All Terms

Question 1

100BASE-T

Answer 1

Ethernet cabling system designed to run at 100Mbps on twisted pair cabling. Also called fast Ethernet.

Question 2

1000BASE-T

Answer 2

Ethernet cabling system designed to run at 1000 Mbps on twisted pair cabling. Also called Gigabit Ethernet.

Question 3

1000BASE-TX

Answer 3

Similar to 1000BASE-T but used two pairs of wires rather than for. Not as commonly used at 1000BASE-T

Question 4

10GBASE-T

Answer 4

Ethernet standard that supports speeds of up to 10 Gpbs and it’s common on server-to-server connection. Requires Cat 6 or better twisted pair or fiber optic cabling.

Question 5

2-in-1

Answer 5

Portable devices that serve as both laptop and a tablet.

Question 6

3G

Answer 6

Third-generation cellular data technologies (such as EVO-DO, UTMS, HSPA+, and HSDPA) with real-world speeds under 10 Mbps.

Question 7

4G

Answer 7

Fourth-generation cellular data technologies. Most popularly implemented as Long Term Evolution (LTE), a wireless data standard with theoretical download speeds of 1 Gbps and upload speeds of 100 Mbps.

Question 8

64-bit processing

Answer 8

A type of processing that can run a compatible 64-bit operating system, such as Windows 10 and 11, and 64-bit applications. 64-bit PCs have a 64-bit-wide address bus, enabling them to use more then 4 GB of RAM.

Question 9

802.11a

Answer 9

Wireless networking standard that operates in the 5-GHz band with a theoretical maximum throughput of 54 Mbps.

Question 10

802.11ac

Answer 10

Wireless networking standard that operates in the 5-GHz band and uses multiple in/multiple out (MIMO) and multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) to achieve a theoretical maximum throughput of 1+ Gbps.

Question 11

802.11ax

Answer 11

Wireless networking standard that operates in the 2.4-, 5-, and 6-GHz bands. Also known as high-efficiency wireless, it introduces improvements that optimize congested networks and reduce power use on client devices. The main improvement is the introduction of the 6-GHz band, which supports more channels, is less saturated, and suffers less interference. Also known as Wi-Fi 6 or Wi-Fi 6E (if it supports the 6-GHz band).