Assignment: Computer Network

1.) What is a MS Outlook?

Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook) is a persona information manager from Microsoft, and is part of the Microsoft Office suite. ---Although often used mainly as an e-mail application, it also provides a calendar, task and contact management, note taking, and a journal.---It can be used as a stand-alone application, but can also operate in conjunction with Microsoft Exchange Server to provide enhanced functions for multiple users in an organization, such as shared mailboxes and calendars, public folders and meeting time allocation.

2.) What is a MS Outlook Express?

Microsoft Outlook Express is an e-mail and news client bundled with certain versions of Microsoft Windows starting with Windows 95 OSR-2. It is bundled with the Internet Explorer 4.0 web browser by Microsoft (also bundled with some versions of Windows), and also available as a no-charge download for the classic Apple Macintosh operating system (although not for the newer Mac OS X, where it has been replaced by Microsoft Entourage, which is sold as part of Microsoft Office for Macintosh).---Outlook Express is the successor of Microsoft Internet Mail and News, an early e-mail client add-on for Internet Explorer 3.0.---In October 2005, Microsoft announced that the next version of Outlook Express (to be released with Windows Vista) would be renamed as Windows Mail. Microsoft is also developing Windows Live Mail Desktop, a replacement for Outlook Express on Windows XP and Vista that will feature a super-set of Windows Mail's features.

3.) What is a MS Exchange Server?

Microsoft Exchange Server is a messaging and collaborative software product developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Windows Server System line of server products and is widely used by enterprises using Microsoft infrastructure solutions. Exchange's major features consist of electronic mail, shared calendars and tasks, and support for mobile and web-based access to information, as well as supporting very large amounts of data storage.

Chapter 1 Review Questions
Computer Network
score:19
answer:

1.) a. Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)
2.) b. Windows 95c. Windows 98
3.) b. Peer-to-peer network
4.) a. Medium
5.)b. Network Interface Card (NIC)
6.) a. Easy to installb. Inexpensivec. User-managed resources
7.) TRUE
8.) a. LAN
9.) b.MANc. WAN
10.) a. LAN
11.) c. WAN
12.) a. Nodes
13.) b. Communications serversc. File and print serversd. Application servers
14.) c. Peer-to-Peerd. Client-peer
15.) d. protocol
16.) a. A peer-to-peer network requires dedicated hardware andspecialized software.
17.) a. Share
18.) c. Peripheral devices
19.) TRUE
20.) TRUE
21.) a. Administrator
22.) e. None of the above
23.) c. Server-based
24.) TRUE
25.) a. Specialized servers
26.) d. Combination network
27.) a. RAMc. Faster CPUd. More CPU's
28.) e. All of the above
29.) e. All of the above
30.) b. Storage-area network