Keywords

Question 1

What is a switch?

Answer 1

A device that filters and forwards data from one network segment to another.

Question 2

What is a router?

Answer 2

A device that forwards data from one network to another.

Question 3

What is a server?

Answer 3

A computer/node on a network which hosts resources and applications. System that provides a service.

Question 4

What is a client?

Answer 4

Devices on networks which users use to perform a task and access resources. Device that requests a service.

Question 5

What are the benefits of copper cabling?

Answer 5

Relatively fast for users.

Question 6

What is a straight through cable?

Answer 6

Used to connect a computer to a central connecting device like a switch.

Question 7

What is a crossover cable?

Answer 7

• Used to direct similar devices without using a hub.

* Used for p2p (peer-to-peer)

Question 8

What is a fibre optic cable used for?

Answer 8

Fibre optics usually provide a very fast and stable connection due to the fact that it is light based

Question 9

What is a fibre optic cable used for?

Answer 9

Fibre optics usually provide a very fast and stable connection due to the fact that it is light based.

Question 10

What is a LAN network?

Answer 10

LAN –Local area network.

Question 11

What is WAN network?

Answer 11

WAN –Wide area network.

Question 12

What is WLAN network?

Answer 12

WLAN –Wireless Local Area Network.

Question 13

What is a virtual LAN?

Answer 13

Is a group of hosts with a common set of requirement that communicates as if they were connected together on a normal fashion on one switch, regardless of their physical location.

Question 14

What is a MAN?

Answer 14

Metropolitan Area Network connects, generally, company offices together that are geographically separate, but not too far apart to be specifically a WAN.

Question 15

What is a MAC?

Answer 15

Media Access Control

Question 16

What is a LLC?

Answer 16

Logical link contro

Question 17

What is a FA/0?

Answer 17

Fast Ethernet

Question 18

What is PAN?

Answer 18

(Personal Area Network) can be used for data transitions along pc’s, telephones and personal devices

Question 19

p2p?

Answer 19

Peer to Peer. Peers are both service and service requestors.

Question 20

What is RJ45?

Answer 20

• RJ45 port (or an 8P8C) is the most common type of network adapter port, allowing the
adapter to connect to most of today’s wired

Question 21

What is a network adapter?

Answer 21

network interface card or NIC, is the device that enables you to send and receive data to and from your computer.

Question 22

What is HUB?

Answer 22

Hubs extend the range of a network by receiving data in one port and regenerating the data.

Question 23

What is a switch?

Answer 23

The switch is a device which has multiple ports and could be used to connect multiple devices to a wired network.

Question 24

What is a bridge?

Answer 24

The bridge is a device that has two ports and could be used to create a network bridge between two devices.

Question 25

What is a router?

Answer 25

The router can be used to connect networks to each other and can be used wired or wireless.

Question 26

What is a server?

Answer 26

These are used in a network and could be used to store devices on the system.

Question 27

What layer is a HUB?

Answer 27

Layer 1

Question 28

What layer is a switch?

Answer 28

Layer 2

Question 29

What layer is a Router?

Answer 29

Layer 3

Question 30

What is an intranet?

Answer 30

• Is a private computer network or single web site that an organization implements in order to share data with employees around the world.

Question 31

What is an extranet?

Answer 31

• An extranet is similar to an intranet except that is extended to users outside a company, and possibly to entire organizations that are separate from or lateral to the company.

Question 32

What does PPTP allow?

Answer 32

Point to Point tunnelling protocol allows multiprotocol traffic to be encrypted and then encapsulated in an IP header.

Question 33

What is L2TP/ IPSEC?

Answer 33

L2TP allows multiprotocol traffic to be encrypted and then sent over any medium that supports point to point datagram delivery.

Question 34

What is a proxy server?

Answer 34

* A proxy server acts as intermediary between a LAN and the internet. * By definition, proxy means "go-between", acting as such a mediator between a private and a public network. * The proxy server evaluates requests from clients, and if they meet certain criteria, forwards them to the appropriate server.

Question 35

What is DORA?

Answer 35

``` Discover Offer Request Acknowledge Proccesses of DHCP. ```

Question 36

What is SNMP used for?

Answer 36

Monitoring hardware and software on a network.