Grade 7 - Revision UT1

What best describes a Router

• A device that coverts signals into digital data for a home network

• A device that sends messages to correct computers

• A device that connects two or more network

• A device that allows other WIFI devices to connect to a wired network

What is a Wireless Access Point?

• is the technology that converts signals into digital data that can be sent through telephone lines.

• is a device that joins two networks together. 

• is a device that creates a wireless local area network, or WLAN. It allows other WIFI Devices to connect to a wired network.

• sends the message directly to that computer and not any of the other ones connected to the network

A device that converts signal into digital data for a home network.

A device that sends messages to the correct computer

Copper Cables are less expensive than Fibre-Optic Cables

• True

• False

Fibre-optic cables can send more data at a faster speed

• True

• False

is the centre of a network.  These rooms contain all the servers in the network. It also contains hubs and switches so that the rest of the network can be connected to the servers. Usually placed in an air-conditioned room in a school or office

does not contain servers. It only has switches and hub. You need this room to connect lots of computers together in a room away from the main server room.

It is a device that allows computer/devices to connect to the internet

A small amount of data that travels over a network