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FlashCards por Quandale Dingle, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por Quandale Dingle
mais de 2 anos atrás
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| Questão | Responda |
| What is a Wireless Access Point? (WAP) | A Wireless Access Point (WAP) is an item of network hardware that connects to a network switch and allows wireless (WiFi) devices to connect to the network. |
| What is a network switch? | A network switch is a piece of network hardware that allows multiple computers and devices to connect together to form a wired network. |
| What is a router? | A router is a piece of network hardware that connects networks together, for example connecting a home LAN to the Internet. |
| What is a fibre optic cable? | Fibre-optic cables are made of many thin glass strands (fibres) that can transmit binary data as pulses of light. |
| What are Radio Waves? | Radio waves are the transmission media of wireless networking technologies, including WiFi and Bluetooth. |
| What does WAP stand for? | Wireless Access Point. |
| Which piece of hardware manages the transfer of data between devices on a LAN? | Switch. |
| Which of these is a type of network cable? Connector Coaxial Covalent | Coaxial. |
| Describe the purpose of a network interface controller. (NIC) | A network interface controller (NIC) is a piece of hardware inside a computer that allows it to connect to a network. It has a unique identifier called MAC address. |
| Fibre optic cables are high-performance and do not suffer much from outside interference. However, Ethernet cables, which have lower performance, are still very popular. Suggest one reason why this is the case. | Ethernet cables are much cheaper than fibre optic cables and, over short distances, don’t suffer too badly from outside interference. |
| Casta Networks are developing the HubBanjo, which is a router, a switch and a WAP all in one. During testing, computers could connect wirelessly and share files, but could not connect to the internet. Explain which parts of HubBanjo are faulty. | The router part is faulty as the computers cannot connect to the internet. (The switch and WAP parts must be working as the computer can connect and share files) |
| Name a factor that can affect the performance of a network. | Number of users Error rate Type of transmission media used Bandwidth Latency |
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