Topologies, Cable Types, & Architectures
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| Define a network. | show 🗑
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| show | 1. Hardware used to connect the systems together.
2. Software installed on the computers to allow communication.
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| The ______ also known as a client, which is just a basic computer running a client operating system, such Windows 7 or Linux. | show 🗑
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| The term ______ refers to any computer or device that is connected to a network and sends and receives information on that network. | show 🗑
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| show | Wide Area Network (WAN)
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| show | Local Area Network (LAN)
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| show | Metropolitan Arean Network (MAN)
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| Define a peer-to-peer network. | show 🗑
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| show | -Lack of centralized administration (each system must be configured for user accounts and security)
-Network designed for fewer than 10 systems
-Systems must have Microsoft client operating systems such as Windows XP Professional
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| What is the Microsoft term for a peer-to-peer network? | show 🗑
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| Name some advantages of a client-server network. | show 🗑
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| show | o File and print servers
o Application servers
o Web servers
o Directory servers
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| True or false? File and print servers were the original reason to have a network. | show 🗑
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| Name some file and print server characteristics. | show 🗑
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| True or False? File and print servers check the access control list (ACL) before allowing a user access. | show 🗑
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| show | o Microsoft SQL server
o Oracle
o Microsoft Exchange Server
o IBM Lotus Domino
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| show | Web Server
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| Can a server have numerous roles at the same time? | show 🗑
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| show | file servers, printers,internet connection.
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| show | 1. Hardware used to connect the systems (involves server and workstations also the medium that connects them).
2. Software installed on the computers to allow communication.
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| There are two categories of networks what are they? | show 🗑
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| show | Windows XP abd Windows Vista.
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| What kind of server holds a list of the user accounts that are allowed to log on to the network? | show 🗑
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| show | Yes, a server can be a file and print server as well as an application server and so forth.
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| What are some protocols the internet uses? | show 🗑
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| Explain an intranet. | show 🗑
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| Explain an extranet. | show 🗑
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| What is a network architecture made up of? | show 🗑
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| Describe what a network topology is. | show 🗑
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| Can a network be built using multiple topologies? Name the network topologies. | show 🗑
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| show | Bus topology
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| True or False A cable is also called a trunk, a backbone, or a segment? | show 🗑
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| Does a bus topology require additional hardware, such as a hub? | show 🗑
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| What is a terminator used for? | show 🗑
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| A break in the cable with the _______ topology will cause the entire network to fail. | show 🗑
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| show | 1. Uses less cable than a star or mesh topology therefore it is cost effective.
2. Don't need any additional devices such as hubs.
3. Ease of installation. Simply connect the workstation to backbone.
4. If a computer fails the network stays functional.
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| Name some disadvantages of a Bus topology. | show 🗑
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| What is scalability? | show 🗑
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| What are the first 6 steps in troubleshooting? | show 🗑
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| show | 7. Implement and test the solution.
8. Identify the results & effects of the solution.
9. Document the solution & entire process.
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| show | Star
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| True or False In a star topology, a break in the cable causes only the workstation that is connected to the cable to go down, not the entire network? | show 🗑
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| show | Star
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| show | 1. Scalability
2. A break in the cable affects only the workstation connected to that cable.
3. Easy to add or change configurations.
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| What are some disadvantages to a Star topology? | show 🗑
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| A _____ topology is not very common in computer networking today. | show 🗑
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| show | Every workstation is connected to every other workstation or component on the network.
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| Name some advantages of a mesh topology. | show 🗑
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| show | 1. Cost for additional cabling an network interfaces.
2. Hard to manage and administer because of numerous connections.
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| show | Ring
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| show | 1. Advantage: Very low signal degeneration
2. Disadvantage: If one computer fails or the cable link is broken it will cause the entire network to go down(new technology has a fix). Also a brief disconnection can interrupt or bring down the entire network
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| What is a hybrid topology? | show 🗑
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| What is another popular hybrid topology? | show 🗑
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| A _______ topology uses only a few cables and is made up of transmitters that broadcast the packets using radio frequencies. | show 🗑
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| In a wireless network, special transmitters are called what two names? | show 🗑
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| In a wireless network, what must a PC and network devices have in order to receive broadcasts and transmit requested data back to the access point? | show 🗑
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| True or False The access point is connected to the physical network by a cable, which allows it, and any wireless clients, to communicate with systems on the wired network? | show 🗑
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| show | Yes, it allows one cell to cover a building and a surrounding area.
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| show | It is slow and requires a direct line of sight as well as close proximity. Infrared is mainly used for two systems.
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| show | 1. Lack of cabling.
2. Requires only base backbone segments to connect the wireless cells to the wired network, if there is one.
3.PC and network devices need special transmitter-receiver network interface cards in order to communicate with the cell.
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| Name some disadvantages of a Wireless topology. | show 🗑
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| show | 1. Point-to-point
2. Point-to-multipoint
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| show | Host to host which is one system connected directly to another system. In the past, they would connect directly through serial ports with a null modem cable but today they connect using a crossover cable or a wireless connection.
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| show | It uses a central device that connects all the devices.
It is popular with wireless networks. When the central device sends data, it is received by all devices connected to it. If one device sends data then it is only received by the destination system.
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| show | A cable length or multiple cable lengths that are uninterrupted by network connectivity devices, such as bridges and routers.
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| What is a backbone? | show 🗑
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| show | They connect the workstations to the backbone.
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| What is another example of a backbone in a wireless communications network? | show 🗑
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| What is the medium for the transmission of data between hosts on the LANs. | show 🗑
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| show | 1. Coaxial
2. Twisted-pair
3. Fiber-optic cable
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| show | Millions of bits per second or megabits per second (Mbps).
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| show | Coaxial Cable which is more resistant to outside interference than other cabling.
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| show | Thinnet and thicknet.
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| What is the transfer rate of both thinnet and thicknet? | show 🗑
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| show | It is RG-58 which is a flexible coaxial cable about a quarter-inch thick. Used for short distances. It connects to a workstations network adapter card using a British Naval Connector (BNC) and uses the network adapter card's internal transceiver.
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| What is the maximum cable length of thinnet? | show 🗑
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| Explain coaxial cable? | show 🗑
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| What is the maximum cable length of thicknet? | show 🗑
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| show | Vampire Tap.
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| Thicknet uses what type of connector to connect the NIC to the cable type? | show 🗑
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| show | It is interference from adjacent wires which induce false signals in a wire.
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| Name the cable: Four pairs of wires that are twisted to help reduce crosstalk from outside electrical devices. | show 🗑
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| What are the two forms of twisted pair cabling? | show 🗑
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| What cable grades are used with home video devices such as TVs and VCRs? | show 🗑
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| show | Short distances
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| show | It is used for longer distances and is a more expensive coax.
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| show | To shield against electromagnetic interference.
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| The maximum distance of UTP is the same of an STP cable, what is it? | show 🗑
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| show | False. Twisted pair cable should not be used in environments containing large electrical or electronic devices.
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| show | Over 1000 Mbps or 1 gigabit per second (Gbps)
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| How many categories of UTP cabling are there? | show 🗑
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| What is the transfer rate of CAT 2? | show 🗑
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| show | 10 Mbps
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| show | 16 Mbps
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| What is the transfer rate of CAT 5? | show 🗑
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| show | 10 Gbps
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| What is the transfer rate of CAT 6a | show 🗑
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| Name the difference between CAT 6 and CAT 6a? | show 🗑
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| show | Wires 1,2,3, and 6. On the computer side wires 1&2 are TX and 3&6 are RX. On the hub or switch wires 1&2 are RX and 3&6 are TX.
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| show | Connecting two like devices such as two computer systems without the use of a hub, from network card to network card. Connecting a switch to switch or a switch to a hub. Or connecting a router to a router. And connecting a router to a computer.
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| What wires would you change on a crossover cable? | show 🗑
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| T1 Crossover is used for what, and what wires are TX and RX? | show 🗑
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| show | 568A and 568B standards.
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| show | 568B.
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| show | Wire 1 is white-orange stripe
Wire 2 is orange wire
Wire 3 is white-green stripe
Wire 4 is blue wire
Wire 5 is white-blue stripe
Wire 6 is green wire
Wire 7 is white-brown stripe
Wire 8 is brown wire
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| show | console cable
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| What is rollover cable used for? | show 🗑
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| Shielded twisted-pair differs from UTP how? | show 🗑
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| How does fiber-optic cable work? | show 🗑
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| show | One to transmit and one to receive.
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| What else can the core and cladding be made of in a fiber-optic cable? | show 🗑
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| What are the two types of fiber-optic cables? | show 🗑
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| show | Uses a single ray of light, known as a mode, to carry the transmission over long distances.
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| show | Uses multiple rays of light (modes) simultaneously, with each ray of light running at a different reflection angle to carry the transmission over short distances.
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| show | Outside electrical noise comes from light, motors, radio systems, and many other sources.
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| show | It is immune to crosstalk and outside electrical noise because it does not carry electrical signal instead it carries pulses of light.
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| What is the transfer rate for fiber-optic? | show 🗑
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| What is the maximum distance for fiber-optic cable? | show 🗑
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| Name two connectors that fiber-optic cables can use. | show 🗑
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| show | It is a coaxial connector used to connect coax cable from either side so that the cable length can continue on, while the third end of the connector tees out to have a cable length connect to the network card on the client machine.
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| If you use a BNC-T connector to connect your last system to the network how many ends will you need to terminate? | show 🗑
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| What does an RJ-45 barrel connector allow you to do? | show 🗑
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| show | Is used by coax cabling and it is the connector style that connects to your TV.
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| show | They are fiber-optic connector types that are similar to the RJ and fiber SC shape. The fiber LC is preferred for communications exceeding 1Gbps due to its small form factor.
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| show | 127
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| show | There are 3 standards.
1. USB 1.1 transfer rate of 12 Mbps
2. USB 2.0 transfer rate of 480 Mbps
3. USB 3.0 transfer rate of approximately 3 Gbps
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| show | 1. Type A connectors connect to the computer.
2. Type B connectors connect to the device.
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| What are the two firewire standards? | show 🗑
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| IEEE 1394 is also known as what? | show 🗑
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| show | Ultra-high-speed bus that supports 63 devices in the chain and is ideal for real time applications devices, such as for video.
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| show | DB-9
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| What is DB-9? | show 🗑
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| show | 20,000 bits per second.
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| What is BPL? | show 🗑
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| Explain Ethernet over Powerline. | show 🗑
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| show | Single-mode fiber to ethernet. Multimode fiber to ethernet. Fiber to coaxial. Single-mode to multimode fiber.
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| show | Channel bonding
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| show | A technology that allows you to join the bandwidth of multiple network cards installed in a single system or device to get better network performance or throughput.
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| show | Multiprotocol Label Switching
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| Explain Multiprotocol Label Switching MPLS. | show 🗑
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| show | It determines how a host will place data on the wire.
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| What are 3 major access methods? | show 🗑
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| What does CSMA/CD stand for? | show 🗑
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| In which access method does every host have equal access and can place data on the wire when the wire is free? | show 🗑
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| show | CSMA/CD
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| show | Collision Detection will be detected and the data will retransmit with both host waiting a certain period of time in order to prevent another collision.
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| show | Carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance.
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| show | A host will "sense" if the wire is free of signals then will try to avoid a collision by sending a piece of "dummy" data. If no collision then it submits the real data on the wire.
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| How does Token passing work? | show 🗑
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| What happens when the token is filled with data? | show 🗑
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| show | 1. Baseband Communication
2. Broadband Communication
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| What technique sends digital signals through the media as a single channel that uses the entire bandwidth of the media? | show 🗑
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| show | As a pulse of electricity or light depending on the type of cable being used.
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| Baseband is __________ which allows the same channel to send and receive signals. | show 🗑
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| show | An analog signal, which flows as electromagnetic waves or optical waves.
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| In broadband each transmission is assigned a portion of the _______? | show 🗑
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| In broadband communication two pathways are needed to send and receive data, so broadband is what? | show 🗑
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| Ethernet is defined as what standard? | show 🗑
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| What does 10BaseT mean when you break it down. | show 🗑
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| show | CSMA/CD
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| show | The 10 represents the transfer rate of 10Mbps. The base represents the baseband transmission technique. The 2 implies 200 meters which is the max distance thinnet can approximately reach.
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| show | Typically on a bus topology but it could be implemented on a mix of a bus and a star topology.
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| show | 5-4-3 rule.
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| show | There can only be 5 network segments in total and joined by 4 repeaters but only 3 of those network segments can be populated with nodes.
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| In a 10Base2 ethernet architecture how many host are allowed per segment and what is the minimum distance in meters between hosts? | show 🗑
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| What type of cable is used in a 10Base5 ethernet architecture? | show 🗑
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| show | 100 hosts per segment and a minimum of 2.5 meter distance between hosts.
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| What type of topology does a 10BaseT ethernet architecture use? | show 🗑
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| show | Fiber-optic cabling as the backbone to allow the network to reach greater distances.
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| The different Fast Ethernet flavors run at what transfer rate? | show 🗑
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| show | Fast Ethernet architecture.
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| show | Fast Ethernet
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| 100BaseT and 100BaseFX are standards of what architecture? | show 🗑
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| show | 100BaseT and uses 2 pairs which is four wires in the CAT 5 cabling.
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| show | UTP cabling and uses all four pairs (8 wires).
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| 100BaseFX uses how many stands of fiber? | show 🗑
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| Gigabit ethernet has 2 standards, what are they? | show 🗑
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| IEEE 802.3z is also known as what? | show 🗑
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| There are 3 types of Gigabit ethernet that fall under the standard IEEE 802.3z, what are they? | show 🗑
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| Explain 1000BaseSX? | show 🗑
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| Explain 1000BaseLX? | show 🗑
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| Explain 1000BaseCX? | show 🗑
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| show | 1000BaseT or 1000BaseTX
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| show | Gigabit ethernet that runs over twisted-pair cabling and uses characteristics of 1000BaseTX networking.
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| Name the characteristics that IEEE 802.3ab has? | show 🗑
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| 10-Gigabit Ethernet include what architectures? | show 🗑
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| show | Runs at 10 Gbps uses "short-range" multimode fiber-optic with a maximum distance of 100 meters.
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| show | Runs at 10Gbps and uses "long-range" single-mode fiber optic with a maximum distance of 10 kilometers.
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| show | Runs at 10 Gbps and uses "extra-long-range" single-mode fiber-optic cable with a maximum distance of 40 Kilometers.
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| Explain 10GBaseT. | show 🗑
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| show | Synchronous Optical Network.
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| Explain 10GBaseSW? | show 🗑
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| Explain 10GBaseLW? | show 🗑
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| Explain 10GBaseEW? | show 🗑
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| show | Star, Ring
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| Token Ring runs at what transfer rates? | show 🗑
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| show | CAT 3 or CAT 5 UTP
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| Token Ring is defined as what standard? | show 🗑
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| show | Multistation access unit
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| show | Fiber distributed data interface is a network architecture that uses fiber-optic cabling, token passing, and a ring topology. It also uses two counter-rotating rings for fault tolerance.
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| show | SNMP
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| show | Virtual Memory System (VMS)
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| Name some built in services of Windows Server 2003 and 2008. | show 🗑
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| show | To configure DNS and NetBIOS name resolution.
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| show | To configure the server to assign IP addresses to clients on the network.
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| show | Build a central list of objects such as user accounts that may be used by clients on the network to log on.
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| Web services allow what? | show 🗑
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| E-mail services allow what? | show 🗑
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| Group policies services allow what? | show 🗑
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| Microsoft Server 2008 also has a "_________ core" installation option that does not include a GUI. | show 🗑
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| In Windows Server 2003, how would you install the servers role example, DNS, DHCP, or WINS? | show 🗑
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| In Windows Server 2008 you must use what in order to add the role to the system. | show 🗑
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| show | Novell Open Enterprise Server.
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| OES has evolved into a powerful suite of services running on the what operating systems? | show 🗑
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| show | eDirectory
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| show | Apache web servers provide with the NetWare operating system.
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| show | Windows 7, Windows Vista, & Windows XP Pro, to include Linux & MAC workstations as well.
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| show | The Novell website @ download.novell.com
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| show | True
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| Objects organized in Novell eDirectory use the what tool? | show 🗑
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| show | Platform independence, DirXML, Partioning and replication.
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| show | Bell Labs
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| show | A popular operating system that provides powerful networking and database management.
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| What are the 3 key features that make Unix powerful? | show 🗑
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| What does NIS stand for and what is it used for? | show 🗑
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