An ICT distribution designer is reviewing a client's site information (spaces and pathways) to determine network technology and equipment selection. This is referred to as a___________design process

Question

Options

• Alogical network
• Btop-down
• Cbottom-up
• Dfunctional

• A
  3% (1)
• B
  17% (5)
• C
  72% (21)
• D
  7% (2)

Explanation

Starting from existing physical site conditions - such as available spaces and pathways - and using that information to drive technology and equipment decisions is a bottom-up approach, because the designer moves from concrete, ground-level details upward to higher-level choices. Option A (logical network design) is a deliverable or blueprint showing IP addressing and network segmentation, not a design methodology. Option B (top-down) is the opposite process, where business requirements and goals drive decisions downward toward physical implementation. Option D (functional design) describes defining what the network must do, not a site-assessment-driven selection process.

Memory tip: Think of "bottom-up" as starting in the basement - you look at what the building physically gives you (conduit, rooms, cable runs) and build your design decisions from there. If you start with the business goals instead and drill down, that is top-down.

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