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IT: Networking Vocab
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1. Which protocol allows the transfer of a file from one computer to another over the network?
File Transfer Protocol
Server
Data Link
Hyper text transfer protocol
2. Compresses
Dynamic Host Configuration protocol (DHCP)
Presentation
802.11
Inter Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
3. International Organization for Standardization
ACK (acknowledgement)
EAPoL
ISO
device ID
4. Functions at the network layer that add logical addresses and properly route data
physical media
protocol and services
standard connector
Point-to-Multipoint
5. Form of transmission in which digital signals are sent through direct current pulses applied to a wire; can only send one signal at a time
grade-index multimode fiber-optic cable
Baseband
Firewall configured correctly
site policy awareness
6. Type of transmission in which signlas may travel in both directions over a medium - but only in one direction at a time
Half-Duplex
Frames
Physical layer
Hubs
7. Used on many UNIX/LINUX systems to provide authentication security for TCP/IP applications such as Telnet and FTP
bandwidth
pppoe
asymmetrical transmission
Secure Shell (SSH)
8. An IDPS that resides on particular computer or server (the host) and monitors activity only on that system. Also known as system integrity verifiers.
host-based IDPS (HIPDS)
Category 1
Transport Layer (Layer 4)
Nonbroadcast Point-to-Multipoint Transmission
9. The more resistant to cross talk (STP)
Multimode fiber
the more twist
IP gateway in NAT
tuning
10. Used to resolve NetBIOS names w IP address
Common Internet File System
NetBIOs
WINS
OSI
11. ISM
digital adv
hybrid fiber / coax (HFC) cable
Industrial - Scientific - and Medical
Frame
12. Does not operate at the application layer
port 110
ARP
the more twist
radiation pattern
13. Layer 4
Transport
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
RealVNC
ppp
14. An authentication protocol that uses public key technology to provide users with secured access to network resources.
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
fading
Kerberos
LLC
15. Type of transmission in which signals may travel in both directions over a medium simultaneously; also called duplex
trap and trace
Full-Duplex
RIR (Regional Internet Registry)
Transmission Control Protocol
16. A private computer network with resources accessible only to internal members.
Network
pppoe
host
intranet
17. The physical layout of the cable and wireless network devices and the logical path followed by network frames and packets sent on the cable or by wireless transmissions
topology
Core
subnetting purpose
MultiStation Access Unit
18. Netscape and Microsoft have implemented HTTPS to protect data transported via their Web browsers.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)
plenum cables
Analog
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP
19. What is the currency of Denmark?
Category 1
Kroner
broadcast storm
Telnet
20. Tool used to determine whether a customers line is obtaining dial tone from the CO
DCE
butt set
management services
amplitude
21. The number of times a signal's amplitude changes over a fixed period of time - expressed in cycles per second - Hz
Frequency
bus topology
OSI Layer 3
Network News Transport Protocol (NNTP)
22. A transmitter concentrates the signal energy at a single frequency or in a very small range of frequencies
Repeater
perimeter
Subscriber connector
narrowband
23. SSH - secure shell
port 22
2.4-GHz band
Industrial - Scientific - and Medical
10Base-T
24. A high-capacity communications medium that joins networks on the same floor in a building - on different floors - and across long distances.
Amplitude Modulation
port 80
Network layer
backbone
25. Communications arrangement in which a single transmitter issues signals to multiple - defined recipients
Full Duplex NIC Communication
event viewer
Nonbroadcast Point-to-Multipoint Transmission
token
26. A generic term for data being transmitted
packet
Transport Layer (Layer 4)
Session layer
Protocol
27. Point of division between a telecommunications service carrier's network and a building's internal network
Layer 2 Forwarding
Network File System (NFS)
LLC
Demarcation Point
28. A term referring to a data-link header and trailer - plus the data encapsulated between the header and trailer.
reassembly
MTU (maximum transmission unit)
Frame
fiber-optic cables
29. An arm of the Internet Society (ISOC) that works on Internet-relateed technical issues.
inline sensor
media access control (MAC)
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETE)
Serial Line Internet Protocol
30. Positive and zero. 1 and 0's.
fiber optics
telephone connector
Workstation
binary
31. Frequency Division Multiple Access
802.2
wide area network (WAN)
FDMA
driver
32. IKE
star topology
Transport
Internet Key Exchange
fixing cross talk
33. Standard rating that indicates the diameter of a wire
network interface card (NIC)
Session Layer
10Base-T
American Wire Gauge
34. A worldwide network network of interconnected LANs - and MANs - that uses the TCP/IP protocol to enable people to share e-mail messages and computer files and to access a vast array of infromation.
Internet
Latency
Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMACD)
EIA/TIA
35. Provides Internet access and/or other services such as email and Web hosting
Layer 2 Forwarding
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
ISP (Internet service provider)
LLC (Logical Link Control) sublayer
36. The oldest type of network design - this topology consists of multiple nodes attached to a central hub - switch - or router.
SONET
Star topology
thin client computing
multipath
37. Cabling that transmit data using light waves. Higher bandwidth than other types of cabling.
MultiMode Fiber
Data Link
fiber optics
Latency
38. A computer on a network that requests services or resources from another computer on a network
Group Policy Object
Half-Duplex
workstation
connectivity device
39. A data communications technique that transmits a packet directly from the sending node - though a switch - and to the receiving node - without passing though other network nodes.
CSU/DSU
Network Layer (Layer 3)
RTT
demand priority
40. Controls the transport of data between systems
digital adv
stateful protocol analysis (SPA) IDPS
block ID
Transport
41. Zeroconf
Firewall Filtering
Zero Configuration
virture privat network (VPN)
kereberos
42. SMF
TIA (Telecommications Industry Association)
Single Mode Fiber
LAN
Modem
43. American national standards institute
Broadcast
ANSI
Dynamic Host Configuration protocol (DHCP)
broadband
44. Application layer protocol that formulates and interprets requests between Web clients and servers
Network News Transport Protocol
ISO (International Organization for Standardization)
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
link quality monitoring
45. A TCP/Ip troubleshooting utility that displays statistics and the state of current TCP/IP connections. It also displays ports - which can signal whether services are using the correct ports.
Subnetmask
Localhost
netstat
Internet Protocol
46. Any device connected to a network - such as a microcomputer - mainframe - midrange computer - network equipment - or printer. Also called a station.
Integrated Services Digital Network
Point-to-Multipoint
802.2
node
47. 1000 representatives from industry and gov't who determine standards for electronics - chemical and nuclear engineering - health and safety - and construction
passive topology
ANSI (American National Standards Institute)
OSI Layer 5
802.11b
48. Data only
Frames
binary
fragmentation
goodput
49. IPX
MAU
Internetwork Packet Exchange
multiprotocol label switching
coaxial cable
50. Coordinates and maintains communications between two nodes on the network
Network News Transport Protocol
User Datagram Protocol
session layer
tracert