Data Networks

What is a client?

• Powerful Computers that provide services to other computers
• Computers that ask for the services a server provides
• Physical connection between devices
• A circuitboard with the components to send/receive data

What is a protocol?

• Any peripheral device
• A person that uses a client
• Rules for networks and communications
• A circuitboard with the components to send/receive data

What is TCP used for?

• To send information across the internet in packets
• To ensure that information is sent to the correct computer
• To send mail across the internet
• To transmit webpages across the internet

Which topology is this?

• Bus
• Star
• Ring
• Wave

Which topology is this?

• Bus
• Star
• Ring
• Wave

To log onto a network, what do you usually need?

• A user ID and password

• A fast connection

• Specialist software

What is a data collision?

• When two devices on a network transmit data at the same time

• When one device on a network transmits data

• When two devices on a network transmit at separate times

is a wireless local area network

• WLAN

• LAN

• WAN

The ROM stores permanent instructions such as the...

• BIOS

• RAM

• CPU

What is the usual file size of the packets of data sent using TCP/IP?

• 1 Megabyte

• 1000 Megabytes

• 1 Kilobyte

• 1000 Kilobytes