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IT: Networking Vocab
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1. ICA
false positive
Independent Computer Architecture
802.11
Zero Configuration
2. A cable TV company - such as Comcast Broadband.
cabeloco
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
connectionless
OSI Layer 5
3. Physical Layer
Application Layer (Layer 7)
grade-index multimode fiber-optic cable
Bits
Intermediate Distribution Frame
4. IP
Internet Protocol
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Gigabit Ethernet (non-fiber characteristics)
HTTPS
5. Documented agreement containing technical specifications or other precise criteria used as guidelines to ensure that materials - products - processes - and services suit their intended purpose
standard
TCP/IP Architecture Layer 4
statistical multiplexing
EAP
6. A far-reaching system of networks that usually extends over approximately 48 kilometers (about 30 miles) and often reaches across states and continents.
wide area network (WAN)
Class B Network
reassembly
Adjacent Layer Interaction
7. The total amount of opposition to the flow of current.
EMI
Patch Panel
impedance
DHCP
8. Modulates digital into analog in transmitting end and demodulates analog into digital in recieving end
authentication
where NICs operate
RFI
modem
9. Private connection from a LAN to an internet service provider.
SMF
Secure Shell
FM
dedicated lines
10. Narrow core - light travels in one path - longest distance - more expensive then MMF
TDMA
Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
TDM
SMF
11. Point or stage in a wave's progress over time
Broadband
802.5
Phase
false positive
12. A TCP/IP utility that allows you to look up the DNS host name of a network node by specifying its IP address - or vice versa. This is useful for verifying that a hos is configured correctly and for troubleshooting DNS resolution problems
Data Service Unit
128 - 64 - 32 - 16 - 8 - 4 - 2 - 1
nslookup
udp
13. Begins when a system that initiated the connection transmits a PPP frame.
link establishment phase
BOOTP
Hyper text transfer protocol
dedicated lines
14. A network that links multiple LAN's in large city or metropolitan region.
baseband
Virtual private network (VPN)
metropolitan area network (MAN)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
15. MDIX
Electromagnetic Interference
Media Dependent Interface Crossover
Frequency Modulation
Host
16. Packet a node sends to acknowledge that it received a SYN request for connection; 2nd of three-step connection process
noise
RealVNC
intrusion prevention system (IPS)
SYN-ACK (synchronization-acknowledgment)
17. A transport system that uses the CSMA/CD access method for data transmission on a network. Typically it is implemented in a bus or star-bus hybrid topology.
ARP
pstn
Cable Plant
Ethernet
18. Provides strung security for HTTP- transpored information - but it is only used by some vendor's application
66 Block
10Base-T
Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (S-HTTP)
Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service
19. Lower sublayer of the Data Link layer; appends the physical address of the destination computer onto the fram
extranet
coaxial cable
Repeater
MAC (Media Access Control) sublayer
20. The process of reconstructing segmented data
port 69
switch
255.255.255.252
reassembly
21. AM
Data Service Unit
broadband
Amplitude Modulation
Transport
22. An established guideline that specifies how networked data is formatted into a packet or frame - how it is transmitted - and how it is interpreted at the receiving end.
Protocol
entrapment
encapsulate
POP3
23. A process that ensures one device does not send information faster than it can be received by another device.
standard
flow control
Amplifier
device ID
24. Gigabit Interface Converter - Plugs in to an interface on a switch
CRC
GBIC
network class C
Transmission Control Protocol
25. Equals a single pulse in the digital encoding system
Multiplexer
Bit
Bend Radius
OSI Layer 2
26. IPX & SPX
slip
standard connector
TCP/IP Vs. Netware: Transport & Internet
port 110
27. A data-link protocol used for remote networking that can exchange IP addresses - carry data by multiple network layer protocols - and support different app. protocols.
Open System Interconnection (OSI) referance model
router
66 Block
PPP
28. Public switched telephone network
PSTN
Internetwork Packet Exchange
DCE
Application Layer
29. Connects networks larger than a LAN - but smaller than a WAN
MAN
Analog
TCP/IP Architecture Layer 1
802.11g
30. Four twisted wire pairs rated for 100 Mhz - but capable of handling the disturbance on eash pair that's caused by transmitting on all four pairs at the same time.
Category 5e
Secure Copy Protocol
header
OSI
31. Hardware that constitutes the enterprise-wide cabling system
BOOTP
broadband
ethernet
Cable Plant
32. Is a TCP/IP service that converts a computer or domain name to an IP address or that converts an IP address to a computer or domain name.
SMTP server name
tracepath
physical layer
Domain Name System (DNS)
33. IPSec
802.11g
Internet Protocol Security
MAC sublayer
telnet
34. Hardware device located at the ISP side of ADSL connections.
Default Gateway
802.44
Application Layer (Layer 7)
DSLAM
35. Response generated atTransport layer confirming to sender that its frame was received; 3rd step in establishing a connection
RS 232
ACK (acknowledgement)
10base-t
Conduit
36. Equivalent to OSI Layer 2 Data Link & Layer 1 Physical
media access control (MAC)
device ID
OSI Layer 2
TCP/IP Vs. OSI: Network Access
37. Name Of Layer 2
Synchronous Optical Network
block ID
Firewall configured correctly
Data Link
38. A device that can transmit and receive - such as transmitting and receiving signals on a communication cable
transceiver
star wired ring
intrusion reaction
Network
39. String used to identify an access point - configure on your new access points to match the settings on existing access points
true attack stimulus
Application layer
BGP
SSID
40. Connector with 9 pins - commonly used in a serial communication that conforms to the rs-232 standard
SNAT (Static Network Address Translation)
Network News Transport Protocol (NNTP)
analog
DB-9 connector
41. Application Layer
Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
HTTP
communications media
Category 3
42. Data Link Layer
ARP
Frames
Inter Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
Cable Plant
43. Digital - one signal one channel at a time (half duplexing) ex. ethernet
Authentication Header
ISOC (Internet Society)
throughput
baseband
44. UDP
peer-to-peer network
OSI Layer 3
User Datagram Protocol
Organizational Unit
45. Frame
TCP/IP Network Access Layer Encapsulation
L2TP
port 123
RFI
46. Measure of the difference between the highest and lowest frequencies that a medium can transmit
Bandwidth
SYN-ACK (synchronization-acknowledgment)
PSTN
Media Dependent Interface
47. The part of a network to which segments and significant shared devices connect
intrusion prevention system (IPS)
backbone
TCP/IP Vs. OSI: Application
802.3af
48. Error detection and correction
confidence value
Connectors
Transport
Optical Time Domain Reflectometer
49. Basic error correction and detection
Data Link
NetWare Loadable Module
throughput
ITU
50. Transport Layer
physical media
TCP/UDP
Data Link
Terminator