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IT: Networking Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Establishes maintains and terminates connections
Session
Presentation
Point-to-Point Protocol
Network Address Translation
2. Standard rating that indicates the diameter of a wire
Class A Network
Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
American Wire Gauge
NIC drivers
3. The pattern used to install a network medium
Password Authentication Protocol
802.2
TCP/IP Architecture Layer 4
topology
4. Allows for secure interactive control of remote systems
Secure Shell (SSH
ICS host
IMAP4 (Internet Message Access Protocol - version 4)
trap and trace
5. Logical link control
Presentation
LLC
Network Information Service
RealVNC
6. In CIDR notation - the number of bits used for an extended network prefix. For example - the CIDR block for 199.34.89.0/22 is /22
Unshielded twisted pair
switch
Transport Layer (Layer 4)
CIDR block
7. A term referring to a data-link header and trailer - plus the data encapsulated between the header and trailer.
Category 3
Frame
Session
voltage
8. Strategy in which all control functions are applied at the physical location of each IDPS component
power over ethernet
VLAN
CIDR (Classless Interdomain Routing)
fully distributed control strategy
9. A drawback of certification
goodput
segment
WAN
certification value may be lessened due to the number of people obtaining them
10. The IEEE stanard for error and flow control in data frames.
802.2
topology
client
ARP
11. TFTP - trivial file transfer protocol
port 69
Amplitude
protocol stack verification
API (application program interface)
12. FDM
Frequency Division Multiplexing
node
Half Duplex NIC Communication
OSI Reference to TCP
13. File Transfere Protocol
VPN
802.44
FTP
Full-Duplex
14. FTP is an application that enables the transfer of data from one remote device to another - using TCP/IP
File Transfere Protocol - (FTP)
Network Behavior Analysis
WDM
NFS
15. 128 -64 -32 -16 -8 -4 -2 -1
IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol)
Attenuation
hot site
binary
16. Crimp into pins 1 and 2 of RJ 45 connector
port 22
white/orange and orange
Ethernet
installing cable
17. Device that boosts - or strengthens - and analog signal
ICS (Internet Connection Sharing)
Amplifier
5-4-3 rule
network interface card (NIC)
18. PPPoE
Post Office Protocol
PDU
Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet
Crosstalk
19. Address Resolution Protocol
Regeneration
headened
connectionless
ARP
20. Maximum arc into which you can loop a cable before you will cause data transmission errors
TCP/IP Network Access Layer Encapsulation
Bend Radius
physical media
RIR (Regional Internet Registry)
21. 5th layer; establishes and maintains communication between two nodes on the network; 'traffic cop'
virture privat network (VPN)
Network Time Protocol
Session layer
HTTPS
22. Connectivity device - data link layer (2) - reads header info to forward packets according to MAC addresses
half duplex
Organizational Unit
FDM
bridge
23. Device that processes signals; multiplexer or modem
Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment
American Wire Gauge
Alternate Mark Inversion
butt set
24. The process of wrapping one layer's PDU with protocol information so that it can be interpreted by a lower layer. For example - Data Link layer protocols encapsulate Network layer packets in frames.
network-based IDPS (NIDPS)
encapsulate
Amplitude Modulation
ATU-R
25. ADSL
IP (Internet Protocol)
statistical anomaly-based (stat - behavior-based) IDPS
Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
26. Domain Name System
DNS
Simple Network Management Protocol
Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment
driver signing
27. Network time protocol
firmware
NTP
mesh topology
Primary Rate Interface
28. A mail retrieval protocol that improves on the shortcomings of POP. The single biggest advantage IMAP4 has relative to POP is that it allows users to store messages on the mail server - rather than always having to download them to a local machine.
Logical Link Control
IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol)
link quality monitoring
dedicated lines
29. A single physical/non-physical medium for connecting computers
Quality of Service
Data Link
Server
medium
30. International society composed of engineering professionals - promotes development and education in the electrical engineering and computer fields
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
radio frequency interference (RFI)
Half-Duplex
802.11
31. Lowest or 1st layer; protocols generate and detect signals so as to transmit and receive data over a network medium - also set the data transmission rate and monitor data error rates - but do not provide error correction
Physical layer
Network News Transport Protocol (NNTP)
WAN
Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA)
32. Name Of Layer 4
OSI
Presention Layer (Layer 6)
Transport
terminal
33. A network that links multiple LAN's in large city or metropolitan region.
service data unit (SDU)
power over ethernet
Layer 2 Forwarding
metropolitan area network (MAN)
34. The physical layout of a computer network
topology
POP3
modem
backbone
35. Delay between the transmission of a signal and its receipt
voltage
Latency
false positive
802.3
36. Cabling that transmit data using light waves. Higher bandwidth than other types of cabling.
fiber optics
BNC connector
goodput
CSMA/CD
37. Does not operate at the application layer
ARP
WDM
SONET
Kroner
38. Error detection and correction
OSI Layer 7
Transport
Electromagnetic Interference
PAP
39. Aversion of the traceroute utility found on some Linux distributions.
OSI model
tracepath
analog adv
RealVNC
40. Short tube within a fiber-optic cable connector that encircles the fiber strand and keeps in properly aligned
Ring topology
Ferrule
link quality monitoring
PAT (Port Address Translation)
41. Computers connected together within a limited geographical area
Peer-to-peer network
MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)
coaxial cable
LAN
42. A generic term referring to any set of protocols and standards collected into a comprehensive grouping that - when followed by the devices in a network - allows all the devices to communicate. Examples include TCP/IP and OSI.
Networking Model
SNAT (Static Network Address Translation)
broadband
data packets
43. Set of routines that make up part of a software application
API (application program interface)
rj-45
Secure Copy Protocol
Synchronous Optical Network
44. A computer (mainframe - minicomputer - server - or workstation) that has an operating system enabling multiple computers to access it at the same time for files - data - and services.
FDM
server
host
Address Resolution Protocol
45. Transport Layer
Secure Shell (SSH
ARP
enterprise network
Firewall Filtering
46. Internet Layer
TCP/IP Architecture Layer 2
FM
route
Physical Layer (Layer 1)
47. Not-for-profit agency that manages distribution of IP addresses; ARIN for Americas and Sub-Saharan Africa - APNIC for Asia-Pacific - RIPE for Europe and North Africa
RIR (Regional Internet Registry)
EAPoL
Physical Layer
Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (S-HTTP)
48. A TCP/IP troubleshooting utility that provides information about NetBIOs names and their addresses. If you know the NetBIOs name of a workstation - you can use nbtstat to determine its IP address
Secure Copy Protocol
Internet Protocol Security
Encapsulation
nbtstat
49. Also called the star-bus hybrid topology - a network design that combines the logial comunications of a bus with the physical layout of a star.
star-wired bus topology
directional antennas
TCP/IP Vs. OSI: Internet
Fault tolerance
50. Connection-less
128 - 64 - 32 - 16 - 8 - 4 - 2 - 1
Transport
udp
Broadband