Year 11 Computer Science ATAR: How networks communicate
Students learn how devices, addresses, packets, protocols, ports, DNS and HTTP carry data across wired and wireless networks.
One content description from the full WA Computer Science ATAR Year 11 — Cyber Security journey. All 15 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (15)
1
LAN and WAN
2
Network switch
3
Router
4
Wireless access point
5
IP address
6
What a MAC address is
7
Packet switching
8
The TCP/IP four-layer model
9
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
10
User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
11
Port numbers
12
Domain name server (DNS)
13
Purpose of HTTP
14
Wired transmission
15
Wireless transmission
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