Itnw 2321 Networking With Tcp/ip Chapters 1-3

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What method is used to assign a unique numerical identifier to an individual network interface on a network segment to make every such interface uniquely identifiable?

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Addressing

Front 2

What is the uppermost layer of the ISO/OSI network reference model, where the interface between the protocol suite and actual applications resides?

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Application Layer

Front 3

What is the name of the experimental network designed to test the feasibility of a platform-neutral, long-distance, robust, and reliable internetwork that provided the foundation for what we know today as the Internet?

Back 3

ARPANET

Front 4

A specific type of network transmission that is meant to be noticed and read by all recipients on any cable segment is:

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Broadcast

Front 5

What acronym represents the place where Tim Berners-Lee invented the protocols and services that defined the World Wide Web between 1989 and 1991?

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CERN

Front 6

The basic protocol data unit at the TCP/IP Network Access layer is:

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Datagram

Front 7

What term is used to refer to the port address for an incoming TCP/IP communication that identifies the target application or service process involved?

Back 7

Destination Port Numer

Front 8

What type of filter is applied to packets that reside in the trace buffer for the purpose of viewing only the packets of interest?

Back 8

Display Filter

Front 9

A temporary TCP or UDP port number allocated to permit a client and server to exchange data with each other only as long as their connection remains active is known as a(n) ____.

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Dynamically Assigned Port Address

Front 10

The basic PDU at the Data Link layer of the ISO/OSI reference model is known as which of the following?

Back 10

Frames or Data Frames

Front 11

What organization sets standards for all kinds of electrical and electronic equipment, including network interfaces and communications technologies?

Back 11

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
(IEEE)

Front 12

What organization governs the actions of both the IETF and IRTF; and has final approval authority for Internet Standards?

Back 12

Internet Architecture Board
(IAB)

Front 13

What organization within the Internet Society is responsible for proper assignment of all domain names and numeric IP addresses for the global Internet?

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Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN)

Front 14

What is a TCP/IP-based messaging protocol that allows users to maintain customized message stores on an e-mail server?

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Internet Message Access Protocol
(IMAP)

Front 15

What is the forward-looking research and development arm of the Internet Society?

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Internet Research Task Force
(IRTF)

Front 16

What is the parent organization under which the rest of the Internet governing bodies fall?

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Internet Society
(ISOC)

Front 17

The biggest single chunk of data that can be transferred across any particular type of network medium is known as which of the following?

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Maximum Transmission Unit
(MTU)

Front 18

What network address is handled by a sublayer of the Data Link layer that is normally preassigned on a per-interface basis to uniquely identify each such interface on any network cable segment?

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Media Access Control (MAC) address

Front 19

The management of data transmission rates between two devices across a local network medium that guarantees the receiver can accept and process input before it arrives from the sender is known as which of the following?

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Media Flow Control

Front 20

The arm of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where supercomputer research is undertaken and where the first graphical Web browser, Mosaic, was developed is called:

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National Center for Supercomputing Applications
(NCSA)

Front 21

A public network operated by the National Science Foundation in the 1980s to support the Internet backbone was:

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NSFNET

Front 22

What is a generic term for the PDU at just about any layer in the networking model?

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packet

Front 23

The TCP/IP Internet layer protocol that’s used to determine the reachability of a remote host and to measure round-trip travel time when sending data from a sender to a receiver is called:

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Packet Internetwork Groper
(PING)

Front 24

Analogous layers in the protocol stacks on a sender and a receiver are called:

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Peer Layer

Front 25

The Layer 2 or TCP/IP network Interface layer protocol that permits a client and a server to establish a communications link that can accommodate a variety of higher-layer protocols is called:

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Point-To-Point Protocol
(PPP)

Front 26

The type of network communication where pairs of devices establish the communication link to exchange data with one another is:

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Point-to-Point Transmission

Front 27

The ____ layer of the OSI model is where generic network data formats are translated into platform-specific data formats for incoming data and vice versa for outgoing data?

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Presentation

Front 28

A synonym for the TCP/IP Application layer, where high-level protocols and services, such as FTP and Telnet, operate is:

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Process Layer

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A(n) ____ represents a package for data at that layer, including a header and a payload, and in some cases, a trailer.

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Protocol Data Unit
(PDU)

Front 30

An IETF standard document that specifies or describes best practices, provides information about the Internet, or specifies an Internet protocol or service is called:

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Request for Comments
(RFCs)

Front 31

An RFC that has reached standard designation, but that is no longer current, and has been replaced by a newer RFC is called:

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Retired Standard

Front 32

The process whereby a packet makes its way from a sender to a receiver based on known path from the sending network to the receiving network is known as ____.

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Routing

Front 33

An IP-only serial line protocol still used to access some UNIX systems is called:

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Serial Line Internet Protocol
(SLIP)

Front 34

Which layer of the OSI model handles setup, maintenance, and tear-down of ongoing exchanges of messages between pairs of hosts on a network?

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Session Layer

Front 35

A TCP/IP Application layer protocol that provides basic network device registration and management capabilities is:

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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
(SMTP)

Front 36

Short- or long-term historical information regarding network communications and performance is known as which of the following?

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Statistics

Front 37

A TCP/IP Application layer protocol and service that permits a client on one network host to interact with another network host as if the machine were a terminal attached to the other machine is:

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Telnet

Front 38

An area of memory on the hard disk space set aside for the storage of packets captured off the network by a protocol analyzer is called:

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Trace Buffer

Front 39

A packet sent to a single device on the network is known as a(n) ____.

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Unicast Packet

Front 40

A network connection between a specific sender and receiver in which the information sent is often encrypted is known as which of the following?

Back 40

Virtual Private Network
(VPN)

Front 41

A 16-bit number that identifies a pre-assigned value associated with some well-known Internet protocol or service is known as which of the following?

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Well-Known Port Number

Front 42

A synonym for a recognizable TCP/IP protocol or service is:

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Well-Known Service

Front 43

Which layer of the OSI model handles the delivery of data from sender to receiver?

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Transport Layer

Front 44

Packets pointed to a(n) ____ are delivered to the holder of that address nearest to the sender in terms of routing distance.

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Anycast Address

Front 45

A special purpose form of integrated circuit is called:

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Application Specific Integrated Circuit
(ASIC)

Front 46

A network or subnet address that contains all-ones is called:

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Broadcast Address

Front 47

A form of subnet masking that does away with placing network and host address portions precisely on octet boundaries, but instead uses the /n prefix notation is called:

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Classless Inter-Domain Routing
(CIDR)

Front 48

A symbolic name used for a TCP/IP network resource is called:

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Domain Name

Front 49

A TCP/IP Application layer protocol and service that manages the Internet-wide distributed database of symbolic domain names and numeric IP addresses is called:

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Domain Name Service

Front 50

The name of the format used to denote numeric IP addresses is:

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Dotted Decimal System

Front 51

A network connection in which the original sending and receiving IP addresses may not be altered, and where communications connections extend all the way from sender to receiver while that connection remains active is called:

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End-to-End Connection

Front 52

A network boundary device that sits between the public and private sides of a network, and provides a variety of screening and inspection services is called:

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Firewall

Front 53

A(n) _____ is a single transfer of data from one network to another, through some kind of network device.

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Hop

Front 54

The rightmost bits in an IP address allocated to identify hosts on a supernetwork, network, or subnetwork are called:

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Host Portion

Front 55

What acronym refers to the arm of the ISOC originally responsible for registering domain names and allocating public IP addresses?

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Internet Assigned Numbers Athority
(IANA)

Front 56

An organization that provides Internet access to individuals or organizations as a primary line of business is called:

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Internet Service Provider
(ISP)

Front 57

What is TCP/IP terminology for a router that provides access to resources outside the local subnet network address?

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IP Gateway

Front 58

A type of networking device that combines hubs, router, and network management functions within a single box is called:

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Layer-3 Switch

Front 59

An address that points directly back to the sender is known as a(n) ____.

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Loopback

Front 60

A sublayer of the Data Link layer is:

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Media Access Control (MAC) Layer

Front 61

A(n) ____ is one of a block of addresses reserved for use in sending the same message to multiple interfaces or nodes.

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Multicast Address

Front 62

A(n) ____ is the portion of an IP address that consists of the network prefix for that address.

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Network Address

Front 63

A special type of networking software that manages network connections on behalf of multiple clients on an internal network and translates the source address for all outbound traffic from the original source to the address of the outbound network interface is called:

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Network Address Translation
(NAT)

Front 64

The ____ refers to the leftmost octets or bits in a numeric IP address.

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Network Portion

Front 65

What is the TCP/IP terminology for an 8-bit number?

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Octet

Front 66

The unique identifier assigned by IANA or ICANN that is used as the first three bytes of a NIC’s MAC layer address to identify its maker or manufacturer is called:

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Organizationally Unique Identifier
(OUI)

Front 67

Any of a series of Class A, B, and C IP addresses reserved by IANA are known as:

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Private IP Address

Front 68

A special type of network boundary service that interposes itself between internal network addresses and external network addresses is known as a(n) ____.

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Proxy Server

Front 69

A(n) ____ refers to any TCP/IP address allocated for the exclusive use of some particular organization.

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Public IP Address

Front 70

A specific level of service guarantee associated with Application layer protocols in which time-sensitivity requirements for data require that delays be controlled within definite guidelines to deliver viewable or audible data streams is called:

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Quality of Service
(QOS)

Front 71

The technique whereby a proxy server presents an internal network resource as if it were present on the proxy server itself so that external clients can access internal network resources without seeing internal network IP address structures is known as ____.

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Reverse Proxying

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A form of IP address analysis that permits routers to indicate general interest in a particular network prefix that represents the “common portion” of a series of IP network addresses is known as ____.

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Route Aggregation

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A(n) ____ is a special bit pattern that masks off the network portion of an IP address with all 1s.

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Subnet Mask

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. ____ refers to the operation of using bits borrowed from the host portion of an IP address to extend and subdivide the address space that falls beneath the network portion of a range of IP addresses.

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Subnetting

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A form of specialized IP network address that identifies the “common portion” of a series of IP network addresses used when route aggregation is in effect is known as:

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Summary Address

Front 76

The technique of stealing bits from the network portion of an IP address and lending those bits to the host part, creating a larger address space for host addresses is known as which of the following?

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Supernetting

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A human-readable name for an Internet resource, such as www.course.com is:

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Symbolic Name

Front 78

A subnetting scheme for IP addresses that permits containers of various sizes to be defined for a network prefix is called:

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Variable-Length subnet masking
(VLSM)

Front 79

A temporary table in memory that consists of recent ARP entries is called:

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ARP Cache

Front 80

A variable-speed, long-haul broadband networking technology that supports extreme bandwidth in its fastest versions is called:

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Asynchronous Transfer Mode
(ATM)

Front 81

An inter-domain routing protocol that replaced the Exterior Gateway Protocol is:

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Border Gateway Protocol
(BGP)

Front 82

____ does away with source and destination address information as data is translated across a link.

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Compressed SLIP
(C-SLIP)

Front 83

A technique whereby higher-level protocol data is enclosed within the payload of a lower-layer protocol unit and labeled with a header so that the protocol data unit may be safely transmitted from a sender to a receiver is called:

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Data Encapsulation

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The address of a local machine based on the hardware address is known as the:

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Data Link Address

Front 85

The ____ is also referred to as the MAC address.

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Data Link Address

Front 86

The name given to the router through which a machine attached to a local network must pass outbound traffic to reach beyond the local network is:

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Default Gateway

Front 87

A special bit-stream or character that marks some boundary in a PDU - be it at the beginning or end of a PDU, or at the boundary between the header and the payload – is called:

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Delimiter

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A workstation that does NOT contain a hard drive or floppy disk drive from which to boot or read host configuration information is known as:

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Diskless Workstation

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A group of DSCP traffic types that are organized based on the likelihood that this traffic type may be dropped by a router during highly congested times on the network when higher-priority traffic requires handling are known as:

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Drop Probability Classification

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An IP host must perform a(n) ____ task upon bootup to ensure that the address is NOT already assigned to another IP host.

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Duplicate IP Address

Front 91

The de facto standard frame type for TCP/IP communications is:

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Ethernet II Frame Type

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In terms of IP networking, a(n) ____ is a piece of a larger set of data that must be divided to cross a network that supports a smaller MTU than the original packet size.

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Fragment

Front 93

The field that defines where a fragment should be placed when the entire data set is reassembled is known as:

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Fragment Offset Field

Front 94

The process of retransmitting the original unfragmented packet due to transmission error, or fragment packet loss is known as:

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Fragment Retransmission Process

Front 95

Name two synchronous communication protocols.

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Synchronous Data Link Control (SDLC)
High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC)

Front 96

A route table entry that matches all four bytes of the desired destination is called:

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Host Route Entry

Front 97

The IEEE-defined standard for a carrier sense, multiple access method with collision detection is:

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IEEE 802.3

Front 98

The IEEE-defined standard for the token-passing ring Media Access Control method is:

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IEEE 802.5

Front 99

A(n) ____ is the transmission path used by token ring networks, where packets are repeated back onto a ring and passed in a methodical sequential order from one ring station to the next.

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Logical Ring Transmission Path

Front 100

A(n) ____ is a sub-optimal condition on an internetwork that results in a packet crossing a network segment more than once.

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Looped Internetwork

Front 101

The process of obtaining an IP address based on a symbolic name is known as:

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Name Resolution Process

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. The local router that is used to route a packet to a future network along a particular path is called:

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Next-Hop Router

Front 103

What designs refers to the physical layer topology of a token ring network, where all devices on the network are connected via cable back to a central device?

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Physical Star Design

Front 104

The initial sequence of values that precedes all Ethernet packets is:

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Preamble

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The process of replying to ARP requests for IP hosts on another network is known as ____.

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Proxy ARP

Front 106

The process that a host undergoes to determine whether a desired destination is local or remote, and, if remote, which next-hop router to use is:

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Route Resolution Process

Front 107

A router buffering system used to hold packets when the router is congested is known as a(n) ____.

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Router Queues

Front 108

digital signaling link whose name stands for trunk level 1 is:

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T1

Front 109

A digital signaling link, whose name standard for trunk level 3 is:

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T3

Front 110

An indication of the remaining distance that a packet can travel is called:

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Time to Live
(TTL)

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A special sequence of fields that indicates a token ring device has the right to transmit a frame of data onto the network media is called:

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Token

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Name a token-passing ring Media Access Control protocol.

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Token Ring

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The format of the 802.2 LLC packet that is connectionless is known as a(n) ____.

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Unnumbered Format

Front 114

A Windows-based utility used to identify the local host’s data link address and IP address is:

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WINIPCFG