the advantages and disadvantages of Web-based access are
- What remote users see when they log in
- What the key issues of network security are
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