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| What does EIA stand for?What is the common |
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| Electronic Industries Alliance |
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| What do EIA standards start with? |
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| Telecommunications Industry Association |
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| What is the numerical designation for the Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard? |
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| What is Balanced pair operation? |
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| Two wires with equal and opposite signals |
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| What is the advantage to using shielded cabling? |
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| What does shielded cabling require to function properly? |
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| What type of cabling is most common? |
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| What is the maximum speed that Cat 3 supports? |
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| What is the maximum speed that Cat 5 supports? |
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| What is the maximum speed that Cat 5e supports? |
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| What is the maximum speed that Cat 6 supports? |
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| How far can cat 6 cable carry data at 10 Gbits/s? |
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| What is the advantage to cat 6a cable over cat 6 cable? |
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| Cat 6a carries 10 Gbit/s over 100m |
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| What are Plenum cables used for? |
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| Running cables in heating and air conditioning ducts |
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| What are riser cables used for? |
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| Running cables between floors |
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| What two things can make up the cable jackets on plenum cables? |
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| What types of networks use Coaxial cable? |
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| 10Base5 (Thicknet) and 10Base2 (Thinnet) |
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| How do serial cables transfer data? |
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| What has replaced serial ports? |
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| What are the fibers in Fiber Optic cables made of? |
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| How do fiber optic cables carry data? |
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| What are the two types of fiber optic cable? |
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| Multi mode and single mode |
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| Which type of fiber optic cable is used for long distances? |
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| What is a major concern when ordering fiber optic cable? |
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| What type of connector it uses |
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| What is frequency measured in? |
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| Cycles/second (MHz or GHz) |
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| What are Transmission Speeds or throughput measured in? |
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| What is the speed range of coaxial cabling? |
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| What are the speeds of Fiber Optic cabling? |
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| What is the maximum distance for Multi Mode Fiber optic cabling? |
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| What is the maximum distance for single mode fiber optic cabling? |
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| What are the properties of half duplex technology? |
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| One side speaks at a time |
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| What are the properties of full duplex technology? |
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| Both sides may speak and listen simultaneously |
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| Which is more efficient, half duplex or full duplex? |
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| Besides speed, what is a major advantage to fiber optic cabling? |
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| It isnt subject to interference |
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| What is the security advantage to fiber optic cable over copper cables? |
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| Fiber optic cables can't be tapped |
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| What does RS-232 stand for? |
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| Recommended Standard - 232 |
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| Which standard was developed in 1969? |
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| What are RS-232 connections commonly used for now? |
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| What type of ethernet network uses a BNC connector? |
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| 10Base2 Thinnet (Coaxial) |
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| What type of connector has 6 positions, 4 conductors, and is used for modular telephone connections? |
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| What type of cable connector has 8 positions, 8 conductors and is used for ethernet? |
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| What type of fiber optic cable was an improvement over ST and SC because it was smaller? |
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| What fiber optic connector is common now, and utilizes a small connector? |
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| What is a common network topology in which all devices are connected to a central device? |
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| What expensive and complex network topology features multiple lines to the same place which give you redundancy, fault tolerance, and load blancing? |
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| What network topology utilized a central line that all users connected to? |
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| What network topology allows one break in the link to take down the entire network? |
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| What network topology has built in fault tolerance and allows traffic to flow in both directions? |
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| What network topology is a one to one connection? |
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| What type of network topology is extremely common and is the way wireless networks operate? |
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| Most networks are a ___________ of more than one topology. |
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| What are the two standards for terminating 8P8C cables? |
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| Which standard for terminating 8P8C cables is the most common? |
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| What is the difference between the 568A and 568B standard? |
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| What color connectors go to what positions |
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| What type of ethernet cable allows you to connect devices directly together without a hub or switch? |
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| How is a crossover cable wired? |
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| The transmits on one end are wired to the receives on the other end and vice versa |
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| What type of cable allows you to go from a RJ-45 to Serial connection? |
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| Who invented the rollover cable? |
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| What are loopback plugs used for? |
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| What is a major drawback to circuit switched WAN technologies? |
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| Innefficeint use of resources; unused connections cannot be shared |
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| What does POTS stand for? What type of WAN technology is it? |
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| Plain Old Telephone Service; Circuit Switched |
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| What does PSTN stand for? |
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| Public Switched Telephone Network |
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| What is the logical bit pattern used on a physical T1 link? |
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| How many channels and bit rate per channel does T1 consist of? |
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| What is the total throughput of a T1 line? |
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| What is the standard used everywhere except North America and Japan that expanded on the T1 standard? |
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| How many channels at what bit rate does the E-1 standard consist of? |
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| What is the total throughput of an E-1 line? |
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| T-3 is equivalent to how many T-1 signals? |
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| What is the maximum throughput of a T-3 line? |
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| What type of cable and connector does T-3 use? |
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| Coaxial cable with BNC connector |
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| How many E-1 lines does an E-3 line consist of? |
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| What is the maximum throughput of an E-3 line? |
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| What does ISDN? stand for? |
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| Integrated Services Digital Network |
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| What does BRI consist of? |
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| 2 64 Kbit/s bearer channels and 1 16 Kbit/s signaling channel |
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| What is the maximum throughput of ISDN? |
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| How is ISDN commonly used? |
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| For connectivity from the PTSN to large phone systems |
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| How is PRI normally delivered? |
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| How are packet switched WAN technologies more efficient than circuit switched WAN technologies? |
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| The media is usually shared between multiple users |
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| What does SONET stand for? |
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| Synchronous Optical Networking |
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| A transport protocol for multiplexing many data streams over one fiber |
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| Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
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| What size cells does ATM use? |
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| What is the makeup of ATM cells? |
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| 48 Bytes for data, and 5 Bytes for a routing header |
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| What is the the throughput of the OC-1 Optical carrier level? |
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| What is the the throughput of the OC-3 Optical carrier level? |
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| What is the the throughput of the OC-12 Optical carrier level? |
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| What is the the throughput of the OC-48 Optical carrier level? |
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| How do you figure out the throughput of any OC Optical carrier level? |
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| Take the number and multiply by 51,840 Kbit/s |
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| What does ADSL stand for? |
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| Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line |
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| Why is ADSL considered Asymmetric? |
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| Because the download speed is faster than the upload speed |
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| What is the download and upload speed of ADSL? |
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| 24 Mbit/s download, 3.5 Mbit/s upload |
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| What is the approximate longest distance from the central office you may be when using ADSL? |
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| What does SDSL stand for? |
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| Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line |
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| What does VDSL stand for? |
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| Very High Bit rate digital subscriber line |
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| What is the throughput range for VDSL? |
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| What was one of the first cost effective packet switching WAN technologies? |
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| What is the throughput range for frame relay? |
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| 64 Kbit/s - 44.736 Mbit/s |
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| What does MPLS stand for? |
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| Multiprotocol Label Switching |
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| What is the protocol for data transfer over cable modems? |
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| What does DOCSIS stand for? |
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| Data over cable service interface specification |
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| What is the speed range for Cable modems? |
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| What are the properties of Sattelite connections? |
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| Long latency, speeds up to 5 Mbit/s |
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| What does CSMA/CD stand for? |
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| Collision Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection |
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| When two stations are talking at once in a half duplex setup |
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| A single frame that is destined for every device on the network is called a ____________. |
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| Combining physical lines to make a faster logical connection is known as _________. |
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| In 10BASET, what does BASE mean? |
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| Baseband, a single frequency utilizing the entire medium |
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| In 10BASET, what does T mean? |
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| What is the speed, maximum distance, and cable type of the 10BASET standard? |
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| 10 Mbit/s, 100m, over Cat 3 or better Twisted pair. |
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| What is the speed, maximum distance, and cable type of the 100BASETX standard? |
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| 100 Mbit/s, 100m, over Cat 5 or better Twisted pair |
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| What is the maximum distances for 100BASEFX over multimode fiber? |
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| 400m in half duplex mode, and 2Km in full duplex mode |
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| What is the maximum distances for 100BASEFX over single mode fiber? |
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| What is the speed and cable type of the 1000BASET standard? |
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| 1 Gbit/s, over Cat 5e or Cat 6 Twisted Pair cable |
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| What is the speed, maximum distance, and cable type of the 1000BASELX standard? |
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| 1 Gbit/s, over 5 Km, over Fiber optic cable |
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| What is the speed, maximum distance, and cable type of the 1000BASESX standard? |
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| 1 Gbit/s, 550m, Over Fiber |
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| What is the speed, maximum distance, and cable type of the 10GBASE-SR standard? |
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| 10 Gbit/s, 300m, over multi mode fiber |
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| What is the speed, maximum distance, and cable type of the 10GBASE-LR standard? |
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| 10 Gbit/s, 10 Km - 25 Km, over single mode fiber |
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| What is the speed, maximum distance, and cable type of the 10GBASE-ER standard? |
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| 10 Gbit/s, 40 Km, over single mode fiber |
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| What is the maximum distance for 10GBASE-T over Cat 6 cable? |
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| What is the maximum distance for 10GBASE-T over Cat 6a cable? |
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| What is the logical network topology that is one of the most common forms of networking, which involves 1 client talking to 1 server? |
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| What is the logical network topology in which all devices are both a client and a server? |
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| What does a VPN allow you to do? |
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| Connect to a remote private network through an existing public network (i.e the Internet) |
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| What allows devices to be on the same subnet even if they are in different physical locations? |
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| What distribution frame is considered the core of your network? |
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| Which distribution frame generally includes centralized services? |
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| Intermediate Distribution Frame |
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| What distribution frame provides end user connectivity and is usually in remote closets? |
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| What do we use to connect the MDF and the IDF? |
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| Which type of punch down block is often preferred? |
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| What are the 2 types of cross connects? |
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| Vertical and Horizontal cross connects |
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| What do we call the connection between the IDF and servers or workstations? |
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| What do we call the connection between the MDF and IDF? |
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| What type of cable is used for vertical cross connects? |
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| What is a demarcation point? |
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| The handoff between you and the phone company |
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| What is another name for the Demarcation point? |
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| Minimum Point of Entry (MPoE) |
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| What is another name for the smart jack? |
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| What do you use in situations where you have multiple tenants per building and you can not reach the demarcation point? |
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| What are the three things you need to check for when you are verifying link quality? |
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| Loss, Crosstalk, and Propigation delay |
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