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Network Topologies

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is a WAN ?
a)
Wide Area Network
b)
Wide Access Network
c)
Wider Allowance Networking
2.
What is a LAN?
a)
Local Area Network
b)
Local Access Network
c)
Localized Area Network
3.
What is a characteristic of a WAN?
a)
Uses 3rd Party Hardware, cables or satellites.
b)
All computers are really close to each other.
c)
Play games in your house on it.
4.
What is a characteristic of a LAN?
a)
Small geographical location such as a school or small office.
b)
Really cheap to set up.
c)
Uses less cables than a star.
5.
"To share hardware, software and data" is the answer to the question ...
a)
Why do we network computers and other devices?
b)
Why do we use wi-fi all the time?
c)
Why is a network complicated?
6.
Which one is an advantage to networking computers.
a)
Data is easy to back up from a central server.
b)
Expensive to set up a network
c)
Complicated to maintain a network.
7.
What are two factors that affect network performance?
a)
Traffic and bandwidth
b)
Lag and ping
c)
Banter and bants
8.
What is bandwidth?
a)
The amount of data that can be carried at any one time.
b)
The overall amount of data I use in a month.
c)
The speed of my data per second to a friend and back.
9.
Mbps is known as...
a)
Megabits per second
b)
Megabytes per second
c)
Gigabits per second
10.
What are the 3 main network topologies?
a)
BUS, RING & STAR
b)
BUS, STAR & LAN
c)
WAN, STAR & LAN
11.
What are the most common network usage models?
a)
Peer-to-peer and Client-Server
b)
LAN and WAN
c)
Star and Bus
12.
"Storage facilities are distributed across all computers" is a feature of which usage model?
a)
Peer-to-Peer
b)
Client-Server
c)
WAN
13.
"A central backing store is available to all computers" is a feature of which usage model?
a)
Client server 
b)
Peer-to-peer
c)
LAN
14.
What network topology is this ?
a)
BUS
b)
STAR
c)
RING
15.
What network topology is this?
a)
RING
b)
BUS
c)
STAR
16.
What network topology is this?
a)
STAR
b)
BUS
c)
RING
17.
What network usage model is this?
a)
Client-Server
b)
Peer-to-peer
c)
LAN
18.
What network usage model is this?
a)
Peer to peer
b)
WAN
c)
Client-Server
19.
What network connection type is this?
a)
Mesh
b)
Star
c)
LAN
20.
Hospitals, banks and supermarkets are all linked using which network type?
a)
WAN
b)
LAN
c)
BUS