IT: Networking Vocab
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IT: Networking Vocab
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1. A TCP/IP utility that queries the DNS database and provides information about a host given its IP address or vice versa. Dig is similar to the nslookup utility - but provides more information - even in its simplest form - than nslookup can.

2. Which address is split in to four 8-bit parts called octets?

3. Network Layer

4. First part of the datagram - which consists of general information about the size of the packet - the protocol that was used to send it - and the IP address of both the source computer and its destination.

5. This layer in the OSI transforms bits into electromagnetic signals.

6. A computer on a network that requests services or resources from another computer on a network

7. Transport Layer

8. Application Layer

9. Is a challenge respone authentication protocol

10. FTP - file transfer- control

11. Method of controlling how network nodes access communication channels - ex highway

12. Is an e mail retival protocol designed to enabel users to access their e-mail from various locations

13. Device that separates a medium into multiple channels and issues signals to each of those subchannels

14. Also called the star-wired ring topology - a network design in which the logic communication are in a ring - but the phyical layout of the network star.

15. SMF

16. Provides FTP - HTTP - SMTP...

17. Protocol data unit

18. On a network using the MIcrosoft Internet Connections Sharing service - the computer whose Internet connection other computers share. The ICS host must contain two network interfaces: one that connects to the Internet and one that connects to the LAN

19. Rules and configuration guidelines governing implementation and operation of IDPSs within an organization

20. Connects multiple LANs

21. Prevents broadcast storms by enabling switches to calculate paths that avoid potential loops and artificially block the links that would complete a loop

22. Name Of Layer 3

23. Distinct communication path between two or more nodes; may be separated logically or physically

24. Each node is connected to the two nearest nodes so that the entire network forms a circle - active - twisted pair of fiber optic - single malfunction in workstation can disable entire network - not flexible or scalbe

25. A high-capacity communications medium that joins networks on the same floor in a building - on different floors - and across long distances.