What occurs when another wireless device connects to a wireless access point (WAP)?
Which of the following organizations developed the 802.15 standard for Bluetooth?
In which type of industry is fiber optic being used to provide always-on broadband services to homes and small businesses?
Which of the following is not among the most popular network fiber-optic connectors?
In _______________________________, all nodes compete for the use of the medium but have a plan if there are collisions.
Practical bandwidth of a network is determined by a combination of which factors?
On the receiving end, the _________________ layer receives signals across the connecting media, decodes the signal back into data, and passes the data to the ____________layer for acceptance and processing.
Which of the following is an OSI model layer within the TCP/IP model’s Network Access layer?
is the most common type of networking cable. It is commonly used to interconnect a host to a switch and a switch to a router.
According to the textbook, switch devices and wireless access points cannot be separate dedicated devices within a network implementation.
is the process by which the characteristic of one wave (the signal) modifies another wave (the carrier).
is the simplest topology that consists of a permanent link between two endpoints.
What services are provided by the data link layer?
The combined use of fiber-optic and coaxial cables is known as ____________________.
Ethernet and wireless networks use
refers to the physical connections and identifies how end devices and infrastructure devices such as router, switches, and wireless access points are interconnected.
In a __________________________ cable, one end is 568A and the other end is 568B.
In networks, all data has to be prepared for transmission and placed onto the media by the receiving node as well as taken off the media by the sending node.
Which of the following organizations define open standards and protocols that apply to the data link layer?
Which of the following is not a type of network encoding that converts bits into signals?
uses LED emitters to send light pulses and is popular in LANs, providing bandwidth up to 10 Gbps over link lengths of up to 550 meters.
is the measure of usable data transferred over a given period of time.
Two-way communication up to 10 km can be provided over a single strand of single-mode fiber by transmitting at a different wave length into the fiber from each end.
Which Wi-Fi standard uses a tri-band Wi-Fi solution using 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 60 GHz and offers theoretical speeds of up to 7 Gbps?
is the dominant LAN technology and represents a family of networking technologies that are defined in the IEEE 802.2 and 802.3 standards.
Set 2
______________ stipulates the commercial cabling standards for LAN installations and is the standard most commonly used in LAN cabling environments.
_______________________________occurs in fiber-optic media when the media ends are not well polished or dirt is present at the termination.
Which Wi-Fi standard can simultaneously operate in the 2.4- and 5-GHz frequency bands, providing data rates up to 450 Mbps and 1.3 Gbps?
A _____________________ provides wireless communication capability to each network host.
_____________________ is an uncommon cable used to interconnect similar devices such as to connect a switch to a switch, a host to a host, or a router to a router.
____________________ connect a device to the network.
The TCP/IP network access layer is the equivalent of the following OSI layers:
What are the contents of the data field in a frame?
Which of the following is not an advantage of copper media?
_________________________ is a WAN version of the star topology in which a central site interconnects branch sites using point-to-point links.
Which of the following is not one of the three main types of copper media used in networking?
As more wireless devices access a network simultaneously, _________________ network performance might occur.
The ____________________ is the upper sublayer of the data link layer that defines the software processes that provide services to the network layer protocols.
The new 10-GB standard for Ethernet has a provision for the use of STP cabling, and this provision is causing a renewed interest in STP cabling.
Practical bandwidth of a network is determined by a combination of which factors?
According to the textbook, the longer a signal travels on a copper cable, the more it deteriorates in a phenomenon referred to as
Which of the following is not a type of fiber-optic cable?
IEEE rates UTP cabling according to its performance, thereby placing cables into categories according to their ability to carry higher-bandwidth rates. Of the following categories, which one is the recommended type for data networking in new building installations?
When using wireless, the signals are patterns of _________________________.
The ____________________________ topology provides high availability, but requires that every end system be interconnected to every other system.
In which type of industry is fiber optic being used to provide always-on broadband services to homes and small businesses?
In which type of industry is fiber optic being used for backbone cabling applications and interconnecting infrastructure devices?
UTP cable consists of _______ pairs of color-coded wires that have been twisted together and then encased in a flexible plastic sheath that protects them from minor physical damage.