Mod 1: Network Benefits, History, and Comm. Flashcards
It consist of two or more computing devices that are connected in order to share the components of network (it’s sources) and the information shared there.
Computer Network
A formally created product that shows all the network’s components and the planned connections between them,
Network Plan
Your network plan should help you manage the information gathered, stores, and shared between your users.
Information Management
It is where the most detailed information is found at the top and the more generals, less secure information is located at the bottom.
Hierarchy of Information
YES or NO. Your social security number, credit card, and bank accounts are the information that should be secured the most.
Yes. It is also at the top of the pyramid of hierarchy of information.
What sharing resources is this? A network allows users to share many hardware devices such as printers, modems, fax machines, CD ROM, players, etc.
Hardware
What sharing resources is this? It reduces the cost of software installation, saves space, and hard disk.
Software
What sharing resources is this? It is an additional component that attach to a computer like printers, scanners, and speakers, that are connected to computer to expand its use.
Peripherals
What sharing resources is this? It is setup to act as storage location for the data where access to it could be controlled by the person storing the data.
Storage
WHat resource sharing is this? Installing and sharing it cuts down the storage space required when multiple users need the same application.
Application
It allows multiple users to access and make changes to the same document at the same time.
Assisting Collaboration
Computers worked the same way and could work with each other.
Facilitating Centralized Management
TRUE Or FALSE. High cost installation, time consuming, failure of server, cable faults are the disadvantage of Computer Network.
True
When was the first wide area network (WAN) is created by MIT research Lawrence G. Roberts and Thomas Merrill?
1965
It was the first computers available to organizations introduced in the 1950’s.
Mainframe Terminals
It enabled smaller organizations and individual departments within large organizations to acquire a computer system.
Minicomputer
It allows individuals or organization to purchase, install, and operate a computer without the involvement of programmers.
Personal Computers
AN element of communication where people or electronic devices that need to send a message to other individuals or device.
Message/ Sources/ Sender
An element of communication where it receives the message and interprets it.
Destination/ Receiver
An element of communication that consist of media that provides pathway over which the message can travel from source to its destination.
Channel/ Media
Messages can be sent across data or information network by first converting them into ___.
BInary digits or bits
Bits are then encoded into a ____ that can be transmitted over the appropriate medium.
Signal
Division of data stream into smaller pieces.
Segmentation
Process used to interleave the pieces of separate conversations together on a network is called?
Multiplexing
