Chapter 5

Question 1

Which of the following cable should never be used in a structured cabling installation?
A) UTP
B) STP
C) Fiber-Optic
D) Coax

Answer 1

D) Coax cable should not be used in Structured Cabling Networks.

Question 2

Which of the following enables you to use multiple NICs in a computer to achieve a much faster network speed?
A) Bonding
B) Linking
C) SLI
D) Xing

Answer 2

A) Bonding, or link aggregation, is the process of using multiple NICs as a single connection, thus increasing speed.

Question 3

How many pairs of wires are in a Cat 5e-rated cable?
A) 2
B) 4
C) 8
D) It doesn't specify

Answer 3

B) The Cat 5e rating requires four pairs of wires.

Question 4

A(n)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ organizes and protects the horizontal cabling in the telecommunications room.
A) Rack
B) Patch Panel
C) Outlet
D) 110 Jack

Answer 4

B) Patch Panel

Question 5

Which of the following would never be seen in an equipment rack?
A) Patch Panel
B) UPS
C) PC
D) All of the above may be seen an equipment room.

Answer 5

D) All of the above may be seen an equipment room.

Question 6

What are patch cables used for? (Select Two.)
A) To connect different telecommunications rooms.
B) To connect the patch panel to the switch
C) They are used as crossover cables
D) To connect to PCs to outlet boxes.

Answer 6

B and D. Patch cables are used to connect the patch panel to the switch and the PCs to the outlet boxes.

Question 7

Which of the following network technologies use UTP cabling in a star topology?
A) Crosstalk
B) Fiber optic
C) 100BaseFX
D) 100BaseT

Answer 7

D) 100BaseT uses UTP cabling in a star topology.

Question 8

Jane needs to increase network throughput on a 10BaseT network that consists of 1 hub and 30 users. Which of the following hardware solutions would achieves this most inexpensively?
A) Add a fiber backbone
B) Upgrade the network to 100BaseT
C) Replace the hub with a switch
D) Add a Router

Answer 8

C) Replacing the hub with a switch.

Question 9

What two devices together enable you to pick a single cable out of a stack of cables? (Select Two.)
A) Tone Aggregator
B) Tone Binder
C) Tone Genrator
D) Tone Probe

Answer 9

C and D. A Tone Generator and Tone Probe work together to enable you to pick up a single cable out of a stack of cables.

Question 10

Rack-mounted equipment has a height measured in what units?
A) Mbps
B) MBps
C) Inches
D) U

Answer 10

D. Rack-Mounted equipment uses a height measurement known as unit (U).

Question 11

In a private home, the DSL or cable modem supplied by your ISP is a?

Answer 11

Network Interface Unit (NIU) That serves as a demarc (Demarcation Point) between your home network and your ISP.

Question 12

What tells the ISP or telephone company that the customer has disconnected from the NIU?

Answer 12

Smart Jacks - also have the very handy capability to set up a remote loopback.

Question 13

The combination of demarc, telephone cross-connects, and LAN cross-connects needs a place to live in a building. The room that stores all of this equipment is know as?

Answer 13

Main Distribution Frame (MDF)

Question 14

The location where the cable comes out of the wall in the workstation is called?

Answer 14

Cable Drop