Gr 10 3.1 NETWORKS

Question 1

Email servers

Answer 1

E-mail servers are used to handle all the e-mail needs of the
organisation.

Question 2

Clients

Answer 2

Clients are computers that use but do not provide network
resources.

Question 3

Extranet

Answer 3

An extranet is a network where access is provided to the
organisations private network to use from outside the
organisation.

Question 4

FAT Clients

Answer 4

Fat clients run most of their applications from their local
hard drives and make little use of network services.

Question 5

Internet/proxy server

Answer 5

Users connect to the Internet via this server so security
control for viruses ect. Can be implemented at once central
point. Access to the Internet can also be speeded up by
storing (caching) recently accessed web pages on disk.

Question 6

Intranet

Answer 6

An intranet is an organisation’s private network and is an
internet-like environment consisting of web pages relating
to the organisation’s business.

Question 7

Network

Answer 7

A network is a collection of computers or other computing
devices such as smartphones that are connected by some
sort of communication media (either via calbe or wirelessly)
to allow users to share software, hardware, data and
information.

Question 8

Network OS

Answer 8

Network operating system is software that controls all the
communication in a network as well as security on a
network.

Question 9

Network security

Answer 9

Network security refers to policies put into place to ensure
the security of a network by preventing unauthorised access
and misuse of the computer network.

Question 10

Peers

Answer 10

Peers are those computers that both use and provide
network resources.

Question 11

Peer to peer network

Answer 11

A peer-to-peer network is a local area network in which
network resources are shared among workstations, without
a dedicated server.

Question 12

Print server

Answer 12

Print servers are used to handle all the printing
requirements of a network with a large number of
computers.

Question 13

Server

Answer 13

A server is a computer that provides shares resources, such
as files, e-mail and Internet facilities or printing to the
network users.

Question 14

Thin clients

Answer 14

Thin clients have no hard-drives, but depend almost
completely on a server to run applications and store data
files.