NETWORK+ Terms G's

Question 1

A hardware or software
solution that enables communications
between two dissimilar networking
systems or protocols. A
gateway can operate at any layer of
the OSI model but is commonly
associated with the application layer

Answer 1

gateway

Question 2

1 billion bits, or

1000Mb.

Answer 2

Gb (gigabit)

Question 3

A Gigabit Ethernet and fibre channel

transceiver standard.

Answer 3

GBIC (Gigabit Interface

Question 4

The
throughput of a given network
medium in terms of 1 billion bps.

Answer 4

Gbps (gigabits per second)

Question 5

A
tape rotation backup strategy of
maintaining backups on a daily,
weekly, and monthly schedule.
Backups are made on a 5-day or 7-
day schedule. A full backup is performed
at least once a week. On all
other days, full, incremental, or differential
backups (or no backups at
all) are performed. The daily incremental,
or differential, backups are
known as the son. The father is the
last full backup in the week (the
weekly backup). The grandfather is
the last full backup of the month
(the monthly backup).

Answer 5

GFS (grandfather, father, son)

Question 6

An IEEE 802.3
specification that defines standards
for data transmissions of 1Gbps. See
also 1000BaseX.

Answer 6

Gigabit Ethernet

Question 7

An
IETF RFC 4880-compliant alternative
to the PGP suite of cryptographic
software

Answer 7

GPG (GNU Privacy Guard)

Question 8

A method
of flow control in which the sending
and receiving hosts agree on a rate
of data transmission. After the rate
is determined, the communication
takes place at the guaranteed rate
until the sender is finished. No
buffering takes place at the receiver.

Answer 8

guaranteed flow control