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Question 16

A series of automated environmental sensors upload weather data to a central platform.

Complete the description of how this network system operates using the given list of terms. Not all terms will be used.

  • 0
  • 255
  • FFFF
  • Clients
  • Colon
  • Domain Name Server
  • Full stop
  • Hexadecimal
  • Local Area Network
  • MAC address
  • Router
  • Switch
  • Web server
  • Wide Area Network

The central platform is hosted on a .......... . The smartphone apps used by meteorologists to query this platform are acting as .......... .

To connect to the platform, the app sends a request containing a human-readable address. A .......... is used to translate this address into an IP address.

Due to the exhaustion of older address pools, the network uses IPv6. An IPv6 address is written as eight groups of .......... digits. Each group of digits can have a value between .......... and .......... . These groups are separated from one another by a .......... .

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Wired and wireless networks, protocols and layers Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /Computer Science
  3. /Wired and wireless networks, protocols and layers

54 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Computer Science Wired and wireless networks, protocols and layers. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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