Intro To Networking

Front 1

What standards organization has established guidelines for installing network cables in commercial buildings?

Back 1

TIA/EIA

Front 2

Which technology does the IEEE 802.5 specification describe?

Back 2

Token Ring LANs

Front 3

What IEEE specification governs wireless networking?

Back 3

802.11

Front 4

Which layer of the OSI Model is responsible for issuing acknowledgments?

Back 4

Transport layer

Front 5

Which OSI Model layer is responsible for keeping open a communications path between your computer and the server when youdial in to a remote access server?

Back 5

Session layer

Front 6

Suppose your network is connected to another network via a router. Which OSI Model layer will provide the info necessary to direct data between the two networks?

Back 6

Network layer

Front 7

In which two layers of the OSI do NICs belong?

Back 7

Physical and Data link

Front 8

Which standards organization developed the OSI model?

Back 8

ISO- International organization for standardization

Front 9

Under what circumstances would the Transport layer use segmentations?

Back 9

when the destination node cannot accept the size of the data blocks transmitted by the source node

Front 10

Which OSI layer generates and detects voltage so as to transmit and receive signals carrying data?

Back 10

Physical layer

Front 11

What type of address folows a hierarchical format?

Back 11

network address

Front 12

If the TCP protocol did not receive an acknowledgment for data it transmitted, what would it do?

Back 12

retransmit the data to the recipient

Front 13

Token ring technology was originally developed by which company?

Back 13

IBM

Front 14

Which part of the MAC address is unique to each manufacturer?

Back 14

the Block ID

Front 15

What is the purpose of the trailer field added to a frame in the Data link layer?

Back 15

to mark the end of the frame

Front 16

What are the sublayers of the Data link layer as defined in the IEEE 802 standards?

Back 16

Logical Link Control sublayer and Media Access Control sublayer

Front 17

Which layer of the OSI encapsulates Network layer packets?

Back 17

Data Link

Front 18

What is the purpose of the token fram in a Token Ring network?

Back 18

to indicate to the network that a particular node is about to transmit data

Front 19

When would it be most desirable to use a connectionless transport layer protocol?

Back 19

when viewing a movie clip on the web

Front 20

What is found in a Data link layer header?

Back 20

the source's physical address