Which advantage does the store-and-forward switching method have compared with the cut-through switching method?.

Assume that there is a 4% rate of disk drive failure in a year. a. if all your computer data is stored on a hard disk drive with a copy stored on a second hard disk drive, what is the probability that during a year, you can avoid catastrophe with at least one working drive? b. if copies of all your computer data are stored on three independent hard disk drives, what is the probability that during a year, you can avoid catastrophe with at least one working drive?

Perform the following tasks: a. create a class named testclass that holds a single private integer field and a public constructor. the only statement in the constructor is one that displays the message “constructing”. write a main()function that instantiates one object of the testclass. save the file as testclass. cpp in the chapter 08 folder. run the program and observe the results. b. write another main()function that instantiates an array of 10 testclass objects. save the file as test class array. c . run this program and observe the results.

Define a function printfeetinchshort, with int parameters numfeet and numinches, that prints using ' and " shorthand. ex: printfeetinchshort(5, 8) prints: 5' 8"