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1
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What are networking rules called?

A

Protocols

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What does SOHO stand for?

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Small Office Home Network

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What is a host?

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Any device (pc, tablet, phone, printer) connected to a network that participates in network communications

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What is throughput?

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The amount of data sent and received over a network

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What is bandwidth?

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The maximum capacity of the media to carry data

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Through what do mobile phones transmit voice signal?

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Radio waves

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Why are mobile phones called cell phones?

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Because the geographic area that a tower can provide a signal to is called a “Cell”

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What is the most common type of cellular phone network called?

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GMS (Global System for Mobile Communications)

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What does the G stand for in 3G or 4G?

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Generation

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10
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What is the accuracy of a GPS?

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10 meters

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11
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What does NFC stand for?

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Near Field Communication (a few centimeters)

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What is a Wi-Fi signal?

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A radio wave

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13
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What is the current Ethernet Standard?

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IEEE 802.3

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What component does a device need to connect to an Ethernet LAN?

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An Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC)

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15
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What are the unique addresses of devices?

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MAC addresse

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16
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What does MAC address stand for?

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Media Access Control

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17
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What is an end-user device IP address used for?

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Identify the host on the network

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What is an end-user device subnet mask used for?

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Identify the network on which the host is connected

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What is an end-user default gateway used for?

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Identify the networking device that the host uses to access the Internet or another remot network

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What is a DNS server used for?

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Translate a domain name to an IP address

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21
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What kind of server automatically gives you an IP address?

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A DHCP server

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22
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Why would you want to manually configure an IP address (manual addressing)?

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For a server, something static

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What is the most common connectivity in Ethernet networks?

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Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP)

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24
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What is the most common connector on UTC cables?

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RJ-45

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25
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Generally, how many copper wires are on a UTP cable?

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8 wires arranged in pairs

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26
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What is an advantage of fiber optics

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Long distance, immune to EM interference

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27
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What is the connector type of telephones or fax machines?

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RJ-11

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28
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What is the advantage of a coaxial over UTP?

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Better shielding

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29
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How many fiber optics cables is in a fiber optic circuit?

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2 one to transmit, the other to receive

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30
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What 2 standards typically define the pinout of UTP cables?

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T568A and T568B

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31
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What type of UTP cables do Unlike devices require?

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Straight-through cables

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32
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What type of UTP cables do Like devices require?

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Crossover cables

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33
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What is the name of the Traceroute utility in Windows?

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tracert

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34
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What is each network called on a message route?

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A hop

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35
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What are the 3 essential elements of communication?

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A message source, a receiver, and a transmission medium or channel

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36
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What are the rules of communication called in networking?

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Protocols

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37
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What does TCP stand for and what is it used for?

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Transmission control protocol. Makes sure the message gets to its destination reliably

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38
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What are the 6 aspects of communication defined by protocols?

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Timing
Message size
Encapsulation
Message format
Encoding
Message pattern
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39
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Who are the internet standards published and maintained by?

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The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)

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40
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How do you call multiple protocols working together for sending a message?

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A protocol stack

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41
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How many layers are in the standard TCP/IP model?

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4

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42
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What are the different layers of the TCI/IP model?

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Application (ex: HTTP)
Transport (ex: TCP)
Internet (ex: IP)
Network access (ex: Ethernet)

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43
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What is the most common reference model?

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The OSI model

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44
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How many layers does the OSI model have?

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7

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45
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On what OSI layers does the Ethernet protocol operate?

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1 and 2

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46
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What type of address is used for Ethernet addressing?

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MAC address

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47
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Who manages the Ethernet protocol?

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the IEEE

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48
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What part of a MAC address determines the vendor?

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The 3 first bytes

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49
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What part of the MAC address is the component’s unique ID?

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The 3 last bytes

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50
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What is the 3 first bytes of a MAC address called?

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The Organizationally Unique Identifier (OUI)

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51
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What is encapsulation?

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Like placing a letter in an envelope to add source, destination, and message

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52
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What is a frame?

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A computer message encapsulated in a specific format

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53
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What is a preamble?

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The first part of a frame, a 7-byte pattern of alternating 1s and 0s to synchronize timing

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54
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What are the 3 layers of Ethernet hierachical design?

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  • Access layer (connection to host on LAN)
  • Distribution layer (interconnects smaller networks)
  • Core layer (high-speed connection to WAN)
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55
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What defines the network portion of an IPv4 address from the host portion?

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The subnet mask

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56
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What happens to the source and target MAC address of an Ethernet frame during internetwork communication?

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They change

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57
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What is the most common Access layer device?

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Switches

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58
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What is the most common Distribution layer device?

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Routers

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59
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What is the most common Core layer device?

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Switch route processors

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60
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Where do switches check to see where to send a message?

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Its MAC address table

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61
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How do you call the temporary connection between the message source and destination that’s created by a switch?

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A circuit

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62
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What is switch flooding?

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When a switch doesn’t recognize a destination MAC address, it sends the message to every connected host

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63
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What is a broadcast?

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A message sent to all hosts on a LAN

64
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What is the destination MAC address of a broadcast?

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FFFF.FFFF.FFFF

65
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What is ARP?

A

Address Resolution Protocol.

It is used to find the MAC address of a host on a LAN using its IP address

66
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What are the 3 steps of the ARP process?

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  • Sending host broadcasts the target IPv4 address on the network
  • Host with broadcasted IPv4 address replies to the broadcasting host with its MAC address
  • First host stores the destination host’s MAC address in an ARP table
67
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Why do we divide a network? (3 reasons)

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  • Limit the broadcast domain
  • Security reasons
  • Moving things to different locations
68
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How do you call devices that are beyond our local network?

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Remote hosts

69
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What layer does routers take their decisions on?

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Layer 3, IP addresses

70
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When is a router used to forward a message?

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When the IP source and destination do not match

71
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What does each router port connect to?

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A different local network

72
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How do you call the forwarding of packets towards their destination network?

73
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Where do routers look to find ip addresses it knows?

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In its routing table

74
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What is the IPv4 address of a broadcast?

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255.255.255.255

75
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What does a router do if it cannot determine where to forward a message?

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It drops it

76
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What is the destination MAC address of a frame for a packet sent to a remote host?

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The MAC address of the default gateway

77
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How many bits is an IPv4 address?

78
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What is the maximum number represented with 8 bits in binary?

79
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What operator is used to determine network address with the subnet mask?

80
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How do you write the portion of a host who’s subnet mask matches the first 24 bits? (192.168.3.10/255.255.255.0)

81
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What is the process name used by a computer to determine if an address is on its network?

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Binary ANDing

82
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What is a prefix length?

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Shorthand of a subnet mask that says how many bits are set to 1

83
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How do you calculate how many hosts can be on a network?

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2^(number of host bits)-2

84
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What is the name of the current addressing system?

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CIDR: Classless Inter-Domain Routing

85
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What is a public IPv4 address?

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An address globally routed between ISP routers

86
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What is a private IPv4 address?

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Addresses that are not unique and that can be used in internal networks (ex: 10.0.0.0, 192.168.0.0, 172.16.0.0 etc.)

87
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What translates a private IPv4 address to a public IPv4 address?

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NAT, Network Address Translation

Done by the Router connected to the IPS’s network

88
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Who manages and allocates the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for the Regional Internet Registries?

A

The IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority)

89
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Who Allocates IP addresses to ISPs?

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The RIR (Regional Internet Registries)

90
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What is a unicast transmission?

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A normal host-to-host communication, either client/server or peer-to-peer

91
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What is the reserved IPv4 address range for multicasts?

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224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255

92
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What is DHCP?

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Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, used to assign an IPv4 address to a host automatically

93
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Why can a router be both a DHCP client and server?

A

The router is a client from the ISP’s DHCP server to get a public IPv4 address. The router is also a DHCP server giving a private IPv4 address to all hosts on the network

94
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What is the destination IP and MAC addresses of a DHCP client’s DHCP Discover broadcast?

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MAC: FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF
IPv4: 255.255.255.255

95
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What are the 4 messages exchanged between a DHCP client and server to define an IPv4 address?

A

DHCPDiscover (looks for DHCP server)»
<>
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96
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What is a 169.254.x.x address and what does it mean?

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It is an APIPA address (Automatic Private Internet Protocol Addressing), and it means that the DHCP server is unavailable.

97
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How is the default gateway address assigned to a host?

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Either manually or dynamically by DHCP

98
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How long is an IPv6 address?

99
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What are 2 advantages of IPv6 addresses?

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Almost infinite number of devices

No need for NAT

100
Q

Why use Hexadecimal?

A

Hex is perfect for matching 4 bits

ex: 1 hex = 0001 bin, F hex = 1111

101
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How many Hexadecimal digits is an octet?

102
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How many hextets are in an IPv6 address?

103
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How many bits are in a hextet?

104
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What do subnet masks default to?

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  1. 255.255.0 /24
  2. 255.0.0 /16
  3. 0.0.0 /8
105
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What do IPv6 addresses have instead of a subnet mask?

A

Network prefixes

106
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What type of address does an IPv6 device give itself on start-up?

A

A link-Local Unicast Address (FE80::Interface ID, address that stays within the network)

107
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What type of message does a IPv6 host needt to create its Global Unicast Address (public address)?

A

The ICMPv6 Router Advertisement

108
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How does a IPv6 host receive a ICMPv6 Router Advertisement?

A

It sends it automatically every 200 secondes

The Host can ask for one with a ICMPv6 Router Solicitation

109
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What router option allows a host to create its own IPv6 address?

A

SLAAC (Stateless Address Autoconfiguration)

110
Q

What is the first step a web client does to access a web server with a URL?

A

DNS Lookup

111
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What is a socket?

A

The identifier of all the components that belong in a conversation

112
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What does UDP stand for?

A

User Datagram Protocol

113
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What transport layer protocol does an application use when it wants an acknowledgement that the message is delivered?

114
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What transport layer protocol is used when no acknowledgement is needed?

115
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What is an advantage of UDP over TCP?

A

UDP is faster

116
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What type of port is dynamically generated over port number 1024?

A

The source port

117
Q

What are examples of high level domains?

A

.com, .edu, .net

118
Q

What happens if a DNS server cannot determine the IP address of a domain name in its DNS table?

A

The request times out

119
Q

What type of packet is a ping?

A

ICMP packet (Internet Control Message Protocol)

120
Q

In Windows, hat command shows your default DNS server?

121
Q

What is the port number of HTTPS?

122
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What governs the rules of communication between a web client and a web server?

A

HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol)

123
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To what port does the FTP port 21 change to once the FTP session is open?

124
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What is one of the oldest Application Layer protocol of the TCP/IP suite?

125
Q

What replaced Telnet?

126
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Why is Telnet unsafe?

A

Information is transferred as plaintext

127
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What are the 2 most common home network wireless frequencies?

A

2.4 GHz and 5 GHz

128
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What wireless band is used by Bluetooth?

129
Q

What organisation is responsible for the creation of wireless technical standards?

130
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What standard governs the WLAN environment?

A

IEEE 802.11

131
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What does SSID stand for?

A

Service Set Identifier

132
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What is the maximum number of characters of an SSID?

133
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Why are wireless channels used?

A

To prevent interference of wi-fi networks operating over the same frequency range

134
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What is a channel?

A

A division of the available RF spectrum

135
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What is used on Wireless networks to prevent collision during transmission?

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Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA)
Creates a reservation on a channel for a specific conversation

136
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What are the 4 steps of the channel reservation process?

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  • Device sends a Request to Send (RTS)
  • If channel available, AP responds with a Clear to Send (CTS) broadcasted on the channel, so all devices know that the channel is busy
  • Device transmits data
  • Device sends and Acknowledgement (ACK) to the AP to free the channel
137
Q

What does DSL stand for?

A

Digital Subscriber Line

138
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What are the three types of wireless authentication methods?

A

Open authentication
PSK
EAP

139
Q

What is the encryption method of WPA2 on home networks?

140
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What is one of the easiest way hackers gain access to networks?

A

Social Engineering

141
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What are the 2 types of DoS attacks?

A

SYN (synchronous) Flooding

Ping of death

142
Q

What does RPS stand for?

A

Redundant power system

143
Q

What port is used to configure a switch?

A

Console port

144
Q

What type of network device management requires a computer to be directly connected to the console port?

A

Out-of-band management

145
Q

What type of network device management can be done over a network connection?

A

In-band management

146
Q

What does IOS stand for?

A

Internetwork Operating System

147
Q

How do you activate priviledged exec mode on the IOS CLI?

A

Type enable

148
Q

How do you know if you’re privileged on the IOS CLI?

A

The hashtag means you are privileged

149
Q

How do you access the IOS Help command on the Cisco CLI?

A

Question mark (?)

150
Q

What IOS CLI command is used to get information?

A

show + argument

151
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What elements are usually configured on a LAN switch?

A

host name
management IP address information
passwords
descriptive information

152
Q

What are the Telnet and SSH connections to a networking device called?

153
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What does ipconfig do?

A

Displays IP configuration information

154
Q

What does netstat do?

A

Displays network connections

155
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What does tracert do?

A

Displays the route taken to a destination

156
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What does nslookup do?

A

Queries the DNS server for information on a destination domain

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