Mis Chapter 7

Chapter 7 Telecommunications, the Internet, and Wireless Technology

1) Telephone networks are fundamentally different from computer networks.
Answer: TRUE

2) Increasingly, voice, video, and data communications are all based on Internet technology.
Answer: TRUE

3) To create a computer network, you must have at least two computers.
Answer: TRUE

4) An NOS must reside on a dedicated server computer in order to manage a network.
Answer: FALSE

5) A hub is a networking device that connects network components and is used to filter and forward data to specified destinations on the network.
Answer: FALSE

6) In a client/server network, a network server provides every connected client with an address so it can be found by others on the network.
Answer: TRUE

7) Central large mainframe computing has largely replaced client/server computing.
Answer: FALSE

8) Circuit switching makes much more efficient use of the communications capacity of a network than does packet switching.
Answer: FALSE

9) A protocol is a standard set of rules and procedures for the control of communications in a network.
Answer: TRUE

10) Two computers using TCP/IP can communicate even if they are based on different hardware and software platforms.
Answer: TRUE

11) In a ring topology, one station transmits signals, which travel in both directions along a single transmission segment.
Answer: FALSE

12) Coaxial cable is similar to that used for cable television and consists of thickly insulated copper wire.
Answer: TRUE

13) Fiber-optic cable is more expensive and harder to install than wire media.
Answer: TRUE

14) The number of cycles per second that can be sent through any telecommunications medium is measured in kilobytes.
Answer: FALSE

15) The Domain Name System (DNS) converts IP addresses to domain names.
Answer: FALSE

16) VoIP technology delivers video information in digital form using packet switching.
Answer: TRUE

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