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Cisco Certification OSI Model

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1. In an OSI context What is considered 'media'?
Cables - Pins - Electrical Signals
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
Data Link layer.

2. What are some examples of 'WAN' side 'Encapsulation' type Datalink Layer Protocols and Standards?
International Standards Organization
HDLC - High Level Data Link Control - PPP - Point to Point - Frame Relay - ISDN - ATM
Session layer.
Data Link layer.

3. What does the acronym 'PPPoA' stand for?
HDLC - High Level Data Link Control - PPP - Point to Point - Frame Relay - ISDN - ATM
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network

4. How does the third OSI model layer relate to administering routers?
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away (Physical - Data Link - Network - Transport - Session - Presentation - Application)
Provides a standard for hardware development - Allows modular SW development - Facilitates rapid development of new technology
Theoretical
The third layer is the networking layer which is responsible for routing packets across the network to ther=ir destination

5. Frame Relay
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
Wide area network technology that specifies the physical and logical link layers of digital telecommunications channels using a packet switching methodology
The third layer is the networking layer which is responsible for routing packets across the network to ther=ir destination
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.

6. What is the Mnemonic phrase for remembering OSI layers ordered 7 to 1?
HDLC - High Level Data Link Control - PPP - Point to Point - Frame Relay - ISDN - ATM
Presentation layer.
All People Seem To Need Data Processing (Application - Presentation - Session - Transport - Network - Data Link - Physical)
Data Flow layers.

7. 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.
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer
Wide Area Network
Data Link layer.

8. OSI layers are...
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.
Theoretical
High-Level Data Link Control
Open Source Interconnect

9. What are some examples of 'LAN' side Datalink Layer Protocols and Standards?
Hardware address - Ethernet address - BIA - Burned in Address
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
802.2 - Logical Link Control - 802.3 - Ethernet - 802.5 - Token Ring - 802.11 - Wireless

10. How many Layers in the OSI Model?
Cables - Pins - Electrical Signals
Physical layer.
High Level Data Link Control
Seven

11. What is layer 4 of the OSI model?
802.2 - Logical Link Control - 802.3 - Ethernet - 802.5 - Token Ring - 802.11 - Wireless
Transport layer.
High Level Data Link Control
Layer 2 - The Data Link layer.

12. What does the acronym 'LAN' stand for?
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Provides a standard for hardware development - Allows modular SW development - Facilitates rapid development of new technology
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

13. What is the MAC address?
International Standards Organization
High-Level Data Link Control
48 bit address used to identify networking cards and appliances
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

14. What is the Physical Layer responsible for?

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15. What is the Mnemonic phrase for remembering OSI layers ordered 1 to 7?
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away (Physical - Data Link - Network - Transport - Session - Presentation - Application)
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
Media Access Control

16. What are are the 'Sub Layers' of the 'Data Link' Layer?
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer
HDLC - High Level Data Link Control - PPP - Point to Point - Frame Relay - ISDN - ATM
Media Access Control

17. What are some Physical Layer Protocols and Standards?
Physical - Data Link. Network - Transport
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away (Physical - Data Link - Network - Transport - Session - Presentation - Application)
HDLC - High Level Data Link Control - PPP - Point to Point - Frame Relay - ISDN - ATM
IEA RS232 - V.35. Cat 5 - RJ45

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

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19. What does the acronym default 'HDLC' protocol stand for?
High Level Data Link Control
Local Area Network
IEA RS232 - V.35. Cat 5 - RJ45
Physical layer.

20. What does the acronym 'ISDN' stand for?
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
Wide area network technology that specifies the physical and logical link layers of digital telecommunications channels using a packet switching methodology
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

21. What are other names for MAC address?
Hardware address - Ethernet address - BIA - Burned in Address
Point to Point
Media Access Control
Seven

22. What does the acronym 'WAN' stand for?
Wide Area Network
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
Moving 'Bits' from 'Source' device to 'Destination' device across 'Media'.

23. What is layer 1 of the OSI model?
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
Transport layer.
High Level Data Link Control

24. What is the OSI model and why is it important in understanding networking?
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
HDLC - High Level Data Link Control - PPP - Point to Point - Frame Relay - ISDN - ATM
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
Layer 1 Protocol having to do with serial communication

25. Which OSI model layer is concerned with MAC addresses?
Transport layer.
Layer 2 - The Data Link layer.
The third layer is the networking layer which is responsible for routing packets across the network to ther=ir destination
Presentation layer.

26. What is the 'medium access controller'?
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 third layer is the networking layer which is responsible for routing packets across the network to ther=ir destination
The hardware that implements the MAC.
Seven

27. What are the first 4 layers of the OSI model called?
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
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away (Physical - Data Link - Network - Transport - Session - Presentation - Application)
Physical Layer
Data Flow layers.

28. What is the EIA/TIA 232 protocol concerned with?
Layer 1 Protocol having to do with serial communication
IEA RS232 - V.35. Cat 5 - RJ45
Local Area Network
Cables - Pins - Electrical Signals

29. What are considered the Data Flow layers?
High Level Data Link Control
Physical - Data Link. Network - Transport
Open Source Interconnect
TCP: Connection oriented - High reliability - High overhead - UDP: Conectionless - Low reliability - Low overhead

30. What are the advantages of the OSI model?
Cables - Pins - Electrical Signals
Application layer.
Point to Point
Provides a standard for hardware development - Allows modular SW development - Facilitates rapid development of new technology

31. What is layer 7 of the OSI model?
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.
Physical - Data Link. Network - Transport
Application layer.
High Level Data Link Control

32. What is the purpose of the OSI Model?
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
Physical - Data Link. Network - Transport
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

33. What is layer 2 of the OSI model?
Open Source Interconnect
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
High Level Data Link Control
Data Link layer.

34. What is layer 6 of the OSI model?
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
Presentation layer.
Provides a standard for hardware development - Allows modular SW development - Facilitates rapid development of new technology

35. How bits are in a MAC address?
Layer 1 Protocol having to do with serial communication
Layer 2 - The Data Link layer.
48 Bits
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.

36. When would the PPP be used?
Layer 2 - The Data Link layer.
48 bit address used to identify networking cards and appliances
Point to Point
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.

37. What protocols correspond to the Presentation and Session layers?
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
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
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

38. What is the difference between the TCP and UDP protocols?
Physical Layer
Session layer.
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
TCP: Connection oriented - High reliability - High overhead - UDP: Conectionless - Low reliability - Low overhead

39. What does the acronym 'LLC' stand for?
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
Logicial Link Control
48 bit address used to identify networking cards and appliances
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

40. What does the acronym 'MAC' stand for?
Media Access Control
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
TCP: Connection oriented - High reliability - High overhead - UDP: Conectionless - Low reliability - Low overhead

41. What does the acronym 'PPP' stand for?
Point to Point
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer
Network layer.
Layer 1 Protocol having to do with serial communication

42. What is the 'MAC Layer' responsible for?
IEA RS232 - V.35. Cat 5 - RJ45
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
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.

43. What is layer 3 of the OSI model?
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
Network layer.
The third layer is the networking layer which is responsible for routing packets across the network to ther=ir destination
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

44. What is HDLC?
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away (Physical - Data Link - Network - Transport - Session - Presentation - Application)
Physical Layer
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

45. Where does troublingshooting alway start?
All People Seem To Need Data Processing (Application - Presentation - Session - Transport - Network - Data Link - Physical)
48 Bits
HDLC - High Level Data Link Control - PPP - Point to Point - Frame Relay - ISDN - ATM
Physical Layer

46. What does the acronym 'OSI' stand for?
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
Open Source Interconnect
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away (Physical - Data Link - Network - Transport - Session - Presentation - Application)
Theoretical

47. What is layer 5 of the OSI model?
Data Link layer.
Session layer.
The third layer is the networking layer which is responsible for routing packets across the network to ther=ir destination
Seven

48. What does the acronym 'ATM' stand for?
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
Seven
Data Flow layers.
Asynchronous Transfer Mode

49. What does the acronym 'ISO' stand for?
Transport layer.
International Standards Organization
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
Wide area network technology that specifies the physical and logical link layers of digital telecommunications channels using a packet switching methodology

50. What does the acronym 'HDLC' stand for?
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away (Physical - Data Link - Network - Transport - Session - Presentation - Application)
Cables - Pins - Electrical Signals
High-Level Data Link Control
Wide Area Network