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Cisco Network Fundamentals Vocab
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Answer 34 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Any combination of hardware device and/or software application designed to protect network devices from outside network users and/or malicious applications and files.
Firewall
Bandwidth
Quality of Service (QoS)
Source
2. Technology that allows communication without needing physical connectivity. Examples include cell phones - personal digital assistants (PDA) wireless access points and wireless NICs.
Blogs
Network
Packet Tracer
Wireless Technology
3. The design on networks that can continue to operate without interruption in the case of hardware - software or communications failures.
Single Point of Failure
Fault Tolerance
Convergence
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4. A drag-and-drop network simulator developed by Cisco to design - configure and troubleshoot network equipment within a simulated environment.
Packet Tracer
Binary
Source
Router
5. A network device - typically connected to a range of LAN and WAN interfaces - that forwards packets based on their destination IP addresses. The device uses a forward if proven scheme.
Authentication
Router
Redundancy
Scalability
6. Something that helps people collaborate in a software context.
Bits
Instant Messaging
Collaboration Tool
Cloud
7. A numbering system characterized by 1s and 0s.
Download
Bandwidth
Binary
Quality of Service (QoS)
8. A website where entries are made in journal style. A user creates a blog - makes changes to it through templates or altering HTML code. Visitors can leave posts of the blog.
Extranet
Blogs
Collaboration Tool
Download
9. A network architecture designed to eliminate network downtime caused by a single point of failure.
Packet Tracer
Redundancy
Network
Firewall
10. The network that combines enterprise networks - individual users - and ISPs into a single global IP network.
Internet
Internetwork
Packet Tracer
Fault Tolerance
11. This kind of network combines various forms of traffic such as voice - video and data on the same network infrastructure.
Convergence
Extranet
Fault Tolerance
Internet Protocol (IP)
12. Events or signals that show output as fast as possible - or as they happen.
Real-Time
Bandwidth
Router
Authentication
13. A combination of many IP subnets and networks - as created by building a network using routers. It can include several IP networks.
Data Network
Podcasts
Priority Queuing
Internetwork
14. Websites that lets visitors add - edit and delete content - typically without the need for registration. A good example of this is wikipedia.com.
Wikis
Collaboration Tool
Single Point of Failure
Router
15. This term - used generically - refers to end-user data along with networking headers and trailers that are transmitted through a network. This term - used specifically - it is end-user data along with the network or Internet layer headers and any h
Packet
Internet Protocol (IP)
Convergence
Collaboration
16. The origin of the PDU. This can be a process - a host - or a node. This depends on the layer to which you are referring to.
Extranet
Packet
Collaboration Tool
Source
17. A symbol used to represent of part of the network whose details are being ignored.
Packet Tracer
Router
Binary
Cloud
18. Real-time communications between two or more people through text. The text is conveyed through computers connected over a network.
Source
Instant Messaging
Download
Quality of Service (QoS)
19. In networking - a measurement of the speed of bits that can be transmitted over a particular link. It is the amount of data that can be transmitted in a certain amount of time. For digital service - it is usually expressed in bits per second (bps).
Intranet
Internetwork
Internet Protocol (IP)
Bandwidth
20. An internationally recognized definition of technical specifications that ensure worldwide consistency.
Packet
Bits
Collaboration Tool
Standards
21. Binary Digit used in the binary number system. Each bit can either be a 1 or 0. Bits are units for information storage in computing.
Quality of Service (QoS)
Firewall
Bits
Redundancy
22. A part of a company's intranet that is extended to users outside the company (that is - normally over the Internet.) Vendors and contractors use this type of network to access some company websites.
Collaboration
Internet Protocol (IP)
Bits
Extranet
23. To transfer data from the server to the client computer you are using.
Source
Scalability
Intranet
Download
24. A digital network used to send data between computers.
Real-Time
Standards
Firewall
Data Network
25. Network layer protocol in the TCP/IP stack offering a connectionless internetwork service. It provides features for addressing - type-of-service specifications - fragmentation and reassembly and security. It was documented in RFC 791.
Fault Tolerance
Internet
Internet Protocol (IP)
Binary
26. The ability or a protocol - system or component to be modified to fit a new need.
Scalability
Convergence
Internetwork
Wireless Technology
27. A process used to verify the identity of a person or a process.
Authentication
Wireless Technology
Scalability
Source
28. 1. Collection of computers - printers - routers - switches and other devices that can communicate with each other over a transmission medium. 2. Command that assigns a NIC-based address to which the router is directly connected.
Internet Protocol (IP)
Router
Network
Bandwidth
29. Two or more people working together on a project.
Quality of Service (QoS)
Collaboration
Priority Queuing
Intranet
30. A routing feature in which frames in an interface output queue are prioritized based on various characteristics such as packet size and interface type.
Router
Priority Queuing
Single Point of Failure
Source
31. A system or network design characterized by one or more major components that are required to maintain operation.
Fault Tolerance
Binary
Standards
Single Point of Failure
32. A corporate system such as a website that is explicitly used by internal employees. It can be accessed either internally or remotely.
Bandwidth
Data Network
Intranet
Internetwork
33. A control mechanism that can provide different priorities to different users or data flows - or guarantee a certain level of performance to a data flow in accordance with requests from the application program.
Quality of Service (QoS)
Cloud
Binary
Collaboration Tool
34. Digital files that are distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds - for playback on portable media players and personal computers.
Network
Podcasts
Real-Time
Priority Queuing