Communications & Networks: Credit Set 3

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Mr McGivern
Mrs Smith
Mr Carey
Mr Munro

Anytown High School use their Local Area Network to enhance communications throughout the school.
The school logo is to be disrtributed electronically to all teachers throughout the school. This will be done in one of two ways.
A. Sent as an attachment using Email.
B. Stored in a read/write shared area of the network that can be accessed by teachers and pupils.

What is an attachment? [KU] (1 point)

Describe one advantage of sending the logo as an attachment. [PS] (1 point)

Describe one disadvantage of distributing the logo via the shared area. [PS] (1 point)

Teachers are able to domnload freeware and shareware software onto their own machine on the network. Pupils cannot download software onto any machines.
How is the network setup to allow this situation to happen? [PS] (2 points)

What is freeware? [KU] (1 point)

What is shareware? [KU] (1 point)

The school has a series of laptops which are linked to the server via wireless technology. The desktop machines are all connected using cables.
Give two advantages of using wireless technology. [PS] (2 points)

Give two advantages of using cables. [PS] (2 points)

Outline the role of a server on the network. [KU] (1 point)

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