Network Topologies

What is a WAN?

• Wide Area Network

• Wireless Area Network

• Wired Area Network

• World Area Network

What are two factors that affect network performance?

• Traffic and bandwidth

• Latency and jitter

• Packet loss and delay

• Throughput and error rate

What are the most common network usage models?

• Peer-to-peer and Client-Server

• LAN and WAN

• Star and Bus

• Mesh and Hybrid

What is a characteristic of a LAN?

• Large geographical area such as a city or country.

• Small geographical location such as a school or small office.

• High-speed internet access across multiple countries.

• Connection of devices over a wide area network.

What network topology is this? Options: STAR, BUS, RING

• STAR

• BUS

• RING

• MESH

"Storage facilities are distributed across all computers" is a feature of which usage model?

• Peer-to-Peer

• Client-Server

• WAN

• Cloud Computing

"A central backing store is available to all computers" is a feature of which usage model?

• Client server

• Peer-to-peer

• Cloud computing

• Mainframe

What network connection type is this? Options: Mesh, Star, LAN

• Mesh

• Star

• LAN

• Ring

Mbps is known as...

• Megabits per second

• Megabytes per second

• Mega transfers per second

• Mega bits per second

What is bandwidth?

• The amount of data that can be carried at any one time.

• The speed of a computer's processor.

• The total number of devices connected to a network.

• The distance between two points in a network.