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Cisco Certification OSI Model

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1. What is the Mnemonic phrase for remembering OSI layers ordered 7 to 1?
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
All People Seem To Need Data Processing (Application - Presentation - Session - Transport - Network - Data Link - Physical)
Layer 1 Protocol having to do with serial communication
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 are some Physical Layer Protocols and Standards?
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.
Wide area network technology that specifies the physical and logical link layers of digital telecommunications channels using a packet switching methodology
IEA RS232 - V.35. Cat 5 - RJ45
Layer 2 - The Data Link layer.

3. What is layer 2 of the OSI model?
IEA RS232 - V.35. Cat 5 - RJ45
Provides a standard for hardware development - Allows modular SW development - Facilitates rapid development of new technology
Data Link layer.
Network layer.

4. What is the EIA/TIA 232 protocol concerned with?
Hardware address - Ethernet address - BIA - Burned in Address
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.
Session layer.
Layer 1 Protocol having to do with serial communication

5. What does the acronym 'PPP' stand for?
Application layer.
Data Flow layers.
Point to Point
TCP: Connection oriented - High reliability - High overhead - UDP: Conectionless - Low reliability - Low overhead

6. When would the PPP be used?
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.
Layer 1 Protocol having to do with serial communication
Provide a model to discribe how data moves from source device to destination device.

7. What does the acronym 'HDLC' stand for?
The third layer is the networking layer which is responsible for routing packets across the network to ther=ir destination
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
High-Level Data Link Control

8. What is layer 7 of the OSI model?
Application layer.
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Moving 'Bits' from 'Source' device to 'Destination' device across 'Media'.
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away (Physical - Data Link - Network - Transport - Session - Presentation - Application)

9. What are the advantages of the OSI model?
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
Point to Point
Provides a standard for hardware development - Allows modular SW development - Facilitates rapid development of new technology
Data Link layer.

10. 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)
Provide a model to discribe how data moves from source device to destination device.
Logicial Link Control
Media Access Control

11. What is layer 1 of the OSI model?
Network layer.
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer
Physical layer.
Local Area Network

12. What does the acronym 'PPPoA' stand for?
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
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 Link layer.
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 purpose of the OSI Model?
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
Provide a model to discribe how data moves from source device to destination device.
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
Local Area Network

14. What are some examples of 'LAN' side Datalink Layer Protocols and Standards?
The third layer is the networking layer which is responsible for routing packets across the network to ther=ir destination
Physical Layer
802.2 - Logical Link Control - 802.3 - Ethernet - 802.5 - Token Ring - 802.11 - Wireless
Layer 2 - The Data Link layer.

15. What are some examples of 'WAN' side 'Encapsulation' type Datalink Layer Protocols and Standards?
Physical Layer
HDLC - High Level Data Link Control - PPP - Point to Point - Frame Relay - ISDN - ATM
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
Open Source Interconnect

16. What is the 'MAC Layer' responsible 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
Network layer.
Hardware address - Ethernet address - BIA - Burned in Address
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

17. 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
Local Area Network
Application layer.
Media Access Control

18. What are the first 4 layers of the OSI model called?
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
Data Flow layers.
Physical layer.
Point to Point

19. What are other names for MAC address?
Data Flow layers.
Hardware address - Ethernet address - BIA - Burned in Address
Physical layer.
TCP: Connection oriented - High reliability - High overhead - UDP: Conectionless - Low reliability - Low overhead

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

21. How many Layers in the OSI Model?
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
TCP: Connection oriented - High reliability - High overhead - UDP: Conectionless - Low reliability - Low overhead
Session layer.
Seven

22. In an OSI context What is considered 'media'?
Local Area Network
HDLC - High Level Data Link Control - PPP - Point to Point - Frame Relay - ISDN - ATM
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.
Cables - Pins - Electrical Signals

23. What is layer 3 of the OSI model?
Network layer.
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.
Local Area Network

24. What is HDLC?
Network layer.
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer
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

25. Where does troublingshooting alway start?
Open Source Interconnect
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
Physical Layer
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network

26. Which OSI model layer is concerned with MAC addresses?
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
Layer 2 - The Data Link layer.
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away (Physical - Data Link - Network - Transport - Session - Presentation - Application)
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.

27. How does the third OSI model layer relate to administering routers?
The third layer is the networking layer which is responsible for routing packets across the network to ther=ir destination
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer
Session layer.
Logicial Link Control

28. How bits are in a MAC address?
48 Bits
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
Logicial Link Control

29. What is the Physical Layer responsible for?

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30. What does the acronym 'ISO' stand for?
Theoretical
Open Source Interconnect
International Standards Organization
Physical Layer

31. What is layer 5 of the OSI model?
Network layer.
Logicial Link Control
High Level Data Link Control
Session layer.

32. What does the acronym 'WAN' 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
Wide Area Network
Data Link layer.
Layer 1 Protocol having to do with serial communication

33. What is the difference between the TCP and UDP protocols?
Application layer.
Wide Area Network
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.
TCP: Connection oriented - High reliability - High overhead - UDP: Conectionless - Low reliability - Low overhead

34. What does the acronym 'LAN' stand for?
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
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer
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

35. What does the acronym 'ATM' 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
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Application layer.
Layer 2 - The Data Link layer.

36. What is the MAC address?
Data Flow layers.
48 Bits
48 bit address used to identify networking cards and appliances
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network

37. What are considered the Data Flow layers?
Physical Layer
Physical - Data Link. Network - Transport
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.
Open Source Interconnect

38. What is the 'medium access controller'?
Moving 'Bits' from 'Source' device to 'Destination' device across 'Media'.
All People Seem To Need Data Processing (Application - Presentation - Session - Transport - Network - Data Link - Physical)
The hardware that implements the MAC.
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

39. OSI layers are...
Presentation layer.
Logicial Link Control
Theoretical
Open Source Interconnect

40. What does the acronym default 'HDLC' protocol 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
High Level Data Link Control
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 hardware that implements the MAC.

41. What are are the 'Sub Layers' of the 'Data Link' Layer?
The third layer is the networking layer which is responsible for routing packets across the network to ther=ir destination
International Standards Organization
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away (Physical - Data Link - Network - Transport - Session - Presentation - Application)
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer

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

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43. What protocols correspond to the Presentation and Session 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
48 bit address used to identify networking cards and appliances
802.2 - Logical Link Control - 802.3 - Ethernet - 802.5 - Token Ring - 802.11 - Wireless
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

44. What is ATM?
48 Bits
Physical Layer
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.

45. What does the acronym 'MAC' stand for?
Presentation layer.
Physical - Data Link. Network - Transport
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.
Media Access Control

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

47. What does the acronym 'ISDN' stand for?
Moving 'Bits' from 'Source' device to 'Destination' device across 'Media'.
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
802.2 - Logical Link Control - 802.3 - Ethernet - 802.5 - Token Ring - 802.11 - Wireless

48. Frame Relay
Network layer.
Provide a model to discribe how data moves from source device to destination device.
Wide area network technology that specifies the physical and logical link layers of digital telecommunications channels using a packet switching methodology
Transport layer.

49. What is layer 4 of the OSI model?
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.
Media Access Control
High-Level Data Link Control

50. What is layer 6 of the OSI model?
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
Physical layer.
Presentation layer.
IEA RS232 - V.35. Cat 5 - RJ45