Which term describes the amount of data that can be transferred over a network connection each second?
Bandwidth
What is meant by latency?
The delay between sending data and receiving a response
What is meant by 'megabits per second'?
A unit of network speed equal to one million bits per second
Which unit is used to measure the speed of a network connection?
Bits per second
What does the abbreviation Mbps stand for?
Megabits per second
A connection is described as having a high bandwidth. What does this mean?
A large amount of data can be sent each second
A connection has a bandwidth of 2 Gbps. How many bits per second is this?
2,000,000,000
A file size given in megabytes is multiplied by 8 before it is divided by the transmission rate in megabits per second. Why?
There are eight bits in one byte
A 40 MB file is downloaded over a 16 Mbps connection. How long does it take?
20 seconds
Which expression calculates how long a file takes to transfer?
File size in bits divided by transmission rate in bits per second
Which connection would transfer a large file in the shortest time?
1.2 Gbps
What is the name for how long it takes to send a document from one device to another over a network?
Transfer time
What is meant by 'gigabit per second'?
A unit of network speed equal to one billion bits per second
What is meant by 'kilobit per second'?
A unit of network speed equal to one thousand bits per second
A file of 60 MB is downloaded over a connection with a bandwidth of 40 Mbps. How long does the download take?
12 seconds
A player presses a key and the action on screen happens half a second later, even though the connection has a high bandwidth. What does this delay show?
The connection has a high latency
A 24 MB file is sent over a network in 16 seconds. What is the transmission rate in Mbps?
12 Mbps
A file takes 30 seconds to download over a 20 Mbps connection. What is the size of the file in megabytes?
75 MB
Two files are sent over the same connection. The second file is three times the size of the first. How does the transfer time compare?
The larger file takes three times as long
The same file is downloaded first over a 10 Mbps connection and then over a 40 Mbps connection. How does the second download compare?
It takes one quarter of the time
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