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

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.

Camille creates a home network.

Camille connects to a LAN.

Describe the role of a wireless access point.

Explain why Camille would use a filter in her network.

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

Camille shares family photographs online with friends.

Which one of these provides content to client computers?

Camille designs controllers for a games console.

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

Here is an Internet Protocol (IP) address.

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

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]

A company replaces the copper cables in its network with fibre optic cables.

Which one of these is an advantage of fibre optic cable over copper cable?

A small office connects eight computers in one room to a switch. The office uses copper network cable rather than fibre optic cable.

Explain one reason why the office uses copper cable.

Students bring tablets to school. The tablets have no network cable port.

Which one of these lets the tablets join the school's local area network (LAN)?

A hotel has four floors. The hotel fits a wireless access point (WAP) on every floor, rather than using one WAP for the whole building.

Explain one reason why.

Kofi is setting up a wireless access point (WAP) in a small office. Staff use laptops at desks all around the office.

Explain two factors Kofi should consider when deciding where to place the WAP.

Which one of these is the function of a router?

Mira sends an email. The data travels across the Internet in packets.

Describe how a router helps each packet reach its destination.

Which one of these connects several wired devices together in a local area network (LAN)?

Dara's family lives in a large house. The wireless access point is in the kitchen. Dara adds a booster to the network.

Explain how the booster improves the network.

Lior sets up a network in a workshop with two floors. Six desktop computers on the ground floor must be connected with cables. Staff use tablets on the upper floor, far from the wireless access point.

Explain how a switch and a booster would each help Lior's network.

A college network has several servers.

Give two types of server.

A school network has 30 computers and 3 printers. All print jobs are sent to a print server.

Explain one benefit of using the print server.

Devices on a network can be identified in different ways.

Which one of these describes an Internet Protocol (IP) address?

Sami uses the same laptop at home and at a library. The laptop has one IP address on the home network and a different IP address on the library network.

Explain why the laptop is given a different IP address on the library network.

A public library lets visitors use its network to access the Internet. Each visitor's device is given an IP address when it joins the network.

Explain two ways the library's network uses these IP addresses.

Every network interface card (NIC) has a Media Access Control (MAC) address.

Give two features of a MAC address.

Noor wants only their family's devices to be able to join their home network.

Describe how Media Access Control (MAC) addresses can be used to do this.

A college already uses Media Access Control (MAC) addresses to decide which laptops can join its network.

Explain two other ways the college's network manager could use the MAC addresses of the laptops.

A computer in a school can be identified on the school network in different ways.

Which one of these is a device name?

Rin wants to print a document from a laptop on their home network. A list of printers appears on the laptop's screen.

Explain one benefit to Rin of each printer having a device name.

A small office has twelve computers. Each computer has a device name, an IP address and a MAC address.

Explain two reasons why the network uses IP addresses or MAC addresses, rather than device names, to send data to the computers.

Tayo's new computer is connected to the internet through an internet service provider (ISP). The computer does not have a web browser installed.

Describe the role of a web browser.

Ama sets up a home network. The devices on the network can share files with each other, but they cannot open any websites.

Explain why Ama needs an Internet Service Provider (ISP).

Ari types some words into a search engine.

State what the search engine does with these words.

Jaya and Remy each use their own phone. They type exactly the same words into the same search engine, but they are shown different results.

Explain one reason why their results are different.

Tomi has just published a website for a small bakery. A week later, the website appears in the results when people search for 'fresh bread'.

Describe how the search engine finds the bakery's website and shows it in these results.

A school uses filter software to control which websites students can view.

Which one of these describes the block list (blacklist) used by the filter software?

A parent installs filter software on the family's home computer.

Describe how the filter software decides whether a web page can be shown.

A secondary school is deciding whether to use filter software on the computers that students use.

Discuss whether the school should use filter software.

In your answer you should consider:

• the safety of students

• students' research and learning

• how well the filter software works