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Cisco Certification OSI Model

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1. What is the 'MAC Layer' responsible for?
The hardware that implements the MAC.
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
Application layer.
The media access control (MAC) data communication protocol sub-layer - is a sublayer of the data link layer specified in the seven-layer OSI model (layer 2). It provides addressing and channel access control mechanisms that make it possible for sever

2. What does the acronym 'WAN' stand for?
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer
Wide Area Network
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.
Open Source Interconnect

3. What is layer 6 of the OSI model?
Theoretical
IEA RS232 - V.35. Cat 5 - RJ45
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer
Presentation layer.

4. What are some examples of 'LAN' side Datalink Layer Protocols and Standards?
ATM is a standard switching technique - designed to unify telecommunication and computer networks. It uses asynchronous time-division multiplexing and it encodes data into small - fixed-sized cells.
802.2 - Logical Link Control - 802.3 - Ethernet - 802.5 - Token Ring - 802.11 - Wireless
International Standards Organization
Combining 'Bits' into 'Bytes' - & 'Bytes' into 'Frames' - provides the functional and procedural means to transfer data between network entities and might provide the means to detect and possibly correct errors that may occur in the physical layer.

5. When would the PPP be used?
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.
Physical Layer
Presentation layer.

6. What is the purpose of the OSI Model?
Presentation layer.
Moving 'Bits' from 'Source' device to 'Destination' device across 'Media'.
Provide a model to discribe how data moves from source device to destination device.
The media access control (MAC) data communication protocol sub-layer - is a sublayer of the data link layer specified in the seven-layer OSI model (layer 2). It provides addressing and channel access control mechanisms that make it possible for sever

7. What does the acronym 'ATM' stand for?
Cables - Pins - Electrical Signals
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Theoretical
Application: JPEG - BMP - TIFF - PICT - MPEG - WMV - AVI - ASCII - EBCDIC - MIDI - WAV - Session: Network File System (NFS) - Apple Session Protocol (ASP) - Structured Query Language (SQL) - Remote procedure call (RPC) - X Window

8. In an OSI context What is considered 'media'?
OSI model classifies and organizes the tasks that hosts perform to prepare data for transport across the network. It most widely used method for understanding and talking about network communications
Wide area network technology that specifies the physical and logical link layers of digital telecommunications channels using a packet switching methodology
Cables - Pins - Electrical Signals
IEA RS232 - V.35. Cat 5 - RJ45

9. What does the acronym 'ISO' stand for?
The media access control (MAC) data communication protocol sub-layer - is a sublayer of the data link layer specified in the seven-layer OSI model (layer 2). It provides addressing and channel access control mechanisms that make it possible for sever
Provides a standard for hardware development - Allows modular SW development - Facilitates rapid development of new technology
Data Link layer.
International Standards Organization

10. How bits are in a MAC address?
48 Bits
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATM is a standard switching technique - designed to unify telecommunication and computer networks. It uses asynchronous time-division multiplexing and it encodes data into small - fixed-sized cells.
Point to Point

11. What are are the 'Sub Layers' of the 'Data Link' Layer?
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer
Wide area network technology that specifies the physical and logical link layers of digital telecommunications channels using a packet switching methodology
The media access control (MAC) data communication protocol sub-layer - is a sublayer of the data link layer specified in the seven-layer OSI model (layer 2). It provides addressing and channel access control mechanisms that make it possible for sever
Seven

12. Frame Relay
Hardware address - Ethernet address - BIA - Burned in Address
Session layer.
All People Seem To Need Data Processing (Application - Presentation - Session - Transport - Network - Data Link - Physical)
Wide area network technology that specifies the physical and logical link layers of digital telecommunications channels using a packet switching methodology

13. What is the Mnemonic phrase for remembering OSI layers ordered 7 to 1?
ATM is a standard switching technique - designed to unify telecommunication and computer networks. It uses asynchronous time-division multiplexing and it encodes data into small - fixed-sized cells.
The media access control (MAC) data communication protocol sub-layer - is a sublayer of the data link layer specified in the seven-layer OSI model (layer 2). It provides addressing and channel access control mechanisms that make it possible for sever
All People Seem To Need Data Processing (Application - Presentation - Session - Transport - Network - Data Link - Physical)
Hardware address - Ethernet address - BIA - Burned in Address

14. OSI layers are...
Combining 'Bits' into 'Bytes' - & 'Bytes' into 'Frames' - provides the functional and procedural means to transfer data between network entities and might provide the means to detect and possibly correct errors that may occur in the physical layer.
OSI model classifies and organizes the tasks that hosts perform to prepare data for transport across the network. It most widely used method for understanding and talking about network communications
Theoretical
High-Level Data Link Control

15. What is the MAC address?
Wide area network technology that specifies the physical and logical link layers of digital telecommunications channels using a packet switching methodology
Provide a model to discribe how data moves from source device to destination device.
All People Seem To Need Data Processing (Application - Presentation - Session - Transport - Network - Data Link - Physical)
48 bit address used to identify networking cards and appliances

16. What is the EIA/TIA 232 protocol concerned with?
Layer 1 Protocol having to do with serial communication
It provides multiplexing mechanisms that make it possible for several network protocols (IP - IPX - Decnet and Appletalk) to coexist within a multipoint network and to be transported over the same network media - and can also provide flow control and
Application: JPEG - BMP - TIFF - PICT - MPEG - WMV - AVI - ASCII - EBCDIC - MIDI - WAV - Session: Network File System (NFS) - Apple Session Protocol (ASP) - Structured Query Language (SQL) - Remote procedure call (RPC) - X Window
Transport layer.

17. What is layer 1 of the OSI model?
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away (Physical - Data Link - Network - Transport - Session - Presentation - Application)
Presentation layer.
Physical layer.
The media access control (MAC) data communication protocol sub-layer - is a sublayer of the data link layer specified in the seven-layer OSI model (layer 2). It provides addressing and channel access control mechanisms that make it possible for sever

18. What does the acronym 'PPP' stand for?
Moving 'Bits' from 'Source' device to 'Destination' device across 'Media'.
Combining 'Bits' into 'Bytes' - & 'Bytes' into 'Frames' - provides the functional and procedural means to transfer data between network entities and might provide the means to detect and possibly correct errors that may occur in the physical layer.
Point to Point
The third layer is the networking layer which is responsible for routing packets across the network to ther=ir destination

19. What are some Physical Layer Protocols and Standards?
IEA RS232 - V.35. Cat 5 - RJ45
Provides a standard for hardware development - Allows modular SW development - Facilitates rapid development of new technology
Hardware address - Ethernet address - BIA - Burned in Address
TCP: Connection oriented - High reliability - High overhead - UDP: Conectionless - Low reliability - Low overhead

20. What is the Physical Layer responsible for?

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21. Which OSI model layer is concerned with MAC addresses?
Layer 2 - The Data Link layer.
Open Source Interconnect
Theoretical
Asynchronous Transfer Mode

22. What is HDLC?
All People Seem To Need Data Processing (Application - Presentation - Session - Transport - Network - Data Link - Physical)
It is a bit-oriented synchronous data link layer protocol developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The original ISO standards for HDLC are: ISO 3309
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
48 bit address used to identify networking cards and appliances

23. What protocols correspond to the Presentation and Session layers?
It is a bit-oriented synchronous data link layer protocol developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The original ISO standards for HDLC are: ISO 3309
Data Flow layers.
OSI model classifies and organizes the tasks that hosts perform to prepare data for transport across the network. It most widely used method for understanding and talking about network communications
Application: JPEG - BMP - TIFF - PICT - MPEG - WMV - AVI - ASCII - EBCDIC - MIDI - WAV - Session: Network File System (NFS) - Apple Session Protocol (ASP) - Structured Query Language (SQL) - Remote procedure call (RPC) - X Window

24. What are the advantages of the OSI model?
Moving 'Bits' from 'Source' device to 'Destination' device across 'Media'.
The third layer is the networking layer which is responsible for routing packets across the network to ther=ir destination
Provides a standard for hardware development - Allows modular SW development - Facilitates rapid development of new technology
Session layer.

25. What does the acronym 'LAN' stand for?
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.
Local Area Network
Physical layer.
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM

26. What is the 'LLC Layer' responsible for?
Data Link layer.
Wide area network technology that specifies the physical and logical link layers of digital telecommunications channels using a packet switching methodology
It provides multiplexing mechanisms that make it possible for several network protocols (IP - IPX - Decnet and Appletalk) to coexist within a multipoint network and to be transported over the same network media - and can also provide flow control and
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM

27. What is the OSI model and why is it important in understanding networking?
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer
International Standards Organization
All People Seem To Need Data Processing (Application - Presentation - Session - Transport - Network - Data Link - Physical)
OSI model classifies and organizes the tasks that hosts perform to prepare data for transport across the network. It most widely used method for understanding and talking about network communications

28. What is layer 7 of the OSI model?
International Standards Organization
Application layer.
ATM is a standard switching technique - designed to unify telecommunication and computer networks. It uses asynchronous time-division multiplexing and it encodes data into small - fixed-sized cells.
High-Level Data Link Control

29. What does the acronym 'PPPoA' stand for?
Theoretical
It is a bit-oriented synchronous data link layer protocol developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The original ISO standards for HDLC are: ISO 3309
The third layer is the networking layer which is responsible for routing packets across the network to ther=ir destination
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM

30. What does the acronym 'ISDN' stand for?
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
IEA RS232 - V.35. Cat 5 - RJ45
Physical layer.
Asynchronous Transfer Mode

31. Where does troublingshooting alway start?
Session layer.
48 bit address used to identify networking cards and appliances
Physical Layer
Physical layer.

32. What is the 'medium access controller'?
Layer 1 Protocol having to do with serial communication
48 bit address used to identify networking cards and appliances
48 Bits
The hardware that implements the MAC.

33. What is the 'Data Link Layer' responsible for?

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34. How does the third OSI model layer relate to administering routers?
Media Access Control
Moving 'Bits' from 'Source' device to 'Destination' device across 'Media'.
Local Area Network
The third layer is the networking layer which is responsible for routing packets across the network to ther=ir destination

35. What are considered the Data Flow layers?
Physical - Data Link. Network - Transport
Local Area Network
48 Bits
802.2 - Logical Link Control - 802.3 - Ethernet - 802.5 - Token Ring - 802.11 - Wireless

36. What is layer 4 of the OSI model?
Transport layer.
Hardware address - Ethernet address - BIA - Burned in Address
The third layer is the networking layer which is responsible for routing packets across the network to ther=ir destination
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer

37. What does the acronym 'LLC' stand for?
High-Level Data Link Control
Seven
HDLC - High Level Data Link Control - PPP - Point to Point - Frame Relay - ISDN - ATM
Logicial Link Control

38. What is layer 3 of the OSI model?
Data Flow layers.
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer
Network layer.
Moving 'Bits' from 'Source' device to 'Destination' device across 'Media'.

39. What does the acronym 'OSI' stand for?
The media access control (MAC) data communication protocol sub-layer - is a sublayer of the data link layer specified in the seven-layer OSI model (layer 2). It provides addressing and channel access control mechanisms that make it possible for sever
Open Source Interconnect
Presentation layer.
OSI model classifies and organizes the tasks that hosts perform to prepare data for transport across the network. It most widely used method for understanding and talking about network communications

40. What are some examples of 'WAN' side 'Encapsulation' type Datalink Layer Protocols and Standards?
48 Bits
Layer 1 Protocol having to do with serial communication
HDLC - High Level Data Link Control - PPP - Point to Point - Frame Relay - ISDN - ATM
All People Seem To Need Data Processing (Application - Presentation - Session - Transport - Network - Data Link - Physical)

41. What is the Mnemonic phrase for remembering OSI layers ordered 1 to 7?
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away (Physical - Data Link - Network - Transport - Session - Presentation - Application)
All People Seem To Need Data Processing (Application - Presentation - Session - Transport - Network - Data Link - Physical)
Logicial Link Control
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer

42. What does the acronym 'MAC' stand for?
Cables - Pins - Electrical Signals
Moving 'Bits' from 'Source' device to 'Destination' device across 'Media'.
Media Access Control
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM

43. What are the first 4 layers of the OSI model called?
Data Flow layers.
Application: JPEG - BMP - TIFF - PICT - MPEG - WMV - AVI - ASCII - EBCDIC - MIDI - WAV - Session: Network File System (NFS) - Apple Session Protocol (ASP) - Structured Query Language (SQL) - Remote procedure call (RPC) - X Window
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.
ATM is a standard switching technique - designed to unify telecommunication and computer networks. It uses asynchronous time-division multiplexing and it encodes data into small - fixed-sized cells.

44. What does the acronym 'HDLC' stand for?
High-Level Data Link Control
Layer 1 Protocol having to do with serial communication
It is a bit-oriented synchronous data link layer protocol developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The original ISO standards for HDLC are: ISO 3309
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.

45. What does the acronym default 'HDLC' protocol stand for?
It provides multiplexing mechanisms that make it possible for several network protocols (IP - IPX - Decnet and Appletalk) to coexist within a multipoint network and to be transported over the same network media - and can also provide flow control and
48 Bits
High Level Data Link Control
Transport layer.

46. What are other names for MAC address?
High Level Data Link Control
Hardware address - Ethernet address - BIA - Burned in Address
48 Bits
Session layer.

47. What is the difference between the TCP and UDP protocols?
Media Access Control
Application: JPEG - BMP - TIFF - PICT - MPEG - WMV - AVI - ASCII - EBCDIC - MIDI - WAV - Session: Network File System (NFS) - Apple Session Protocol (ASP) - Structured Query Language (SQL) - Remote procedure call (RPC) - X Window
TCP: Connection oriented - High reliability - High overhead - UDP: Conectionless - Low reliability - Low overhead
48 Bits

48. How many Layers in the OSI Model?
Physical Layer
The media access control (MAC) data communication protocol sub-layer - is a sublayer of the data link layer specified in the seven-layer OSI model (layer 2). It provides addressing and channel access control mechanisms that make it possible for sever
Wide Area Network
Seven

49. What is layer 2 of the OSI model?
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away (Physical - Data Link - Network - Transport - Session - Presentation - Application)
It provides multiplexing mechanisms that make it possible for several network protocols (IP - IPX - Decnet and Appletalk) to coexist within a multipoint network and to be transported over the same network media - and can also provide flow control and
The hardware that implements the MAC.
Data Link layer.

50. What is ATM?
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATM is a standard switching technique - designed to unify telecommunication and computer networks. It uses asynchronous time-division multiplexing and it encodes data into small - fixed-sized cells.
IEA RS232 - V.35. Cat 5 - RJ45
High Level Data Link Control