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Cisco Certification OSI Model
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1. Which OSI model layer is concerned with MAC addresses?
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.
HDLC - High Level Data Link Control - PPP - Point to Point - Frame Relay - ISDN - ATM
Layer 2 - The Data Link layer.
Data Flow layers.
2. What are some examples of 'WAN' side 'Encapsulation' type Datalink Layer Protocols and Standards?
HDLC - High Level Data Link Control - PPP - Point to Point - Frame Relay - ISDN - ATM
48 bit address used to identify networking cards and appliances
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.
TCP: Connection oriented - High reliability - High overhead - UDP: Conectionless - Low reliability - Low overhead
3. What is the 'MAC Layer' responsible for?
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
Layer 1 Protocol having to do with serial communication
Local Area Network
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
4. What is layer 2 of the OSI model?
Hardware address - Ethernet address - BIA - Burned in Address
Data Link layer.
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.
High-Level Data Link Control
5. Where does troublingshooting alway start?
Physical Layer
Open Source Interconnect
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
Logicial Link Control
6. What protocols correspond to the Presentation and Session layers?
Moving 'Bits' from 'Source' device to 'Destination' device across 'Media'.
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
Physical - Data Link. Network - Transport
HDLC - High Level Data Link Control - PPP - Point to Point - Frame Relay - ISDN - ATM
7. What does the acronym 'MAC' stand for?
Cables - Pins - Electrical Signals
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
Session layer.
Media Access Control
8. What is layer 5 of the OSI model?
Data Flow layers.
International Standards Organization
Session layer.
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
9. OSI layers are...
Provides a standard for hardware development - Allows modular SW development - Facilitates rapid development of new technology
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
Theoretical
Application layer.
10. What is the 'medium access controller'?
TCP: Connection oriented - High reliability - High overhead - UDP: Conectionless - Low reliability - Low overhead
The hardware that implements the MAC.
Provides a standard for hardware development - Allows modular SW development - Facilitates rapid development of new technology
HDLC - High Level Data Link Control - PPP - Point to Point - Frame Relay - ISDN - ATM
11. How bits are in a MAC address?
48 Bits
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
Theoretical
HDLC - High Level Data Link Control - PPP - Point to Point - Frame Relay - ISDN - ATM
12. What are the advantages of the OSI model?
Provides a standard for hardware development - Allows modular SW development - Facilitates rapid development of new technology
48 bit address used to identify networking cards and appliances
Layer 2 - The Data Link layer.
Application layer.
13. What is ATM?
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.
Provide a model to discribe how data moves from source device to destination device.
48 bit address used to identify networking cards and appliances
Physical layer.
14. What is the Mnemonic phrase for remembering OSI layers ordered 7 to 1?
802.2 - Logical Link Control - 802.3 - Ethernet - 802.5 - Token Ring - 802.11 - Wireless
All People Seem To Need Data Processing (Application - Presentation - Session - Transport - Network - Data Link - Physical)
Theoretical
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
15. How many Layers in the OSI Model?
Seven
Presentation layer.
Physical layer.
International Standards Organization
16. What is the difference between the TCP and UDP protocols?
The third layer is the networking layer which is responsible for routing packets across the network to ther=ir destination
Provide a model to discribe how data moves from source device to destination device.
TCP: Connection oriented - High reliability - High overhead - UDP: Conectionless - Low reliability - Low overhead
Open Source Interconnect
17. What does the acronym 'ISO' stand for?
Open Source Interconnect
Transport layer.
Layer 2 - The Data Link layer.
International Standards Organization
18. What is the purpose of the OSI Model?
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)
Provide a model to discribe how data moves from source device to destination device.
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
19. What does the acronym 'ISDN' stand for?
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
Application layer.
Transport layer.
48 Bits
20. What is the 'Data Link Layer' responsible for?
21. What does the acronym 'PPPoA' stand for?
IEA RS232 - V.35. Cat 5 - RJ45
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
Theoretical
Open Source Interconnect
22. What are other names for MAC address?
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away (Physical - Data Link - Network - Transport - Session - Presentation - Application)
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
Hardware address - Ethernet address - BIA - Burned in Address
48 bit address used to identify networking cards and appliances
23. What does the acronym default 'HDLC' protocol stand for?
Data Flow layers.
High Level Data Link Control
Theoretical
Hardware address - Ethernet address - BIA - Burned in Address
24. What does the acronym 'ATM' stand for?
Physical - Data Link. Network - Transport
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
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
25. What is the EIA/TIA 232 protocol concerned with?
Layer 1 Protocol having to do with serial communication
HDLC - High Level Data Link Control - PPP - Point to Point - Frame Relay - ISDN - ATM
IEA RS232 - V.35. Cat 5 - RJ45
48 bit address used to identify networking cards and appliances
26. 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)
48 Bits
Physical layer.
Local Area Network
27. Frame Relay
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
HDLC - High Level Data Link Control - PPP - Point to Point - Frame Relay - ISDN - ATM
Wide Area Network
Wide area network technology that specifies the physical and logical link layers of digital telecommunications channels using a packet switching methodology
28. When would the PPP be used?
All People Seem To Need Data Processing (Application - Presentation - Session - Transport - Network - Data Link - Physical)
Logicial Link Control
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.
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.
29. What are are the 'Sub Layers' of the 'Data Link' Layer?
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
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
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer
30. What is HDLC?
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away (Physical - Data Link - Network - Transport - Session - Presentation - Application)
TCP: Connection oriented - High reliability - High overhead - UDP: Conectionless - Low reliability - Low overhead
Moving 'Bits' from 'Source' device to 'Destination' device across 'Media'.
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
31. What does the acronym 'HDLC' stand for?
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
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
High-Level Data Link Control
32. What are some examples of 'LAN' side Datalink Layer Protocols and Standards?
802.2 - Logical Link Control - 802.3 - Ethernet - 802.5 - Token Ring - 802.11 - Wireless
Layer 2 - The Data Link layer.
Logicial Link Control
Physical layer.
33. What is layer 7 of the OSI model?
Physical Layer
Layer 1 Protocol having to do with serial communication
48 Bits
Application layer.
34. What does the acronym 'LLC' stand for?
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
Layer 1 Protocol having to do with serial communication
Logicial Link Control
Local Area Network
35. In an OSI context What is considered 'media'?
Layer 1 Protocol having to do with serial communication
All People Seem To Need Data Processing (Application - Presentation - Session - Transport - Network - Data Link - Physical)
Theoretical
Cables - Pins - Electrical Signals
36. What is layer 6 of the OSI model?
International Standards Organization
Presentation layer.
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer
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
37. What is the 'LLC Layer' responsible 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
Wide area network technology that specifies the physical and logical link layers of digital telecommunications channels using a packet switching methodology
HDLC - High Level Data Link Control - PPP - Point to Point - Frame Relay - ISDN - ATM
Application layer.
38. What is layer 3 of the OSI model?
Session layer.
Network layer.
Wide area network technology that specifies the physical and logical link layers of digital telecommunications channels using a packet switching methodology
Data Flow layers.
39. What does the acronym 'PPP' stand for?
Data Flow layers.
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
802.2 - Logical Link Control - 802.3 - Ethernet - 802.5 - Token Ring - 802.11 - Wireless
40. What is layer 1 of the OSI model?
Cables - Pins - Electrical Signals
Physical - Data Link. Network - Transport
International Standards Organization
Physical layer.
41. What does the acronym 'WAN' stand for?
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer
Wide Area Network
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
42. What does the acronym 'OSI' stand for?
Layer 1 Protocol having to do with serial communication
Open Source Interconnect
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away (Physical - Data Link - Network - Transport - Session - Presentation - Application)
Cables - Pins - Electrical Signals
43. What is layer 4 of the OSI model?
48 Bits
The third layer is the networking layer which is responsible for routing packets across the network to ther=ir destination
Transport layer.
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.
44. What is the MAC address?
Network layer.
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
48 bit address used to identify networking cards and appliances
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.
45. What is the Physical Layer responsible for?
46. What are some Physical Layer Protocols and Standards?
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer
Wide Area Network
IEA RS232 - V.35. Cat 5 - RJ45
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
47. What are considered the Data Flow layers?
Physical - Data Link. Network - Transport
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.
Transport 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
48. What is the OSI model and why is it important in understanding networking?
Data Flow layers.
Physical Layer
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
49. What does the acronym 'LAN' stand for?
Local Area Network
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
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Physical - Data Link. Network - Transport
50. What are the first 4 layers of the OSI model called?
Wide area network technology that specifies the physical and logical link layers of digital telecommunications channels using a packet switching methodology
Data Flow layers.
Data Link layer.
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