Ch 10 · Check Your Understanding · Theory

Topic 10 of 10 in Networks & Data Transmission — How Machines Talk — 4 lessons.

Transmission

Security

Addressing

Foundation Secured

You can now explain how bits travel (serial/parallel, duplex modes), how errors are caught (parity, checksum, check digit), how data is kept private (symmetric/asymmetric encryption), how networks and the internet are organised, what protocols and layers do, and how packet switching moves data resiliently.

All topics in Theory Networks-transmission

1. Sending Bits Down a Wire
2. Error Detection
3. Encryption
4. Networks & the Internet
5. Protocols
6. Packet Switching
7. Topologies & Addressing
8. The Web, Cyber-security & Digital Currency
9. Cloud Computing
10. Check Your Understanding