Name: Communications and Networking Questions The OCR Specification says that you should be able to: NETWORKS Explain the advantages of networking stand-alone computers into a local area network Describe, using diagrams or otherwise, the ring, bus and star network topologies. Describe the hardware needed to connect stand-alone computers into a local area network, including hub/switches, wireless access points. Explain the different roles of computers in a client-server and peer-to-peer network. INTERNET Describe the differences between a local area network and a wide area networks such as the Internet Explain the terms IP addressing, MAC addressing, packet and protocols Describe the hardware needed to connect to the internet including modems, routers etc Explain the importance of HTML and its derivatives as a standard for the creation of web pages Explain the need for security measures in networks, such as user access levels, suitable passwords and encryption techniques Describe and justify network policies such as acceptable use, disaster recovery, failover, backup, archiving Explain the importance of compressing files that are transmitted via the internet Describe the differences between lossy and lossless compression Describe common file standards associated with the internet such as JPG, GIF, PDF, MP3, MPEG Past Paper Exam questions Jan 2011 1. A small business has three stand-alone computers, a printer and an internet connection in an office.
9
Embed
· Web viewCommunications and Networking Questions The OCR Specification says that you should be able to: NETWORKS Explain the advantages of networking stand-alone computers into
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
Transcript
Name:
Communications and Networking Questions
The OCR Specification says that you should be able to:
NETWORKS
Explain the advantages of networking stand-alone computers into a local area network
Describe, using diagrams or otherwise, the ring, bus and star network topologies.
Describe the hardware needed to connect stand-alone computers into a local area network, including hub/switches, wireless access points.
Explain the different roles of computers in a client-server and peer-to-peer network.
INTERNET
Describe the differences between a local area network and a wide area networks such as the Internet
Explain the terms IP addressing, MAC addressing, packet and protocols Describe the hardware needed to connect to the internet including
modems, routers etc Explain the importance of HTML and its derivatives as a standard for the
creation of web pages Explain the need for security measures in networks, such as user access
levels, suitable passwords and encryption techniques Describe and justify network policies such as acceptable use, disaster
recovery, failover, backup, archiving Explain the importance of compressing files that are transmitted via the
internet Describe the differences between lossy and lossless compression Describe common file standards associated with the internet such as JPG,
GIF, PDF, MP3, MPEG
Past Paper Exam questions
Jan 2011
1. A small business has three stand-alone computers, a printer and an internet connection in an office.
(a) State two advantages of connecting the computers to create a local area network.