Exam 7: Computer Networks, The Internet, and the World Wide Web

A technology called broadband has rapidly been replacing modems and analog phone lines for data communications to and from our homes, schools, and offices. _________________________

What is a protocol stack?

What do the Physical layer protocols govern? What do they specify? What is the goal of the Physical layer?

____ are systems that create communities of users who share common interests and activities and which provide multiple methods of online interaction.

A(n) ____ is the worldwide identification of a Web page located on a specific host computer on the Internet.

One of the most widely used standards for wireless local access is called ____.

The individual computers on the network are referred to as ____________________.

The Internet is a single computer network.

In the ____________________ topology all nodes are connected to a single shared communication line.

Explain what the function of a WWAN network is in the context of the transmission limitations of Wi-Fi.