Question

A small office has all 24 workstations cabled back to a single central Ethernet switch. During a network review, a technician documents the physical topology and its resilience characteristics. Which statement most accurately describes this deployment?

Accepted Answer

It is a star topology; if the central switch fails, all connected devices lose network connectivity

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It is a full-mesh topology; each workstation has a direct link to every other workstation

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It is a bus topology; a single break in the backbone cable isolates every device

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It is a point-to-point topology; only two endpoints can communicate at a time