Question 1

Which of the following is not a LAN?

Accepted Answer

All are examples of a LAN except the Internet, which is a WAN.

Question 2

What enables telecommunications or the exchange of information (voice, text, data, audio, and video)?

Accepted Answer

Computer networks enable telecommunications or the exchange of information, such as voice, text, data, audio, or video.

Question 3

What spans a large geographic area such as a state, province, or country, similar to the Internet?

Accepted Answer

This is the definition of a wide area network (WAN).

Question 4

LBS differ from RFID in that an LBS cannot track and monitor objects such as inventory.

Accepted Answer

LBS can track and monitor objects similar to RFID.

Question 5

What is the largest and most important network that has evolved into a global information superhighway?

Accepted Answer

The largest and most important network that has evolved into a global information superhighway is the Internet.

Question 6

LANs, WANs, and MANs all provide users with an accessible and reliable network infrastructure.Which of the following are the most important network differentiating dimensions?

Accepted Answer

While LANs, WANs, and MANs all provide users with an accessible and reliable network infrastructure, they differ in many dimensions; two of the most important are cost and performance.

Question 7

Enhancing mobility is one of the greatest advantages provided by wireless networks.It allows activities that were formerly tied to physical locations to be performed almost anywhere.

Accepted Answer

Enhancing mobility is one of the greatest advantages provided by wireless networks, which allows activities that were formerly tied to physical locations to be performed almost anywhere.

Question 8

Wireless technology offers the opportunity to redesign and often complicates the workflow processes to be faster, yet more expensive, and more time-consuming.

Accepted Answer

Wireless technology offers the opportunity to redesign and simplify those processes to be faster, cheaper, and more responsive and to eliminate redundant activities, integrate activities, and services, and redistribute tasks.

Question 9

WLANs that use wi-fi have a built-in security mechanism called wi-fi protected access (WPA), a wireless security protocol to protect wi-fi networks.

Accepted Answer

This is the definition of a wi-fi protected access (WPA).

Question 10

Instant access to customer profiles, account history, and current order status significantly improves the quality of interactions with customers, suppliers, and business partners.

Accepted Answer

Instant access to customer profiles, account history, and current order status significantly improves the quality of interactions with customers, suppliers, and business partners.

Question 11

What services do telecommunications offer?

Accepted Answer

Telecommunications offers telephony services, satellite service, mobile radio, cable television, cellular phone services, and Internet access, both at the local and global levels.

Question 12

Which of the following offers a common example of a LAN?

Accepted Answer

A common example of a local area network (LAN) is an office, local city library, or home.

Question 13

What are the five elements that are needed to create a connected world or a network?

Accepted Answer

Categories, providers, access technologies, protocols, and convergence.

Question 14

What connects a group of computers in close proximity, such as in a school or office setting?

Accepted Answer

This is the definition of a local area network (LAN).

Question 15

Which of the following includes the three primary network types?

Accepted Answer

There are five kinds of networks: choice B includes three of the most common networks: (1) local area network (LAN), (2) wide area network (WAN), and (3) metropolitan area network (MAN).

Question 16

Which of the following offers an example of a WAN?

Accepted Answer

Examples of a wide area network (WAN) include large companies, government organizations, cities, regions, and countries around the world.

Question 17

The Internet is a hierarchical structure linking different levels of service providers whose millions of devices supply all the interconnections.The three levels outlined in the book from the top down include _____________________.

Accepted Answer

The Internet hierarchy levels from top to bottom are national service provider (NSP), regional service provider (RSP), and Internet service provider (ISP).

Question 18

What do you call a large computer network usually spanning a city or a specific infrastructure like a college?

Accepted Answer

This is the definition of a metropolitan area network (MAN).

Question 19

One of the main challenges of business mobility is protecting against theft.

Accepted Answer

One of the main challenges of business mobility is protecting against theft.

Question 20

With the power of a wireless network, business professionals can take advantage of mobility, allowing them to work from anywhere, at any time, using many different devices.

Accepted Answer

With the power of a wireless network, business professionals can take advantage of mobility, allowing them to work from anywhere, at any time, using many different devices.

Quiz 7: Networks: Mobile Business

Which of the following is not a LAN?

What enables telecommunications or the exchange of information (voice, text, data, audio, and video) ?

What spans a large geographic area such as a state, province, or country, similar to the Internet?

LBS differ from RFID in that an LBS cannot track and monitor objects such as inventory.

What is the largest and most important network that has evolved into a global information superhighway?

LANs, WANs, and MANs all provide users with an accessible and reliable network infrastructure.Which of the following are the most important network differentiating dimensions?

Enhancing mobility is one of the greatest advantages provided by wireless networks.It allows activities that were formerly tied to physical locations to be performed almost anywhere.

Wireless technology offers the opportunity to redesign and often complicates the workflow processes to be faster, yet more expensive, and more time-consuming.

WLANs that use wi-fi have a built-in security mechanism called wi-fi protected access (WPA), a wireless security protocol to protect wi-fi networks.

Instant access to customer profiles, account history, and current order status significantly improves the quality of interactions with customers, suppliers, and business partners.

What services do telecommunications offer?

Which of the following offers a common example of a LAN?

What are the five elements that are needed to create a connected world or a network?

What connects a group of computers in close proximity, such as in a school or office setting?

Which of the following includes the three primary network types?

Which of the following offers an example of a WAN?

The Internet is a hierarchical structure linking different levels of service providers whose millions of devices supply all the interconnections.The three levels outlined in the book from the top down include _____________________.

What do you call a large computer network usually spanning a city or a specific infrastructure like a college?

One of the main challenges of business mobility is protecting against theft.

With the power of a wireless network, business professionals can take advantage of mobility, allowing them to work from anywhere, at any time, using many different devices.