7 questions · 20 marks · ≈ 20 min
The concert venue uses an online booking system.
Which one of these is a role of a server?
Choose your answer
Handle requests from clients
Provide a wireless connection
Provide access to a WAN from a LAN
Store the client’s operating system
The venue promotes events on a website.
Gail uploads new images for the website.
Give two components of a wired network that are required to upload data.
Camille creates a home network.
Camille connects to a LAN.
Describe the role of a wireless access point.
Explain why Camille would use a filter in her network.
Which one of these is a hardware device that directs traffic between a LAN and a WAN?
Choose your answer
A Booster
Gateway
Hub
Server
Camille shares family photographs online with friends.
Which one of these provides content to client computers?
Choose your answer
ISP
LAN
Router
Server
Camille designs controllers for a games console.
State the device that forwards packets of data in a wide area network
Here is an Internet Protocol (IP) address.
State what the labelled parts of this address are used for.
Joe connects to different types of networks.
Joe connects to the Internet.
State the purpose of an ISP.
(1 mark)
Joe connects a laptop to a wireless access point.
State two additional components of a network required to connect the laptop to the Internet.
(2 marks)
Describe the role of a web browser when connecting to the Internet.
(2 marks)
(iv)
State one use of an IP address.
(1 mark)
(v)
Explain one benefit of using Media Access Control (MAC) rather than an IP address.
(2 marks)