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IT: Networking Vocab
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1. Eight bits of information; in a digital signaling system - one byte carries one piece of information
Wide area network (WAN
Byte
broadband
twisted shielded pair
2. Layer 4
port 53
Service Set Identifier
vampire tap
Transport
3. Feeding everybody in building
active scanning
omnidirectional antenna
port 123
MultiStation Access Unit
4. Physical layout of a star topology and also ring logical topology
Internet Protocol Security
RFI
RealVNC
star wired ring
5. A service provided with Windows 98 - Me - 2000 - and 32-bit versions of XP operating systems that allows one computer - the ICS host - to share its Internet connection with other computers on the same network.
telnet
DCE
ICS (Internet Connection Sharing)
ITU
6. Transport layer protocol that services a request without requiring a verified session and without guaranteeing delivery data
ethernet
User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
connectionless
physical layer device
7. The scheme for assigning a unique identifying number to every node on a network
FDMA
File Transfer Protocol
addressing
noise
8. Layer 1 Troubleshooting
fixing attenuation
OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) model
OSI Layer 3
Device power off
9. Junction point between the MDF and concentrations of fewer connections; those that terminate in a telecommunications closet
Fast Ethernet
Intermediate Distribution Frame
noise
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
10. Developed by ISO and ANSI - a model that providees a framework for networked hardware and software communication based on seven layers.
CIDR block
Open System Interconnection (OSI) referance model
ISDN
application protocol verification
11. A network that links multiple LANs in a large city or metropolitan region.
Metropolitan area network (MAN)
CRC
TCP/IP Architecture Layer 3
Session
12. DC
OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) model
Domain Controller
protocol
Canonical Name
13. Equals a single pulse in the digital encoding system
802.2
Port 20
Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA)
Bit
14. A app. loaded on a server included with Windows OS that enables remote access
NetWare Directory Services
MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)
RAS
Extended Network Prefix
15. Determines the network path on which to route packets - Help reduce network congestion - Establishes virtual circuits - Routes packets to other networks - resequencing packet transmissions when needed - Translates between protocols
Network Layer (Layer 3)
Network
port 80
full duplex
16. Addresses packet size
Data Link
VLAN
signature-based (knowledge-based - misuse-detection) IDPS
802.11b
17. Name Of Layer 6
A Protocol
Flow Control
Session
Presentation
18. A combination of techniques used to detect an intrusion and then to trace it back to its source
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP
MAC address
trap and trace
f type connector
19. Data transmission that involves one transmitter and one receiver
alarm filtering
Point-to-Point
Encrypting File System
FF02
20. Also called the star-wired bus topology - a network design that combines the logial comunications of a bus with the physical layout of a star.
MAU
Remote Access Service
star-bus hybrid topology
router
21. Secure Sockets Layer
SSL
Single Mode Fiber
American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)
Connectors
22. OTDR
router
Optical Time Domain Reflectometer
Virtual Private Network
A Protocol
23. The gateway that first interprets a device's outbound requests - and then interprets its inbound requests to and from other subnets.
Default Gateway
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
LAN
TCP/IP Vs. OSI: Internet
24. Packet a node sends to acknowledge that it received a SYN request for connection; 2nd of three-step connection process
ISO
Integrated Services Digital Network
SYN-ACK (synchronization-acknowledgment)
cyclic redundancy check (CRC)
25. An Application layer protocol used to retrieve messages from a mail server. When a client retrieves mail via POP - messages previously stored on the mail server are downloaded to the client's workstation - and then deleted from the mail server.
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
ANSI (American National Standards Institute)
POP (Post Office Protocol)
OSI Reference to TCP
26. Issue signals along a network medium
simplex
transmit
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)
vampire tap
27. Services that allow remote users to connect to the network
Internet Relay Chat
Repeaters
route
access services
28. Used to log on to a UNIX host
Backup Domain Controller
Private Network
Zero Configuration
telnet
29. Routers work here
RealVNC
Network
CSMA/CA
plenum area
30. Upper sublayer in the Data Link layer. Provides a common interface and supplies reliability and flow control services
802.3
PING
LLC (Logical Link Control) sublayer
Cladding
31. Carrier sense multiple access w collision detection (network access method) ethernet
Analog
CSMA/CD
NetWare Loadable Module
certification value may be lessened due to the number of people obtaining them
32. Enables network managers to continuously monitor network activity
Domain Name Service
subnetting purpose
WDM
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
33. What is a unique name that identifies an internet site called?
TCP/IP Architecture Layer 3
Common Internet File System
telephone connector
Domain Name
34. Unix command at shell prompt to send a file to printer
electromagnetic interference (EMI)
lpr filename
SLIP
DCE
35. An international body that establishes communications and networking standards - and that is particularly known for its contributions to network protocol standards.
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
Bits
Full Duplex NIC Communication
FDM
36. Name Of Layer 2
Data Link
Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet
CSMA/CD
t1 connection
37. Which protocol provides the user with many functions of the world wide web?
ISOC
Hyper text transfer protocol
whois
Overhead
38. Regular voice-grade telephone service.
Single Mode Fiber
Local Connector
ISP (Internet service provider)
plain old telephone service (POTS)
39. Most resistant to EMI
fragmentation
fiber optic cable
Network
cp connection
40. The most popular type of network for medium- and large-scale organizations
EMI
client/server
Management Information Base
ISDN
41. NNTP
power over ethernet
Frame
Network News Transport Protocol
TIA (Telecommications Industry Association)
42. Manages network communication - available on a CD-ROM for example - that is used to manage communications and how frames or packets are sent using a protocol.
NIC drivers
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP
host-based IDPS (HIPDS)
hot site
43. SFTP
demilitarized zone
Data Link
bus topology
Secure File Transfer Protocol
44. The utility that allows you to query ICANN's DNS registration database and find information about a domain.
LAN
ring topology
Rivest - Shamir - Adelman
whois
45. Stop signals after they have reached the end of the wire
terminators
analog
CSMA/CA
HTTPS
46. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SMTP
device ID
port 21
pathping
47. PAP
butt set
Core Gateway
local area network (LAN)
Password Authentication Protocol
48. Multiplexing technique use over single-mode or multimode fiber-optic cable in which each signal is assigned a different wavelength for its carrier wave; little space exists between carrier waves
Demarcation Point
Media Dependent Interface
MAU
Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
49. Event that triggers alarm when no actual attack is in progress
tracepath
Transport
10Base-T
false attack stimulus
50. Signal interference caused by electrical devices that emit radio waves at the same frequency used by network signal transmissions.
ring topology
radio frequency interference (RFI)
network class C
Point-to-Multipoint