2026 Exam Questions and
Correct Answers | New Update
CHAPTER 1: Introduction to Data Communications
First Industrial Revolution - ANSWER ✔✔-Introduction of machinery
-New organizational methods
-Changed the way people worked
Second Industrial Revolution (Information Age) - ANSWER ✔✔-
Introduction of computers
-Introduction of networking and data communication
, -Changed the way people worked again... ** Faster Communication -->
Collapsing Information Lag and it brought people together
(Globalization)
3 Parts to understanding Networking - ANSWER ✔✔1) Concepts of
Networking
-how data moves from one computer to another over a network
-theories of how networks operate
2) Technologies in use today
-how theories are implemented, specific products
-how do they work, their use, applications
3) Management of networking technologies
-Security
-Network design
-Managing the network
1984 Consent Decree - ANSWER ✔✔Divestiture of 1/1/84: RBOC's
-AT&T broken up into one long distance company and 7 Regional Bell
Operating Companies (RBOC's)