1- Application Sharing through Networks

There are several PC components, which include the motherboard, the backplane, the central processing unit (CPU), the bus, drives, expansion slots, memory components, ports and cards. A laptop is a portable PC that uses smaller components, is more power efficient than a PC, and has personal computer memory card international association (PCMCIA) card slots instead of expansion slots.

A network interface card (NIC) is a circuit board that allows a personal computer to communicate with a network. You need to consider the type of network, media, and expansion slot when selecting a NIC. To install a NIC, you should know how to configure it, hot to use its diagnostics, and be able to resolve hardware resource conficts.