Requirements for Connecting to a Network (Edexcel IGCSE ICT): Exam Questions

Exam code: 4IT1

20 mins7 questions
11 mark

The concert venue uses an online booking system.

Which one of these is a role of a server?

  • Handle requests from clients

  • Provide a wireless connection

  • Provide access to a WAN from a LAN

  • Store the client’s operating system

22 marks

The venue promotes events on a website.

Gail uploads new images for the website.

Give two components of a wired network that are required to upload data.

3a2 marks

Camille creates a home network.

Camille connects to a LAN.

Describe the role of a wireless access point.

3b2 marks

Explain why Camille would use a filter in her network.

41 mark

Which one of these is a hardware device that directs traffic between a LAN and a WAN?

  • A Booster

  • Gateway

  • Hub

  • Server

51 mark

Camille shares family photographs online with friends.

Which one of these provides content to client computers?

  • ISP

  • LAN

  • Router

  • Server

6a1 mark

Camille designs controllers for a games console.

State the device that forwards packets of data in a wide area network

6b2 marks

Here is an Internet Protocol (IP) address.

State what the labelled parts of this address are used for.

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78 marks

Joe connects to different types of networks.

Joe connects to the Internet.

State the purpose of an ISP.

[1]

Joe connects a laptop to a wireless access point.

State two additional components of a network required to connect the laptop to the Internet.

[2]

Describe the role of a web browser when connecting to the Internet.

[2]

(iv)

State one use of an IP address.

[1]

(v)

Explain one benefit of using Media Access Control (MAC) rather than an IP address.

[2]