Basic Networking Class
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| Define bandwidth | show 🗑
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| Define baseband | show 🗑
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| 3. What surrounds the center conductor in a coaxial cable to separate it from the wire braid? | show 🗑
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| 4. The type of fiber optic connector that provides high density and requires only one connector for two cables is the | show 🗑
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| 5. The condition that requires cables not to exceed a recommended maximum length is called | show 🗑
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| True or false: 802.17b is a wireless networking standard | show 🗑
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| show | plenum
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| 8. Cable sheathed with ______ material should not be routed in ceiling or walls: | show 🗑
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| 9. The fire-resistant cable specified by fire and building codes is rated as ______. | show 🗑
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| show | fiber-optic cable
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| 11. What type of cable is not suitable for network use of any kind? | show 🗑
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| show | RJ-45
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| show | True (category 3 can be used if employing 10BaseTX4)
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| show | fiber-optic
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| show | cat6 and fiber-optic
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| 16. When two cables run side-by-side, signals traveling down one wire may interfere with signals traveling on the other wire. What is this phenomenon called? | show 🗑
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| show | No.
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| show | lowers susceptibility to interference & supports higher bandwidth over longer distances
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| show | 802.11b
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| show | 802.11g
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| show | digital
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| show | access points
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| 25. The device used to link buildings without cable is a wireless ______. | show 🗑
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| 26. Which of the following technologies might be used in a wireless LAN? | show 🗑
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| 27. Spread-spectrum transmissions occur in which of the following forms? | show 🗑
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| 28. Which of the following wireless technologies would not be appropriate to link two buildings? | show 🗑
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| 29. Which new wireless standard can be used in place of a wired last-mile? | show 🗑
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| 30. What is the distance limitation for Category 5E UTP running 100 Mbps Ethernet? | show 🗑
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| show | parallel data comes to the NIC and is sent out serially
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| Define Serial Transmission | show 🗑
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| Define Bus | show 🗑
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| Define Bus Width | show 🗑
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| Define Buffer | show 🗑
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| Define ISA | show 🗑
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| show | Acronym for Extended Industry Standard Architecture, a bus architecture designed for PCs using an Intel 80386, 80486, or Pentium microprocessor. EISA buses are 32 bits wide and support multiprocessing.
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| show | formatted packet of data for transmission and reception
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| Define frames | show 🗑
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| show | A bus architecture for older PCs. It is called a bus architecture because it defines how peripheral devices and internal components communicate across the computer's expansion bus. Introduced by IBM in 1987, 32 Bit.
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| show | 32 and 64 bit.
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| show | Short for PCI extended, an enhanced PCI bus. PCI-X is backward-compatible with existing PCI cards. It improves upon the speed of PCI from 133 MBps to as much as 1 GBps.
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| Define PC Cards | show 🗑
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| show | for graphics.
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| Define PCI Express | show 🗑
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| show | slow serial interface. 2.0 is 40x faster.
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| show | High speed serial bus that operates @ bandwidths up to 400 mbps.
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| Define POST | show 🗑
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| Define IRQ | show 🗑
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| show | Short for direct memory access, a technique for transferring data from main memory to a device without passing it through the CPU.
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| Define Bus Width | show 🗑
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| Define Bus Type | show 🗑
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| show | shared memory is better than I/O or DMA
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| show | Feature supported by some bus architectures that enables a controller connected to the bus to communicate directly with other devices on the bus without going through the CPU. Most modern bus architectures, including PCI, support bus mastering.
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| show | lets a diskless computer boot off the network.
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| show | NDIS defines a communications interface between the MAC sublayer & network interface driver. Can use multiple protocols at the same time.
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| Define Win32 Driver Model | show 🗑
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| Define Open Data-Link Interface | show 🗑
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| show | Hardware Compatibility List
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| show | mem. address at which transfer area begins
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| show | a device that receives and transmits network information
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| show | allows a CPU to address memory on an adapter as if it were its own.
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| Define shared system memory | show 🗑
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| Define 10Base2 (thinnet) | show 🗑
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| Define 10Base5 (thicknet) | show 🗑
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| Define 10BaseT | show 🗑
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| show | maximum arc cable may be bent without damage.
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| show | Woven mesh of metallic wire around one or more conductive cables. Provides shielding against EMI, RFI, & crosstalk from other cables.
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| show | Electro-magnetic interference.
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| show | Radio Frequency Interference.
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| show | happens when two wires lay against each other in parallel. Signals on one can interfere with signals on the other.
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| show | plastic or metal pipe to provide a protected enclosure for cable of any kind.
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| show | A type of fiber-optic connector type.
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| Define MT-RJ | show 🗑
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| show | single, specific radio frequency to send and receive data. Approx. 250 foot range.
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| Define RJ-11 | show 🗑
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| Define RJ-45 | show 🗑
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| show | Infrared LAN technology that bounces signals off of walls etc. Slow and subject to attenuation.
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| show | A variety of TP w/ a foil wrap around one or more pairs of wires for add. shielding w/ poss. one more layer of foil around all wires.
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| show | Fiber-optic connector that is pushed on yet makes a strong and solid contact w/ emitters & sensors.
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| Define Straight Tip | show 🗑
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| Define SMA (Subminiature type A) | show 🗑
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| show | Type of cabling where two copper wires, each in a sheath, are wrapped around each other.
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| show | A mathematical notation for representing numbers in base 16.
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| 1. The term ________ refers to the physical layout of a network’s computers, cables, and other resources. | show 🗑
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| 2. Joining together the computers in a network at a central point creates a star topology. Which of the following statements is true of a star topology network? | show 🗑
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| show | False.
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| show | b. It provides equal access to all computers on the network.
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| 5. The _________ topology is the most fault tolerant of the hybrid designs. | show 🗑
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| 6. What are two advantages of a star topology network? | show 🗑
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| show | coaxial
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| 8. A cable break in a bus network does not affect network communications. True or false? | show 🗑
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| show | Signal bounce
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| 10. Connecting computers to form a straight line creates a(n) _______________ topology network. | show 🗑
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| 11. How do switches provide better performance than hubs? | show 🗑
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| show | star
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| 13. What is the name of the central point through which signals pass in a wireless network? | show 🗑
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| 14. What are two disadvantages of a ring topology network? | show 🗑
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| 15. What type of network can use an ad-hoc topology? | show 🗑
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| show | It keeps an accurate inventory of equipment, cables, and ancillary equipment; maintains indicators of what construction activities might impact the network, and provides a complete record of a network's carrying capacity as a tool for planning for growth
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| 17. What type of device is usually found at the center of an extended star topology? | show 🗑
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| show | token
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| show | True
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| 20. FDDI is a form of which standard topology? | show 🗑
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| show | FDDI networks are token-passing networks, and support data rates of up to 100 Mbps (100 million bits) per second. FDDI networks are typically used as backbones for wide-area networks.
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| 21. A ring network is a(n) _____________ topology network because the computers are responsible for regenerating the signal. | show 🗑
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| 22. Mainframe computers first used the ______________ topology. | show 🗑
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| 23. A(n) _______ hub regenerates the signals it receives and sends them down all other ports. | show 🗑
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| show | patch panel
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| show | ring
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| show | A hardware device that opens and closes electrical circuits, completes or breaks an eletrical path, and selects paths or circuits
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| show | Simply a central connection point. Nothing happens really.
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| show | used to connect different types of cables
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| show | regenerates or repeats the signal and sends it along
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| show | A form of TP that includes no additional shielding material in the cable composition. Encloses one or more pairs of twisted wires in an outer jacket.
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| Bridge | show 🗑
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| show | Spread-spectrum techniques are methods in which energy generated at a single frequency is deliberately spread over a wide band of frequencies. This is done for a variety of reasons, including increasing resistance to natural interference or jamming and to
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| MT-RJ | show 🗑
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| Define Cat 2 | show 🗑
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| show | Category 3 is a description of network cabling that consists of four UTP wires with a data rate of 10Mbps and was used in token ring networks, 10BASE-T, and is still used in some phone systems.
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| show | Category 4 is a description of network cabling that consists of four unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) wires with a data rate of 16 Mbit/s and was used in token ring networks, 10BASE-T, 100BASE-T4, and is no longer common or used in new installations.
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| Define Cat 5 | show 🗑
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| Define Cat 5E | show 🗑
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| Define Cat 6 | show 🗑
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| show | A wireless bridge is used for connecting two or more network segments separated physically, operating on the 802.11 standard. Wireless bridges usually work only in pairs or more, and can be used in two types of implementations.
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| Token Ring | show 🗑
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