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IT: Networking Vocab
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1. A TCP/IP troubleshooting utility that uses ICMP to trace the path from one networked node to another - identifying all intermediate hops between the two nodes. Traceroute is useful for determining router or subnet connectivity problems. On Windows-ba
Correct default gateway
Transport Layer Security (TSL)
fixing attenuation
traceroute (tracert)
2. A TCP/IP utility used to show or modify a client's host name.
passive scanning
session
hostname
Port 23
3. A network that links multiple LAN's in large city or metropolitan region.
tuning
frame
redirector
metropolitan area network (MAN)
4. A combination of LAN's - MAN's - or WAN's that provides computer users with an array of computer and network resources to complete different tasks.
wavelength
NetBIOs
enterprise network
Category 6
5. Max size of data units on Ethernet networks
step-index multimode fiber-optic cable
digital adv
Attenuation
1550bytes
6. Layer 1 Troubleshooting
terminator
access services
TCP/IP Architecture Layer 4
Device power unplugged
7. Transmission that involves one transmitter and multiple - undefined receivers
POTS
noise
passive scanning
Broadcast
8. Point or stage in a wave's progress over time
Phase
Universal serial bus
802.11n
Frames
9. Network interface card
Localhost
baseband
NIC
ICMP
10. What does POP3 stand for?
shielded twisted-paired (STP) cable
connectionless
Post Office Protocol version 3
Post Office Protocol
11. A resistor that is connected to the end of a segment on a bus network - so that data-carrying signals are absorbed at the point where the segment stop. Aborbing the signals ensures they are not reflected back onto the cable after they reach the end-t
terminator
API (application program interface)
PDU
Simple Network Management protocol (SNMP)
12. Panel of data receptors into which twisted pair wire is inserted to complete a circuit
event viewer
Punch-Down Block
802.11n
Transport
13. Technique for formatting signals in which one property of a carrier wave is modified by the addition of a data signal during transmission
collision detection
star topology
Modulation
throughput
14. Four twisted wire pairs with three twists per foot. This type can handle transmissions up to 16 MHz. Now limited to telecommunication equipment
Category 3
Straight tip connector
Channel Service Unit
Ethernet (characteristics)
15. Distance between corresponding points on cycle
To stop the Hamburgerler from stealing all of Ronnie McDonalds burgers
rollover cable
Byte
wavelength
16. Tracks running and graphing data from any workstations. should ensure that new routers and switches can support it in order to easily automate network management
EIA (Electronics Industries Alliance)
SNMP
OSI Layer 7
connection oriented
17. AFP
Port 23
Apple File Protocol
where NICs operate
FDDI
18. A private network that functions like a tunnel through a larger network
Gateway Services for NetWare
Virtual private network (VPN)
block ID
roaming
19. Minimum cabling standard for PoE
cat 5
Firewall Filtering
Bit
SONET
20. International Organization for Standardization
Local area network (LAN)
ISO
multipath
hybrid fiber / coax (HFC) cable
21. Data Link Layer
255.255.0.0
LAN
Organizational Unit
Frames
22. Amplitude modulation-amplitude of signal is modified
Open Shortest Path First
star wired bus
Single mode fiber
AM
23. Name Of Layer 5
L2TP
Session
ssl
cat 5
24. Name Of Layer 2
Data Link
Gateway Services for NetWare
Class A
NNTP
25. Event that triggers alarm when no actual attack is in progress
Device power unplugged
encapsulation
Post Office Protocol version 3
false attack stimulus
26. Satellite used for broadband internet access
DSL
geosynchronous
fiber optic cable
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
27. A computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network
server
Quality of Service
attenuation
shielded twisted-paired (STP) cable
28. 7th layer; protocols enable software programs to negotiate formatting - procedural - security - synchronization - and other requirements with the network
Application layer
MMF
ppptp
Amplifier
29. Http - Hypertext transfer protocol
Encapsulation
port 80
CRC
Modem
30. A device used to connect thicknet cable with a transceiver. A vampire bypasses the need to serve the cable - because the vampire tap has a metal tooth that pierces through the outside cable insulation (like a vampire) and connects with the copper wir
configured with correct sending and receiving email server information
Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
vampire tap
Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
31. Form of transmission in which signals are modulated as radiofrequency analog pulses with different frequency ranges; does not involve binary coding
kereberos
Common Internet File System
protocol data unit (PDU)
Broadband
32. Measure of strength
Patch Panel
amplitude
NetWare Core Protocol
Subnetmask
33. Point to point protocol
1000base-lx
ppp
EIA
thin client computing
34. Name Of Layer 1
switch
network class a
MTU (maximum transmission unit)
Physical
35. Open source program that allows you too remotely take over another workstation and walk through support process
Application
Bit
RealVNC
CSMA/CA
36. A service provided with Windows 98 - Me - 2000 - and 32-bit versions of XP operating systems that allows one computer - the ICS host - to share its Internet connection with other computers on the same network.
connectionless
flow control
Secure Shell
ICS (Internet Connection Sharing)
37. The information transfered between layers in the same OSI stack
WDM
protocol data unit (PDU)
TCP/IP Architecture Layer 1
access point
38. A versatile - chainable serial-bus technology that connects up to 127 devices at speeds of 1.5 Mbps and 12 Mbps as well as 480 Mbps.
L2TP
IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority)
Bit-Error Rate Test
Universal serial bus
39. IPv6 addressing - multicast group
FF02
segmentation
Presentation
EIA
40. HTTPS - Secure implementation of HTTP
SNMP
port 443
bus topology
IGMP
41. Largest data unit a network will accept for transmission
binary
MTU (maximum transmission unit)
Amplitude Modulation
Post Office Protocol version 3
42. Wavelength division multiplexing
POTS
WDM
Repeaters
Kroner
43. Not individually insulated but shielded. use when there is noise.
Transport
UTP
protocol stack verification
STP
44. Equivalent to OSI Layer 4 Transport
S-HTTP
MPLS
TCP/IP Vs. OSI: Transport
CRC
45. First part of the datagram - which consists of general information about the size of the packet - the protocol that was used to send it - and the IP address of both the source computer and its destination.
ARP
Topology
Media Dependent Interface
header
46. Ethernet LAN-all forms of Ethernet media and interface
passive scanning
802.3
Point-to-Point Protocol
ANSI
47. Ensures reliablity of packet transmissions from node to node - Ensures that data is sent and received in the same order - Provides acknowledgement when a packet is received - Monitors for packet transmission errors and resends bad packets - Breaks la
Transport Layer (Layer 4)
Straight tip connector
signature-based (knowledge-based - misuse-detection) IDPS
IP gateway in NAT
48. An internetwork is two or more computer networks connected together.
IP gateway in NAT
internetwork
medium
Group Policy Object
49. Consists of procedures and systems that identify system intrusions
Ethernet (characteristics)
t1 connection
intrusion detection
Session
50. Anything - hardware or software - that monitors transmission of packets of digital information that attempt to pass the perimeter of a network
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
NAT (Network Address Translation)
firewall
Open Shortest Path First