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Cisco Certification OSI Model

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1. What does the acronym 'MAC' stand for?
Media Access Control
International Standards Organization
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer
Physical - Data Link. Network - Transport

2. What is layer 1 of the OSI model?
Transport layer.
48 bit address used to identify networking cards and appliances
Presentation layer.
Physical layer.

3. Frame Relay
High Level Data Link Control
Application layer.
Wide area network technology that specifies the physical and logical link layers of digital telecommunications channels using a packet switching methodology
Seven

4. What is the 'LLC Layer' responsible for?
Provides a standard for hardware development - Allows modular SW development - Facilitates rapid development of new technology
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
Theoretical
Network layer.

5. What does the acronym 'PPP' stand for?
Session layer.
Cables - Pins - Electrical Signals
Point to Point
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer

6. What are other names for MAC address?
Hardware address - Ethernet address - BIA - Burned in Address
The third layer is the networking layer which is responsible for routing packets across the network to ther=ir destination
Presentation layer.
Physical layer.

7. What is the 'MAC Layer' responsible for?
Media Access Control
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.
Wide area network technology that specifies the physical and logical link layers of digital telecommunications channels using a packet switching methodology

8. What are some examples of 'WAN' side 'Encapsulation' type Datalink Layer Protocols and Standards?
TCP: Connection oriented - High reliability - High overhead - UDP: Conectionless - Low reliability - Low overhead
Data Link layer.
The hardware that implements the MAC.
HDLC - High Level Data Link Control - PPP - Point to Point - Frame Relay - ISDN - ATM

9. In an OSI context What is considered 'media'?
Transport layer.
Cables - Pins - Electrical Signals
Seven
Provide a model to discribe how data moves from source device to destination device.

10. What does the acronym 'WAN' stand for?
Wide Area Network
Application layer.
Seven
Theoretical

11. What does the acronym 'PPPoA' stand for?
802.2 - Logical Link Control - 802.3 - Ethernet - 802.5 - Token Ring - 802.11 - Wireless
Point to Point
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away (Physical - Data Link - Network - Transport - Session - Presentation - Application)

12. What is ATM?
Provide a model to discribe how data moves from source device to destination device.
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.
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

13. What is the EIA/TIA 232 protocol concerned with?
High Level Data Link Control
Layer 1 Protocol having to do with serial communication
Physical Layer
Presentation layer.

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

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15. What is the OSI model and why is it important in understanding networking?
Application layer.
802.2 - Logical Link Control - 802.3 - Ethernet - 802.5 - Token Ring - 802.11 - Wireless
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
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.

16. What is layer 6 of the OSI model?
48 bit address used to identify networking cards and appliances
Transport layer.
High Level Data Link Control
Presentation layer.

17. What does the acronym 'ATM' stand for?
48 bit address used to identify networking cards and appliances
High-Level Data Link Control
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
The hardware that implements the MAC.

18. What is layer 5 of the OSI model?
Media Access Control
Hardware address - Ethernet address - BIA - Burned in Address
High Level Data Link Control
Session layer.

19. What are the first 4 layers of the OSI model called?
Data Flow layers.
Wide area network technology that specifies the physical and logical link layers of digital telecommunications channels using a packet switching methodology
Seven
All People Seem To Need Data Processing (Application - Presentation - Session - Transport - Network - Data Link - Physical)

20. When would the PPP be used?
High-Level Data Link Control
Logicial Link Control
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.
TCP: Connection oriented - High reliability - High overhead - UDP: Conectionless - Low reliability - Low overhead

21. What are the advantages of the OSI model?
Application layer.
Layer 2 - The Data Link layer.
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

22. What is layer 4 of the OSI model?
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer
Transport 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
Physical Layer

23. Which OSI model layer is concerned with MAC addresses?
Cables - Pins - Electrical Signals
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
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

24. OSI layers are...
Seven
All People Seem To Need Data Processing (Application - Presentation - Session - Transport - Network - Data Link - Physical)
Wide area network technology that specifies the physical and logical link layers of digital telecommunications channels using a packet switching methodology
Theoretical

25. What is layer 7 of the OSI model?
Application layer.
48 bit address used to identify networking cards and appliances
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
Theoretical

26. What are some Physical Layer Protocols and Standards?
Media Access Control
Open Source Interconnect
Network layer.
IEA RS232 - V.35. Cat 5 - RJ45

27. What are are the 'Sub Layers' of the 'Data Link' Layer?
All People Seem To Need Data Processing (Application - Presentation - Session - Transport - Network - Data Link - Physical)
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
Layer 1 Protocol having to do with serial communication

28. What does the acronym 'HDLC' stand for?
Presentation layer.
High-Level Data Link Control
Transport layer.
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network

29. What is layer 3 of the OSI model?
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Network layer.
Hardware address - Ethernet address - BIA - Burned in Address
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

30. What are considered the Data Flow layers?
Physical - Data Link. Network - Transport
Seven
When require to communicate between different vendors across the same serial link.
International Standards Organization

31. Where does troublingshooting alway start?
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
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
Physical Layer
MAC SubLayer - LLC SubLayer

32. How bits are in a MAC address?
48 Bits
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.
Open Source Interconnect

33. How does the third OSI model layer relate to administering routers?
High Level Data Link Control
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
The third layer is the networking layer which is responsible for routing packets across the network to ther=ir destination
Presentation layer.

34. What does the acronym 'LLC' stand for?
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
IEA RS232 - V.35. Cat 5 - RJ45
Transport layer.
Logicial Link Control

35. What does the acronym 'ISDN' stand for?
IEA RS232 - V.35. Cat 5 - RJ45
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away (Physical - Data Link - Network - Transport - Session - Presentation - Application)
802.2 - Logical Link Control - 802.3 - Ethernet - 802.5 - Token Ring - 802.11 - Wireless
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network

36. What are some examples of 'LAN' side Datalink Layer Protocols and Standards?
Hardware address - Ethernet address - BIA - Burned in Address
802.2 - Logical Link Control - 802.3 - Ethernet - 802.5 - Token Ring - 802.11 - Wireless
TCP: Connection oriented - High reliability - High overhead - UDP: Conectionless - Low reliability - Low overhead
IEA RS232 - V.35. Cat 5 - RJ45

37. What does the acronym 'ISO' stand for?
International Standards Organization
Theoretical
Open Source Interconnect
TCP: Connection oriented - High reliability - High overhead - UDP: Conectionless - Low reliability - Low overhead

38. What is layer 2 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
Provides a standard for hardware development - Allows modular SW development - Facilitates rapid development of new technology
Data Link layer.
Open Source Interconnect

39. What does the acronym default 'HDLC' protocol stand for?
High Level Data Link Control
Layer 2 - The Data Link layer.
Provides a standard for hardware development - Allows modular SW development - Facilitates rapid development of new technology
Provide a model to discribe how data moves from source device to destination device.

40. What does the acronym 'LAN' stand for?
Point to Point
Local Area Network
Presentation layer.
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away (Physical - Data Link - Network - Transport - Session - Presentation - Application)

41. What is the Physical Layer responsible for?

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42. How many Layers in the OSI Model?
Local Area Network
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
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.
Seven

43. 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
The hardware that implements the MAC.
Network layer.
Open Source Interconnect

44. 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
Data Link layer.
Wide Area Network
TCP: Connection oriented - High reliability - High overhead - UDP: Conectionless - Low reliability - Low overhead

45. 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)
Data Link layer.
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Session layer.

46. What is HDLC?
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
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

47. What is the 'medium access controller'?
Wide area network technology that specifies the physical and logical link layers of digital telecommunications channels using a packet switching methodology
The hardware that implements the MAC.
International Standards Organization
Layer 1 Protocol having to do with serial communication

48. What is the purpose of the OSI Model?
Network layer.
Wide Area Network
Transport layer.
Provide a model to discribe how data moves from source device to destination device.

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

50. What is the MAC address?
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
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away (Physical - Data Link - Network - Transport - Session - Presentation - Application)
48 bit address used to identify networking cards and appliances
Media Access Control