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TestOut Network ProEnglish 6.0 Chapter 6 Network Addressing and Services

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What is the format of an IPv4 address?    
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What is the purpose of a subnet mask?    
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What are the different classes of IPv4 addresses?    
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What is the purpose of subnetting?    
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What formula is used to calculate the number of hosts per subnet?    
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What does /14 mean in the following IP address: 199.78.11.12/14?    
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How do you configure IP addresses on a workstation?    
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How do you configure IP addresses on an iPad?    
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How do you configure IP addresses on mobile devices?    
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Octet   An 8-bit binary number. An IPv4 address consists of four octets separated by a dot.  
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Subnet mask   A 32-bit number that defines which portion of an IPv4 address identifies the network address and which portion of the address defines the host address.  
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Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)   A nonprofit, private American corporation that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System, media types, and other Internet Protocol-related symbols and internet numbers.  
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Public IP   An IP address that is used to access the internet.  
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Private IP   An IP address that is used only on an internal network. These IP addresses do not go out on the internet.  
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Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)   A feature that allows a device to automatically assign itself an IP address on the 169.254.0.0 network when a DHCP server or manual configuration is unavailable.  
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Loopback address   special address is also known as home or localhost. This address is reserved by each network interface card (NIC) & is used for testing purposes. Ping requests can be sent to this address and if returned means that the NIC is capable of sending and receiv  
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Broadcast address   The last valid IP address on a network. It is reserved for broadcast functions. Any packet sent to this address will be sent to all devices on the network.  
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Network address   The first valid IP address on the network. This address is used for routing purposes to identify the network.  
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Subnetting   The process of dividing a large network into smaller networks.  
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Fixed-length subnet mask (FLSM)   Subnetting method in which each created subnet has an equal number of addresses.  
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Variable-length subnet mask (VLSM)   Subnetting method in which each subnet can be a different size.  
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Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR)   A method for allocating IP addresses and for IP routing. CIDR notation is a simplified method of writing a network address with a slash followed by the number of bits in the network ID.  
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ANDing   The process used to determine the network address/ID.  
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Supernetting   The process of combining two or more networks.  
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