- Types of network:
- Local Area Network (LAN)
- Wide Area Network (WAN)
- Factors that might affect the performance of networks
- The different roles of computers in a client-server and a peer-to-peer network
- The hardware needed to connect stand-alone computers into a LAN:
- wireless access points
- routers
- switches
- Card (NIC)
- transmission media
- The Internet as a worldwide collection of computer networks:
- Domain Name Server (DNS)
- hosting
- The Cloud
- web servers and clients
- Star and mesh network topologies