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IT: Networking Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Signals travel in one direction
simplex
LLC
OSI
intrusion prevention
2. Max size of data units on Ethernet networks
SMTP
FDDI
1550bytes
NIC
3. Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
Populated Segment
virture privat network (VPN)
association
HTTPS
4. An organization composed of more than 100 representatives from industry and government who together determine standards for the electronics industry in addition to other fields - such as chemical and nuclear engineering.
ITU
ANSI (American National Standards Institute)
link quality monitoring
phase
5. Defines the physical characteristics of the network
alarm clustering and compaction
routing
Physical
telnet
6. More reliable then analog - noise doesn't affect as much - more efficient - fewer errors
Half Duplex NIC Communication
Frequency Modulation
collision
digital adv
7. Electromagnetic interference
EMI
where NICs operate
Industrial - Scientific - and Medical
phase
8. An international organization of scientists - engineers - technicians - and educators that plays a leading role in developing standards for network cabling and data transmissions.
Internet Protocol version 4
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
STP
To stop the Hamburgerler from stealing all of Ronnie McDonalds burgers
9. Transforms data into a form network or applications will understand
rj-11
Presentation
Transport Layer Security (TSL)
ARP
10. A type of transmission in which there are several transmission channels on a communications medium - allowing more than one node to transmit at the same time.
Internet Key Exchange
false attack stimulus
Unshielded twisted pair
broadband
11. Services that allow remote users to connect to the network
Primary Rate Interface
Thin Eterhnet/10 Base 2
access services
Electromagnetic Interference
12. The number of times a signal's amplitude changes over a fixed period of time - expressed in cycles per second - Hz
Frequency
plenum area
CSMA/CA
isdn
13. The action of luring an individual into committing a crime.
EIA (Electronics Industries Alliance)
Cladding
SYN (syncronization)
entrapment
14. Type of multiplexing that assigns a unique frequncy band to each communications subchannel
SMF
Point-to-Point
VLAN
Frequency Division Multiplexing
15. Method of trasmitting data from a satellite
Data Service Unit
microwave
MMF
Electromagnetic Interference
16. Point of division between a telecommunications service carrier's network and a building's internal network
Demarcation Point
frame
T-Carrier Level 1
ISDN
17. Connection based
ESS
cp connection
OSI
LLC
18. UDP
Logical Link Control
network address
User Datagram Protocol
(fiddy) Fiber Distributed Data Interface
19. Local area network
Gigabit Ethernet (non-fiber characteristics)
rj-45
Regeneration
LAN
20. A digital communication service that uses the same network infrastructure as PSTN - but is expensive
Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA)
ISDN
DHCP
IEEE
21. LPD
Line Printer Daemon
authentication
Secure Shell (SSH)
PAT (Port Address Translation)
22. RSA
Rivest - Shamir - Adelman
active scanning
Bit-Error Rate Test
BOOTP
23. Connectivity device - data link layer (2) - reads header info to forward packets according to MAC addresses
Network
CIDR block
bridge
::1
24. Constructs data frames using the appropriate format for the network - reatea CRC information - Checks for errors using CRC information - Retransmits data if there is error - Initiates the communications link and makes sure it is not interrupted - thu
Data Link (Layer 2)
hot site
FDDI
broadband
25. Device used to regenerate a signal
Repeater
Challenge-Response Authentication Mechanism - Message Digest 5
grade-index multimode fiber-optic cable
false positive
26. Power loss - the amount of signal that is lost as it travels though the communication medium from the source (transmitting node) to the receiving node.
SSH
router
TCP/IP protocol failure
Attenuation
27. Functions at the network layer that add logical addresses and properly route data
tuning
fiber optics
frame
protocol and services
28. IIS
terminator
SMTP
Internet Information Services
TDM
29. Round time trip. time it takes for packet to get from sender to receiver and back
intrusion prevention system (IPS)
Internet
DSL
RTT
30. Data Link Layer
OSI Reference to TCP
star topology
frequency
Mac Addressing
31. MIB
Management Information Base
Layer 2 Forwarding
bridge
access point
32. A form of address translation that uses Tcp port numbers to distinguish each client's transmission - thus allowing multiple clients to share a limited number of Internet-recognized IP addresses.
Coaxial Cable
PAT (Port Address Translation)
User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
association
33. A Data Link sublayer of the OSI model that initiates the communication link between nodes and ensures the link is not unintentionally broken.
logical link control (LLC)
serial
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
IETE
34. SMTP - simple mail transfer protocol
segmentation
Device power off
port 25
American Wire Gauge
35. OTDR
statistical multiplexing
Optical Time Domain Reflectometer
cat 5
NFS
36. Basic error correction and detection
Data Link
Topology
Flow Control
frame
37. Stop signals after they have reached the end of the wire
terminators
broadband
Network Behavior Analysis
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
38. A data transmission rate
Management Information Base
Data Link
client
bandwidth
39. Time Division Multiple Access
SYN-ACK (synchronization-acknowledgment)
TDMA
overhead
MMF
40. Provides strung security for HTTP- transpored information - but it is only used by some vendor's application
Telnet
Device power unplugged
ARP
Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (S-HTTP)
41. Unit of data at any layer of the OSI model
Demultiplexer
PDU (protocol data unit)
alien cross talk
SNMP
42. Addresses packet size
Gateway Services for NetWare
Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)
Data Link
Multimode fiber
43. Minimum cabling standard for PoE
cat 5
MS-CHAP
CSMA/CD
session
44. Fiber Distributed Data Interface
Half Duplex NIC Communication
FDDI
Data Link
ISDN
45. Issue signals along a network medium
Network
transmit
Ethernet
Device power off
46. Protocol used to transfer mail between a send mail server and microsoft exchange server
Incorrect cable type
POP3
supernet
full duplex
47. 1-126
RFI
mtr (my traceroute)
10BASE2 Limit
network class a
48. Set of routines that make up part of a software application
API (application program interface)
Gateway Services for NetWare
Nonbroadcast Point-to-Multipoint Transmission
15 hops
49. Assigning a unique frequency band to each communication
Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMACD)
physical layer device
FDM
Physical
50. Manages IP address allocation and the domain name system
IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority)
Data Link
Coaxial Cable
TFTP