B

In this booklet (learning aim b) will cover the following things;

POP Point of presence

NAP Network Access Point

IP Internet Protocol

TCP Transmission Control Protocol

FTP File transfer Protocol

ISP Internet Service Provider

What is a client?
A client is a piece of computer hardware or so ware that accesses a service made
available by a server.
What is a host?
A computer that is connected to a TCP/IP network, including the Internet. Each
host has a unique IP address.
What does a client do?
A client is a piece of computer hardware or so ware that accesses a service made
available by a server. The server is o en (but not always) on another computer
system, in which case the client accesses the service by way of a network.
Whats the role of the server?
A server role is a set of so ware programs that, when they are installed and
properly configured, lets a computer perform a specific func on for mul ple
users or other computers within a network.

What is a hyperlink?
A hyperlink is a reference to data that the reader can directly follow either by
clicking or by hovering. A hyperlink points to a whole document or to a specific ele
ment within a document.
What is a web server?
A Web server is a program that, using the client/server model and the World Wide
Web's Hypertext Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ), serves the files that form Web pages to
Web users (whose computers contain HTTP clients that forward their requests).
What does the term html mean?
Hyper Text Markup Language, commonly referred to as HTML, is the standard
markup language used to create web pages.

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How does a search engine work?

1. A search engine has to find all the pages that are relevant to the search so, they
use crawlers to find them.
2. When the searcher performs a search on the internet; the search engine finds
and retrieves the documents that are relevant to the search and it also, ranks
those results according to the popularity of the websites serving the informa on. It
ranks those results according to the popularity of the websites providing the
informa on.
Spider

bot

Web crawler

Why are emails useful to a business?

The sender and recipient (s) of an email message do not have to be online at the
same me. When one person sends a message, it is stored on an email server. It
waits in store un l the recipient signs in, at which point the server forwards the
message to them. The system is known as a storeandforwardsystem.

What is the role of a search engine?

Search engines use automated so ware (known as robots or spiders) to follow
links on Websites, harves ng informa on as they go. When someone submits a
query to a search engine, the engine returns a list of sites, ranking them on their
relevance to the keywords used in the search.
Carbon copy (Cc)
In order to make copies of a le er or memo, a sheet of carbon paper was inserted
under the original version and a sheet of blank paper was placed under the car
bon paper. As a le er or memo was typed, a copied version would be transferred
via the carbon paper to the blank sheet of paper. This is located in your email.

Benefits & drawbacks of email

What is an address book?

An address book is a book used for storing entries called contacts.
What are a achments?
an extra part or extension that is or may be a ached to something to perform a
par cular func on.
What is meant by the term mul ple recipients?
Sending an email/a achment to mul ple people.

What are the benefits and drawbacks of using email?

250 Mbps
1000 Mbps
2.4 Gbps
4 Gbps
300 Gbps
Huge

Satellite

Defini ons:
Simplex transmissions
It allows data to travel one way.
Halfduplex transmissions
Allows communica on to go in two direc ons but, at dierent mes.

There is now a USB 3.0

which was created in No
vember 2008. the USB 3.0 is
faster and be er than USB
2.0 and the ones below. In
the tables below you will
see the improvements of
the USB when, it was first
created and now.

What is processing?
perform a series of mechanical
or chemical opera ons on
(something) in order to change
or preserve it.
Server side processing
it involves the computer to go
on a web page such as,
Google to perform searches.

What does a processor do? The

processor is like the brain of the
computer. All informa on goes to it
and it processes what needs to be
done. I.e. print, move the curser,
type this answer. Everything goes
through the processor.

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