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IT: Networking Vocab
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1. International society composed of engineering professionals - promotes development and education in the electrical engineering and computer fields
voltage
encapsulate
frame
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
2. Useful for troubleshooting a network connectivity problem from workstation to another workstation
Presentation
802.11
crossover cable
Frequency Modulation
3. Physical Layer
802.11b
star topology
Repeaters
RS-232
4. Which layer in the OSI network model handles data format information for networked communications?
Presentation Layer
protocol and services
Class A Network
Berkeley Software Distribution
5. Hub/repeaters
physical layer device
Ferrule
ATM
High-Level Data Link Control
6. Radio frequency interference
fault tolerance
node
RFI
ISO (International Organization for Standardization)
7. Follow TIA/EIA 568 specifications
installing cable
Application Layer (Layer 7)
fiber-optic cables
(fiddy) Fiber Distributed Data Interface
8. ACL
frame
MTU (maximum transmission unit)
Access Control List
Multiplexer
9. A 32 bit number that - when combined with a device's IP address - indicates the kind of supernet to which the device belongs.
star-wired bus topology
Session layer
supernet mask
modem
10. Consists of single cable that connects all nodes on a network without intervening connectivity devices - inexpensive - hard to find source of error - not very fault tolerant - data is transmitted in one direction in the ring.
bus topology
10BASE2 Limit
Data Link
utp
11. Private connection from a LAN to an internet service provider.
MAN
Transport Layer Security (TSL)
Internet Protocol
dedicated lines
12. A physical layer standard that defines a method for building a synchronous telecommunications network based on fiber-optic cables.
MAC
SONET
OSI Layer 3
firmware
13. LPR
File Transfer Protocol
pppoe
Line Printer Remote
WAN
14. Cross talk that occurs between wire pairs near the source of a signal
TCP/UDP
tunneling
intrusion reaction
Near End Cross Talk
15. Network-max segment length-100 meters
whois
10Base-T
Multistation Access Unit
white/orange and orange
16. Is a method for automatically assigning address and other configuration parameters to network hosts.
firewall
backbone
802.11n
Dynamic Host Configuration protocol (DHCP)
17. Data transmission that involves one transmitter and one receiver
Point-to-Point
802.11b
false positive
star topology
18. Encompasses actions an organization takes when intrusion is detected
intrusion reaction
TDM
Frequency Modulation
Internet Protocol version 4
19. Packet internet groper
TDM
port 110
PING
802.11
20. Lower sublayer of the Data Link layer; appends the physical address of the destination computer onto the fram
MAC (Media Access Control) sublayer
demilitarized zone
Canonical Name
asymmetrical transmission
21. Device that boosts - or strengthens - and analog signal
Amplifier
the higher the frequency
binary
kereberos
22. GPO
Network
HTTPS
802.3
Group Policy Object
23. American Standard Code for Information Interchange
FDM
wavelength
ASCII
horizontal cabling
24. Feeding everybody in building
modem
TCP/IP Vs. OSI: Internet
Serial
omnidirectional antenna
25. Device that can detect intrusion and launch an active response
T-Carrier Level 1
connectionless
intrusion prevention system (IPS)
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
26. Hardware address of the network interface card
Cross Talk
enterprise network
MAC
sequencing
27. Trivial File Transfer Protocol
Repeater
TFTP
Frequency Modulation
local area network (LAN)
28. An International organization of scientists - engineers - technicians - and educators that play a leading role in developing standards for network cabling and data transmissions.
Internet Relay Chat
Password Authentication Protocol
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Protocol Data Unit
29. SNMP
port 21
Simple Network Management Protocol
fiber-optic cables
NetWare Loadable Module
30. A route discovery and analysis utility that comes with UNIX and Linux operating systems. Mtr combines with functions of the ping and traceroute commands and delivers an easily readable chart as its output
Class E Network
Thin Eterhnet/10 Base 2
modem
mtr (my traceroute)
31. A process in which a digital signature is placed in a driver. The digital signature helps ensure that the driver is tested and is compatible with the operating system and device for which it is written.
IANA
driver signing
topology
Synchronous Optical Network
32. The process of checking a communication medium - such as cable - for a voltage level - signal transition - or light - indicating the presence of a data-carrying signal.
RARP
digital adv
carrier sense
multimeter
33. IPv6 addressing - multicast group
Port 20
FF02
addressing
Device power unplugged
34. The organized research of the Internet addresses owned or controlled by a target organization.
logical address
Transport
footprinting
fully distributed control strategy
35. ICMP
noise
Internet Control Message Protocol
datagram
statistical multiplexing
36. Open System Interconnection
Braiding
networks enable users to share resources
OSI
Organizational Unit
37. IEEE
client/server
application protocol verification
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
FDM
38. Strategy in which all control functions are applied at the physical location of each IDPS component
fully distributed control strategy
datagram
PDU (protocol data unit)
multimeter
39. Transport Layer
TCP/UDP
802.2
checksum
Workstation
40. BERT
Latency
TCP/IP Network Access Layer Encapsulation
confidence value
Bit-Error Rate Test
41. Any device connected to a network - such as a microcomputer - mainframe - midrange computer - network equipment - or printer. Also called a station.
grade-index multimode fiber-optic cable
node
Transport layer
fat pipe
42. Routing protocol most likely used to replace a router for that handles traffic to and from the companies connection to its NSP
ssl
802.3af
BGP
baseband
43. Technique for formatting signals in which one property of a carrier wave is modified by the addition of a data signal during transmission
SNAT (Static Network Address Translation)
Modulation
hot site
ANSI (American National Standards Institute)
44. Transport protocol and TCP/IP port that uses telnet utility use
Internet Control Message Protocol
supernet mask
Frames
TCP port 23
45. IEEE standard for error and flow control in data frames
SSID
false attack stimulus
enterprise network
802.2
46. Only two wire pairs are reversed
footprinting
Segment
crossover cable
communications media
47. Also called coax - a network cable medium that consists of a copper core - surrounded by insulation.
pppoe
Secure Copy
collision detection
coaxial cable
48. The IEEE standard for Ethernet networking devices and data handling (using the CSMA/CD access method)
RTS/CTS
802.3
SFP
local area network (LAN)
49. 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.
EMI
local area network (LAN)
twisted pair connector
dig (domain information groper)
50. Twisted pair cable consisting of a number of twisted pairs of copper wire with a simple plastic casing. Because - no shielding is used in this cable - it is very susceptible to EMI - RFI - and other types of interference
Unshielded twisted pair
Single Mode Fiber
American Wire Gauge
Class B Network