Module1 - Introduction to Networking

Physical connection

Connecting expansion card to a network

Logical connection

Using standards that so-called protocols

Applications

Work with protocols to send & receive data

Application

Interpret data & display information

Transistor

Amplifies a signal or opens and closes a circuit

Integrated circuit (IC)

Device made of semiconductor material

Integrated circuit (IC)

Contains many transistors and performs a specific task.

Resistor

Device made of material that opposes the flow of electric current.

Capacitor

Electronic component that stores energy in the form of an electrostatic field

Printed circuit board (PCB)

A thin plate on which chips or integrated circuits and other electronic components are placed.

TCP/IP

_____ must be configured using the operating system tools

CD-ROM drive

Compact disk read-only memory drive, which is a device that can read information from a CD-ROM

Central processing unit (CPU)

The brains of the computer where most calculations take place

Floppy disk drive

A disk drive that can read and write to floppy disks.

Hard disk drive

The device that reads and writes data on a hard disk.

Microprocessor

A silicon chip that contains a CPU.

Motherboard

The main circuit board of a microcomputer

Bus

A collection of wires through which data is transmitted from one part of a computer to another

Random-access memory (RAM)

____ requires electrical power to maintain data storage

Read-only memory (ROM)

data has been prerecorded.

Read-only memory (ROM)

it cannot be removed and can only be read.

System unit

It includes the chassis, microprocessor, main memory, bus, and ports

Expansion slot

A socket located on the motherboard

• Ethernet

• Token Ring

• Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)

Protocols:

• Twisted-pair

• Coaxial

• Wireless

• Fiber-optic

Types of media:

• Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI)

• Industry Standard Architecture (ISA)

Type of system bus:

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)

_______ is a set of protocols or rules developed to allow cooperating computers to share resources

browser

Applications work in conjunction with the ____ to launch the program required to view special files

Flash

plays multimedia files, which was created by Macromedia Flash

QuickTime

plays video files, which was created by Apple

Real Player

plays audio files

binary digits, bits

These 1 and 0 are referred to as _____ or ____