Essential Terms and Components Flashcards
What is a set of devices, software and cables that enables the exchange of communication between the devices?
Networks
What is a computer, server laptop tablet, smartphone or anything that a person uses to access the network?
End Device
What are hubs, repeaters, bridges, switches, routers and firewalls?
Network Devices
What describes the layout of a network?
Topology
What topology is the connection of one device to another?
Point-to-Point
What topology has one device that has multiple connections to other hosts?
Star
What topology has devices connected in a circle?
Ring
What topology uses one coaxial cable and connects multiple devices to it?
Bus
What topology uses point-to-point to connect multiple locations to other locations?
Mesh
What is a short-range, high-speed networks typically found in schools, offices and homes?
Local Area Network (LAN)
What protocol is used to deal with ethernet collisions?
CSMA/CD
What is a group of devices that are affected by one another’s collisions?
Collision Domain
What means there are no collisions in a network because every segment has only one sender and receiver?
Microsegmented
What type of network is used to connected two or more networks?
Wide Area Network (WAN)
What type of WAN connection refers to a connection that is installed and provisioned for the exclusive use of the customer?
Dedicated Leased-Line Connection
What type of WAN uses a phone company as the service provider?
Circuit-Switched Connection
What type of WAN connects you to the provider;s network like a PC connects to a hub.
Packet-Switched Connection
What Ethernet implementation is 10Mbs, half duplex, has max range of 500m and thicknet?
802.3/10BASE-5
What Ethernet implementation is 10Mbs, half duplex, has max range of 185m and thinnet?
802.3/10BASE-2
What Ethernet implementation is 10/100Mbs, half duplex, has max range of 100m and UTP?
802.3/10/100-BASE T