ITM 301 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: User Datagram Protocol, Simple Network Management Protocol, Remote Desktop Protocol

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 301
• Professor: Nurul Huda

Document Summary

A network is a group of computers and other devices that are connected by some type of transmission media. It can be as small as 2 computers connected by a cable or as large as the internet. They might communicate through copper wires, fiber-optic cable, or radio waves. The resources a network makes available to its users include apps and the data provided by these apps. These resources are referred to as network services. The 1st, a client computer, requests data or a service from the 2nd computer, called the server. i. e. using a web browser to request a web page. These networked devices use methods and rules for communication know as protocols. The following are several popular client-server apps used on networks and the internet: web service it serves up webpages to clients. The primary protocol used by web servers and browsers (clients) is http (hypertext transfer protocol).