Module 1-Lesson1.2.1

Question 1

Personal Area Network (PAN)

Answer 1

(most basic network) transmit data through short-distance objects that are contained in a room (desktop, phone, laptop, or speaker)

Question 2

Local Area Network (LAN)

Answer 2

Network located in a single site (home/office building)

Question 3

functions of a LAN

Answer 3

File/Application Sharing, Resource sharing

Question 4

Wide Area Network (WAN)

Answer 4

covers a broad range of geographic area (usually lots of LANS connected to each other)

Question 5

Circuit switched WAN link

Answer 5

circuits provided to for businesses by long-distance carriers(using a phone network would be an example)

Question 6

Digital Subscriber Line WAN link

Answer 6

high speed internet access delivered through existing telephone networks

Question 7

Packet switching WAN link

Answer 7

packets of data sent by switches along the best route possible by using the logical address of the destination node

Question 8

Leased Lines WAN link

Answer 8

reserved circuits for a specific customer

Question 9

Wireless broadband internet communication WAN link

Answer 9

its like WIFI but with higher speeds and greater distances

Question 10

Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)

Answer 10

Within several blocks of a city or an entire city, so everything within that city is connected (Larger than LAN but not as big as WAN) like the internet

Question 11

Centralized Computing

Answer 11

Very large and powerful central computer

Question 12

Peer to Peer (P2P)

Answer 12

Any computer can provide resources to any other of the computers

Question 13

Client/Server

Answer 13

One giant server that accepts and rejects requests within its network (like online multiplayer, where u log in and u are in that server as a client)