Ethernet Standards Flashcards

1
Q

What are the two different types of a copper cable?

A

Twisted pair and coaxial (coax)

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2
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Does a copper cable keep its signal over a long distance, TRUE or FALSE?

A

FALSE

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3
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Does a fiber optic cable support higher bandwidth over longer links than a copper cable, TRUE or FALSE?

A

TRUE

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4
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What is fiber optic cabling divided into?

A

SMF - Single Mode

MMF - MultiMode

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5
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What is the most important institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)?

A

802.3 Ethernet Standards

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6
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How xBASE-y works

A

10BASE-T
- 10 describing 10Mbps
- BASE because its using a baseband signal
- T because it runs over a Twisted pair copper cabling

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7
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What is MAC (Media Access Control)?

A

Methods a network technology uses to determine when nodes can communicate on shared media and to deal with possible problems.

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8
Q

When a network node connects to the same media is it in the same collision domain? True or False.

A

True

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9
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What is the Ethernet protocol governing contention and media access called?

A

Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD)

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10
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True or False, collision detection mechanism means that only half-duplex transmission is possible?

A

True

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