Assignment No.

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Due Date: 22 December 2015

True/False
1. A communications channel is the media on which data, instructions or information travel.
2. With video messaging, users can send short video clips, usually about 15 minutes, in addition to all
picture messaging services.
3. A network is a collection of computers and devices connected together via communications devices
and transmission media.
4. A local area network (LAN) is a network that covers a large geographic area using a
communications channel that combines many types of media such as telephone lines, cables and
radio waves.
5. A web server is a computer that delivers requested Web pages to your computer.
6. An intranet is an internal network that uses Internet technologies.
7. Bluetooth does not require line-of-sight transmission.
8. Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) user fibre-optic cable to provide extremely high-speed Internet access
to a users physical permanent location.
9. Latency is the time it takes a signal to travel from one location to another on a network.
10. A wireless LAN is a LAN that uses physical wires
11. An intranet is an internal network that uses video conferencing technologies.
12. In a client/server network, servers on the network access resources on the client

Short Answer

1. How are a local area network (LAN), a metropolitan area network (MAN), and a wide area
network (WAN) different?

2. What is wireless LAN?

3. What is a network topology?

4. Differentiate between Internet, Intranet and Extranet.

Reading Assignment
Chapter 5: Storing Data

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