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IT: Networking Vocab
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1. Technology that uses standard telephone wires and allows transmission of voice and data information. Slower than ADSL.
Internet Connection Sharing
router
ISDN
goodput
2. IP
fixing cross talk
TIA (Telecommications Industry Association)
Internet Protocol
Binary
3. Signals travel in one direction
WAN Connectivity
simplex
throughput
checksum
4. Individual insulated wire pairs - less expensive then STP - less resistant to noise
device ID
UTP
Internet Protocol version 4
RADIUS
5. Layer 5 through 7 Troubleshooting
configured with correct sending and receiving email server information
Adjacent Layer Interaction
ADSL
Class E Network
6. Application Layer
Berkeley Software Distribution
IGMP
IP (Internet Protocol)
Client Software
7. Scrambles information into an alternative form that requires a key or password to decrypt the information.
Connectors
Telnet
ISOC
encryption
8. A Data Link sublayer of the OSI model that initiates the communication link between nodes and ensures the link is not unintentionally broken.
logical link control (LLC)
NetWare Core Protocol
Impedance
Network Switching
9. 12-character string that uniquely identifies a network node - hard coded into the NIC by the manufacturer; composed ot the block ID and device ID
MAC address
EIA
Thin Eterhnet/10 Base 2
ICMP
10. Which layer in the OSI is responsible for routing and controling the flow of packets around the network?
Password Authentication Protocol
Ethernet (characteristics)
Session
Network Layer
11. Guarantees that a server continually has power even if a buildings electrical service is interrupted - continuous voltage to a device by switching virtually instantaneously to the battery when it detects loss of power
connectionless
Intermediate Distribution Frame
Category 6
standby UPS
12. Network configuration that allows selected outside organizations to access internal information systems.
stp
noise
Digital
extranet
13. AM
Amplitude Modulation
DNS
crossover cable
latency
14. Receives a signal on one end - interprets it as 0 & 1 - then generates a new clean signal on the other end.
FDM
network monitor
Internet
Repeater
15. Backbone: A high-capacity communications medium that joins networks on the same floor in a building - on different floors - and across long distances.
segment
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
Backbone
Data Terminal Equipment
16. Physical Layer
Device power unplugged
Radio Waves
Common Internet File System
Internet
17. Teflon-coated cable that is used in plenum area because it does not emit a toxic vapor when burned
TCP/IP Architecture Layer 2
packet
plenum cables
Fast Ethernet (characteristics)
18. Used connecting a workstation to a routers console part
PDU (protocol data unit)
router
RS 232
firmware
19. NLM
Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3)
NetWare Loadable Module
SMF
port 110
20. A wireless station listens on all channels for a bacon frame from an access point
authentication
passive scanning
connection oriented
network layer
21. IPv6 addressing - multicast group
switch
modem
FF02
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
22. Station transmits a probe that is then replied by the access point
SSL
active scanning
radio frequency interference (RFI)
Post Office Protocol version 3
23. Unwanted signals from sources near network cabling - such as motors and power lines
frame
Noise
host-based IDPS (HIPDS)
Universal serial bus
24. Is a secure form of HTTP
HTTPS
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
backbone
attenuation
25. Form of transmission that allows multiple signals to travel simultaneously over one medium
Multiplexing
ASCII
driver signing
Secure Copy
26. Round time trip. time it takes for packet to get from sender to receiver and back
Local Connector
RTT
flow control
session layer
27. This layer in the OSI network model breaks up the files into packets to allow them to be sent around the network.
Layer 2 Forwarding
Class C Network
Transport Layer
Connectors
28. A network design consisting of a continuous path for data with no logical beginning or ending point - and thus no terminators.
Ring topology
Transport
Transport
white/orange and orange
29. Is a protocol for defining host groups.
EIA (Electronics Industries Alliance)
reassembly
Internet Group Membership Protocol (IGMP)
Simple Network Management Protocol
30. DNS - Domain name system
Secure Copy
Digital
Amplitude Modulation
port 53
31. Layer 3 Troubleshooting
Local area network (LAN)
IP address within the assigned network
demilitarized zone
DHCP
32. Hardware that constitutes the enterprise-wide cabling system
TCP/IP Transport Layer Encapsulation
Cable Plant
STP
Physical
33. TCP is a Layer 4 protocol (Due to the close match or the OSI Transport Layer and TCP within the TCP/IP Transport Layer.
single-mode fiber-optic cable
bandwidth
OSI Reference to TCP
alarm clustering and compaction
34. Is an e mail retival protocol designed to enabel users to access their e-mail from various locations
Inter Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
crimping tool and wore stripper
Internet Protocol
Independent Computer Architecture
35. Each computer is connected to a central device
padded cell
Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMACD)
fault tolerance
star topology
36. The wave splits into secondary waves
diffraction
CSMACD
station
Berkeley Internet Name Domain
37. Allows an attached computer to act as a dumb terminal - with data processing taking place on the TCP/IP host computer
Protocol
Remote Terminal Emulation (Telnet)
evasion
backbone
38. A computer on a network that requests services or resources from another computer on a network
Node
BGP
workstation
Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
39. 128-191
ethernet
flow control
network class B
Peer-to-peer network
40. Institute of electrical and electronics engineers
transmit
IEEE
Data Terminal Equipment
local area network (LAN)
41. ICS
t1 connection
Data Link
token ring
Internet Connection Sharing
42. Used on many UNIX/LINUX systems to provide authentication security for TCP/IP applications such as Telnet and FTP
fully distributed control strategy
Secure Shell (SSH)
A Protocol
roaming
43. Device that boosts - or strengthens - and analog signal
Amplifier
noise
STP
site policy
44. Representatives from electronics manufacturers across the US that sets standards for electronic equipment and lobbies for legislation favorable to the growth of the computer and electronics industries
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
geosynchronous
EIA (Electronics Industries Alliance)
Virtual Private Network
45. The least secure authentication method
Repeater
telnet
HTTP
PAP
46. Long reach. multimode max length is 550 meters. single mode max length is 5000. 1000 mpbs. baseband transmission
10Base-T
butt set
1000base-lx
terminators
47. A frame (or packet) sent to all nodes on the network.
Group Policy Object
protocol
broadcast frame or broadcast packet
ICS host
48. Length of time it takes for a packet to go from sender to receiver - then back to sender; measured in milliseconds
Round Trip Time
cat 5
SMTP (Simple Mail transfer Protocol)
NIC
49. Routers use it to identify nodes belonging to a multicast group
IGMP
802.5
Fault tolerance
LAN
50. Single mode fiber
flow control
Host
SMF
protocol