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CCNA Network Fundamentals Vocab

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1. Any combination of hardware device and/or software application designed to protect network devices from outside network users and/or malicious applications and files.






2. The learning of source addresses on incoming frames and adding them to the bridging table. After the table has been completed and when a frame is received on one of the bridge's interfaces - the bridge looks up the frame's destination address in its






3. Resources used to manage or operate the network. Overhead consumes bandwidth and reduces the amount of application data that can be transported across the network.






4. A service or a program to look up information in the DNS






5. A network that is connected to a device's interface. For example networks that interface with the router are known to be directly connected. Devices learn their initial IP routes based on being connected to these subnets.






6. Refers to whether the performance of a device - attached to a particular type of LAN - can be accurately predicted. Token Ring LANS are deterministic - but ethernet LANS are non deterministic.






7. An entry in an IP routing table that was created because a network engineer entered the routing information into the router's configuration.






8. A high-speed line or series of connections that forms a major pathway within a network. The term is often used to describe the main network connections comprising the Internet.






9. Path through an internetwork through which packets are forwarded.






10. Communication where the sender and receiver must prearrange for communications to occur; otherwise - the communication fails.






11. A protocol for synchronizing the clocks of computer systems over packet-switch data networks. NTP uses UDP port 123 as its transport layer.






12. The number of various unique digits - including 0 that a positional number system uses to represent numbers. For example - in the binary system (base 2) the radix is 2. In the decimal system the radix is 10.






13. A data link layer address - for example a MAC address






14. The portion of a binary number that carries the most weight - the one written farthest to the left. High-order bits are the 1s in the network mask.






15. An application level network protocl mainly applied to shared access to files - printers - serial ports - and miscellaneous communications between nodes on a network.






16. An addressing scheme in which a network is partitioned into sections - with the section identifier forming one part of each destination's address and the destination identifier forming another






17. In TCP - the process of taking a large chunk of data and breaking it into small enough pieces to fit within a TCP segment without breaking any rules about the maximum amount of data allowed in a segment.






18. A device that connects to a local digital telephone loop for a WAN circuit to a serial interface on a network device - typically connecting to a router. The CSU/DSU performs physical Layer 1 signaling on WAN circuits






19. A network that incorporates both optical fiber along with coaxial cable to create a broadband network. commonly used by cable tv companies.






20. A group that receives a multicast transmission. The members of a multicast group have the same mulitcast IP addressing to receive the same transmission.






21. Communication that does not use a common clock between the sender and receiver. To maintain timing - additional information is sent to synchronize the receive circuit to the incoming data. For ethernet at 10MBPS - the ethernet devices do not send ele






22. Communication that only allows one station to receive while the other station is transmitting






23. An organization that assigns the numbers important to the proper operation of the TCP/IP protocol and the Internet - including assigning globally unique IP addresses.






24. A term that describes IPv4 packets sent to all hosts in a particular network. In a directed broadcast - a single copy of the packet is routed to the specified network - where it is broadcast to all hosts on that network






25. The arrangement of the nodes in a network and the physical connections between them. This is the representation of how the media is used to connect the devices.






26. A routing feature in which frames in an interface output queue are prioritized based on various characteristics such as packet size and interface type.






27. A common term for 10base2 ethernet - referring to the fact that 10base2 cabling is thinner than coaxial cabling used for 10base5






28. The MAC address that is permanently assigned to a LAN interface or NIC. It is called burned-in because the address is burned into a chip on the card - and the address cannot be changed. Also called universally administered address.






29. Media access methodology in which a node wishing to transmit listens for a carrier wave before trying to send. If a carrier is sensed - the node waits for the transmission in progress to finish before initiating its own transmission.






30. The passage of a data packet between two network nodes.






31. A process where multiple digital data streams are combined into one signal.






32. Application-level throughput. It is the number of useful bits per unit of time from a certain source address to a certain destination - excluding protocol overhead and excluding retransmitted data packets.






33. A process used to verify the identity of a person or process






34. Network protocols or technologies that do not use the acknowledgment system to guarantee reliable delivery of information






35. A group defined by a class D address (multicast - ranging from 224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255) - whereupon hosts can pertain to multicast groups. Hosts that have the same multicast address are part of the same host group.






36. A group of IP addresses that have the same value in the first part of the IP addresses - for the purpose of allowing routing to identify the group by the inital part of the addresses. IP addresses in the same subnet typically sit on the same network






37. An IPv4 address in the range of 169.254.1.0 to 169.254.254.255. Communication using these addresses is used with a ttl of 1 and limited to the local network






38. A convention for writing IP addresses with four decimal numbers - ranging from 0 to 255 - with each octet representing 8 bits of the 32 bit IP address. The term originates from the fact that each of the four decimal numbers is separated by a period.






39. The IPv4 multicast addresses 224.0.0.0 to 224.0.0.255. These addresses are to be used for multicast groups on a local network. Packets to these destinations are always transmitted with a TTTL value of 1






40. The devices and connections of a communications network that comprise the network end of the user to network interface. The DCE provides a physical connection to the network - forwards traffic - and provides a clocking signal used to synchronize data






41. An internet wide system by which a hierarchical set of DNS servers collectively hold all the name IP address mappings - with DNS servers referring users to the correct DNS server to successfully resolve a DNS name.






42. An international - nonprofit organization for the advancement of technology related to eletricity. IEEE maintains the standards defining many LAN protocols.






43. An IPv4 multicast address that is restricted to a local group or organization






44. A grouping of code that meets a certain - already specified - condition for entering in that certain group.






45. A number used in the 802.11 header to specify the session between a wireless client and the access point.






46. The cabling and connectors used to interconnect the network devices.






47. Normally - a relatively general term that refers to dfifferent kinds of networking devices. Historically - when routers were created - they were called gateways






48. A general type of cable - with the cable holding twisted pairs of copper wires and the cable itself having little shielding.






49. A common term for 10base5 ethernet - referring to the fact that 10base5 cabling is thicker than the coaxial cabling used for 10base2.






50. A logical network composed of all the computers and networking devices that can be reached by sending a frame to the data link layer broadcast address.






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