ETCS 680 NETWORKING TECHNOLOGY FOR INDUSTRY ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT 1
OVERVIEW OF COMPUTERS
1. What are the five functions of a digital computer?
2. What is the definition of a computer?
3. What are the advantages of a computer? Describe each advantage.
4. What are the disadvantages of a computer? Describe each disadvantage.
5. What is computer networking used for in the following applications:
a. Business
b. Banking
c. Insurance
d. Education e. Marketing
f. Health Care g. Engineering Design
h. Military
i. Communication
j. Government
6. Briefly describe the five generations of computers.
7. Classify computers by their speed and computing power.
8. List the five basic operations that a computer uses to convert raw data into information.
9. What are the four features of the CPU?
10. What ate the three components of the CPU?
11. List five input devices used in a computer.
12. Describe the popular output devices used in a computer.
13. Describe the three types of computer memory.
14. Distinguish between static and dynamic RAM.
15. What are the four types of ROMs?
16. What are the advantages of ROM?
17. Why is the motherboard called the backbone of the computer?
18. What are the four main features of the motherboard?
19. Distinguish among the following main memory storage units:
a. Bit (Binary Digit) b. Nibble
c. Byte
d. Word
20. What is a computer port?
21. Define computer hardware and list three examples.
22. If the hardware is the _______ of a computer system, then the software is its ______.
23. Define computer software and describe the two types of computer software.
24. Contrast data and information for computers.
25. What is data processing?
26. Define a computer network and discuss its characteristics.
27. What is the hardware necessary to set up a network?
28. List the objectives of a Computer Operating System.
29. List the characteristics of a Computer Operating System.
30. Distinguish between the internet and the intranet. Compare the similarities and differences of the internet and intranet.
What Is Computer Networking?
1. What are the hardware and software components of computer networking?
2. Describe the two main types of computer networks?
3. What is necessary to create wireless versions of computer networks?
Calculating TCP Throughput
a) Compute the TCP Throughput if the TCP window size is 64 kB and the RTT (Round Trip
Time) is 400 ms.
b) What is the maximum latency you can have between these two servers to achieve 5 Gbps?
