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1. They allow many users to access programs and data st the same time.

2. They allow users to share peripheral devices, such as printers and scanners.


3. they make personal communications easier.


4. they make it easy for users and administrators to back up importtant data files.




WANs - two or more LANs connected together


LANs - network of computers that are relatively near each other and are connected.




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Bus





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1. File Server

2. Network Server

3. Application Server

4. Server



Client Server Networks - computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or work loads between service providers and service requesters, called clients

Peer To Peer Networks- commonly abbreviated to P2P, distributed network architecture is composed of participants that make a portion of their resources directly available to other network participants, without the need for central coordination instances