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Networking Basics
Learning Outcomes
• Be able to compare local area networking with standalone operation.
• Describe the operations of bus, ring and star networks and compare the advantages and disadvantages
• Be able to compare local area networking with standalone operation.
Network Basics
• What is a ‘stand alone’ computer?
• What is a network?
• Why would someone want to create a network instead of having a group of stand alone computers?
Network Topology
What are the names of the three main types of network?
Your Task
You will need to create a 4 slide presentation, one for each type of network and one summary. One each slide you should have • Advantages, • Disadvantages• Hardware required• Diagram of each
Task 2
• You will need to describe these terms;– Each of the items of hardware included in a
network– Network segment (why are local-area networks
based on a bus topology are segmented?)– Peer-to-peer networking– Server-based networking– The differences between an networked
computer and stand alone computer (including advantages and disadvantages of each)