Vocab 1
A group of interconnected computers that can share resources and communicate with each other.
What is computer network?
A network connection used for headphones, keyboards, and other peripherals?
What is Bluetooth?
A network that covers a geographic area, often a country or continent, and connects multiple LANs.
What is Wide Area Network?
Using social media platforms.
What is the Internet?
A school's internal portal for students and teachers.
What is intranet?
A network that connects computers within a limited area, such as a home, school, or office building.
What is Local Area Network?
A type of network connection that uses radio waves to connect devices without cable.
What is Wireless?
A private network accessible only to an organization's staff, often used to share information and resources within the organization.
What is Intranet?
Mobile Internet
What is Cellular?
What is Local Area Network?
A network that spans a city or large campus and connects multiple LANs within that area.
What is a Metropolitan Area Network?
Networks that use cell towers to provide mobile internet acces.
What is Cellular?
A network connection that uses cables or fiber optics to provide fast and reliable internet access?
Rural Internet
What is Satellite?
Office Network
Wat is Client/Server Network?
A private network that allows controlled access to outsiders, such as partners, vendors, or customers.
What is extranet?
A network that has a boss computer that helps other computers do their work.
What is Client/Server?
A network connection that uses satellites in space to provide internet access.
What is Satellite?
A multinational company's network connecting offices in different countries.
What is Wide Area Network?
A company employee using this network to access the company's internal network while traveling.
What is Virtual Private Network?
A global network that connects millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks.
What is the Internet?
What is Peer-to-Peer Network?
A network that has a super powerful computer that helps simple computers do their work.
Mainframe/Terminal
A journalist using this network to securely communicate with sources in a different country.
What is VPN?
Government agencies processing tax returns, managing social security data, and other large scale data processing tasks.
What is Mainframe/Terminal?