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Networks, Memory & Storage : GCSE

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does LAN stand for?

a)

Local Area Network

b)

Long Area Network

c)

Limited Area Network

d)

Look, A Numpty

2.

What does WAN stand for?

a)

Wide Area Network

b)

Wireless Aerial Network

c)

Wireless Access Network

d)

We Ate Nothing

3.

What does PAN stand for?

a)

Personal Area Network

b)

Private Access Network

c)

Primary Access Network

d)

Peculiar American Nobility

4.

Uses radiowaves to transmit data

a)

Wired

b)

Wireless

c)

Local

d)

Wide

5.

Which of the following network types is made up of nodes connected to a central switch or hub

a)

Mesh

b)

Star

c)

Bus

d)

Ring

6.

What is a protocol?

a)

The law of computers

b)

set of rules for how devices to communicate

c)

set of ideas of communication

d)

processes to which devices must obey

7.

Which topology is this a picture of

a)

Star

b)

Bus

c)

Mesh

d)

Ring

8.

Which is more secure?

a)

wireless networks

b)

wired networks

9.

Which protocol is used for sending emails?

a)

POP

b)

IMAP

c)

SMTP

d)

FTP

10.

WLAN stands for

a)

Wide Long Area Network

b)

Wide Local Area Network

c)

Wireless Local Area Network

d)

Wide Legal Area Nework

11.

I don't have a server in my network. What type of network is this?

a)

Mesh

b)

Star

c)

Client-Server

d)

Peer-2-Peer (P2P)

12.

What is a network?

a)

A group of 1 or more devices which communicate

b)

A group of 2 or more devices which communicate

c)

When 2 or more computers are in the same building.

d)

A group of 3 or more devices which communicate

13.
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.
14.

A storage location inside the CPU used to hold an instruction, an address or other single item of data.

a)

Control Unit

b)

Arithmetic/Logic Unit

c)

Register

d)

Clock

15.

The part of the CPU that organises the actions of the other parts of the CPU

a)

Register

b)

Control Unit

c)

Arithmetic/Logic Unit

d)

Clock

16.

A temporary store for data and instructions (programs)

a)

Main Memory/random access memory (RAM)

b)

Memory Address

c)

Solid Sate Drive

d)

Cloud Storage

17.

Memory that is erased when the power is turned

a)

Read-only memory (ROM)

b)

Cloud storage

c)

Non-Volatile

d)

Volatile

18.

Memory that is not lost when the power is turned off

a)

Non-volatile

b)

Volatile

c)

Read Only Memory (ROM)

d)

Random Access memory (RAM)

19.

Computer System Design in which the program is stored in memory with the data

a)

Harvard Architecture

b)

von Neumann architecture

20.

What is the sequence of steps carried out repeatedly by the CPU

a)

Execute Decode Fetch Cycle

b)

Fetch Decode Execute Cycle

c)

Decode Execute Fetch Cycle

21.

Secondary storage that works by magnetising parts of a substance as north and south poles to represent binary 1's and 0's

a)

Cloud Storage

b)

Secondary storage

c)

Magnetic storage

d)

Solid state storage

22.

Secondary storage that works using differences in light reflection from a material

a)

Magnetic storage

b)

Optical storage

c)

Solid State Storage

23.

What does RFID stand for?

a)

Receiver Frequency Indicator

b)

Radio Frequency Identification

c)

Really Funny Idea Dude

d)

e

24.

Ethernet is...

a)

A type of copper cable

b)

A net for catching ethers

c)

A protocol in the IEEE 802 standards

d)

A type of network adaptor

25.

Every computer/phone has a unique IP address

a)

True, if it is directly connected to the Internet

b)

True

c)

True, but only if it is turned on

d)

False, only web servers have IP addresses

26.

Which one of these protocols is used to form a request to see a webpage (or deliver a webpage)

a)

HTTP

b)

TCP/IP

c)

POP3

d)

IMAP

27.

Which protocol would be used to transfer Internet banking commands?

a)

HTTPS

b)

POP3

c)

HTTP

d)

FTP

28.

ZigBee is an alternative to WiFi & Bluetooth typically used for low powered application.

a)

True

b)

False