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1
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RSSI

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Received Signal Strength Indication
Radio signal strength

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dB

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Decibels

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EIRP

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Effective Isotropic Radiated Power
Radiated signal strength

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FCC

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Federal Communications Commission
Regulates transmission power

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AP

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Access Point

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SSID

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Service Set Identifier

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SOHO

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Small Office Home Office

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WEP

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Wired Equivalent Privacy
Has no privacy

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WPA2/3

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Wi-Fi Protected Access

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OSI

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Open Systems Interconnection

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IP

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Internet Protocol

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MTU

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Maximum Transmission Unit
Max amount of data that can be handled

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LAN

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Local Area Network

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MAN

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Metropolitan Area Network

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WAN

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Wide Area Network

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PAN

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Personal Area Network

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SAN

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Storage Area Network

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CAN

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Campus Area Network

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SDWAN

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Software Defined Wide Area Network

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MPLS

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Multiprotocol Label Switching

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mGRE

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Multipoint Generic Routing Encapsulation

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Demarc

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Demarcation

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NIC

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Network Interface Card

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vNIC

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Virtual Network Interface Card

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NFV

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Network Function Virtualization

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DSL

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Digital Subscriber Line

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NAT

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Network Address Translation

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SNAT

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Static Network Address Translation

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DNAT

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Dynamic Network Address Translation

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PAT

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Port Address Translation

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APIPA

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Automatic Private IP Addressing
169.254.x.x

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CIDR

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Classless Inter-Domain Routing

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33
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SLAAC

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Stateless Address Autoconfiguration

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34
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A Record

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IPv4 address

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AAAA Record

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IPv6 address

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CNAME Record

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Canonical Name

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MX Record

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Mail Exchange

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SOA Record

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Start of Authority

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PTR Record

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Pointer

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TXT Record

A

Text
Plain-text

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41
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SRV Record

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Service

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NS Record

A

Name Server

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43
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TTL

A

of hops before a packet is dropped

Time To Live
Number of hops before a packet is dropped

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FCoE

A

Fibre Channel over Ethernet
SAN connection type

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iSCSI

A

Internet Small Computer Systems Interface
SAN connection type

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46
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VPN

A

Virtual Private Network

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IaaS

A

Infrastructure as a Service
Outsourced equipment, responsible for management and security

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SaaS

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Software as a Service
On-demand software ex. Gmail

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49
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PaaS

A

Platform as a Service
You handle development

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50
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DaaS

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Desktop as a Service

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51
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VDI

A

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

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IPS

A

Intrusion Prevention System
Stops and notifies malicious traffic

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IDS

A

Intrusion Detection System
Finds and notifies about malicious traffic

54
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VoIP

A

Voice over Internet Protocol

55
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HVAC

A

Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning

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IoT

A

Internet of Things

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SCADA

A

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

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RIP

A

Routing Internet Protocol
Distance-vector routing protocol

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EIGRP

A

Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
CISCO distance-vector routing protocol

60
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OSPF

A

Open Shortest Path First
Link-state routing protocols

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BGP

A

Border Gateway Protocol
Hybrid routing protocol

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QoS

A

Quality of Service
Prioritizes specific data types

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VLAN

A

Virtual Local Area Network

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LACP

A

Link Aggregation Control Protocol

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MDI-X

A

Auto Medium-Dependent Interface Crossover

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MAC

A

Media Access Control

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PoE / PoE+

A

Power over Ethernet [+]

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CSMA/CD

A

Carrier-sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection

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ARP

A

Address Resolution Protocol

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NDP

A

Neighbor Discovery Protocol

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AES

A

Advanced Encryption Standard
Used in WPA2

72
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TKIP

A

Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
Used in WPA2

73
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CDMA

A

Code-division Multiple Access

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GSM

A

Global System for Mobile Communications

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LTE

A

Long-Term Evolution

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MIMO

A

Multiple-Input Multiple-Output

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MU-MIMO

A

Multiple User Multiple Input Multiple Output

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CPU

A

Central Processing Unit

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OIDs

A

Object Identifiers

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MIBs

A

Management Information Bases

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CRCs

A

Cyclic Redundancy Checks

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BYOD

A

Bring Your Own Device

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IDF

A

Intermediate Distribution Frame

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MDF

A

Main Distribution Frame

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NDA

A

Non-Disclosure Agreement

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SLA

A

Service-Level Agreement

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MOU

A

Memorandum of Understanding

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UPS

A

Uninterruptible Power Supply

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PDUs

A

Power Distribution Units
Provide multiple power outlets

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HA

A

High Availability

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ISP

A

Internet Service Provider

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VRRP

A

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
Virtual IP for default gateway

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FHRP

A

First Hop Redundancy Protocol
Redundant default gateway

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MTTR

A

Mean time to repair
Time required to fix the issue

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MTBF

A

Mean time between failure
Mean time between outages

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RTO

A

Recovery time objective
Time to get back to a particular service level

97
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RPO

A

Recovery point objective
How much data loss is acceptable?

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CIA Triad

A

Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability

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CVE

A

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

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DMZ

A

Demilitarized Zone

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TACACS+

A

Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System Plus
CISCO remote authentication protocol

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RADIUS

A

Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service
Central authentication

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SSO

A

Single Sign-On

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EAP

A

Extensible Authentication Protocol

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SIEM

A

Security Information and Event Management

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DoS / DDoS

A

Denial of Service / Distributed Denial of Service

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RA Guard

A

Router Advertisement Guard

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PSKs

A

Preshared Keys

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TX

110
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RX

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OTDR

A

Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer

112
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AAAA framework

A

Authentication, Authorization, Accounting, Auditing

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ACL

A

Access Control List

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AUP

A

Acceptable Use Policy

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CLI

A

Command-Line Interface

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DLP

A

Data Loss Prevention

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GBIC

A

Gigabit Interface Converter

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HDMI

A

High-Definition Multimedia Interface

119
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IGMP

A

Internet Group Management Protocol

120
Q

SFP

A

Small Form-factor Pluggable

121
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QSFP

A

Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable
40GbE

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URL

A

Uniform Resource Locator

123
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USB

A

Universal Serial Bus

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UTP

A

Unshielded Twisted Pair

125
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STP

A

Shielded Twisted Pair

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