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IT: Networking Vocab
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1. A network that offers services to members of the public - such as network services offered by a telecommunications company or a cable TV company.
public network
Peer-to-peer network
SMF
Internet
2. Data Link Layer
Demultiplexer
Network Switching
Internet Connection Sharing
VPN
3. Techniques that employ hardware and software to provide assurance against equipment failures - computer service interruptions - and data loss.
Client Software
802.11
Fault tolerance
multipath
4. Every node on the network is connected through a central device like a switch - cannot be disabled by a single malfunction in a workstation - scalable - - popular - expensive - cable malfunction will only effect 2 workstations - more fault tolerant.
RARP
TCP/IP Vs. Netware: Network Access
1000base-lx
star topology
5. Device that separates broadcast domain
Network File System (NFS)
hub
Bit
switch
6. A Data Link sublayer of the OSI model that initiates the communication link between nodes and ensures the link is not unintentionally broken.
Category 1
bandwidth
logical link control (LLC)
Network
7. HTTP/web/internet - change this port to make it more difficult for someone to connect to your web server
baseband
port 80
fractionalizing
Media Dependent Interface Crossover
8. Developed by ISO and ANSI - a model that providees a framework for networked hardware and software communication based on seven layers.
AM
ANSI (American National Standards Institute)
Open System Interconnection (OSI) referance model
hostname
9. The physical cables that link computers in a network
physical media
Round Trip Time
encryption
MAC address
10. A system of computers - printer devices - network devices - and computer software linked by communications cabling or radio waves.
computer network
cabeloco
Serial
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
11. A type of multimode fiber-optic cable that reflects the light-based signals like a mirror within the cable - resulting in different signals arriving at different times and with an increased likeihood of distortion over longer cable runs.
CIDR (Classless Interdomain Routing)
dig (domain information groper)
datagram
step-index multimode fiber-optic cable
12. Alert or alarm that occurs in the absence of an actual attack
High-Level Data Link Control
false positive
To stop the Hamburgerler from stealing all of Ronnie McDonalds burgers
microwave
13. The pattern used to install a network medium
encapsulation
topology
TCP/IP protocol failure
crossover cable
14. A flexible communications cable that contains pairs of insulated copper wires that are twisted together for reduction of EMI and RFI and covered with an outer insulating jacket.
Synchronous Optical Network
UDP
twisted-pair cable
grade-index multimode fiber-optic cable
15. Layer 2
Core
802.11n
Data Link
network
16. Requires CSU/DSU-the connection point for a t1 live at customers site
t1 connection
10Gbase-t
modifying the file-sharing controls
PDU (protocol data unit)
17. Which layer in the OSI is responsible for routing and controling the flow of packets around the network?
Secure Shell (SSH
Session
Network Layer
port 25
18. NDS
MMF
Data Terminal Equipment
NetWare Directory Services
EIA/TIA
19. The device inside a computer that connect a computer to the network media
NIC
star-wired bus topology
datagram
broadband
20. Regular voice-grade telephone service.
public switched telephone network (PSTN)
Core Gateway
binary
Internet Protocol
21. A cable that consists of a single cable sheath containing a combination of fibers and copper cable.
IPSec
intrusion detection/prevention system (IDPS)
Dynamic Host Configuration protocol (DHCP)
hybrid fiber / coax (HFC) cable
22. Open source program that allows you too remotely take over another workstation and walk through support process
monitoring port (SPAN port)
RealVNC
Virtual private network (VPN)
port 123
23. Physical Layer
Domain Name System (DNS)
TCP/IP Transport Layer Encapsulation
Electrical Signaling
encapsulate
24. Associates a MAC address with a given IP address - reverse ARP
RARP
Transport
routing
Frames
25. The general topic of how on one computer - two adjacent layers in a networking architectural model work together - with the lower layer proving services to the higher layer.
Virtual private network (VPN)
port 143
Adjacent Layer Interaction
Gigabit Ethernet
26. RJ 11
Flow Control
Physical
Alternate Mark Inversion
telephone connector
27. BERT
installing cable
FM
PDU (protocol data unit)
Bit-Error Rate Test
28. LLC
Byte
Logical Link Control
satellite
token ring
29. Unlicensed band with 11 channels
2.4-GHz band
connection
network address
Device power off
30. QoS
Network
DSL
1000base-sx
Quality of Service
31. 6th layer; protocols translate between Application and Network layers; data are formatted so that the network can understand - with the format varying according to the type of network; manages data encryption and decryption - such as scrambling of sy
Point-to-Point
Presentation layer
ppp
Braiding
32. Communications cable that consists of one or more glass 0r plastic fiber cores inside a protective cladding material - covered by a plastic PVC outer jacket. Signal transmission along the inside fibers typically uses infrared light.
fiber-optic cables
OSI Reference to TCP
Mechanical Transfer-Registered Jack
network layer
33. Internet Layer
TCP/IP Architecture Layer 2
standard
POP3
VPN
34. Application Layer
TCP/IP Architecture Layer 4
diffraction
EIA
network interface card (NIC)
35. IPv4
Digital
Internet Protocol version 4
association
NetWare Core Protocol
36. 1-126
frequency
host
SYN-ACK (synchronization-acknowledgment)
network class a
37. 2nd set of characteristics that make up a device's MAC address. Added at the factory and is based on the device's model and manufacture date
f type connector
UTP
CSU/DSU
device ID
38. FDDI
Zero Configuration
(fiddy) Fiber Distributed Data Interface
802.2
IGMP
39. Degradation of a light signal on a fiber-optic network
Optical Loss
cross talk
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)
star-bus hybrid topology
40. Tools in order to connect a new RJ45
beacon frame
crimping tool and wore stripper
DB-25 connector
encryption
41. A situation in which two or more packets are detected at the same time on an Ethernet network.
MAN
alarm filtering
pstn
collision
42. Public switched telephone network
PSTN
standard connector
Ethernet
PDU
43. A far-reaching system of networks that usually extends over approximately 48 kilometers (about 30 miles) and often reaches across states and continents.
honey net
wide area network (WAN)
communications media
A Protocol
44. Used with single mode or multi mode fiber optic cable
standard connector
Thin Eterhnet/10 Base 2
diffraction
the more twist
45. A private network that functions like a tunnel through a larger network
lpr filename
fault tolerance
Virtual private network (VPN)
Transport
46. EMI interference induced on one cable by signals traveling on a nearby cable
Alien Cross Talk
Channel
virtual circuit
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETE)
47. Device that acts as a wireless switch so that nodes can connect wirelessly to a network.
128 - 64 - 32 - 16 - 8 - 4 - 2 - 1
network interface card (NIC)
client
access point
48. A cable TV company - such as Comcast Broadband.
TFTP
intrusion prevention
presentation layer
cabeloco
49. Type of interference that may be caused by motors - power lines - televisions - copiers - etc
Loose network cable connection
protocol data unit (PDU)
Electromagnetic Interference
utp
50. Services that allow remote users to connect to the network
Network News Transport Protocol (NNTP)
Adjacent Layer Interaction
access services
physical layer