Questions

Chapter 1: Computer Networking

1. What do you mean by Computer Networking?

2. What is a computer network?
3. ________is an example of global network.
4. The computers within a network can function
independently: True or False?
5. Name any five hardware/peripheral devices.
6. What is a node?
7. Name any four devices by which computers in the network
may be linked.
8. What is the need for a computer network?
9. Write five major advantages of a computer network.
10. Name the five components of a network. Briefly describe
them.
11. A message is the ______which needs to be transferred from
one computer to another.
12. What is a server?
13. What is a dedicated server?
14. What is a print server?
15. What is a network server?
16. What is a database server?
17. What is a web server?
18. What is a client? Explain with the help of an example.
19. Computer A does not have Microsoft Word installed.
Instead, it creates a Google Doc, which it shares with
another computer, B. Both computers A and B have internet
access. In this scenario, computers A and B are considered
________, while Google serves as the _______ here.
20. Differentiate between the internet and intranet.
21. Is it true or false that an intranet is a network accessible to
the public connected to the internet?
22. Write the full forms of:
a. URL
b. ISP
c. IP
d. BSNL
 e. MTNL
f. DNS
g. WWW
h. HTML
i. Bps
j. bps
k. Mbps
l. Kbps
m.NIC
n. Modem
o. LAN
p. MAN
q. PAN
r. WAN
s. CAN (Write the other two full forms-pg14-tech fact)
t. GPS
u. HTTP
v. HTTPS
w. FTP
x. TCP/IP
y. POP3
z. IMAP
aa. SMTP

23. Give two examples of URLs.

24. What do you understand by ISP? Name some ISP.
25. What is an IP address? Give its two functions.
26. How are IP addresses written?
27. What is DNS? What is the domain name of the URL
www.qmssaltlake.org?
28. How are the web pages created?
29. Differentiate between a website and a web portal.
[A website is a collection of web pages under one domain, while a web portal
offers a range of services like email, news, and search, serving as an internet
gateway. For instance, Wikipedia.org is a website with articles, while
Yahoo.com is a portal providing email, news, and search features.]

30. A web portal is a website that often acts as a _______ to the

internet.
31. What is a hypertext?
32. Define the link.
33. What is the difference between a link and a hyperlink?
34. How does a hyperlinked text usually look different from
normal text in a Web page?
35. What do you mean by bandwidth? What are the various
types of bandwidth?
36. Name the six devices required for a network. Explain them
briefly.
37. What is also known as an Ethernet cable?
38. Define modulation.
39. Define demodulation.
40. State the location of a router.
41. Write the function of a hub or a switch.
42. What are the various types of networking cables?
43. How many types of networks are present? Name them and
explain briefly.
44. What are used to connect computers to the LAN?
45. What can be used as a transmission medium in WAN?
46. What is topology? What are the five types of topologies?
47. What are the major disadvantages of topologies?
48. What are the two types of network architecture?
49. What networking technology uses electromagnetic waves
for transmission of the data?
50. State the factors on which the choice of the technology
depends.
51. What is the difference between Wi-fi and Bluetooth?
52. Name the two types of wireless technologies.
53. Name the latest version of Bluetooth. How is it providable
to us?
54. Define protocol.
55. Name the different types of protocols.
56. What is ICANN?
57. How is the traffic on the internet caused approximately?
58. Who first introduced the concept of a PAN? What was it
later supported by?