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200 Cards in this Set
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What device, consisting of a screen keyboard, was used to connect to a mainframe computer |
Dumb Terminal |
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A _______ is a very large network that can stretch across large geographical areas |
WAN |
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A _______ is usually limited to just one building, or at most several buildings that are locate close together |
LAN |
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A _______ is usually limited to a city are of 50 KM |
MAN |
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In what type of network do all computers act as servers and clients that can share data and resources with all other computers in the network? |
Peer-to-peer network |
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Which type of network uses dedicated computers and dedicated clients? |
Client/Server network |
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What kind of network contains one or more primary servers that provide authentication for network resources and services? |
Client/Server network |
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Which term defines the logical and physical description of a network? |
Topology |
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Which term defines the physical layout of the network? |
Physical Topology |
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Which topology connects all computers to a main cable? |
Bus
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What term defines the actual pathway that signals use to travel across network? |
Logical topology |
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Which of the following topologies are easy to build and requires a minimum amount of cables? |
Bus Topology |
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How many computers can communicate simutaneously on a network using the bus topology? |
1 |
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What type of topologies causes the network to fail if a break occurs in the backbone? |
Bus Topology |
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Which type of topology is connected through a central device? |
Star Topology |
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If a cable fails to connect to a computer to the network, which topology will affect that single computer and not the rest of the network? |
Star Topology |
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Which topology uses hubs and switches? |
Star Topology |
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What is the main disadvantage of the star topology? |
If the central device is down the whole entire network is down. |
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Which topology requires the most cabling?
a.) Bus Topology b.)Star Topology c.)Ring Topology d.)Gate Topology |
b.)Star Topology |
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Which topology forms a ring or a loop? |
Ring Topology |
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Which topology has data flow in only one direction? |
Ring Topology |
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Which topology uses a token to communicate to indicate which host can communicate? |
Ring Topology |
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Which topology specifies which computer can communicate, thus preventing the network from ever crashing because too many computers are communicating at the same time? |
Ring Topology |
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Which topology is used primarily in WAN enviroments? |
Partial Mesh Topology |
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You have six sites. How many connections do you need for a full mesh topology? |
15 |
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Which topology is used to connect every host or site to every other host or site? |
Mesh Topology |
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Which topology is the most redundant? |
Mesh Topology |
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Which topology is the most expensive? |
Mesh Topology |
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Which topology requires the most cabling? |
Mesh Topology |
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Which topology is used primarily in WAN links that have only one computer connected to another computer or device? |
Point-to-point topology |
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Which topology is used to connect several devices together? |
Point to multipoint technology
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Which topology combines a star topology with a ring topology? |
Hybrid topology |
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Which type of logical topology uses a media access unit? |
Ring Topology |
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Which logical topology does token ring use? |
Ring Topology |
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Which physical topology does token ring use? |
Star Topology |
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Which logical topology does today's ethernet use to connect PCs? |
Bus Topology |
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Which physical topology does today's ethernet use to connect PCs? |
Star Topology |
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What technology used in Windows Vista and Windows 7 is used to help prevent unauthorized changes to the network? |
UAC |
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Which well known network was originally created by the military? |
Internet |
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The ______ is an Internet Service that allows people to use special client software called a browser to view the content of different sites. |
World Wide Web |
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The most recognized and popular WAN is the ______ |
Internet |
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What do you call a company or organization that provides access to the Internet? |
Internet Service Provider (ISP) |
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Which type of topology includes multiple connections to various sites but not neccessarily every site connected to every other site? |
Partial Mesh Network |
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Which applet is the Windows Control Unit? |
Network and Sharing Center |
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What formula would you use to determine the number of connections used in a partial mesh network? |
n(n-1)/2 |
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What type of computer acts as a centralized computer that does all processing for its terminal clients? |
mainframe computer |
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Which physical topology is the most common in today's local area networks? |
Star Topology |
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Which logical topology is the most common in today's local area networks? |
Bus Topology |
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Which standardization model describes the steps that data must go through to be transmitted across the network? |
OSI Model |
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What is the process of taking data from a higher layer of the OSI model and carrying it down into the next layer? |
encapsulation |
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In what format is data sent at the Physical layer of the OSI model? |
bits |
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In what format is data sent at the Transport layer of the OSI model? |
segments |
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In what format is data sent at the Data-Link layer of the OSI model? |
Frames |
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In what format is data sent at the Network layer of the OSI model? |
Packets |
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Which OSI layer is the lowest layer that sends data over a cable or wireless medium? |
Physical |
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Which layer includes the cables, wireless cards, and hubs? |
Physical |
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Which layer includes the Logical Link Control and Media Access Control Sublayers? |
Data-Link |
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Which layer includes the MAC address? |
Data-Link |
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What method is used by a specific frame type or protocol to delieniate to the computer the beginning and ending of any given frame |
frame synchronization |
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Which of the following is not a form of frame sychronization? a.)time-based frame sychronization b.)character counting c.)byte stuffing d.)clock threading |
d.)clock threading |
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At which OSI layer are logical addresses, such as IP addresses defined? |
Network |
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Which OSI layer is responsible for routing between networks? |
Network |
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Which type of network communications protocol does not ask for verification that a data packet has successfully reached its destination? |
Connectionless-protocol |
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TCP is an example of a _______ protocol |
Connection-oriented protocol |
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Which OSI layer ensures that the data gets delivered safely to its destination? |
Transport |
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A/An_________ is a unique address inside the computer that is associated with a specific protocol, service, or application |
port address |
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What port addresses range from, 0-1,023? |
well-known ports |
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What port addresses range from, 1,024-49,151? |
Registered ports |
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which address ports range from 49,152-65,535 and are available for any application to use to communicate with any other application? |
dynamic ports |
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Which OSI layer is responsible for managing the dialog between networked devices? |
session |
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Which communication method is a true two-way communication between devices? |
Full duplex |
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Which communication method is a pure one-way communcation? |
simplex |
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Which OSI layer is concerned with translation, compression, and encryption? |
Presentation |
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Which OSI layer includes SSL? |
Presentation |
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Which layer of the OSI model discusses network services? |
Application |
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Which layer of the TCP/IP model corresponds to the OSI network layer? |
Internet |
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At which OSI layer would a hub operate? |
Physical |
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At which OSI layer would a switch operate? |
Data-link |
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At which OSI layer do routers operate? |
Network |
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At which OSI layer do HTTP and FTP operate? |
Application |
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Which layer is the fourth layer of the OSI model? |
Transport |
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Which OSI layer is responsible for reliable delivery of sent data? |
Transport |
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At which OSI layer are port addresses used? |
Transport |
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OSI was created by_______ |
the ISO |
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What TCP/IP model layer contains Ethernet and 802.11 wireless device protocols? |
Network Accesss |
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What TCP/IP model layer defines HTTP and FTP? |
Application |
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At which OSI layer do the CSMA/CD and CSMA/CA operate? |
Data-link |
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At which OSI layer do POP3 and Telnet operate? |
Application |
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What is the physical address known as on a host or device? |
MAC Address |
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A______ is a predefined and widely accepted set of rules that describe exactly how a specific task is to work in a network enviroment |
protocol |
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The________ protocol asks for verification that a packet has successfully reached its destination |
connection-oriented |
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How many well-known ports are there? |
1,024 |
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What protocol defines the LLC and MAC sublayers? |
802.2 |
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What are dynamic address ports also known as? |
Private ports or ephemeral ports |
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List the four layers of the TCP/IP model |
Application, Transport, Internet, and Network Access |
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What is the opposite of encapsulation? |
decapsulation |
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When data is encapsulated, what is added at the beginning of data before it is sent to the next layer? |
A header |
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List at least one mneumonic used to describe the OSI model and match the corresponding OSI layers |
All People Seem to Need Data Procession
(Application, Presentation, Session, Transport, Network, Data-link, Physical) |
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List at least one mneumonic used to describe the OSI model and match the corresponding OSI layers |
Please do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away
(Physical, Data-link, Network, Transport, Session, Network, Data-link,Physical) |
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10Base-T, 100Base-TX, and 1000Base-TX are examples of _______ |
Unshielded twisted pair |
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Twisted pair cables are twisted to reduce ______ |
Cross talk |
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What type of connector would you find on a UTP cable used on an Ethernet Network? |
RJ-45 |
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Which type of connector would you find a on UTP cable used on a telephone? |
RJ-11 |
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How many pairs of wire does a UTP cable have on an analog telephone cable? |
2 |
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What is the minimum catagory used for Ethernet networks that run up to 10 Mbps? |
Cat 3 |
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What is the minimum category used for Ethernet networks that run up to 100 Mbps worth of data up to a distance of 100 meters? |
Cat 5 |
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What is the minimum category used for Ethernet networks that is rated at 250MHz and is the preferred standard for a Gigabit Ethernet? |
Cat 6 |
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What is the minimum category used for Ethernet networks that is rated at 100MHz and can handle the interference that comes from being able to transmit on all four pairs of wires at the same time? |
Cat 6 |
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What cable is used to connect a host computer to a switch? |
straight-through cable |
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What cable is used to connect a computer to another computer? |
crossover cable |
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What type of cable do you traditionally use to connect a switch to another switch? |
crossover cable |
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What type of cable would you use to connect your PC to a router's console port? |
rollover cable |
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What type of cable or device would you use to redirect the data flow back on to itself? |
hardware loopback |
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What type of cable was popular on IBM token ring networks? |
shielded twisted-pair cable |
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Which type of shield contains a center conductor made of copper surrounded by a plastic jacket, which then has a braided shield over it? |
coaxial cable |
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Which type of cable is designed to release no or little toxic gases when burned? |
plenum-rated cable |
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Which of the following cable is used for cable television and modems? |
RG-6 |
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10base-2 is also known as ________ |
Thinnet |
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What is legacy serial connection usually found on older computers often used to connect to a modem? |
RS-232 |
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Which serial connection technology allows up t0 127 external devices on today's PCs? |
USB |
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What is the maximum speed for USB 2.0? |
480 Mbps |
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What disturbance affects an electrical circuit due to either electromagnetic conduction or electromagnetic radiation emitted from an external source? |
noise |
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What is a limitation of electrical signals that eventually distorts itself over a distance? |
attenuation |
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What is a form of EMI that results from two improperly shielded copper wires running too close together? |
crosstalk |
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What type of cabling is immune to EMI? |
fiber optic |
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What do you call the time it takes for a signal to travel a distance, causing a delay? |
latency |
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Which type of fiber-optic cable is a very high-speed, long-distance media that consists of a single strand that carries the signals? |
single-mode fiber-optic cable |
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Which type of fiber-optic cable uses light that is dispersed on numerous paths as it travels through the core and is reflected back? |
multimode fiber-optic cable |
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Which of these fiber-optic connectors is widely used and uses a BNC-style attachment mechanism? a.)SC b.)ST c.)MT-RJ d.)LC |
b,)ST |
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Which type of fiber-optic connector uses a latch to hold the connector in securely? |
SC |
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Which type of fiber-optic connector resembles a RJ-45 connector? |
ST |
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Which newer type of fiber-optic connector is the standard for fast storage area networks and Gigabit Ethernet adapters? |
LC |
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What do you call the cable that connects the computer to a wall jack? |
Patch cable |
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What legacy device can terminate up to 25-pair cables and typically supports up to 10Mbps? |
66 block |
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What wiring point is generally used as a reference point for network and telephone lines? |
MDF |
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What is connected to the main distribution frame that is located in an equipment or telecommunications room? |
IDF |
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What rack or wall-mounted structure houses cable connections? |
patch panel |
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Which wireless standard supports up to 54 Mbps and runs at 5 GHz? |
802.11a |
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Which wireless standard is backwards compatible with 802.11b and supports 54 Mbps throughout? |
802.11g |
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Which wireless standard allows the fastest connection speed? |
802.11n |
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_____ means that one bit after another is sent out onto the wire or fiber and interpreted by a network card or other type of interference on the other end. |
Serial |
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Space between floors is known as the ______. |
plenum |
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When using UTP cables for the horizontal connect cables, the cables should not exceed _____ meters. |
100 |
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The ______ are backbone cable connects equipment rooms, telecommunication rooms, and other physical termination points. |
vertical connect cables |
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The _______ is the last point of responsibility of the service provider |
demarc |
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______ is the most promenient standard used for wireless LANs |
IEEE 802.11 |
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What does multimode fiber-optic cable use as a light source of the data sent down the cable? |
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) |
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What special network interference, owned by Public Switched Telephone Network, is often used between the service provider's network and the internal network? |
Smart Jack |
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What 48-bit-long physical address is used to identify a network advice? |
MAC address |
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An IPv4 address contains how many bits? |
32 |
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What do you call taking an IP address range and breaking into smaller pieces? |
subnetting |
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What is used to determine the network portion of an IP address? |
subnet mask |
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What logical truth table is used to isolate the network address from IP address using the subnet mask? |
AND |
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Traditional IP networks were divided into Class A, Class B, and Class C networks. What do you call this type of addressing? |
classful |
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What is the default subnet mask for the 198.25.4.129 address? |
255.255.255.0 |
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How many hosts does Class c support? |
254 |
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Your system is configured to receive DHCP addresses. It is assigned an address of 169.254.34.7. What type of address is this? |
Microsoft Automatic Private IP Addressing |
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When your system is running Windows 7 is configured to receive a DHCP address, what happens when you can't reach the DHCP server? |
You are automatically assigned an address between 169.255.0.0 and 169.254.255.255 |
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Which of the following is not a private IP address range? a.)10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255 b.)172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255 c.)192.168.0.0-192.168.255.255 d.)128.0.0.0 to 128.255.255.255 |
d.)128.0.0.0 to 128.255.255.255 |
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What is CIDR notation for the 255.255.255.0? |
/24 |
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What is the binary equivalent of 180? |
10110100 |
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What is the binary equivalent of 255.255.0.0? |
111111111.1111111.00000000.00000000 |
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An IPv6 address contains how many bits? |
128 |
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What is the hexadecimal equivalent of 255? |
FF |
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When you send a packet to a host in a remote network, the packet is forwarded to the _______. |
default gateway |
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What process combines several small subnets to form a larger network? |
supernetting? |
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What technology is used for multiple private addresses to access the Internet through a single public address? |
NAT |
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Which of the following addresses can be routed over the internet? a.)10.24.255.24 b.)172.6.3.23 c.)132.16.3.24 d.)192.168.3.7 |
c.)132.16.3.24 |
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What network service automatically assigns IP addresses to hosts? |
DHCP |
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Which of the following is a broadcast address? a.)255.0.0.0 b.)255.255.0.0 c.)255.255.255.0 d.)255.255.255.255
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d.)255.255.255.255 |
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What type of addressing sends a packet to a single host? |
unicast |
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What type of addressing sends packets to all computers within a network segment? |
broadcast |
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What type of addressing sends a single packet to multiple computers? |
multicast |
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What is the first half of a MAC address called? |
organizationally unique identifier |
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What hexadecimal character represents the value of 10? |
A |
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Approximately how many addresses does IPv4 support? |
4 billion |
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What is the address range for Class D, multicasting? |
224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255 |
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What is the subnet mask for a CIDR /26 notation? |
255.255.255.192 |
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You have the four following addresses 192.168.4.0 192.168.4.1 192.168.4.2 192.168.4.3 If you supernet these addresses, what would be the network address of all four? |
192.168.4.0/26 |
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What do you call the numbering system that is based on 0s and 1s? |
binary |
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You have four networks combined with three routers in series. If you are on the first network and want to send a packet to the fourth network, how many hops would it travel? |
3 |
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Which protocol on the internet is used to provide addressing? |
IP |
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When you view an IPv4 address, the address is divided into _______. |
octets |
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What would be the result for 1110 and 1100? |
1100 |
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How many Class C networks are specified in IPv4? |
2,097,152 |
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How many Class A networks are specified in IPv4? |
127 |
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You have a Class C network that needs to support 14 subnets. What would the subnet mask be? |
255.255.255.240 |
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What is the default subnet mask of a Class B network? |
255.255.0.0 |
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How many hosta does Class B support? |
65,536 |
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MAC addresses are considered physical addresses and IP addresses are considered________ addresses. |
logical |
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______ is the oldest and most widely used IP protocol. |
IPv4 |
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_______ so far is the newest and least widely availble IP protocol |
IPv6 |
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What is 1011 equivalent in hexadecimal? |
B |
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What do you call it when you use NAT to hide your private addresses from the internet? |
Network masquerading |
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You see the following address 91-FC-5D-A3-B0 What type of address is this? |
MAC address |
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You see the following address: 172.33.55.128 What type of address is this? |
IPv4 |
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What is the default subnet mask for the 160.32.63.67 address? |
255.255.0.0 |
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What is the loopback address for IPv4 used in Windows? |
127.0.0.1 |
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What do you call an IP address you assign manually? |
Static address |
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Which type of NAT translates both IP address and port number? |
PAT |