WorksheetsGCSE OCR 1.3 Learning review 01
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
A local area network (LAN) is...
confined to a locality like a town or village - connected using equipment owned and maintained by an ISP
confined to one or more sites such as an office or a school campus - connected using equipment owned and maintained by the organisation
confined to one site such as an office or school campus - connected using equipment owned and maintained by the organisation.
wide area networks (WANs)...
often connect 2 LANs together - make use of publicly available telecoms facilities - allow businesses to function from any location
often connect LANs together - make use of publicly available telecoms facilities - allow businesses to function from any location
often connect 2 LANs together - make use of private telecoms facilities - allow businesses to function from any location
LAN
WAN
PAN
SAN
Local Area Nodes
Local Aerial Network
Local Area Network
Local Area Nibble
topology
topping
topiology
toppology
What piece of hardware do you need on your network to allow people to connect to it wirelessly?
Switch
Router
Wireless Access Point
Hub
Which piece of hardware allows you to connect your LAN to the internet?
Switch
Router
Wireless access point
A file server
Which hardware allows devices on a LAN to send messages to each other without collisions?
Switch
Router
Wireless Access Point
Hub
What equipment is needed to allow your desktop PC to have a wired connection to your LAN?
Switch
A wireless Network Interface Card
Hub
An ethernet Network Interface Card
Which device can provide connections between networks and send data by the best route?
Switch
Router
Network interface card
Wireless Access Point
Which of the following can affect the performance of a network?
Whether the connection is wired or wireless
The amount of users sharing the network
Bandwidth
All of these
Fibre Optic Cables are faster than Ethernet cables
True
False
What type of signals are transmitted across fibre optic cables?
Electric
Light
Sound
Radio
