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IT: Networking Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Netscape and Microsoft have implemented HTTPS to protect data transported via their Web browsers.
latency
Access Control List
Open Shortest Path First
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)
2. Trivial file transfer protocol
bus topology
802.3
CD-ROM File System
TFTP
3. Network time protocol
PSTN
Ethernet
fixing cross talk
NTP
4. A fiber-optic data transport method capable of a 100-Mbps transfer rate using a dual ring topology; largely supplanted today by faster Ethernet method.
Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)
Secure Shell
medium
power over ethernet
5. Transmission that involves one transmitter and multiple - undefined receivers
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
Internet Group Multicast Protocol
Broadcast
physical media
6. Short reach. only multimode-max length is 500. baseband transmission. 1000 mpbs.
TIA (Telecommications Industry Association)
Secure Copy
Intermediate Distribution Frame
1000base-sx
7. A cable TV company - such as Comcast Broadband.
ring topology
RARP
cabeloco
ISO (International Organization for Standardization)
8. Data terminal equipment - little independent data processing capability. ex. workstation
Session Layer (Layer 5)
DTE
signature-based (knowledge-based - misuse-detection) IDPS
NetWare Directory Services
9. Unlicensed band with 11 channels
node
2.4-GHz band
Server
Session
10. 500 meters - 10Mbps
ISOC
10BASE5 Limit
Universal serial bus
encapsulate
11. Secure sockets layer-encyrpts TCP/IP transmission including web forms- en route b/w the client server using public key encryption technology
Universal serial bus
ssl
Secure Copy Protocol
1000base-sx
12. Integrated digital network
isdn
HTTPS
Internet Group Membership Protocol (IGMP)
MultiMode Fiber
13. Multimode fiber
Mesh topology
single-mode fiber-optic cable
MMF
horizontal cabling
14. Round time trip. time it takes for packet to get from sender to receiver and back
RTT
peer-to-peer network
true attack stimulus
HTTP
15. Wavelength division multiplexing
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
ICS host
WDM
Default Gateway
16. 4th layer; protocols ensure that data are transferred from point A to point B reliably and without errors; services include flow control - acknowledgment - error correction - segmentation - reassembly - and sequencing
Transport layer
enticement
Domain Name
mtr (my traceroute)
17. L2F
Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum
Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
Presentation
Layer 2 Forwarding
18. Network news transfer protocol
cross talk
site policy awareness
intrusion prevention system (IPS)
NNTP
19. A set of routines that make up part of a software application
API (application program interface)
Demarcation Point
POP (Post Office Protocol)
ppp
20. A data transmission rate
bandwidth
white/orange and orange
Internet Group Multicast Protocol
false negative
21. Networking technology developed at Xerox in the 70s and improved by Digital Equipment Corp - Inel - and Xerox. Most common form of network transmission - follows IEEE 802.3 standard
Ethernet
trap and trace
ring topology
Light Weight Directory access protocol (LDAP
22. Digital subscriber line- support multiple data and voice channels over a single line - extraordinary throughput though telephone lines
DSL
RARP
IEEE 802.12 Standard
1000base-sx
23. Process by which attacker changes the format and/or timing of their activities to avoid being detected by the IDPS
Crosstalk
evasion
Radio Frequency Interference
Password Authentication Protocol
24. The ability to send or receive signals on a medium - but not at the same time.
half duplex
encapsulate
duplex
cross talk
25. A network owned and maintained by an organization -such as a campus network operated by a college.
Media Dependent Interface
WDM
MAC sublayer
private network
26. LDAP
ANSI
backbone cabling
Gigabit Interface Converter
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
27. A network design consisting of a continuous path for data with no logical beginning or ending point - and thus no terminators.
Subnetmask
Ring topology
grade-index multimode fiber-optic cable
Internet Control Message Protocol
28. The number of times a signal's amplitude changes over a fixed period of time - expressed in cycles per second - Hz
Routing
CHAP
Frequency
TCP port 23
29. Open source program that allows you too remotely take over another workstation and walk through support process
ITU
signal bounce
RealVNC
Kerberos
30. What is an agreed set of rules that two parties agree on in order to communicate with each other commanly known as?
Classful Addressing
TCP/IP
noise
A Protocol
31. Presentation Layer
horizontal cabling
udp
alarm clustering and compaction
OSI Layer 6
32. UN agency that regulates international telecommunications and provides developing countries with technical expertise and equipment to advance their technological bases
ITU (International Telecommunication Union)
To stop the Hamburgerler from stealing all of Ronnie McDonalds burgers
internetwork
baseband
33. Services that allow remote users to connect to the network
switch
access services
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
ICS (Internet Connection Sharing)
34. Layer 1 Troubleshooting
SMTP
Device power off
point to multipoint
ISO (International Organization for Standardization)
35. Hardware device typically used to connect multiple LANs
Network layer
router
IEEE
TDM
36. Uses multiple frequencies to transmit signal
Category 5
Network
spread-spectrum
alert or alarm
37. Actual. how much data is transmitted during given time
Single Mode Fiber
EMI
throughput
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
38. Measure of frequency equivalent to the number of amplitude cycles per second
Ethernet
Remote Access Service
Hertz
SSH
39. Unit of data at any layer of the OSI model
Wide area network (WAN
PDU (protocol data unit)
Simple Network Management protocol (SNMP)
fiber-optic cables
40. Used connecting a workstation to a routers console part
OSI Layer 4
Repeaters
fiber-optic cables
RS 232
41. Narrow core - light travels in one path - longest distance - more expensive then MMF
ring topology
SMF
Category 5e
Physical Layer (Layer 1)
42. Controls how applications access network
Network Layer
service data unit (SDU)
Application
FTP
43. Issue signals along a network medium
transmit
IP Addressing
DSSS
authentication
44. Positive and zero. 1 and 0's.
full mesh
binary
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)
network layer
45. Enables network managers to continuously monitor network activity
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
connectionless
High-Level Data Link Control
star-wired bus topology
46. Station transmits a probe that is then replied by the access point
network class a
active scanning
Radio Waves
confidence value
47. Signals travel in one direction
simplex
Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service
BGP
frame
48. Network Layer
Packets
electromagnetic interference (EMI)
Class C Network
lpr filename
49. Internet Engineering Task Force
Baseband
proxy server
flow control
IETE
50. Authentication prtocol that does not issue a challenge or require 3rd party verification of the computer requestiing authentication
port 53
FDM
kereberos
Network Layer