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CODI :46022191

CONSELLERIA D’EDUCACIÓ,
OPI 2022/23

CHALLENGE 3. NETWORKS

1. Networks are divided according to their size into local personal area (PAN), local area
network (LAN), metropolitan area network (MAN) and wide area network (wan). Briefly
explain each of them.

- PAN: Personal Area Networks is the smallest of networks to interconnect devices


centered on a single-person workstation. (Bluetooth)

- LAN: cover specific short-range geographic areas (home, house, office…) physical
connections can be made, including printers, routers and other computers. LAN port by
Ethernet or USB.

- MAN: provide connectivity to cities and towns transporting all voice and data traffic
between buildings via its own MAN.

- WAN: is a network existing in a single large geographic region also covers a country or a
group of countries.

2. Depending on their level of access or privacy, networks are divided into internet,
intranet or extranet. Explain briefly each of them.

- Internet: is a global collection of computer networks know as the world wide web,
accessible by anyone.
- Intranet: An intranet is a network where people can communicate, collaborate and
develop the company's business.
- Extranet: An extranet provides controlled access to authorized customers, suppliers,
partners or others outside the company.

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3. What is the Internet Protocol (IP)?

Makes actions and formats data so that two or more devices can communicate and
understand each other, even if they are in different countries or parts of the world.

4. What is a Public IP address and what is a Private IP address?

- The public IP address is a single number that identifies our network from the outside.
How to find it? In a browser of Google or other surfed, write “who is my IP”.
- The private IP address is a singular number that identifies a device connected to our
internal network.
How to find it? In a browser of Windows, write a “cmd”, press Enter and the next screen
write “ipconfig”.

Self-knowledge

5. What is a gateway?
A gateway is a service, device or proxy that acts as an intermediary that accepts, transforms,
routes and manages protocol traffic to Internet servers.

6. What is the netmask?


A netmask is a fundamental part of network configuration that defines the part of an IP
address that corresponds to the network and the part that corresponds to the devices that can
connect to a network.

7. Meaning of DNS

The Domain Name System (DNS) is the telephone directory of the Internet. Users access
online information using domain names.
DNS translates these names into IP so that browsers can load Internet resources.

Webography consulting:

- www.udoe.es (Exercise 1)

- www.axerosolutions.com (Exercise 2 and 3)


- www.cloudflare.com (Exercise 5, 6 and 7)

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