abbreviations

Question 1

IMAP

Answer 1

Internet Message access protocol

Question 2

CPE

Answer 2

Customer Premise Equipment, equipment on the cxs end

Question 3

CMTS

Answer 3

Cable modem termination systems (provides cx with net sys)

Question 4

CM

Answer 4

cable modem

Question 5

AES

Answer 5

advanced encryptions standard

Question 6

TTS

Answer 6

Total Tech Services

Question 7

UBR

Answer 7

Universal Broadband Router (provides cxs with net access)

Question 8

URL

Answer 8

Uniform Resource Locator

Question 9

WAN

Answer 9

Wide Area Network (network that spans a relatively large geographical area)

Question 10

WEP

Answer 10

Wired equivalent privacy, a security protocol for wireless local area network

Question 11

WIFI

Answer 11

wireless fidelity

Question 12

WPA

Answer 12

wifi protocol access

Question 13

TKIP

Answer 13

temporal key integrity protocol

Question 14

TCP/IP

Answer 14

transport control protocol/internet protocol

Question 15

SNR

Answer 15

Signal to Noise ratio

Question 16

SMPT

Answer 16

Simple mail transfer protocol (for sending email messages between servers)

Question 17

PSK

Answer 17

Pre shared key, wireless security encryptions keys that are entered into both sides of the message exchange

Question 18

POP 3

Answer 18

Post office protocol, used to retrieve email from a mail server

Question 19

NIC

Answer 19

network interface card, expansion board inserted into a pc so that the computer can be connected to a network

Question 20

OEM

Answer 20

Original Equipment manufacturer

Question 21

MRTG

Answer 21

Multi router traffic grapher

Question 22

MER

Answer 22

Modulation error ratio

Question 23

MAC

Answer 23

media access control/a lower sub layer

Question 24

DBMV

Answer 24

decibels to milivotts

Question 25

DHCP

Answer 25

dynamic host configuration protocol

Question 26

DNS

Answer 26

domain name system (translates domain names into ip addresses)

Question 27

DOS

Answer 27

disk operating sys

Question 28

EMTA

Answer 28

embedded multimedia adapter (a combination cable modem and telephone adapter)

Question 29

HTTP

Answer 29

hypertext transfer protocol

Question 30

HTML

Answer 30

hyper text mark up language (used to create documents on the net)

Question 31

IP

Answer 31

Internet protocol /specifies the format of packets and the addressing scheme

Question 32

LAN

Answer 32

Local area networks

Question 33

OS

Answer 33

Operating system

Question 34

RF

Answer 34

Radio Frequency /the range within which radio waves may be transmitted