Computer Networks

The internet has greatly improved the speed of communication, reducing latency by a factor of ___.

• million-fold
• thousand-fold
• hundred-fold
• billion-fold

Pre-1970, most computers operated ___.

• independently
• in networks
• in pairs
• with satellites

The first networks appeared primarily in ___.

• schools
• homes
• companies and research labs
• government offices

The term 'sneakernet' refers to the old method of transporting ___.

• emails
• video messages
• punch cards or magnetic tapes
• voice recordings

Networks allowed sharing of physical resources such as ___.

• printers
• keyboards
• monitors
• mice

Local area networks, or LANs, can cover an area as large as ___.

• a city
• a country
• a university campus
• the world

The most successful LAN technology developed in the early 1970s is ___.

• WiFi
• Bluetooth
• Token Ring
• Ethernet

Ethernet requires each computer to have a unique ___.

• IP address
• MAC address
• username
• password

The term for the approach where computers listen to a shared transmission medium is ___.

• DHCP
• DNS
• CSMA
• FTP

The rate at which data is transmitted over a carrier is called its ___.

• bandwidth
• latency
• frequency
• throughput