CS100 - Assignment 10 (Networking)
All the questions carry equal weight.
- What is the difference between the roles of a client and a server
in a network? Discuss several examples of client-server applications.
- Explain the star and bus LAN topologies and describe their
advantages and disadvantages.
- Explain how packet switching works. Explain the advantages and
possible disadvantages of packet switching.
- Describe the responsibility of the following protocols and
describe the hierarchy between them: FTP, TCP, IP.
- Explain how a host name is translated into an IP address and how a
bottleneck is avoided.
- Using a text editor write a short HTML document using the
following tags:
<HTML> </HTML> <CENTER> </CENTER> <B> </B> <P> </P> <UL> </UL> <LI> </LI>
Verify that you can successfully view the document you
created using a web browser.
- Explain the main idea in XML.
Gady Agam
2007-11-12