Fall, 1998 Review for Mid-term Exam

Major Topics
• Base 16 math
• Signal modulation
• USENET history, operation, and conventions
• Internet applications
• Internet governance & history
• Local Area Networks
  • Ethernet
  • ATM
  • misc LANs such as FDDI, Token Ring
• Simple html such as described in first five chapters of HTML textbook, including
  html file format
  • lists
  • text styles
  • headings
  • anchors and links

Major Skills
• Number operations: hex, binary, dotted decimal
• Calculating parity bit
• Finding RFC on Internet
• Searching for something on Internet
• Creating an HTML document
• Interpreting an ethernet, IP, TCP/UDP packet