IPT QUestion (1 Viewer)

[googy_1985]

What do u guys think is the answer to this:

A computer is used to control access to the laser printer from a network of user computers. What is this computer called?
A) Client Server
B) File Server
C) Printer Sharer
D) Printer Server

 

[Alex]

well im taking a punt on D

 

[Morgues]

Could be B

 

[dansnation]

im pretty sure its fileserver..

dont fileservers control file, printing and internet options within a network??

 

[del]

your file server...could also function as your print server

 

[chanfky]

I'm pretty sure it is a print server.

 

[del]

but yeah i'd go for print too..........well it sounds the best out of the lot

 

[gandalf]

Like many many many multiple choice questions around, this one is badly worded, written by people who either dont actually know what they're talking about, or were in too big a hurry to get the test written to check the questions properly.

The problem arises from the term "access". The access to a printer on a network is actually controlled by the Directory service - Under Novel it is called NDS (Novell Directory services), under Win2k Active Directories,under Unix/linux it may be LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol). This "service" is a database where a user's "rights" are allocated and stored - including the "right" to print to a printer. Now the server(s) actullay running the directory service (ie the computer that "controls access to a printer") may or may not be a file server or a print server or they may be all of those things.

Anyway, the "most correct answer" would be .... D "Printer Server" - though the device is usually decribed as a "print server"

 

[blake]

lol

 

[tweakin]

Originally posted by gandalf
Like many many many multiple choice questions around, this one is badly worded, written by people who either dont actually know what they're talking about, or were in too big a hurry to get the test written to check the questions properly.
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Hence why i hate this subject.
it seems that in IPT..the multiple choice section, all the answers are correct with one being slightly more correct than the others

arrrrrrrgh!

 

[do0d]

its why testing mostly useless stuff is hard
esp if u get someone as useless writing these things
but o well guessu gotta live with it