Unit 1 Assignment
IT 273 Networking Concepts
Assignment Part 1
Answer and provide a brief explanation to the following five questions:
A Star topology uses a hub or a switch to connect all the network connections to a single physical location.
Bus
Ring
Star
Mesh
In a Client/Server network, each host can provide network resources to other hosts or access resources located on other hosts.
Client/server
Meshed
Routed
Peer-to-peer
A Personal Area Network is a very small network used for communicating between personal devices.
Local Area Network
Wireless Local Area Network
Personal Area Network
Metropolitan Area Network
What type of network is public because virtually anyone can connect to it, and users or organizations make services freely available?
The Internet is a public type of network that allows almost anyone to connect to it and users to make their services freely available to anyone who wants it.
Peer-to-peer
Client/server
Internet
Extranet
Protocols are rules or standards that describe how hosts communicate and exchange data.
Protocols
Subnet
TCP/IP
OSI Model
Assignment Part 3