ITM 301 Final: ITM 301 FINAL EXAM PACKAGE

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 301
• Professor: Franklyn Prescod

Document Summary

Computer networks is a computer in which a large number of computers of separate but interconnected computers do the job. They can be connected through fibre optics, cooper cable, microwaves, infrared, and communication satellites. Distributed system are computer that are collection of independent computers but appear to users as a single coherent system. A layer of software on top of the operating system, middleware, is responsible for implementing this model. Example of the distributed system is the world wide web. Ways computer networking help companies: resource sharing is the make all the business applications, data and equipment available for everyone on the network. Such as printer, applications, customer records, inventories, and any information available. Vpn (virtual private networks) are used to join the individuals networks at different sites into one extended network. Allows individual to access information/data that is 15000 km away, it ends the tranny of geography .