1. List down the types of printer and explain briefly.

Dot-matrix - A type of printer that forms each character as a group of small

dots, using a group of wires located in the printing element. Also known as
dot character printer.
Laser printer - A printer that uses a laser to produce an image on a
rotating drum before electro statically transferring the image to paper.
2. What are the stages we need to know when troubleshooting laser printer?

Drum cleaning
Primary charge
Laser beam exposure
Developing
Transferring and Separation
Fusing

3. Why are we still using DOT matrix printer?

It have low cost of printing
It can print wide paper for the spreadsheet
It will not stop in the middle if the ink is running out
4. What types of ports or interface used to connect our printer and PC?
Parallel port
USB
5. What is PRINT server?
A computer or device that is connected to one or more printers and to client
computers over a network, and can accept print jobs from the computers and
send the jobs to the appropriate printers.
6. What is computer network?
When two or more computers that are connected with one another for the
purpose of exchanging data electronically. Two basic network types are local area
networks (LANs) and wide-area networks (WANs).

7. Why using computer network (advantages)? Also explain the disadvantages?

Advantages:
File Sharing
Resource sharing
Saving money
Avoid file duplication and corruption
Disadvantages:
Security Issue
Expensive set-up
Easy spread of virus
Network loss causes loss of data
8. Explain what is peer to peer and Server based network?
A peer to peer connection is a computer network in which all computers in the
network have identical capabilities. There is no server computer, with more
capabilities or authorities, than the other computers in the network.
A server-based network consists of a group of user-oriented PCs that request and
receive network services from specialized computers called server. Servers are
generally higher-performance systems, optimized to provide network services to
other PCs.
9. List down the operating system that use peer or server based network
Peer to peer:
Windows98
Windows 95
Windows XP
2000 Pro

Server based network:

2003

10. Explain briefly 5 different services used in computer network.

Local area network (LAN), which is usually a small network constrained to a
small geographic area.
Metropolitan area network (MAN), which is used for medium size area.
Examples for a city or a state.
Wide area network (WAN) that is usually a larger network that covers a
large geographic area.
Wireless LANs and WANs (WLAN & WWAN) are the wireless equivalent of
the LAN and WAN.
11. What do we need if we want to set up small LAN?
One Desktop
Router
Wire telephone
12. List down the network topology. Explain the advantages and disadvantages.
Bus topology
Advantages: It is easy to handle and implement.
Disadvantages: The cable length is limited.
Star topology
Advantages: Due to its centralized nature, the topology offers simplicity of
operation
Disadvantages: The network operation depends on the functioning of the central
hub.
Ring topology
Advantages: A central server is not required for the management of this topology.
Disadvantages: The failure of a single node of the network can cause the entire
network to fail.

 Mesh topology
Advantages: The arrangement of the network nodes is such that it is possible to
transmit data from one node to many other nodes at the same time.
Disadvantages: The arrangement wherein every network node is connected to
every other node of the network, many of the connections serve no major
purpose.
13. List down the networking devices used to create LAN and WAN.
Modem
Router
Bridge
Transmission Control Protocol
14. What media and connector used in BUS, STAR and RING topology?
BUS & STAR Uses HUB
RING MAU
15. What do meant by attenuation? How to reduce these effects?
The diminishing or reduction of something in thickness, density, or force occurs
naturally as in optical fibers allow light, sound, electrical signals and computer
data to be carried at the speed of light, but as the signals pass through other
objects, and begin to disperse a weakening of effect occur.
16. List down the bandwidth for all the topology in LAN.
Star Topology - 100Mbps, Bus Topology - 75Gps, Ring Topology - 75Gps.
17. What is Simplex, Half and Full Duplex?
Simplex One way communication.
Half Duplex Two way communications but it only go from transmitter to
receiver or receiver to transmitter. (e.g: walkie-talkie)
Full Duplex Two way communications. (e.g: telephone)

18. What is RAID?

RAID (redundant array of independent disks; originally redundant array of inexpensive disks)
is a way of storing the same data in different places (thus, redundantly) on multiple hard
disks. By placing data on multiple disks, I/O
(input/output) operations can overlap in a balanced way, improving performance. Since
multiple disks increase the mean time between failures (MTBF), storing data redundantly
also increases fault tolerance.
RAID-0: This technique has striping but no redundancy of data. It offersthe best
performance but no fault-tolerance.
RAID-1: This type is also known as disk mirroring and consists of at least two
drives that duplicate the storage of data. There is no striping. Read performance is
improved since either disk can be read at the same time. Write performance is
the same as for single disk storage.RAID-1 provides the best performance and the
best fault-tolerance in a multi-user system.
RAID-5: This type includes a rotating parity array, thus addressing the write
limitation in RAID-4. Thus, all read and write operations can be overlapped. RAID5 stores parity information but not redundant data (but parity information can be
used to reconstruct data). RAID-5requires at least three and usually five disks for
the array. It is best for multi-user systems in which performance is not critical or
which do few write operations.