Acronyms
OSPF
What is Open Shortest Path First?
I am a switch with routing capabilities
What is a Layer 3 switch?
a network protocol that builds a loop-free logical topology for Ethernet networks.
What is STP (Spanning Tree Protocol)?
the process of opening up encapsulated data that are usually sent in the form of packets over a communication network
What is Decapsulation?
MTU
What is Maximum Transmission Unit?
AAA
What is Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting?
an optoelectronic instrument used to characterize an optical fiber. ... It injects a series of optical pulses into the fiber under test and extracts, from the same end of the fiber, light that is scattered or reflected back from points along the fiber.
What is an OTDR(Optical Time Domain Reflectometer?
various methods of combining multiple network connections in parallel in order to increase throughput beyond what a single connection could sustain, and to provide redundancy in case one of the links should fail.
What is LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol)?
The process of defining the steps to be taken in the event of a physical corporate crisis to continue operations
What is BCP(Business Continuity Plan)?
SHA
What is Secure Hash Algorithm?
SCADA
What is Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition?
a security appliance which integrates a range of security features into a single appliance.
What is UTM(Unified Threat Management)?
the authentication protocol used in wireless networks and Point-to-Point connections. It is designed to provide more secure authentication for 802.11 WLANs (wireless local area networks) that support 802.1X port access control.
What is PEAP (Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol)?
Command line tool in a non-Windows systems used to diagnose DNS problems
What is DIG(Domain Information Groper)?
PPTP
What is Point to Point Tunneling Protocol?
PSTN
What is Public Switched Telephone Network?
a type of server that provides a suite of services to remotely connected users over a network or the Internet. It operates as a remote gateway or central server that connects remote users with an organization's internal local area network (LAN).
What is a RAS (Remote Access Server)?
is a communications protocol used by hosts and adjacent routers on IPv4 networks to establish multicast group memberships. It is an integral part of IP multicast.
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What is IGMP(Internet Group Management Protocol)?
a set of technologies and solutions that use the network infrastructure to enforce security policy compliance on all devices seeking to access network computing resources in order to limit damage from emerging security threats
What is NAC(Network Access Control)?
SIEM
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What is Security Information and Event Management?
EAP-TLS
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What is Extensible Authentication Protocol with Transport Layer Security?
I have a BIA and sit at Layer 2 of the OSI Layer
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What is a NIC?
an advanced distance-vector routing protocol that is used on a computer network to help automate routing decisions and configuration. The protocol was designed by Cisco Systems as a proprietary protocol, available only on Cisco routers.
What is EIGRP (Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol)?
is an informal term describing the transfer of electronic information, especially computer files, by physically moving removable media such as magnetic tape, floppy disks, compact discs, USB flash drives (thumb drives, USB stick) or external hard drives from one computer to another, usually in lieu of transmitting the information over a computer network.
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What is a sneakernet?
LACP
What is Link Aggregation Control Protocol?