SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
IT: Networking Vocab
Start Test
Study First
Subject
:
it-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Authentication prtocol that does not issue a challenge or require 3rd party verification of the computer requestiing authentication
false attack stimulus
fully distributed control strategy
kereberos
node
2. Layer 3
log file monitor (LFM) IDPS
routing
Terminator
Network
3. Value placed upon an IDPS's ability to detect/identify certain attacks correctly
Class D Network
Session
terminal
confidence value
4. Narrow core - light travels in one path - longest distance - more expensive then MMF
1000base-t
SMF
American Wire Gauge
CSMA/CA
5. 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)
DHCP
Independent Computer Architecture
Error Handling
6. A standard method or format for communication between networked devices
American Wire Gauge
Ethernet (characteristics)
protocol
Gigabit Ethernet
7. The process of wrapping one layer's PDU with protocol information so that it can be interpreted by a lower layer. For example - Data Link layer protocols encapsulate Network layer packets in frames.
ITU (International Telecommunication Union)
encapsulate
Single mode fiber
OSI
8. Individual insulated wire pairs - less expensive then STP - less resistant to noise
headened
statistical multiplexing
fractionalizing
UTP
9. Type of sensor deployed in such a way that the network traffic it is monitoring must pass through it.
WINS
Virtual Private Network
inline sensor
Straight tip connector
10. A TCP/IP utility that queries the DNS database and provides information about a host given its IP address or vice versa. Dig is similar to the nslookup utility - but provides more information - even in its simplest form - than nslookup can.
dig (domain information groper)
honey net
intrusion prevention
Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA)
11. Packet one node sends to request a connection with another; 1st of three-step process of establishing a connection
SMF
switch
SYN (syncronization)
API (application program interface)
12. SNMP
event viewer
Simple Network Management Protocol
topology
TCP/IP Network Access Layer Encapsulation
13. Electronics industries Alliance
Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3)
EIA
Binary
terminal
14. Service that supports email
twisted shielded pair
communications services
router
ADSL
15. ADSL
plain old telephone service (POTS)
fully distributed control strategy
bandwidth
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
16. 6th layer; protocols translate between Application and Network layers; data are formatted so that the network can understand - with the format varying according to the type of network; manages data encryption and decryption - such as scrambling of sy
terminator
PPP
Presentation layer
directional antennas
17. The physical layout of cable and wireless network devices and the logical path followed by network frames or packets sent on the cable or by wireless transmissions.
ATM
Single mode fiber
Topology
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP
18. Faster networking and inexpensive - flexible - easy to install
twisted shielded pair
802.3
star wired bus
firmware
19. ICS
SLIP
TFTP
Internet Connection Sharing
metropolitan area network (MAN)
20. Crimp into pins 1 and 2 of RJ 45 connector
ethernet
Metropolitan area network (MAN)
IGMP
white/orange and orange
21. Wall-mounted panel of data receptors into which cross-connect patch cables from the punch-down block are inserted
SMTP server name
IP (Internet Protocol)
Patch Panel
MAU
22. IEEE standard for Ethernet devices and data handling
Open System Interconnection (OSI) referance model
UDP
802.3
EAP
23. Simple Network Management Protocol
DTE
Access Control List
connectivity device
SNMP
24. Connection based
FTP
Universal serial bus
cp connection
crossover cable
25. A computer (mainframe - minicomputer - server - or workstation) that has an operating system enabling multiple computers to access it at the same time for files - data - and services.
host
plenum cables
Industrial - Scientific - and Medical
IP gateway in NAT
26. Device that separates broadcast domain
Node
switch
CSU/DSU
Category 5
27. The physical layout of a computer network
topology
User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
communications services
ISDN
28. Physical Layer
Bits
topology
protocol and services
Point-to-Point Protocol
29. Upper sublayer in the Data Link layer. Provides a common interface and supplies reliability and flow control services
pstn
LLC (Logical Link Control) sublayer
TDMA
Encrypting File System
30. A digital communication service that uses the same network infrastructure as PSTN - but is expensive
Physical
broadcast frame or broadcast packet
ISDN
Integrated Services Digital Network
31. FTP is an application that enables the transfer of data from one remote device to another - using TCP/IP
255.255.255.252
File Transfere Protocol - (FTP)
star wired ring
EIA (Electronics Industries Alliance)
32. Ethernet NICs listen on network and wait until they detect no other nodes transmitting data
carrier sense
Network Behavior Analysis
digital
American Wire Gauge
33. Lowest or 1st layer; protocols generate and detect signals so as to transmit and receive data over a network medium - also set the data transmission rate and monitor data error rates - but do not provide error correction
port 21
Secure File Transfer Protocol
VPN
Physical layer
34. A thin coaxial cable usually RG-58
NetBIOs
Thin Eterhnet/10 Base 2
cross talk
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
35. Is a challenge respone authentication protocol
LC connector
network address
CHAP
OSI Layer 2
36. Panel of data receptors into which twisted pair wire is inserted to complete a circuit
DB-9 connector
TCP port 23
Punch-Down Block
protocol and services
37. First part of the datagram - which consists of general information about the size of the packet - the protocol that was used to send it - and the IP address of both the source computer and its destination.
Network
Frequency Division Multiplexing
analog
header
38. Services that handle hardware diagnoses and failure alerts
Domain Controller
2.4-GHz band
management services
nslookup
39. Cyclic redundancy check
Data Link
fixing attenuation
Inter Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
CRC
40. Segment
Port Numbers
SNMP
bus topology
TCP/IP Transport Layer Encapsulation
41. Application that will allow you to configure the workstation to tally these errors and send you and email message every time a problem occured
Firewall configured correctly
event viewer
Transport Layer Security (TSL)
STP
42. Unit of data at any layer of the OSI model
physical layer
IGMP
star-bus hybrid topology
PDU (protocol data unit)
43. Length of time it takes for a packet to go from sender to receiver - then back to sender; measured in milliseconds
RS 232
bus topology
Loose network cable connection
Round Trip Time
44. Ethernet LAN-all forms of Ethernet media and interface
802.3
Shielded Twised Pair
centralized control strategy
TCP/IP Architecture Layer 2
45. NFS
Half Duplex NIC Communication
Packet
Network File System
intrusion reaction
46. Equivalent to OSI Layer 2 Data Link & Layer 1 Physical
FM
Local Connector
TCP/IP Vs. OSI: Network Access
EMI
47. Extent to which a signal has weakened after traveling a given distance
fiber optic connector
Round Trip Time
Attenuation
SMTP
48. Data Link Layer
FDM
Mac Addressing
header
crossover cable
49. A technique for connecting to a network at a remote location using Internet as the medium.
directional antennas
VPN
NetWare Directory Services
checksum
50. Electromagnetic interference
EMI
media
Local area network (LAN)
multimeter