VP Network Definitions

A network of connected computers on one site

• WAN

• DAN

• LAN

• PAN

A network where the computers are remote from each other and telecommunications are used to communicate between them

• LAN

• DAN

• PAN

• WAN

What British astronaut spent 195 days in space recently?

• Tim Peake

• Tom Peake

• Tim Sneak

• Tom Snape

A huge group of networks joined together

• Intranet

• Extranet

• Internet

• WWW

A private network used within an organisation that makes use of internet technology

• Intranet

• Extranet

• Internet

• WWW

Hardware device that is able to make the decision about the path that an individual packet of data should take so that it arrives in the shortest possible time

• Bridge

• Switch

• Router

• Gateway

It stores the MAC addresses of devices on a network and filters data packets to see which devices have asked for them.

• Bridge

• Switch

• Router

• Gateway

The device / software that translates between two different types of computer networks (for example between a WAN and a LAN).

• Bridge

• Switch

• Router

• Gateway

Used to connect two separate LAN networks.

• Bridge

• Switch

• Router

• Gateway

In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig

• True

• False