Chapter 2 Acronyms

Question 1

VLAN

Answer 1

VIRTUAL LOCAL ARENA NETWORK

Logical broadcast domain that can span multiple physical LAN segments

Question 2

SNMP

Answer 2

SIMPLE NETWORK MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL

an “Internet-standard protocol for managing devices on IP networks”

Question 3

SMB

Answer 3

SERVER MESSAGE BLOCK

Question 4

NCP

Answer 4

NETWORK CORE PROTOCOL

Question 5

SQL

Answer 5

STRUCTURED QUERY LANGUAGE

Question 6

BPDU’s

Answer 6

BRIDGE PROTOCOL DATA UNITS

Question 7

RMON

Answer 7

REMOTE MONITORING

Question 8

VID

Answer 8

VLAN ID

Question 9

ISL

Answer 9

INTER-SWITCH LINK

Question 10

VMPS

Answer 10

VLAN MEMBERSHIP POLICY SERVER

Question 11

FCS

Answer 11

FRAME CHECK SEQUENCE

Question 12

VTP

Answer 12

VLAN TRUNKING PROTOCOL

Question 13

DTP

Answer 13

DYNAMIC TRUNKING PROTOCOL

Managers automatic trunk negotiation

Question 14

STP

Answer 14

spanning tree protocol

Layer 2 protocol that provides path redundancy while preventing undesirable loops in a switched network

Question 15

ULP

Answer 15

UPPER LAYER PROTOCOL

Question 16

BID

Answer 16

BRIDGE ID
PRIORITY VALUE (2 BYTES) + BRIDGE MAC ADDRESS (6 BYTES) 0x8000

Question 17

CST

Answer 17

COMMON SPANNING TREE

Question 18

PVST+

Answer 18

PER VLAN SPANNING TREE PLUS

Has several spanning-tree instances running for the network, one instance of STP per VLAN

Question 19

RSTP

Answer 19

RAPID SPANNING TREE PROTOCOL

supersedes STP,

Question 20

PVRST+

Answer 20

PER VLAN RAPID SPANNING TREE PLUS

defines a STP that has one instance of RSTP per VLAN

Question 21

MSTP

Answer 21

MULTIPLE SPANNING TREE PROTOCOL

STP that has several ST instances running for the network. Single instance of ST to run for multiple VLAN’s

Question 22

EAP

Answer 22

EXTENSIBLE AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL

RADIUS Security system with EAP used for 802.x authentication