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IS322 Week 5 Tutorial

Review Questions
1. What is a telecommunications protocol?
2. What are the names of the three primary frequency ranges employed in wireless communications?
3. Define the term computer network?
4. What advantages and disadvantages are associated with the use of client/server computing?
5. What is NFC and what is its’ use?
6. What is the difference between Wi-Fi and WiMAX communications?
7. What role do the bridge, router, gateway, and switch play in a network?
8. What is a metropolitan area network?
9. Identify two approaches to securing the transmission of confidential data.
10. What is IoT?

Discussion Questions
1. How might you use a local area network in your home? What devices could connect to such a
network?
2. Why is an organization that employs centralized processing likely to have a different management
decision-making philosophy than an organization that employs distributed processing?
3. What are the pros and cons of public Wi-Fi access?
4. Briefly discuss the pros and cons of e-mail versus voice mail. Under what circumstances would you use
one and not the other?
5. What is a shared workspace? Describe how you might use a shared workspace if you were the
manager of an important global project for your organization.
6. Develop a set of criteria to use to determine if a given job position is a good candidate for
telecommuting.
7. Do you think that this course is a good candidate for a distance learning course? Why or why not?
8. Why do you think so many wireless communications protocols have been developed? Will the
number of protocols increase or decrease over time?
Web Exercise
1. Use one of your favourite search engines (preferably www.google.com) and search on the following
emerging technologies.
A. IoT
 Discuss one example of IoT that can be implemented in the developing countries of the
Pacific.
 Discuss benefits of using IoT.
 Discuss challenges facing the adoption of intelligent actions within IoT.

B. Cloud Computing
 Discuss one example of Cloud Computing that is widely used in the developing countries of
the Pacific.
 Identify the different types of Cloud computing.
 Discuss benefits of using Cloud Computing.
 Discuss the disadvantages of using Cloud Computing.

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