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IT: Networking Vocab
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1. Produces guidelines for how network cable should be installed in commercial buildings
management services
EIA/TIA
Data Link layer
media
2. A network design in which every node is connected to every other note - achieving fault tolerance.
Plenum
10BASE5 Limit
DB-9 connector
mesh topology
3. Layer 1 Troubleshooting
passive topology
OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) model
Demarcation Point
Incorrect cable type
4. Term that describes current anti-intrusion technologies
File Transfere Protocol - (FTP)
IEEE 802.12 Standard
Transport
intrusion detection/prevention system (IDPS)
5. An app. that provides centralized authentication and authorization services for a network.
RADIUS
goodput
Ethernet (characteristics)
RIP
6. This layer in the OSI network model breaks up the files into packets to allow them to be sent around the network.
802.3af
Transport Layer
MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)
fully distributed control strategy
7. Delay between the transmission of a signal and its receipt
Latency
Connectors
CSMA/CD
node
8. Equivalent to OSI Layer 2 Data Link & Layer 1 Physical
Amplitude
telnet
TCP/IP Vs. OSI: Network Access
FTP
9. Translates data to a format the receiving node understands - such as from EBCDIC to ASCII - Performs data encryption - Performs data compression
Presention Layer (Layer 6)
Channel
ISO (International Organization for Standardization)
Full-Duplex
10. As defined by the EIA/TIA-568 standard - cabling that connects workstations and servers in the work area.
horizontal cabling
MMF
Topology
vampire tap
11. Two communication systems establish 2-way communication prior to the exchange of data
connection
(fiddy) Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FF02
MultiStation Access Unit
12. AD
connectionless
modem
Active Directory
Transport
13. Strategy that combines the best of the other two strategies; while individual agents still analyze and respond to local threats - their reporting to a hierarchical central facility enables the organization to detect widespread attacks
partially distributed control strategy
ATM
OSI Layer 3
ANDing
14. A cable TV company - such as Comcast Broadband.
internetwork
link establishment phase
cabeloco
Repeater
15. Appends physical address of destination computer onto the frame
star-wired bus topology
A Protocol
MAC sublayer
Presention Layer (Layer 6)
16. Prevents two nodes transmitting at the same time
HTTPS
User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
Data Link
amplitude
17. Physical Layer
Authentication Header
ISP (Internet service provider)
FDDI
Twister Pair Cable
18. UN agency that regulates international telecommunications and provides developing countries with technical expertise and equipment to advance their technological bases
ITU (International Telecommunication Union)
power budget
Digital
Transport
19. Occurs when attacker attempts to gain entry or disrupt normal operations of information systems - almost always with intent to do harm
cross talk
intrusion
Cable Plant
Data Service Unit
20. NTP
simplex
ARP
Network Time Protocol
multimeter
21. Unshielded twisted pair
hot site
modem
Multiplexer
utp
22. Determines the network path on which to route packets - Help reduce network congestion - Establishes virtual circuits - Routes packets to other networks - resequencing packet transmissions when needed - Translates between protocols
Network Layer (Layer 3)
Session
private network
crossover cable
23. The device inside a computer that connect a computer to the network media
ASCII
NIC
network address
NNTP
24. Domain Name System
beacon frame
DNS
NetWare Core Protocol
star topology
25. The process of reconstructing segmented data
reassembly
statistical anomaly-based (stat - behavior-based) IDPS
Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (S-HTTP)
TCP/IP Vs. OSI: Network Access
26. A gateway that operates on the Internet backbone.
multimeter
Core Gateway
Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
Frequency Division Multiplexing
27. Twisted pair patch cable in which the termination locations of the transmit and receive wires on one end of the cable are reversed
Electrical Signaling
router
Crossover Cable
client
28. Amount of data that can be transmitted over media or wireless at a time.
fragmentation
IEEE
bandwidth
MAC address
29. Device that modulates analog signals into digital signals for transmission over telephone lines - and demodulates digital signals into analog for the receiving end
evasion
Synchronous Optical Network
Simple Network Management Protocol
Modem
30. Pipeline used to contain and protect cabling; usually made from metal
virture privat network (VPN)
Conduit
demand priority
Transmission Protocol (TCP)
31. A switching method that enables multiple devices to communicate over the same commnications medium by creating time slots in which each device transmits.
Digital
packet
twisted shielded pair
Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA)
32. RSA
EAP
Kerberos
Rivest - Shamir - Adelman
Active Directory
33. Telephone jacks
Presentation
To stop the Hamburgerler from stealing all of Ronnie McDonalds burgers
rj-11
American Wire Gauge
34. IEEE standard for token ring devices and data handling
802.5
Application layer
BSS
Network
35. A unit of data formatted for transmission over a network that contains control and other information that corresponds to the OSI Networklayer; also called Layer 3.
mtr (my traceroute)
standby UPS
token
packet
36. A series of interconnected computers - printing devices - and other computer equipment that share hardware and software resources. The services area usually is limited to a given office - floor - or building.
radiation pattern
RTT
Multistation Access Unit
local area network (LAN)
37. Manages IP address allocation and the domain name system
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
Baseband
IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority)
(fiddy) Fiber Distributed Data Interface
38. (metropolitan area network) used with a handful of buildings and larger then a LAN - connects two or more Lans
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
Virtual Private Network
MAN
standby UPS
39. A remote connection where the client computer is a low-end computer that communicates with a terminal server.
Electrical Signaling
omnidirectional antenna
leased line
thin client computing
40. An established guideline that specifies how networked data is formatted into a packet or frame - how it is transmitted - and how it is interpreted at the receiving end.
IETE
alarm filtering
Protocol
bus topology
41. Which protocol is responsible for splitting data into packets and adding a header to each one?
ARP
Transmission Control Protocol
computer network
FCS (frame check sequence)
42. Glass/plastic - light pulses high throughput - resistant to noise - most expensive cable
isdn
Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
Near End Cross Talk
fiber optic cable
43. Application that will allow you to configure the workstation to tally these errors and send you and email message every time a problem occured
OSI model
OSI
event viewer
Network interface card (NIC)
44. Manages end-to-end delivery of data
transport layer
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
Telnet
Application layer
45. Metropolitan area network
TCP/IP
MAN
star topology
Network Address Translation
46. Network layer device
ANDing
Peer-to-peer network
Data Link
router
47. Describes the relative strength over a three dimensional area of an antenna
Backbone
radiation pattern
Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMACD)
baseband
48. Hardware that constitutes the enterprise-wide cabling system
Cable Plant
padded cell
Universal serial bus
topology
49. Device that separates broadcast domain
public network
Data Link
switch
Point-to-Point Protocol
50. Best fault tolerance
SYN-ACK (synchronization-acknowledgment)
logical address
full mesh
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
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