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Cisco Network Fundamentals Vocab
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Answer 34 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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).
Convergence
Packet
Intranet
Bandwidth
2. A system or network design characterized by one or more major components that are required to maintain operation.
Firewall
Bandwidth
Router
Single Point of Failure
3. 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.
Redundancy
Bits
Authentication
Instant Messaging
4. Something that helps people collaborate in a software context.
Collaboration Tool
Internetwork
Intranet
Instant Messaging
5. A network architecture designed to eliminate network downtime caused by a single point of failure.
Podcasts
Binary
Extranet
Redundancy
6. Technology that allows communication without needing physical connectivity. Examples include cell phones - personal digital assistants (PDA) wireless access points and wireless NICs.
Collaboration
Convergence
Wireless Technology
Cloud
7. 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.
Convergence
Network
Packet
Collaboration Tool
8. Real-time communications between two or more people through text. The text is conveyed through computers connected over a network.
Collaboration Tool
Firewall
Packet Tracer
Instant Messaging
9. A symbol used to represent of part of the network whose details are being ignored.
Packet
Cloud
Real-Time
Internet Protocol (IP)
10. An internationally recognized definition of technical specifications that ensure worldwide consistency.
Router
Firewall
Data Network
Standards
11. The ability or a protocol - system or component to be modified to fit a new need.
Scalability
Authentication
Network
Redundancy
12. A process used to verify the identity of a person or a process.
Authentication
Internet
Wireless Technology
Packet Tracer
13. To transfer data from the server to the client computer you are using.
Priority Queuing
Standards
Packet Tracer
Download
14. 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
Collaboration Tool
Packet
Binary
Internet
15. 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.
Internet Protocol (IP)
Binary
Router
Source
16. 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)
Internetwork
Network
Priority Queuing
17. A numbering system characterized by 1s and 0s.
Firewall
Internet
Binary
Redundancy
18. A digital network used to send data between computers.
Intranet
Redundancy
Data Network
Router
19. This kind of network combines various forms of traffic such as voice - video and data on the same network infrastructure.
Blogs
Collaboration
Internetwork
Convergence
20. 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.
Convergence
Router
Firewall
Bandwidth
21. A corporate system such as a website that is explicitly used by internal employees. It can be accessed either internally or remotely.
Packet
Source
Intranet
Scalability
22. The network that combines enterprise networks - individual users - and ISPs into a single global IP network.
Internet
Blogs
Single Point of Failure
Fault Tolerance
23. A routing feature in which frames in an interface output queue are prioritized based on various characteristics such as packet size and interface type.
Network
Priority Queuing
Binary
Extranet
24. Digital files that are distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds - for playback on portable media players and personal computers.
Podcasts
Data Network
Collaboration
Single Point of Failure
25. Websites that lets visitors add - edit and delete content - typically without the need for registration. A good example of this is wikipedia.com.
Collaboration Tool
Convergence
Packet
Wikis
26. A drag-and-drop network simulator developed by Cisco to design - configure and troubleshoot network equipment within a simulated environment.
Convergence
Network
Packet Tracer
Internetwork
27. Two or more people working together on a project.
Podcasts
Router
Collaboration
Single Point of Failure
28. Any combination of hardware device and/or software application designed to protect network devices from outside network users and/or malicious applications and files.
Bandwidth
Instant Messaging
Firewall
Network
29. 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.
Quality of Service (QoS)
Internet
Data Network
Internet Protocol (IP)
30. 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.
Redundancy
Blogs
Packet
Binary
31. 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.
Internetwork
Extranet
Convergence
Instant Messaging
32. A combination of many IP subnets and networks - as created by building a network using routers. It can include several IP networks.
Internet
Internetwork
Wireless Technology
Collaboration
33. Events or signals that show output as fast as possible - or as they happen.
Wireless Technology
Redundancy
Source
Real-Time
34. The design on networks that can continue to operate without interruption in the case of hardware - software or communications failures.
Fault Tolerance
Internetwork
Podcasts
Cloud