You have been hired as part of the networking team at UMUC. After completing orientation and training, your manager calls you into a meeting to discuss your first project.
The University is interested in creating a repository of networking knowledge based on research papers. The research papers will be drafted by all employees, and you may select from a list of approved topics. As a junior network engineer, you are asked to prepare a research paper that best aligns with your interests. The approved research topics include:
• Compare and contrast the characteristics of network topologies, types and technologies.
• Summarize cloud concepts and their purposes.
• Explain devices, applications, protocols and services at their appropriate OSI layers.
• Explain the functions of network services.
• Explain the purposes of virtualization and network storage technologies.
• Compare and contrast business continuity and disaster recovery concepts.
• Explain common scanning, monitoring and patching processes and summarize their expected outputs.
• Explain authentication and access controls.
• Compare and contrast network policies and best practices.
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