Test your basic knowledge |

Cisco Certification OSI Model

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. When would the PPP be used?
Session layer.
Hardware address - Ethernet address - BIA - Burned in Address
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
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.

2. What are some examples of 'WAN' side 'Encapsulation' type Datalink Layer Protocols and Standards?
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
HDLC - High Level Data Link Control - PPP - Point to Point - Frame Relay - ISDN - ATM
Theoretical
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away (Physical - Data Link - Network - Transport - Session - Presentation - Application)

3. What does the acronym 'LAN' stand for?
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
Local Area Network
802.2 - Logical Link Control - 802.3 - Ethernet - 802.5 - Token Ring - 802.11 - Wireless

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

5. What does the acronym 'WAN' stand for?
High Level Data Link Control
The third layer is the networking layer which is responsible for routing packets across the network to ther=ir destination
Logicial Link Control
Wide Area Network

6. What does the acronym 'ATM' stand for?
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.
Wide Area Network
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
The hardware that implements the MAC.

7. What is the 'MAC Layer' responsible for?
TCP: Connection oriented - High reliability - High overhead - UDP: Conectionless - Low reliability - Low overhead
Presentation layer.
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.
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

8. What does the acronym 'ISO' stand for?
802.2 - Logical Link Control - 802.3 - Ethernet - 802.5 - Token Ring - 802.11 - Wireless
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.
International Standards Organization
High Level Data Link Control

9. What are some Physical Layer Protocols and Standards?
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
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
IEA RS232 - V.35. Cat 5 - RJ45
High Level Data Link Control

10. What is layer 3 of the OSI model?
Network layer.
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
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 Layer

11. What is the EIA/TIA 232 protocol concerned with?
Moving 'Bits' from 'Source' device to 'Destination' device across 'Media'.
Theoretical
Layer 1 Protocol having to do with serial communication
Seven

12. What does the acronym 'HDLC' stand for?
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
High-Level Data Link Control
Layer 1 Protocol having to do with serial communication
HDLC - High Level Data Link Control - PPP - Point to Point - Frame Relay - ISDN - ATM

13. What are the advantages of the OSI model?
Provides a standard for hardware development - Allows modular SW development - Facilitates rapid development of new technology
IEA RS232 - V.35. Cat 5 - RJ45
Seven
Logicial Link Control

14. How many Layers in the OSI Model?
Cables - Pins - Electrical Signals
Seven
Wide Area Network
Open Source Interconnect

15. Frame Relay
Cables - Pins - Electrical Signals
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 third layer is the networking layer which is responsible for routing packets across the network to ther=ir destination

16. 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.
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

17. What are other names for MAC address?
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.
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.
Hardware address - Ethernet address - BIA - Burned in Address
Provide a model to discribe how data moves from source device to destination device.

18. What is layer 6 of the OSI model?
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Cables - Pins - Electrical Signals
TCP: Connection oriented - High reliability - High overhead - UDP: Conectionless - Low reliability - Low overhead
Presentation layer.

19. What is the Mnemonic phrase for remembering OSI layers ordered 7 to 1?
All People Seem To Need Data Processing (Application - Presentation - Session - Transport - Network - Data Link - Physical)
Seven
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.
Asynchronous Transfer Mode

20. What does the acronym 'ISDN' stand for?
Physical layer.
High Level Data Link Control
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away (Physical - Data Link - Network - Transport - Session - Presentation - Application)
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network

21. What is the purpose of the OSI Model?
Local Area Network
Provide a model to discribe how data moves from source device to destination device.
The hardware that implements the MAC.
Provides a standard for hardware development - Allows modular SW development - Facilitates rapid development of new technology

22. What is layer 5 of the OSI model?
Session layer.
High Level Data Link Control
Transport layer.
Theoretical

23. What does the acronym 'PPPoA' stand for?
Point to Point
High Level Data Link Control
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
Media Access Control

24. In an OSI context What is considered 'media'?
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
Transport layer.
Cables - Pins - Electrical Signals

25. What does the acronym 'PPP' 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
Physical - Data Link. Network - Transport
Point to Point
Application layer.

26. What is the OSI model and why is it important in understanding networking?
48 bit address used to identify networking cards and appliances
International Standards Organization
Seven
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

27. Where does troublingshooting alway start?
48 bit address used to identify networking cards and appliances
International Standards Organization
Physical Layer
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

28. What does the acronym 'MAC' stand for?
Hardware address - Ethernet address - BIA - Burned in Address
HDLC - High Level Data Link Control - PPP - Point to Point - Frame Relay - ISDN - ATM
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.
Media Access Control

29. What are the first 4 layers of the OSI model called?
Physical Layer
48 Bits
Data Flow layers.
Cables - Pins - Electrical Signals

30. What does the acronym default 'HDLC' protocol stand for?
Cables - Pins - Electrical Signals
High Level Data Link Control
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Session layer.

31. What is layer 7 of the OSI model?
Physical Layer
Application layer.
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

32. What does the acronym 'OSI' stand for?
Point to Point
Open Source Interconnect
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

33. What is the MAC address?
48 bit address used to identify networking cards and appliances
48 Bits
All People Seem To Need Data Processing (Application - Presentation - Session - Transport - Network - Data Link - Physical)
The hardware that implements the MAC.

34. What is layer 4 of the OSI model?
Transport layer.
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
Logicial Link Control
48 Bits

35. How bits are in a MAC address?
48 Bits
IEA RS232 - V.35. Cat 5 - RJ45
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
Seven

36. What are are the 'Sub Layers' of the 'Data Link' Layer?
Network layer.
Provide a model to discribe how data moves from source device to destination device.
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer
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

37. What are considered the 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
Physical - Data Link. Network - Transport
Presentation layer.
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

38. How does the third OSI model layer relate to administering routers?
Seven
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
International Standards Organization

39. What is the 'medium access controller'?
Logicial Link 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
Layer 2 - The Data Link layer.
The hardware that implements the MAC.

40. What is the Physical Layer responsible for?

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

41. What is HDLC?
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
Physical - Data Link. Network - Transport
Seven

42. What is the difference between the TCP and UDP protocols?
Wide area network technology that specifies the physical and logical link layers of digital telecommunications channels using a packet switching methodology
TCP: Connection oriented - High reliability - High overhead - UDP: Conectionless - Low reliability - Low overhead
Logicial Link Control
Moving 'Bits' from 'Source' device to 'Destination' device across 'Media'.

43. Which OSI model layer is concerned with MAC addresses?
Provide a model to discribe how data moves from source device to destination device.
Layer 2 - The Data Link layer.
Media Access Control
Layer 1 Protocol having to do with serial communication

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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

45. What is layer 1 of the OSI model?
Physical layer.
Data Flow layers.
High Level Data Link Control
Hardware address - Ethernet address - BIA - Burned in Address

46. What protocols correspond to the Presentation and Session 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
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
Physical layer.
Transport layer.

47. 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)
The third layer is the networking layer which is responsible for routing packets across the network to ther=ir destination
High Level Data Link Control
TCP: Connection oriented - High reliability - High overhead - UDP: Conectionless - Low reliability - Low overhead

48. 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
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital 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.
All People Seem To Need Data Processing (Application - Presentation - Session - Transport - Network - Data Link - Physical)

49. What does the acronym 'LLC' stand for?
Wide area network technology that specifies the physical and logical link layers of digital telecommunications channels using a packet switching methodology
Physical layer.
Logicial Link Control
Provides a standard for hardware development - Allows modular SW development - Facilitates rapid development of new technology

50. What is layer 2 of the OSI model?
Network layer.
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
Seven