Exam 1: Lan/Wan Networking: an Overview

A ____ is typically the most complex type of network.

What is client/server computing?

A(n)____________________ is a system of computers, print devices, network devices, and computer software linked by communications cabling or radio waves.

The figure above illustrates resources in a(n)____________________.

Internetworking is the process of joining identical types of networks for mutual communications.

An example of a ____ network is network services offered by a telecommunications company or a cable TV company.

The Internet is an example of a ____.

A large WAN may have many constituent LANs and MANs on different continents.

In 1990, the US and Sweden implemented SS7 in telecommunications using a new technology called common channel signaling. List 5 services that were available in conjunction with telecommunications servers.

What is a gateway? What is a typical function of a gateway?

Most of the first computer networks transmitted data over ____.

Frames typically operate at the Network layer of the OSI model.

The E in EBCDIC stands for ____.

When getting specific, a frame represents information used in conjunction with ____ of the OSI model.

A bridge cannot connect LANs of one media type to LANs that use a different media type.

A WAN typically uses ____ communications.

In 1983 the separation of ARPANET and Milnet marked the arrival of the Internet.

What is a backbone?

The simplest WAN is a dial-up modem connected to a network provider's services over basic telephone lines.

____________________ is used to transmit a frame or packet from one Microsoft- or Novell-based LAN over the Internet to another LAN of the same type.