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Nt1330 Unit 1 Study Guide

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1. What is the difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web?
A: Internet: Internet means the network of networks that connected to all networks around the world. For an instance, if you send an email or a message using your mobile phone, then your mobile phone uses internet. World Wide Web: World Wide Web is a collection of all web pages on the network of computers, where the browsers of computer uses internet.
2. What is the difference between a WAN and a LAN? Which type of network is the Internet? Which type of network is the classroom network?
A: LAN: LAN stands for Local Area Network. LAN is a network which cover a small area like colleges, schools or buildings. Ex: Rivier class room …show more content…

Give examples of specific technologies that enable telecommuters and virtual team.
A: These are the technologies enables telecommuters and virtual team: Beacons, Smoke signals, Semaphore telegraphs, Signal flags, Optical heliographs.
12. What are the six OSI layers and what are their purposes?
A: OSI stands for Open System Interconnection. The main aim of the OSI layer is to implement protocols of a networking framework.

OSI layers: 1: Physical layer: The purpose of the physical layer is it deals with the hardware components, like cads and cables for sending and receiving data of a carrier. Ex: Ethernet, FDDI 2: Data Link Layer: It take care of errors in physical layer. The main aim of the data link layer is to controls the flow of frame synchronization and transmission protocol. The data link layer divided in to two types. They are Media Access Control (MAC) and Logical Link Control (LLC). Ex: ATM, PPP, IEEE 802.5/802.2 3: Network Layer: The use of network layer is switching and routing technologies. It demonstrates logical path and virtual circuits for transferring data from one node to

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