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What Is a Network?

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Set it as homework or classwork and every answer is marked as pupils go, with feedback on what they got wrong. The scores go straight into your mark book, so you can see who needs help before the next lesson.

  • 12 questions
  • 34 marks
  • about 50 minutes
  • marked instantly

Question types: multiple choice, true or false, short answer, fill the gap, label the diagram.

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Two or more computers can be joined together so they can work as a team. Which sentence best describes a computer network?

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About this resource

Standalone versus networked computers, the difference between a LAN and a WAN, why we connect computers, and the idea of nodes, clients and servers.

15 slides.

Lesson outline

  1. Hook — One Printer
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. Standalone — What It Is and What It Is Not
  5. Hinge Check — Standalone or Networked?
  6. Read This Network
  7. Task 1 (guided) — Sort the Networks
  8. Clients and Servers
  9. Check — Client or Server?
  10. Task 2 (semi-guided) — Read and Label the Network
  11. What a Full-Mark Answer Looks Like
  12. Task 3 (independent) — LAN, WAN or Standalone?
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