Good Luck Flashcards
(125 cards)
1
Q
RSSI
A
Received Signal Strength Indication
Radio signal strength
2
Q
dB
A
Decibels
3
Q
EIRP
A
Effective Isotropic Radiated Power
Radiated signal strength
4
Q
FCC
A
Federal Communications Commission
Regulates transmission power
5
Q
AP
A
Access Point
6
Q
SSID
A
Service Set Identifier
7
Q
SOHO
A
Small Office Home Office
8
Q
WEP
A
Wired Equivalent Privacy
Has no privacy
9
Q
WPA2/3
A
Wi-Fi Protected Access
10
Q
OSI
A
Open Systems Interconnection
11
Q
IP
A
Internet Protocol
12
Q
MTU
A
Maximum Transmission Unit
Max amount of data that can be handled
13
Q
LAN
A
Local Area Network
14
Q
MAN
A
Metropolitan Area Network
15
Q
WAN
A
Wide Area Network
16
Q
PAN
A
Personal Area Network
17
Q
SAN
A
Storage Area Network
18
Q
CAN
A
Campus Area Network
19
Q
SDWAN
A
Software Defined Wide Area Network
20
Q
MPLS
A
Multiprotocol Label Switching
21
Q
mGRE
A
Multipoint Generic Routing Encapsulation
22
Q
Demarc
A
Demarcation
23
Q
NIC
A
Network Interface Card
24
Q
vNIC
A
Virtual Network Interface Card
25
NFV
Network Function Virtualization
26
DSL
Digital Subscriber Line
27
NAT
Network Address Translation
28
SNAT
Static Network Address Translation
29
DNAT
Dynamic Network Address Translation
30
PAT
Port Address Translation
31
APIPA
Automatic Private IP Addressing
169.254.x.x
32
CIDR
Classless Inter-Domain Routing
33
SLAAC
Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
34
A Record
IPv4 address
35
AAAA Record
IPv6 address
36
CNAME Record
Canonical Name
37
MX Record
Mail Exchange
38
SOA Record
Start of Authority
39
PTR Record
Pointer
40
TXT Record
Text
Plain-text
41
SRV Record
Service
42
NS Record
Name Server
43
TTL
# of hops before a packet is dropped
Time To Live
Number of hops before a packet is dropped
44
FCoE
Fibre Channel over Ethernet
SAN connection type
45
iSCSI
Internet Small Computer Systems Interface
SAN connection type
46
VPN
Virtual Private Network
47
IaaS
Infrastructure as a Service
Outsourced equipment, responsible for management and security
48
SaaS
Software as a Service
On-demand software ex. Gmail
49
PaaS
Platform as a Service
You handle development
50
DaaS
Desktop as a Service
51
VDI
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
52
IPS
Intrusion Prevention System
Stops and notifies malicious traffic
53
IDS
Intrusion Detection System
Finds and notifies about malicious traffic
54
VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol
55
HVAC
Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning
56
IoT
Internet of Things
57
SCADA
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
58
RIP
Routing Internet Protocol
Distance-vector routing protocol
59
EIGRP
Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
CISCO distance-vector routing protocol
60
OSPF
Open Shortest Path First
Link-state routing protocols
61
BGP
Border Gateway Protocol
Hybrid routing protocol
62
QoS
Quality of Service
Prioritizes specific data types
63
VLAN
Virtual Local Area Network
64
LACP
Link Aggregation Control Protocol
65
MDI-X
Auto Medium-Dependent Interface Crossover
66
MAC
Media Access Control
67
PoE / PoE+
Power over Ethernet [+]
68
CSMA/CD
Carrier-sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
69
ARP
Address Resolution Protocol
70
NDP
Neighbor Discovery Protocol
71
AES
Advanced Encryption Standard
Used in WPA2
72
TKIP
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
Used in WPA2
73
CDMA
Code-division Multiple Access
74
GSM
Global System for Mobile Communications
75
LTE
Long-Term Evolution
76
MIMO
Multiple-Input Multiple-Output
77
MU-MIMO
Multiple User Multiple Input Multiple Output
78
CPU
Central Processing Unit
79
OIDs
Object Identifiers
80
MIBs
Management Information Bases
81
CRCs
Cyclic Redundancy Checks
82
BYOD
Bring Your Own Device
83
IDF
Intermediate Distribution Frame
84
MDF
Main Distribution Frame
85
NDA
Non-Disclosure Agreement
86
SLA
Service-Level Agreement
87
MOU
Memorandum of Understanding
88
UPS
Uninterruptible Power Supply
89
PDUs
Power Distribution Units
Provide multiple power outlets
90
HA
High Availability
91
ISP
Internet Service Provider
92
VRRP
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
Virtual IP for default gateway
93
FHRP
First Hop Redundancy Protocol
Redundant default gateway
94
MTTR
Mean time to repair
Time required to fix the issue
95
MTBF
Mean time between failure
Mean time between outages
96
RTO
Recovery time objective
Time to get back to a particular service level
97
RPO
Recovery point objective
How much data loss is acceptable?
98
CIA Triad
Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
99
CVE
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
100
DMZ
Demilitarized Zone
101
TACACS+
Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System Plus
CISCO remote authentication protocol
102
RADIUS
Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service
Central authentication
103
SSO
Single Sign-On
104
EAP
Extensible Authentication Protocol
105
SIEM
Security Information and Event Management
106
DoS / DDoS
Denial of Service / Distributed Denial of Service
107
RA Guard
Router Advertisement Guard
108
PSKs
Preshared Keys
109
TX
Transmit
110
RX
Receive
111
OTDR
Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer
112
AAAA framework
Authentication, Authorization, Accounting, Auditing
113
ACL
Access Control List
114
AUP
Acceptable Use Policy
115
CLI
Command-Line Interface
116
DLP
Data Loss Prevention
117
GBIC
Gigabit Interface Converter
118
HDMI
High-Definition Multimedia Interface
119
IGMP
Internet Group Management Protocol
120
SFP
Small Form-factor Pluggable
121
QSFP
Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable
40GbE
122
URL
Uniform Resource Locator
123
USB
Universal Serial Bus
124
UTP
Unshielded Twisted Pair
125
STP
Shielded Twisted Pair
