Chapter 1. Standards and Terminology

1. Define common networking terms for LANs and WANs.

2. Compare a file-and-print server with an application server.

3. Compare user-level security with access permission assigned to a shared directory on a server.

4. Compare a client/server network with a peer-to-peer network.

5. Compare the implications of using connection-oriented communications with connectionless communications.

6. Distinguish whether SLIP or PPP is used as the communications protocol for various situations.

7. Define the communication devices that communicate at each level of the OSI model.

8. Describe the characteristics and purpose of the media used in IEEE 802.3 and IEEE 802.5 standards.

9. Explain the purpose of NDIS and Novell ODI network standards.