Competency 1C

Question 1

Five basic components of a network: clients, servers, channels, interface devices and operating system.

Answer 1

Parts of the network

Question 2

Are powerful computers that store data or applications and connect to resources that are shared by users of a network.

Answer 2

Server

Question 3

Theses are the computers that are used by the users of the network to access the servers.

Answer 3

Client

Question 4

Also called a network circuit, is a pathway over which information travels between the different computers(client and servers)

Answer 4

Channels

Question 5

This is the actual physical medium of the channel.

Answer 5

Transmission media

Question 6

Comes in a variety of types, speeds, and capability, main two are wired and wireless.

Answer 6

Network channels

Question 7

Also called guided media, information transfer takes place on a cable.

Answer 7

Wired media

Question 8

also called radiate media, uses no physical wire but transfers information through the air

Answer 8

Wireless media

Question 9

This property of a network channel describes how fast information can be transmitted over the channel.

Answer 9

Transmission rate(Bandwith)

Question 10

The direction in which information can be transmitted over a channel depends on the type of channel

Answer 10

Transmission Direction capability

Question 11

Information can be transmitted only in one direction

Answer 11

Simplex

Question 12

Information can be transmitted in one direction but only one at a time

Answer 12

Half-duplex

Question 13

Information can be transmitted in both directions simultaneously

Answer 13

Full duplex

Question 14

There are two signal types – Analog and Digital

Answer 14

Signal Type

Question 15

Signals are continuous, take binary values

Answer 15

Analog

Question 16

Are more natural for computer network

Answer 16

Digital

Question 17

is confined to a small geographic area.

Answer 17

LAN (Local Area Network)

Question 18

These are high bandwith channels that typically connect LAN with eachother.

Answer 18

Backbone Network

Question 19

spans over a wider geographic area such such as a campus or university

Answer 19

MAN (Metropolitan Area Network)

Question 20

Information that has been broken down to be sent. They are a string of bits

Answer 20

Packets

Question 21

When a packet goes through many different locations and the information gets altered.

Answer 21

Transmission Error

Question 22

rules for how information is broken up trasnmitted and reassembled.

Answer 22

Protocols

Question 23

determining which computer and network the packets are headed to.

Answer 23

Addressing

Question 24

is a network-layer protocol, the most commonly used one.

Answer 24

TCP/IP

Question 25

dertermining the best way for the packet to get where they are headed.

Answer 25

Routing

Question 26

also called layer 2 protocols. there rules specify how network does Delineation Error Control Channel access.

Answer 26

Data-link layer protocols

Question 27

Figuring out when a message(packet) begins and ends.

Answer 27

Delineation

Question 28

Figuring out when a transmission error has occurred and correcting it.

Answer 28

Error Control

Question 29

Controlling when a client or server accesses the channel.

Answer 29

Channel access

Question 30

Spans over a larger geographical area such as a country or content.

Answer 30

WAN ( Wide Area Network)