T-Level DigitalYears 12–13Digital Support Services

IT infrastructure — networks, servers, storage

T-Level: Digital Support Services: IT infrastructure — networks, servers, storage

What you'll learn

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    Think of a school's computer network like a pizza delivery system 🍕. The kitchen (server) makes the pizzas, the delivery drivers (network cables/Wi-Fi) bring them to your house (your computer), and the fridge (storage) keeps extra ingredie…

  2. 2

    What is the kitchen (server) in our pizza network analogy?

  3. 3

    Drag the network components to build a simple network: a server, a switch (hub), and two computers. Connect them with cables.

  4. 4

    Let's trace how a file travels: You save a document to the server. Then a friend downloads it from their computer.

  5. 5

    What stores the file long-term in our network?

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    Match each part of the network to its job: Server = ?, Switch = ?, Storage = ?

  7. 7

    What does a network switch do?

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