Chapter Review Questions


You can find the answers to the following questions in Appendix A, "Answers to Chapter Review Questions."

1:

According to this book, what are the three major components of the Internet?

2:

Leased lines provide a service of forwarding bits, whereas Frame Relay provides a service of forwarding Frame Relay frames. With that same perspective, explain the service that the Internet supplies to hosts.

3:

What is different about the type of electrical signal sent over the local loop by a phone, versus a modem?

4:

What is different about the type of electrical signal sent over the local loop by a phone, versus a DSL modem?

5:

What two features of analog electrical signals, mentioned in this book, can a modem vary or change to encode a binary 0 or 1?

6:

Approximately what speed is the maximum transmission speed with modems?

7:

Approximately what speed is the maximum transmission speed with DSL modems when the distance from the home to the CO is relatively long?

8:

For DSL to work, the telco splits the data out from the voice using what kind of device?

9:

What does DSL stand for?

10:

What does modem stand for?

11:

Which of the three Internet access technologies covered in this chapter does not allow you to talk on the phone while using the Internet?

12:

What Layer 2 protocol is typically used when using a modem or DSL to connect to an ISP?




Computer Networking first-step
Computer Networking First-Step
ISBN: 1587201011
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 173
Authors: Wendell Odom

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