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IT: Networking Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. ISM
Industrial - Scientific - and Medical
Bit
Internet Key Exchange
RFI
2. Type of punch-down block used to terminate telephone circuits; does not meet Cat 5 or better standards
66 Block
Same Layer Interaction
ANSI
switch
3. Serial internet protocol
slip
firewall
port 123
Amplitude Modulation
4. Internet group management protocol
TCP/UDP
IGMP
Transport Layer (Layer 4)
coax cable connector
5. Authentication prtocol that does not issue a challenge or require 3rd party verification of the computer requestiing authentication
star-bus hybrid topology
connection
kereberos
ethernet
6. Internet control message protocol
Coaxial Cable
Fast Ethernet (characteristics)
ICMP
Session Layer
7. Issue signals along a network medium
CSMA/CD
Internet
transmit
DSL
8. The 100BaseVG/100VG-AnyLAN approach abandon the CSMA/CD transmission technique for one called demand priorTity.
Rivest - Shamir - Adelman
TIA
IEEE 802.12 Standard
Private Network
9. A common way of sharing resources on a peer-to-peer network
Twister Pair Cable
intrusion detection
LAN
modifying the file-sharing controls
10. Distance between corresponding points on cycle
MS-CHAP
wavelength
RARP
CSMA/CD
11. What is a unique name that identifies an internet site called?
SIP
confidence value
topology
Domain Name
12. Application layer protocol that formulates and interprets requests between Web clients and servers
Segments
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
Port Numbers
Berkeley Internet Name Domain
13. A computer on a network that requests services or resources from another computer on a network
roaming
NIC
Internet Group Membership Protocol (IGMP)
workstation
14. Change in signal strength as a result of reflection - scattering - or diffraction
fading
trap and trace
terminator
noise
15. Offers one way for a computer to access another computer over the network or over the Internet. For example - an IBM programmer can use Telnet on a Windows XP or Red Hat Enterprise Linux computer to access a mainframe though the Internet
network interface card (NIC)
physical media
Telnet
port 123
16. A specially configured connection on a network device that is capable of viewing all the traffic that moves through the entire device.
monitoring port (SPAN port)
route
active scanning
IEEE
17. Length of time it takes for a packet to go from sender to receiver - then back to sender; measured in milliseconds
Round Trip Time
multiprotocol label switching
Primary Domain Controller
Network
18. Device that connects network segments and directs data based on information in the data packet
Classful Addressing
Network File System (NFS)
narrowband
router
19. Data Link Layer
OSI Layer 2
DSL
ADSL
Default Gateway
20. Accurate alarm events that do not pose significant threat to information security
telnet
noise
5-4-3 rule
Faulty network cable
21. UN agency that regulates international telecommunications and provides developing countries with technical expertise and equipment to advance their technological bases
POTS
ITU (International Telecommunication Union)
Ring topology
TDM
22. Enables the establishment of a Web connection - but it also provides for the exchange of resources - for example - displaying AOL's Web page in your brower.
Workstation
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
port 21
analog signal
23. Trivial File Transfer Protocol
client/server
TFTP
TDM
slip
24. A boundary between two zones of trust
Multiplexing
perimeter
link establishment phase
BSS
25. An internetwork is two or more computer networks connected together.
Attenuation
Presentation
internetwork
802.16
26. Hardware address of the network interface card
traceroute (tracert)
Subscriber connector
Internet Message Access Protocol version 4
MAC
27. Name Of Layer 4
Bandwidth
trap and trace
Transport
Ethernet
28. A thin coaxial cable usually RG-58
supernet
Thin Eterhnet/10 Base 2
Wide area network (WAN
route
29. 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
American Wire Gauge
Fast Ethernet
Star topology
30. Unix command at shell prompt to send a file to printer
lpr filename
FM
certification value may be lessened due to the number of people obtaining them
ISO
31. Application Layer
HTTP
Modulation
Internet Group Membership Protocol (IGMP)
coaxial cable
32. Fiber Distributed Data Interface
BNC connector
Password Authentication Protocol
FDDI
Ethernet
33. Internet society
udp
coaxial cable
DB-25 connector
ISOC
34. Manually specify on each workstation so that their users can pick up their internet email from the linux email server
Session Layer (Layer 5)
LLC (Logical Link Control) sublayer
SMTP server name
Service Set Identifier
35. A drawback of certification
Class C Network
certification value may be lessened due to the number of people obtaining them
physical layer device
Subscriber connector
36. Attacker who utilizes tactics designed to trip the organization's IDPS - essentially causing the organization to conduct its own DoS attack - but overreacting to an actual - but insignificant - attack.
Network interface card (NIC)
IDPS terrorist
Segment
amplitude
37. (fix) if analog shield twisted pairs or if digital with a repeater
TCP/IP protocol failure
DNS
protocol data unit (PDU)
fixing noise
38. CSU
Channel Service Unit
network class a
communications services
backbone
39. Software that is stored on a chip in a device - such as in a ROM - and that typically composes some type of system software
LAN
firmware
TCP/IP Vs. OSI: Transport
media
40. A connecting device for a network that accepts messages and broadcasts them out to the rest of the network.
hub
synchronous communications
connectionless
Transport
41. A medium that carries 1 signal
MAN
baseband
backbone cabling
TCP/IP protocol failure
42. Braided metal shielding used to insulate some types of coaxial cable
Transport layer
Braiding
User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
LLC
43. This layer in the OSI transforms bits into electromagnetic signals.
where NICs operate
Physical Layer
proxy server
Analog
44. Initiates the communication link - Makes sure the communication link is maintained - Determines which node transmits at any point in time - such as which one transmits first - Disconnectd when a communication session is over - Translates node address
RS 232
monitoring port (SPAN port)
Session Layer (Layer 5)
Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet
45. Device that processes signals; multiplexer or modem
Punch-Down Block
Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment
ISO (International Organization for Standardization)
horizontal cabling
46. Glass/plastic - light pulses high throughput - resistant to noise - most expensive cable
star-bus hybrid topology
Internet Relay Chat
fiber optic cable
Port 23
47. POE standard
Frames
NAT (Network Address Translation)
802.3af
Industrial - Scientific - and Medical
48. Indication a system has just been attacked or is under attack
Serial
network address
File Transfer Protocol
alert or alarm
49. A digital communication service that uses the same network infrastructure as PSTN - but is expensive
Adjacent Layer Interaction
PDU
MMF
ISDN
50. 128 -64 -32 -16 -8 -4 -2 -1
serial
binary
T-Carrier Level 1
CIDR block