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Cisco Certification OSI Model

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1. What is the EIA/TIA 232 protocol concerned with?
Physical - Data Link. Network - Transport
Layer 1 Protocol having to do with serial communication
Network layer.
Theoretical

2. What does the acronym 'OSI' stand for?
802.2 - Logical Link Control - 802.3 - Ethernet - 802.5 - Token Ring - 802.11 - Wireless
Open Source Interconnect
48 bit address used to identify networking cards and appliances
Layer 2 - The Data Link layer.

3. What is the difference between the TCP and UDP protocols?
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
Point to Point
TCP: Connection oriented - High reliability - High overhead - UDP: Conectionless - Low reliability - Low overhead
Layer 2 - The Data Link layer.

4. What is layer 1 of the OSI model?
Physical layer.
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
Transport layer.

5. What is the MAC address?
IEA RS232 - V.35. Cat 5 - RJ45
Wide area network technology that specifies the physical and logical link layers of digital telecommunications channels using a packet switching methodology
48 bit address used to identify networking cards and appliances
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

6. What does the acronym 'LAN' stand for?
Provides a standard for hardware development - Allows modular SW development - Facilitates rapid development of new technology
Wide area network technology that specifies the physical and logical link layers of digital telecommunications channels using a packet switching methodology
Local Area Network
Presentation layer.

7. What are some Physical Layer Protocols and Standards?
Seven
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
IEA RS232 - V.35. Cat 5 - RJ45
48 Bits

8. What is layer 3 of the OSI model?
Session layer.
Application layer.
Network layer.
Data Link layer.

9. OSI layers are...
TCP: Connection oriented - High reliability - High overhead - UDP: Conectionless - Low reliability - Low overhead
Theoretical
Provides a standard for hardware development - Allows modular SW development - Facilitates rapid development of new technology
Presentation layer.

10. What is layer 5 of the OSI model?
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
Physical layer.
Logicial Link Control
Session layer.

11. What are some examples of 'LAN' side Datalink Layer Protocols and Standards?
The hardware that implements the MAC.
High-Level Data Link Control
Application layer.
802.2 - Logical Link Control - 802.3 - Ethernet - 802.5 - Token Ring - 802.11 - Wireless

12. 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
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
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away (Physical - Data Link - Network - Transport - Session - Presentation - Application)

13. What does the acronym 'ISO' stand for?
High-Level Data Link Control
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
HDLC - High Level Data Link Control - PPP - Point to Point - Frame Relay - ISDN - ATM
International Standards Organization

14. What does the acronym 'WAN' stand for?
Physical - Data Link. Network - Transport
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
Wide Area Network
Media Access Control

15. When would the PPP be used?
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.
All People Seem To Need Data Processing (Application - Presentation - Session - Transport - Network - Data Link - Physical)
Physical Layer
High Level Data Link Control

16. What is layer 2 of the OSI model?
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.
International Standards Organization
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
Data Link layer.

17. What does the acronym 'LLC' stand for?
Logicial Link Control
Network layer.
IEA RS232 - V.35. Cat 5 - RJ45
Physical Layer

18. What is layer 7 of the OSI model?
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer
High-Level Data Link Control
Transport layer.
Application layer.

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

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20. Which OSI model layer is concerned with MAC addresses?
Layer 2 - The Data Link layer.
High-Level Data Link Control
Network layer.
Data Flow layers.

21. In an OSI context What is considered 'media'?
Provides a standard for hardware development - Allows modular SW development - Facilitates rapid development of new technology
Session layer.
High Level Data Link Control
Cables - Pins - Electrical Signals

22. What are the first 4 layers of the OSI model called?
Provide a model to discribe how data moves from source device to destination device.
Data Flow layers.
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer
International Standards Organization

23. What is the Physical Layer responsible for?

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24. How does the third OSI model layer relate to administering routers?
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
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.

25. What does the acronym 'MAC' stand for?
Media Access Control
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
Logicial Link Control

26. What protocols correspond to the Presentation and Session layers?
Layer 1 Protocol having to do with serial communication
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
Layer 2 - The Data Link 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

27. What is ATM?
TCP: Connection oriented - High reliability - High overhead - UDP: Conectionless - Low reliability - Low overhead
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.
Data Flow layers.
Provides a standard for hardware development - Allows modular SW development - Facilitates rapid development of new technology

28. What are the advantages of the OSI model?
IEA RS232 - V.35. Cat 5 - RJ45
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
Provides a standard for hardware development - Allows modular SW development - Facilitates rapid development of new technology
Theoretical

29. What are considered the Data Flow layers?
Presentation layer.
Physical - Data Link. Network - Transport
Data Flow layers.
High Level Data Link Control

30. What is the purpose of the OSI Model?
Provide a model to discribe how data moves from source device to destination device.
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer
Presentation layer.
Session layer.

31. What is the OSI model and why is it important in understanding networking?
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
Presentation layer.
Moving 'Bits' from 'Source' device to 'Destination' device across 'Media'.
Hardware address - Ethernet address - BIA - Burned in Address

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

33. What are are the 'Sub Layers' of the 'Data Link' Layer?
Provides a standard for hardware development - Allows modular SW development - Facilitates rapid development of new technology
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer
HDLC - High Level Data Link Control - PPP - Point to Point - Frame Relay - ISDN - ATM
Open Source Interconnect

34. What does the acronym 'PPP' stand for?
Logicial Link Control
Point to Point
Session layer.
Layer 2 - The Data Link layer.

35. What is the 'MAC Layer' responsible for?
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
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
Provides a standard for hardware development - Allows modular SW development - Facilitates rapid development of new technology

36. Where does troublingshooting alway start?
Physical Layer
Media Access Control
Network layer.
IEA RS232 - V.35. Cat 5 - RJ45

37. How many Layers in the OSI Model?
Cables - Pins - Electrical Signals
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away (Physical - Data Link - Network - Transport - Session - Presentation - Application)
Seven
Transport layer.

38. What is layer 4 of the OSI model?
Wide area network technology that specifies the physical and logical link layers of digital telecommunications channels using a packet switching methodology
Transport 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
Wide Area Network

39. What are other names for MAC 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
Presentation layer.
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Hardware address - Ethernet address - BIA - Burned in Address

40. 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
The hardware that implements the MAC.
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
Hardware address - Ethernet address - BIA - Burned in Address

41. What is layer 6 of the OSI model?
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.
Session layer.
Application layer.
Presentation layer.

42. What is HDLC?
HDLC - High Level Data Link Control - PPP - Point to Point - Frame Relay - ISDN - ATM
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
Theoretical

43. What is the Mnemonic phrase for remembering OSI layers ordered 7 to 1?
Hardware address - Ethernet address - BIA - Burned in Address
All People Seem To Need Data Processing (Application - Presentation - Session - Transport - Network - Data Link - Physical)
Media Access Control
Physical - Data Link. Network - Transport

44. How bits are in a MAC address?
48 Bits
Physical layer.
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer
Data Link layer.

45. What does the acronym 'ATM' stand for?
All People Seem To Need Data Processing (Application - Presentation - Session - Transport - Network - Data Link - Physical)
Session layer.
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
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

46. What does the acronym default 'HDLC' protocol stand for?
High Level Data Link Control
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer
Presentation layer.
TCP: Connection oriented - High reliability - High overhead - UDP: Conectionless - Low reliability - Low overhead

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)
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.
Data Link layer.

48. Frame Relay
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
Point to Point
Physical Layer

49. What does the acronym 'ISDN' stand for?
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
Application layer.
International Standards Organization
The third layer is the networking layer which is responsible for routing packets across the network to ther=ir destination

50. What is the 'medium access controller'?
Data Link layer.
The hardware that implements the MAC.
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
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