A Network

Two or more connected computers that can share resources.

Local Area Network

A _____ is usually restricted to spanning a particular geographic location like an office building, or a home office.

Workgroups

To make administration easier, LAN's can be split into smaller logical zones known as what?

Workstations

_______ are often seriously powerful computers that run more than one CPU and whose resources are available to other users on the network to access when needed.

Network Operating System

Servers run specialized software for the network's maintenance and control known as what?

Peer-to-Peer

What type of network is characterized by a lack of a dedicated server?

n(n-1)/2

What is the formula for determining the number of links in a mesh network.

Star topology

Which physical network topology can use a wireless access point as a connecting device.

 Only that work station loses its ability to communicate

In a physical-star topology, what happens when a workstation loses its physical connection to another device/

Mesh

Which type of topology has the greatest number of physical connections?

VLAN

What is a logical grouping of networks and resources connected to administratively defined ports on a switch?

A client machine

Any device on the network that can ask for access to resources from a workstation is called what?

Distributed WAN

An internetwork thats made up of a lot of interconnected computers located in a lot of different places is also known as what?

Physical topology

Defines the specific characteristics of a network, such as where all the workstations and other devices are located, and the precise arrangement of all the physical media, like cables.

Logical topology

Determines how data moves throughout a network.

Fault Tolerance

The capability of a computer or a network system to respond to a condition automatically, often resolving it, which reduces the impact on the system.

Point-to-Multipoint Topology

This topology consists of a sucession of connections between an interface on one router to multiple destination routers. One point of connection to multiple points of connection

Point-to-point topology

what type of network topology do you have a direct connection between two routers, giving you one communication path. The routers can either be linked by a serial cable, making it a physical network, or be far apart and only connected by a circuit within a frame relay network, making it a logical network.

BUS

Which LAN topology is characterized by all devices being daisy-chained together with the devices at each end being connected to only one other device.?