26. OCR GCSE (J277) 1.3 LAN hardware

Lily, Anaya, and Elsie are setting up a home network. They need a device to connect their computers to the network. What is another name for this device, also known as a network interface controller?

• Network interface card

• Switch

• Router

• Wireless access point

Jacob, Poppy, and Aarav are at a coffee shop. They want to use their laptops but there are no available ports to plug in their ethernet cables. What device in the coffee shop allows them to connect their laptops to the internet without using cables?

• A device that connects them to a wired network

• A wireless access point

• A device that allows them to access the internet without a router

• A device that extends the range of a wide area network

Imagine Ava, Muhammad, and Freya are setting up a network for their school project. They are using a switch to connect their devices. How does the switch learn where each of their devices are on the network?

• By using the network interface card address on each device

• By broadcasting the packets to all connections

• By using the IP address on each device

• By reading the to address on each packet

Mira, Aarav, and Kiara are setting up a network for their school's computer lab. What would be the main function of a router in their network setup?

• To segment the network by directing traffic to the correct computer in the lab

• To provide a wired connection back to a switch in the computer lab

• To send data between computers in the school's local area network

• To connect the school's local area network to the internet (a wide area network)

Henry, Anaya, and Isabelle are setting up a computer lab. They need to connect the desktop computers to a switch. What type of cable should they typically use?

• Coaxial cable

• Fibre-optic cable

• Unshielded twisted pair copper cable

• CAT5 cable

Aarav, Florence, and Thomas are setting up a network for their new startup. They are debating whether to use fibre-optic cables or copper cables. Thomas argues that fibre-optic cables have a main advantage over copper cables. What is it?

• They are cheaper

• They are more flexible

• They have a higher bandwidth

• They suffer from less interference

Rohan, Henry, and Arthur are working on a school project about the internet. They are discussing what the backbone of the internet is made of. What do you think they concluded?

• Fibre-optic cables

• Coaxial cables

• CAT6 cables

• Unshielded twisted pair copper cables

Neha, Priya, and Florence are setting up a wireless network for their new startup. What should be their main concern?

• Reliability

• Interference

• Security

• Low bandwidth

Aarav is setting up a home network for his family. He is using a network interface controller to connect his device to the internet. What does Aarav's network interface controller use to govern communication between his device and the connected media?

• Protocol

• IP address

• Bandwidth

• Router

Poppy, Arthur, and Rohan are setting up a local area network for their school's computer lab. What would be the main purpose of including a switch in their setup?

• To provide a wired connection back to the school's router

• To send data between the school's network and the internet

• To segment the network in the lab by sending traffic to the correct computer

• To connect the computers in the lab to a wireless network