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IT: Networking Vocab
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1. A connecting device for a network that accepts messages and passes them on to other parts of the network. Generally more intelligent than a hub.
switch
private network
Session
routing
2. Equivalent to OSI Layer 3 Network
Session
TCP/IP Vs. OSI: Internet
POTS
Port 23
3. Application layer protocol that formulates and interprets requests between Web clients and servers
bus topology
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
Internet Connection Sharing
Virtual private network (VPN)
4. Used with single mode or multi mode fiber optic cable
spread-spectrum
standard connector
Round Trip Time
carrier sense
5. Braided metal shielding used to insulate some types of coaxial cable
MultiStation Access Unit
Braiding
social engineering
Classful Addressing
6. Similar to FTP. lets you transfer files between a host and an FTP server
Braiding
network address
Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
router
7. Packet one node sends to request a connection with another; 1st of three-step process of establishing a connection
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
white/orange and orange
SYN (syncronization)
asynchronous comunications
8. Packet a node sends to acknowledge that it received a SYN request for connection; 2nd of three-step connection process
Rivest - Shamir - Adelman
SYN-ACK (synchronization-acknowledgment)
host-based IDPS (HIPDS)
terminal
9. Intelligently direct data between networks based on addressing - patterns of usage - and availability of network segments
route
Internet Group Multicast Protocol
RTS/CTS
Physical
10. CSMA / CD
Localhost
SYN-ACK (synchronization-acknowledgment)
Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Detection
Phase
11. Documented agreement containing technical specifications or other precise criteria used as guidelines to ensure that materials - products - processes - and services suit their intended purpose
standard
POP3 (Post Office Protocol - version 3)
f type connector
router
12. Reflection in multiple different directions of a signal
true attack stimulus
scattering
SMTP
false attack stimulus
13. Set of protocols that specify how wireless networks works. Most common are currently B and G. N is an emerging standard.
802.11
SYN-ACK (synchronization-acknowledgment)
Core
Secure Shell (SSH
14. Device with little - if any - of it's own processing or disk capacity; depends on a host to supply it with applications and data-processing services
terminal
SYN (syncronization)
IP Addressing
intrusion
15. Resistance that contributes to controlling an electrical signal; measured in ohms
Physical Layer
Decapsulation
Impedance
Apple File Protocol
16. T1
Independent Computer Architecture
User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
Multistation Access Unit
T-Carrier Level 1
17. GPO
TCP/IP Architecture Layer 1
addressing
Network Address Translation
Group Policy Object
18. An advantage of networks
networks enable users to share resources
internetwork
intrusion
Physical
19. Supplying electrical power through ethernet
802.2
SMF
power over ethernet
Virtual private network (VPN)
20. What does POP3 stand for?
simplex
port 21
Gigabit Ethernet
Post Office Protocol
21. Is used to route electronic mail through the internetwork
frame
66 Block
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Boot Protocol /Bootstrap Protocol
22. Associates a MAC address with a given IP address - reverse ARP
Data Link
RARP
connectivity device
5-4-3 rule
23. You may set up a web server on companys access server - allowing global connections - for employees to access
ring topology
demilitarized zone
Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
Domain Name
24. A service provided with Windows 98 - Me - 2000 - and 32-bit versions of XP operating systems that allows one computer - the ICS host - to share its Internet connection with other computers on the same network.
monitoring port (SPAN port)
local area network (LAN)
ICS (Internet Connection Sharing)
LAN
25. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
OSI Layer 5
PPP
SMTP
RARP
26. Hardware device typically used to connect multiple LANs
ICAN
hot site
ANSI (American National Standards Institute)
router
27. Field in a frame responsible for ensuring that data carried by the frame arrives intact. Uses an algorithm - such as CRC - to accomplish verification
Class A Network
Serial Line Internet Protocol
FCS (frame check sequence)
application protocol verification
28. A type of multimode fiber-optic cable that reflects the light-based signals like a mirror within the cable - resulting in different signals arriving at different times and with an increased likeihood of distortion over longer cable runs.
headened
stateful protocol analysis (SPA) IDPS
step-index multimode fiber-optic cable
port 143
29. Transport Layer
OSI Reference to TCP
port 123
Data Link Layer
TCP/UDP
30. An International organization of scientists - engineers - technicians - and educators that play a leading role in developing standards for network cabling and data transmissions.
Category 6
network-based IDPS (NIDPS)
802.11n
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
31. The wave bounces back when encountering an object
reflection
route
SONET
scattering
32. Media Access Unit (transmitter/ receiver)
Localhost
collision detection
MAU
analog dis
33. DNS - Domain name system
Decapsulation
Frequency Modulation
MAC
port 53
34. Ethernet communications at speeds up to 100 Mbps as defined under the IEEE 802.3u standard.
Fast Ethernet
Secure Shell
Segment
grade-index multimode fiber-optic cable
35. The NIC and network equipment are set up so that they have the capacity to send and receive simultaneously. which is possible because od buffering at the NIC.
PAT (Port Address Translation)
Error Handling
wavelength
Full Duplex NIC Communication
36. A computer on a network that requests services or resources from another computer on a network
workstation
digital
Category 5e
session
37. Serial internet protocol
slip
Remote Terminal Emulation (Telnet)
twisted shielded pair
DSSS
38. PAP
Physical
TDMA
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Password Authentication Protocol
39. Also called coax - a network cable medium that consists of a copper core - surrounded by insulation.
Single mode fiber
coaxial cable
Data Link
Presentation layer
40. Can use WPA to improve the security of data in transit
LAN
100base-tx
802.11b
BSS
41. In TCP - a term used to describe a TCP header and its encapsulated data (also called an L4PDU). Also in TCP - the process of accepting a large chunk of data from the application layer and breaking it into smaller pieces that fit into TCP segments. In
Segment
Transport Layer Security (TSL)
nbtstat
AM
42. CHAP
PAP
Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
IP address within the assigned network
Secure Copy Protocol
43. Subgroup of EIA that focuses on standards for information technology - wireless - satellite - fiber optics - and telephone equipment; best known for network cable installation guidelines (TIA/EIA 568-B Series)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
broadcast frame or broadcast packet
TIA (Telecommications Industry Association)
API (application program interface)
44. The process in which an attacker obtains confidential information by contacting employees and deceiving them into giving up passwords - IP addresses - server names - and so on.
virtual circuit
Presentation
Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
social engineering
45. Defines host IP in packet headers
transmit
Backbone
Network
Multiplexer
46. Communications arrangement in which a single transmitter issues signals to multiple - defined recipients
computer network
802.11g
hostname
Nonbroadcast Point-to-Multipoint Transmission
47. Enables network managers to continuously monitor network activity
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
TCP/IP Architecture Layer 2
Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
Protocol Data Unit
48. 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
Session
partially distributed control strategy
router
ANSI
49. Signal interference caused by magnetic force field generated by electrical devices such as motors.
Secure Shell
electromagnetic interference (EMI)
rollover cable
network class C
50. A logical communication path established by the OSI Network layer for sending and receiving data.
star-bus hybrid topology
Network News Transport Protocol (NNTP)
virtual circuit
Network
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