Exam 24: Organizational Structures That Support Strategic Initiatives

A peer-to-peer network is a model for applications in which the bulk of the back-end processing, such as performing a physical search of a database, takes place on a server, while the front-end processing, which involves communicating with the users, is handled by the clients.

What is a client/server network?

Topology includes peer-to-peer networks and client/server networks.

What is cable that can carry a wide range of frequencies with low signal loss?

What is packet-switching?

What is a large computer network usually spanning a city?

What allows files containing text, programs, graphics, numerical data, and so on to be downloaded off or uploaded onto a network?

What runs a network, steering information between computers and managing security and users?

A wide area network (WAN) spans a large geographic area, such as a state, province, or country. WANs often connect multiple smaller networks, such as local area networks or metropolitan area networks. The world's most popular WAN is the Internet. A metropolitan area network (MAN) is a large computer network usually spanning a city.

Cable is the medium to connect all of the computers.

A hub (switch or router) is the hardware to perform traffic control.

What is a peer-to-peer network?

A router is an intelligent connecting device that examines each packet of data it receives and then decides which way to send it onward toward its destination.

Which of the following represents the TCP/IP four-layer reference model?

A peer-to-peer (P2P) network is a computer network that relies on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than a centralized server.

Wireless media are transmission material manufactured so that signals will be confined to a narrow path and will behave predictably.

FTP provides terminal emulation that allows a personal computer or workstation to act as a terminal, or access device, for a server.