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Network Types Flashcards

1
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What network type is centered around a person and their devices?

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PAN

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What network type allows for various devices, such as desktop, laptop, smartphones, etc?

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PAN

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What network type consists of computers within a limited area, like a home, lab, or office building?

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LAN

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Most often LANs use what to connect the network devices?

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Ethernet, WI-FI, or both

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What network type is a LAN with wireless connectivity and is popular for small businesses?:

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wlan

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What network type allows access to storage devices and allows servers to access devices such as tape libraries and disk arrays?

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SAN

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What network type provides networking of multiple LANS across a university campus or groups of buildings?

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CAN

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What network type provides networking across a larger area than a CAN, like a city?

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MAN

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What network type covers a large geographic area, like a global business or government bodies?

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WAN

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10
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What are the two network type models?

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CLient-Server and Peer-to-Peer

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Which network model has a distinct server that stores data and a distinct client that requests from it?

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Client-server

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Which network model connects machines that can both store data and request data from each other?

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Peer-to-Peer

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13
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Bitcoin and Tor are examples of what?

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Peer-to-Peer models

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What network topology has a single line of devices connected by one shared network cable?

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Bus

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In what network topology, do the computers connect to the network by physically tapping into the network with special connectors,which allows the network cable to remain one continuous conduit?

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Bus

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What topology has the requirement that the ends of the cable must be properly terminated with special electrical resistors called terminators?

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Bus

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17
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If the network cable in a bus topology is cut, what will happen?

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Signal Reflection

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18
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What is the term for a network in bus topology that is extended by adding segments of cable at either end of the existing cable?

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Network segment

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19
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Computers in a bus topology communicate how? This term means that you can either send or receive data, but not do both at the same time.

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half-duplex mode

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20
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The network cable in a bus topology is a what that means that all computers attached to the network will receive any and all traffic sent on the network?

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Shared communications medium

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21
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Computers in a bus topology have to listen for a clear time to send their data or be faced with a what that forces everyone to stop sending until the line clears?

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Collision

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What network topology was designed to avoid the concept of collision that was an issue with bus topology?

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Ring topology

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23
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What term allows the network cable in a ring topology to remain a shared medium but controls traffic?

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Fiber distributed data interface (FDDI)

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24
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In what network topology, does the cable enters a port on the network card exits a port on its way out to the next computer on the network?

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Ring topology

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25
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Dual rings can be used in the ring topology to allow for what?

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High availability

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26
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What network topology is also known as a hub-and-spoke network?

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Star topology

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27
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The what network topology is comprised of a central network device, such as an Ethernet switch, connected to various network devices like servers, computers and printers?

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Star topology

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28
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What network topology is most common on LANs?

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Start topology

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29
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What happens is a break occurs in a star topology?

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Only one device is severed

30
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What happens if the central switch fails in a star topology?

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Everything fails

31
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What network topology is often drawn as a web of direct connections between computers or nodes?

A

Mesh topology

32
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What network topology is commonly used when the network needs high availability and redundancy is needed?

A

Mesh topology

33
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What behavior in a mesh topology describes how nodes in the mesh are aware of each other and can establish new connections around failed nodes?

A

Self-healing network

34
Q

In the early days of mainframe computers, nearly all computing and network power was blank in large datacenters?

A

Centralized

35
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In the old centralized system, users log in to machines called what?

A

Dumb terminals

36
Q

In the early days, all programming and functionality were contained where?

A

In the mainframe

37
Q

In the old centralized system, what accepted commands and rendered a display with the results?

A

Dumb terminal

38
Q

Today, what has lead a resurgence of centralization?

A

Cloud computing

39
Q

A web browser functions like what type of architecture in that it doesn’t perform complex calculations?

A

Centralization

40
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What are two great benefits of centralization?

A

Security and availability

41
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What is an approach that puts the computing power in the user’s device rather than a datacenter?

A

Decentralization

42
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Decentralization become possible when what was popularized in the late 1980s?

A

Microcomputers

43
Q

Users storing data on cassette tapes or floppy drives before hard drives became reasonably priced and lack of backing up or storing data securely was an issue with what?

A

Decentralization

44
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One drawback of decentralization was what that meant data could fall into the wrong hands?

A

local security

45
Q

Data created by one user could be incompatible with the operating system of another user is an example of a drawback of what method?

A

Decentralization

46
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Name three advantages of decentralization?

A

1) Process without a network connection
2) Ideal for portable systems
3) lack of a single point of failure

47
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What model is very popular with email and databases?

A

Client/Server

48
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Blank applications tend to store data in the datacenter, but may leverage the computing power of the user’s client computer to perform some tasks.

A

Client/Server

49
Q

The client/server model allows application designers to implement what?

A

Advanced User Interfaces

50
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What is one challenge with client/server applications?

A

Data inconsistency due to multiple users

51
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In what model, do client computers act as both the servers and workstations?

A

P2P

52
Q

Blank does not depend on whether your network is wired, wireless or a mixture of two. The difference comes down to portability vs stability?

A

Network Architecture

53
Q

Blank is often associated with VMs operating as servers within a datacenter, but it can include many different types of hardware?

A

Virtualization

54
Q

What does VM stand for?

A

Virtual machines

55
Q

Servers, workstations, storage and even network devices can all be what?

A

Virtualized

56
Q

What term describes the technique of converting a hardware-based resource into software?

A

Virtualization

57
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Today, virtualization allows blank to host many different virtual machines or to create network devices on demand, such as virtual routers and firewalls.

A

One physical server

58
Q

Virtualization relies on a special type of software known as what that creates the virtual hardware for devices

A

Hypervisors

59
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Name two types of hypervisors

A

Open source and commercial

60
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All blank have one thing in common. They use software to create the illusion of hardware.

A

Hypervisors

61
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The operating system of a VM is referred to as what?

A

Guest OS

62
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The operating system of a computer that has a VM is referred to as what?

A

Host OS

63
Q

The hypervisor provides the VM and therefore the guest OS access to what?

A

The physical CPU and RAM

64
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What are the two types of hypervisors?

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1) Type 1 (bare metal)
2) Type 2 (hosted)

65
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What type of hypervisor typically requires dedicated hardware and are installed on a machine’s operating system. They are more common in datacenters than homes.

A

Type 1 (bare metal)

66
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What type of hypervisor looks and feels like any other app that you may run on your laptop?

A

Type 2 (hosted)

67
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Type 1 hypervisors differ from type 2 in the way they are blank.

A

Installed

68
Q

VMware ESX and open-source KVM hypervisor are intended to be installed on what?

A

A dedicated bare metal server

69
Q

What type of hypervisor presents very little information on the console screen of the host computer?

A

Type 1 (bare metal)

70
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What type of hypervisors is installed on an application on personal computers or laptops?

A

Type 2 (hosted)

71
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In a type 2 hypervisor, the hypervisor is competing with what with all running applications?

A

hardware resources

72
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In a type 2 hypervisor, the hypervisor does not have direct and unrestricted access to what?

A

Physical hardware

Network Foundations (9 decks)

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