Personalised Feedback Sheet for IGCSE Section 4 - Networks

Name: Joshua Leary

Target grade: D
General feedback/class needs:
There was a lot of material covered in this unit from the definition of a network,
to LANs, WANs, WLANs, network hardware, security, authentication methods,
video conferencing, Fax, Email and the Data Protection Act. This meant that there
really wasnt anywhere to hide if you didnt do your revision. Unfortunately for
many of you, this was your problem in this test. If you look back over the lessons
you did:

Notes from each topic

Multiple practise exam questions
Revision lessons

Worse you all went over the correct answers in class and you also had access
to ALL past exam questions, answers and revision material on my site, so even if
you didnt get it the first time you couldve improved by doing some revision.
Those who didnt do so well also fell in to the same old traps:

Not reading the question or relating to it in your answer

Giving short or one word answers when you need to explain yourself!

These three things should now be considered so basic that no one is making
these mistakes. There is no magic formula for passing a test and no one is just
better than you, it all comes down to how much work youve done and are
prepared to do. If you are able to sit yourself down, practise questions from my
site and test yourself then you stand a chance of doing seriously well.
Finally, you have GOT to stop talking about hackers in your answers! It seems
that as soon as one of you is unsure of an answer you revert to itll get
hacked!!! This is NEVER going to be an exam answer so please, stop using it
unless I explicitly tell you that its ok.
Your performance:
Marks: 27/54
Percentage: 50%
Grade: D
Your personal targets:
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3.

Read the question properly

Dont rush
Revise all the work

Challenge/Extension
Copy out and answer questions 2, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 14 from the test, with
their full and correct answers.

2) Explain the difference between a lan and a wlan , giving an advantage and a
disadvantage of a wlan
A lan is local area network and which is caballed and reaches a small area. Wlan
doesnt have cables and is wireless area network. An advantage of a wlan is that
is cheaper because less cables and a disadvantage is its slower and can be
interrupted.
7) Give two advantages and two disadvantages of having computers networked
Advantage 1 you can share printers and hardware
2- You can communicate
Disadvantage 1 The connection can be slow
Disadvantage 2 viruses are easily spread
8) Describe encryption
Scrambles the data and a using an encryption key to read it or encode it and if
the gets intercepted they wont understand it
9) Describe the role of a proxy server when a lan is connected to the internet
Stores copies of frequently accessed web pages and can be used to block we
pages and used to monitor peoples use of type internet and local cash of web
pages
11 describe four differences between the intranet and the internet
Intranet is private
Internet is accessed by everyone
Internet is networks of networks
Intranet belongs to an organization
12 Give two advantages and two disadvantages of using a mobile phone rather
than a pc
Ad 1 portable
Ad 2 you have with you all the time
Dis 1 smaller screen
Dis 2 might lose your phone
13 give three advantages of video conferencing
Dont have to spend money in travelling
You can call meetings at short notice
Dont have to travel
Give disadvantages of video conferencing
Cost of hardware

Lose your connection

Cant physically show models