MIS 376: Exam 2 Review

 

Below is a list of questions that cover several of the major topics covered in class.  Related questions will appear on the exam.  However, this list in not necessarily all-inclusive of the exam material.

 

·        Define a LAN, MAN, and WAN.

·        What is IEEE 802?

·        What is the primary function of a LAN.

·        Describe bus topology.

·        Describe wireless topology.

·        What do 10Base5, 5Base10, 10GBase-T, and 1Base5 mean?

·        What is the Ethernet 5-4-3 rule?

·        Give reasons to separate or connect one corporate division with another?

·        What are the attributes of a hub, switch, bridge, and router?

·        Describe full-duplex, half-duplex, and simplex.

·        What is the function of a router?

·        What is the function of an operating system?

·        Compare and contrast NetWare, Windows, Unix, and Linux.

·        What is the key characteristic of a network server?

·        Describe software licenses including single-user-multiple-station, Single-user-single-station, Site license, and Interactive user license (among others).

·        Define Network server, Media converter, and Thin client.

·        Describe the characteristics of MANs?

·        What is SONET ring technology?

·        Describe the following topologies star-wired bus, star-wired ring, wireless, and mesh.

·        Describe a the following WANs: circuit-switched , datagram packet-switched, virtual circuit packet-switched network, and broadcast.

·        Describe routing algorithms including Dijkstra’s least-cost algorithms and flooding.

·        What are hop count and hop limit and how and where are they used?