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IT: Networking Vocab

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1. What is the currency of Denmark?






2. A network owned and maintained by an organization -such as a campus network operated by a college.






3. Developed by ISO and ANSI - a model that providees a framework for networked hardware and software communication based on seven layers.






4. Braided metal shielding used to insulate some types of coaxial cable






5. Layer 1 Troubleshooting






6. Which class of IP address would be allocated to a very large company?






7. Fiber-optic cable used on a network backbone for high-speed communications - such as between floors of a building.






8. Hardware device located at the ISP side of ADSL connections.






9. Several ethernet nodes can be connected and can monitor traffic or access media simultaneously






10. (metropolitan area network) used with a handful of buildings and larger then a LAN - connects two or more Lans






11. Application that will allow you to configure the workstation to tally these errors and send you and email message every time a problem occured






12. MAC Protocols






13. Compatible with 802.11a - b - g 600-65 throughput






14. Is an e mail retival protocol designed to enabel users to access their e-mail from various locations






15. A gateway that operates on the Internet backbone.






16. A TCP/IP utility used to show or modify a client's host name.






17. A boundary between two zones of trust






18. A network design in which every node is connected to every other node - achieving fault tolerance.






19. Four twisted wire pairs rated for 250 MHz.






20. More reliable then analog - noise doesn't affect as much - more efficient - fewer errors






21. A 32 bit number that - when combined with a device's IP address - indicates the kind of supernet to which the device belongs.






22. ARP






23. A data encryption technique employed between a server and a client - such as between a client's browser and an Internet server.






24. A device that converts an analog to digital signal and vice versa






25. Wrapping one layer's PDU with protocol information so that it can be interpreted by a lower layer






26. 128 -64 -32 -16 -8 -4 -2 -1






27. A versatile - chainable serial-bus technology that connects up to 127 devices at speeds of 1.5 Mbps and 12 Mbps as well as 480 Mbps.






28. Two twisted wire pairs. It's the oldes type and is only voice grade - it isn't rated for data communication.






29. Is a file transfer protocol that uses s ecure shell (SSH)






30. WAN transmission technologies that contains a segment that relied on 10GBase-EW standard






31. Four twisted wire pairs rated for 100 Mhz - but capable of handling the disturbance on eash pair that's caused by transmitting on all four pairs at the same time.






32. A specialized UN agency that provides developing countries with technical expertise and equipment






33. Radio frequency interference






34. Using part of a leased line






35. PDC






36. Lower sublayer of the Data Link layer; appends the physical address of the destination computer onto the fram






37. Equivalent to OSI Layer 7 Application - Layer 6 Presentation - Layer 5 Session






38. American national standards institute






39. Point of division between a telecommunications service carrier's network and a building's internal network






40. Transport protocol and TCP/IP port that uses telnet utility use






41. Digital subscriber line- support multiple data and voice channels over a single line - extraordinary throughput though telephone lines






42. Multiplexing technique use over single-mode or multimode fiber-optic cable in which each signal is assigned a different wavelength for its carrier wave; little space exists between carrier waves






43. Encompasses actions an organization takes when intrusion is detected






44. Speed: 1000 Mbps - Altenative name: 1000BASE-T - IEEE Standard: IEEE 802.3ab - Cable type: copper max length 100m






45. Device that enables networks or segments using different media to interconnect and exchange signals






46. Type of interference caused by signals traveling on nearby wire pairs infringing on another pair's signal






47. A logical communication path established by the OSI Network layer for sending and receiving data.






48. Short reach. only multimode-max length is 500. baseband transmission. 1000 mpbs.






49. Round time trip. time it takes for packet to get from sender to receiver and back






50. The IEEE standard for broadband wireless metropolitan area networking (also known as WiMax)