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| What happens when more bits are added to a digital signal and are arranged in a sequence that is understood by the sender and receiver? |
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| a code set is established |
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| What term is sometimes used to identify a byte in networking? |
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| The DoD Joint Technical Architecture (JTA) is by the Air Force covers? |
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| technology related equipment and standardization |
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| The result of DoD standaradizing all technical equipment is that they operate more efficiently and effectively? |
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| during military operations |
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| What organization's series of wiring standards for residential and commerical network cabling are important for computer networking? |
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| Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA) |
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| What EIA/Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) standard is used for commercial building telecommunications cabling? |
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| Which of the following is an International Telecommunications Union (ITU) standardized format used for digital telecommunications services backbone system? |
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| There is a worldwide, non-profit association of technical professionals that promotes the development of standards called the ? |
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| Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
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| A collection of standards for LAN architectures, protcols, and technologies called project 802 were developed by the ? |
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| The organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland that is the parent organization for all other telecommunications organizations is the ? |
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| International Telecommunications Union |
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| The organization responsible for the X-series and V-series standards is the? |
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| Which series of standards are recommendations for data transmission using the telephone network? |
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| The definition of the OSI reference model was a major contribution to networking made by the ? |
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| International Organization for Standardization (ISO) |
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| What electrical interface standard has the ability to work in either balanced or unbalanced electrical circuits? |
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| What two categories are the OSI reference model divided into? |
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| application and data transport layers |
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| What two sublayers did the IEEE divide the OSI data link layers into? |
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| logical link control (LLC) and media access control (MAC) |
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| At what OSI layer are virtal circuits established, maintained, and terminated? |
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| At what OSI layer are common data compression and encryption schemes used? |
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| What OSI layer is closest to the end user? |
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| What information unit, whose source and destination are network-layer entities, uses connectionless network services? |
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| What topology defines the layout of a network's devices and media? |
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| What topology defines the way in which devices communicate and data is transmitted throughout the network? |
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| What topology consists of cable segments from each computer connected to a centralized component? |
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| What topology combines two or more different physical topologies in a single network? |
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| What is the most widely implemented logical topology? |
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| What protocol system uses data frames to start and stop bits for synchronization, and has special bits used for error detection? |
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| What data communication protocol uses character control or handshaking to link and represent information? |
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| binary synchronous protocol (BSC) |
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| What TCP/IP network layer protocol provides information about how and where data should be delivered, including the data's source and destination addresses? |
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| What TCP/IP network layer protocol provides the IP address for a device that knows its own MAC address? |
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| Reverse address resolution protocol (RARP) |
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| What TCP/IP network layer protocol provides messaging that can help with troubleshooting? |
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| Internet control message protocol (ICMP) |
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| What TCP/IP network layer protocol does not guarantee that packets will be received at all? |
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| What application within TCP/IP is used to send and receive files via the UDP and is very simple? |
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| Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) |
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| What TCP/IP network layer protocol is a utility that can verify that TCP/IP is installed and communicating with the network? |
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| Packet Internet Groper (PING) |
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| What kind of network interconnects users with computer resources in a geographic area or region like a city? |
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| Metropolitan area network (MAN) |
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| What type of network connects networks that are typically separated by geographical distances between cities, states, countries, or around the world? |
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| What option(s) do you have when configuring a client to join a Microsoft network? |
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| Instead of using binary, how are IPv4 addresses expressed to be more user friendly? |
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| dotted decimal notation (DDN) |
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| How many and what are the classes of IPv4 addresses? |
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| Which of the following is a class B address? |
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| What IPv4 class address is used for multicasting? |
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| What is the default classful subnet mask on class B networks? |
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| What method borrows bits from the host field of an IP address to create a subnet? |
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| classless inter-domain routing |
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| Instead of using bunary, how are IPv6 addresses expressed to be more user friendly? |
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| What notation is expressed in leading zero compression for IPv6? |
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| FEDC:BE97:0:0:4567:0:9876:1234. |
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| What notation is expressed in zero compression for IPv6? |
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| What unicast address scope is designed to be private, internally routable addresses that do not route outside the site? |
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| What rule is observed when calculating the number of addressable subnets or hosts? |
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| What kind of classful IPv4 address do you have when you have all zeros in the host field? |
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| What kind of classless IPv4 address do you have when you have all zeros in the host field? |
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| What does variable length subnet masking utilize? |
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| classless inter-domain routing |
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| When using variable length subnet masking (VLSM), if the next subsequent subnet identification on the VLSM chart cannot start at binary 1 in the subnet field, then you would start at the ? |
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| first available subnet address |
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| What are the time periods that memory devices must be able to supply data measured in? |
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| Randon Access Memory (RAM) chips are classified as? |
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| A characteristic of read-only memory (ROM), compared to RAM, is that ROM is? |
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| What year did the small computer system interface (SCSI) standard originate? |
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| A personal computer transmits or sends data to a printer or other device by using a ? |
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| How many peripherals can a universal serial bus (USB) handle at once? |
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| How many devices can connect to a FireWire bus? |
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| Hard disk drives are rigid platters that spin at a ? |
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| high rate of speed with magnetic coating |
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| What loads the operating system into memory and allows it to beging operation? |
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| The path between the OS and virtually all hardware not on the computer's motherboard goes through a special program called? |
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| What OS's task lets programmers use functions of the computer without having to directly keep track of all the details in a CPUs operation? |
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| The core operating-system function is the management of the computer system which resides with the? |
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| Which Windows OS is based on Windows NT? |
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| What directory is always identified by the slash symbol and is in the "a" partition? |
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| Three types of pathnames are? |
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| absolute, relative, and simple |
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| A device used to input and display data is a ? |
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| The terminal equipment that has a limited computing and processing capability that executes small applications without outside support is a ? |
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| What layer of the OSI model to transceivers operate at? |
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| What functions does the network interface card provide to communicate onto the network media? |
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| physical, electrical, and logical |
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| Which of the following is not an address format managed by the IEEE? |
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| Media access control (MAC)-24 |
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| What device receives a digital signal and regenerates the signal along the next leg of the medium? |
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| What type of hub is a simple signal splitter and not a repeater? |
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| Typically, repeater spacing is every? |
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| What type of bridge is used to convert one data link layer protocol to another? |
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| What is the forwarding method used when the entire frame is received and placed into the buffer, but an error check is performed, and the frame is sent to the proper port for delivery? |
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| Whta layer of the OSI model do routers operate? |
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| What do routing algorithms initialize and maintain to aid in the process of path determination? |
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| Which routing protocol is also used on interior or border routers and can coexist with the Routing Information Protocol (RIP) on a network? |
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| Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) |
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| What is the routing protocol of internet backbones and is used on border and exterior routers? |
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| Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) |
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| An Intel-based PC can both communicate and share resources with a Macintosh computer or mainframe using the translation services of a ? |
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| What protocol is used to route e-mails across the internet? |
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| simple mail transfer protocol |
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| The STU-III is a user friendly: |
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| low-cost, secure telephone device |
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| What encryption device is capable of loading up to 500 keys? |
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| Tha classification of a fill device is? |
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| classified as soon as a key is loaded, and holds the classification of the loaded key |
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| Which of the following is not a function of the CSU? |
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| manages timing errors and signal regeneration |
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| The determining factor in calculating the correct size of a waveguide is? |
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| Which SATCOM system is used to transmit space operations? |
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| defense satellite communcations system (DSCS) |
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| HF ground waves can be transmitted up to ? |
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| The frequency bandwidth of a HF signal is between 3MHz and ? |
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| Which is an advantage of laser light transmissions? |
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| no FCC license is required |
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| Shielded cables are often used in the systems control facility between the main distribution frame and the patch bays to reduce? |
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| interference and crosstalk |
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| An optical communications system is comprised of a transmitter? |
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| Why are fiber optic cables immue to EMI? |
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| fibers are made of dielectric material |
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| Which statement best describes a fiber optic cables' critical angle? |
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| The smallest angle of incidence between two media where total reflection takes place. |
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| What term refers to fiber optic cable's core with the same refractive index throughout the cable? |
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| What noise is a mixture of all frequencies and can completely mask the intelligence frequencies? |
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| What are the two principle weighting characteristics in use with telecommunication circuit noise? |
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| CCITT psophometric weighting and C-message weighting |
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| The two major types of fram structures are? |
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| What term is associated with the delay or lag introduced in the application of voltage from one section to the next? |
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