Servers
Network Hardware
Vocabulary
Telephone Systems
Making the Connection.
100
This let's you share things-such as files and printers
What is a server.
100
What is a node?
Any machine attached to a network- client, server, printer...
100
A computer system that is accessed by a user working at a remote location. Typically, the term is used when there are two computer systems connected by modems and telephone lines. The system that contains the data is called the.....
What is a Host.
100
How do telephones work?
Telephones work by translating the sound waves out of your mouth into electrical signals that get sent along a copper wire. The receiving phone then makes those electrical signals into something resembling your voice.
100
What does ISP stand for?
Internet Service Provider
200
What are the four basic types of a server?
Supercomputer, Mainframes, Minicomputer, Microcomputers.
200
What is an RJ-45?
An Ethernet connector
200
Local Area Network
What is LAN.
200
All of the world's different telephone systems have been linked together in the.....
What is the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)
200
What are some disadvantages of Dial-up?
Dial-up connections provide the slowest type of connection to the internet, that get's worse and worse as time goes on.
300
What type of server is the most powerful?
Supercomputers and Mainframes.
300
What was a common problem in the earlier days of computer networks?
If two networks did not have the same kind of networking technology.
300
A system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a private network.
What is firewall.
300
True or False? Local telephone networks have a central connection point for local telephone lines.
True
300
For a computer to be able to connect wireless what must it have?
Wi-Fi card.
400
Xserve servers use.....
Motorola and IBM G5 CPU's and, like Windows servers, can have multiple processors, gobs of RAM, and tons of hard drive space.
400
Johan has a slick new Windows XP laptop and wants to access an MP3 music file on his friend Maria's computer. Two things need to be in place before anything else happens.
Both Johan and Maria's computers need to be connected to the same network, and Maria needs to share the folder that holds the MP3 file.
400
To isolate the source of a problem and fix it, typically through a process of elimination whereby possible sources of the problem are investigated and eliminated beginning with the most obvious or easiest problem to fix.
What is troubleshooting.
400
What are the two types of telephones?
Standard and cellular.
400
To make a wireless connection to work on a cell phone or PDA, what must be done?
You need both networking hardware and applications built in and preloaded or artermarket add-ons- and an ISP.
500
Linux operating system can be ran on what machines?
What is IBM-style PC's, Xserve G5 machines, and most mainframes!
500
Describe a wired network.
A typical network client has a network adapter or network interface card (NIC) that connects to a cable, connects to a central network box, called a hub or switch.
500
The efficient coexistence of telephone, video and data communication within a single network.
What is a converged network.
500
How does a cellular phone communicate?
A cellular phone has no physical wire, but rather sends messages through radio signals.
500
What is the "Big WAN"?
What is the Internet.
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