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IT: Networking Vocab
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1. Provides FTP - HTTP - SMTP...
Application
Workstation
Presentation layer
crimping tool and wore stripper
2. Internet control message protocol
ICMP
datagram
binary
CIDR (Classless Interdomain Routing)
3. Carrier sense multiple access with collision detection
wide area network (WAN)
phase
CSMA/CD
encapsulation
4. Which protocol allows users to send emails?
Network
SMTP
Session Layer (Layer 5)
IGMP
5. Analog - only one direction. radio frequency analog waves w differences in frequency. expensive - longer distance. ex. cable TV
Full Duplex NIC Communication
broadband
ITU
UDP
6. An adapter board designed to connect a workstation - server - or other network device to a network medium.
network interface card (NIC)
802.11
pstn
Class B Network
7. This layer in the OSI transforms bits into electromagnetic signals.
Physical Layer
power budget
step-index multimode fiber-optic cable
thin client computing
8. Speed: 1000 Mbps - Alternative name: 1000BASE-LX - 1000BASE-SX - IEEE Standard: IEEE 802.3z - Cable Type: Fiber max length 550m (sx) - 5 km(lx)
cyclic redundancy check (CRC)
Gigabit Ethernet (fiber characteristics)
NIC drivers
Common Internet File System
9. Equivalent to OSI Layer 4 Transport
802.11
Transport
port 25
TCP/IP Vs. OSI: Transport
10. Used by web browser and web servers to exchange files
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
nslookup
802.11n
User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
11. Hardware that constitutes the enterprise-wide cabling system
star-ring hybrid topology
medium
Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
Cable Plant
12. A single computer that provides extensive multiuser access to network resources - such as shared files - shared disks - and shared printers.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
attenuation
Server
FM
13. Network interface card
Twister Pair Cable
Network
NIC
STP
14. Modulates digital into analog in transmitting end and demodulates analog into digital in recieving end
802.11
Network Address Translation
modem
SONET
15. 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.
fully distributed control strategy
Subscriber connector
Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)
A Protocol
16. Hardware device typically used to connect multiple LANs
Frequency Division Multiplexing
Network Information Service
router
half duplex
17. Unit of data that results from subdividing a larger protocol data unit
255.255.0.0
MMF
Bit-Error Rate Test
segment
18. IGMP
OSI Layer 4
PSTN
phase
Internet Group Multicast Protocol
19. A network design consisting of a continuous path for data with no logical beginning or ending point - and thus no terminators.
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
CSMA/CD
Ring topology
802.44
20. Data Link Layer
OSI Layer 2
physical media
baseband
association
21. Similar to FTP. lets you transfer files between a host and an FTP server
MMF
Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
SIP
Berkeley Internet Name Domain
22. FDM
Simple Network Management Protocol
Byte
Gigabit Ethernet
Frequency Division Multiplexing
23. A device that must be located at each end of a leased line.
Line Printer Daemon
f type connector
physical media
CSU/DSU
24. Layer 3 Troubleshooting
physical address
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
OSI
Correct subnet mask
25. As defined by the EIA/TIA-568 standard - cabling that connects workstations and servers in the work area.
RAS
reassembly
horizontal cabling
medium
26. Large networks 1-126
Boot Protocol /Bootstrap Protocol
LC connector
port 25
Class A Network
27. An enclosed area - such as a false floor - or ceiling - in which pressure from air or gas can be greater than the pressure outside the enclosed area - particularly during a fire. Plenum area in buildings often extend to multiple rooms or extend throu
plenum area
SIP
Correct subnet mask
Secure Copy
28. Maximum arc into which you can loop a cable before you will cause data transmission errors
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
Bend Radius
LLC (Logical Link Control) sublayer
bridge
29. Crimp into pins 1 and 2 of RJ 45 connector
network interface card (NIC)
Hertz
white/orange and orange
noise
30. Network Layer
Latency
OSI Layer 3
Electrical Signaling
Rivest - Shamir - Adelman
31. WAN transmission technologies that contains a segment that relied on 10GBase-EW standard
SONET
ISOC
datagram
STP
32. CSMA / CD
Same Layer Interaction
Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Detection
beaconing
simplex
33. Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
Service Set Identifier
fragmentation
HTTPS
Data Service Unit
34. The <html> - <head> and <body> tags are all examples of ________ tags
Category 1
Structure
Data Link
ssl
35. A technique for transmitting data over a network by encapsulating it within another protocol.
tunneling
Category 3
Challenge-Response Authentication Mechanism - Message Digest 5
TCP/IP Network Access Layer Encapsulation
36. DC
UDP
Domain Controller
baseband
TCP/IP Vs. OSI: Internet
37. 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
PDU (protocol data unit)
EIA (Electronics Industries Alliance)
binary
asymmetrical transmission
38. IDPS that examines network traffic in search of patterns that match known signatures
SMTP
IP Address
signature-based (knowledge-based - misuse-detection) IDPS
ppp
39. Device that boosts - or strengthens - and analog signal
SIP
active scanning
Amplifier
Byte
40. Type of transmission in which signals may travel in both directions over a medium simultaneously; also called duplex
connectionless
digital dis
crossover cable
Full-Duplex
41. A computer on a network that requests services or resources from another computer on a network
ports
workstation
ESS
1000base-sx
42. Virture privat network
crossover cable
VPN
bus topology
Gigabit Ethernet (fiber characteristics)
43. SMTP - simple mail transfer protocol
packet filtering - application proxy
Packets
port 25
TCP/IP Vs. OSI: Internet
44. Intelligently direct data between networks based on addressing - patterns of usage - and availability of network segments
inline sensor
extranet
route
Star topology
45. The physical layout of a computer network
client
topology
spread-spectrum
UDP
46. Device that acts as a wireless switch so that nodes can connect wirelessly to a network.
confidence value
access point
protocol
Structure
47. Uses multiple frequencies to transmit signal
ASCII
spread-spectrum
Application Layer
Data Link (Layer 2)
48. Allows an attached computer to act as a dumb terminal - with data processing taking place on the TCP/IP host computer
Remote Terminal Emulation (Telnet)
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
NetBIOs
Class D Network
49. A group of two or more computer systems linked together.
monitoring port (SPAN port)
Hertz
Electrical Signaling
network
50. A TCP/IP utility that at its simplest returns either to IP address of a host if its host name is specified or its host name if its IP address is specified
Physical
host
Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA)
multipath