Question

What is a client/server network?

A. an intelligent connecting device that examines each packet of data it receives and then decides which way to send it onward toward its destination.

B. a reference to the geometric arrangement of the actual physical organization of the computers and other network devices in a network.

C. a device whereby the sending computer divides a message into a number of efficiently sized units called packets, each of which contains the address of the destination computer.

D. a model for applications in which the bulk of the back-end processing, such as performing a physical search of a database, takes place on a server, while the front-end processing, which involves communicating with the users, is handled by the clients

Answer 1

Option D is the right answer.

Client/server network:

a model for applications in which the bulk of the back-end processing, such as performing a physical search of a database, takes place on a server, while the front-end processing, which involves communicating with the users, is handled by the clients

Client/Server network is a communication model in which client share the service of a same server. for examples a web browser is a cleint server communication model. The figure shows the Client/Server process.