An acronym and meaning for a pair of wires without a shield.
What is UTP, Unshielded Twisted Pair?
100
A method of rating communication wiring by application and performance; cable systems are divided in groups, based on the cable's ability to carry information.
What is Category?
100
Wires routed through floors are ______ cables; pipes that are run through floors are called the same.
What is riser?
100
A 4-pair UTP cable has this many conductors.
What is 8?
100
On a 4-pair UTP the outside covering is the _______; the word homophone or homograph for what we wear in the winter.
What is jacket?
200
Each pair of wires is twisted upon itself, one solid color and one striped color. One full twist is ____ ____.
What is twist length?
200
Telephone cable can only carry telephone signals, the category is #_____, written as _______; carries a maximum of 16 million bits per second.
What is 3; CAT3?
200
The air space above drop ceilings is called the ________; the cables located in this space are call by the same name.
What is the plenum?
200
A ________ cable has 4 conductors.
What is 2-pair cable?
200
The information carrying medium is call the _______, electrical signals travel from end to end.
A homophone or homograph for the word is the job you might have on a passenger train.
What is conductor?
300
Interior building UTP cable has a solid conductor to strength. Patch cords require flexibility and have ________ conductor.
What is stranded?
300
CAT5 cable can carry information by moving 100 Mbs (megabits per second); CAT5e can carry 10 times more information, ________Mbs.
What is 1,000?
300
Plenum rated cables are more expensive because the cables will not produce harmful ______ if ignited.
What are fumes, or gases?
300
The colors for a RJ-45 configuration (8 positions) are orange-white, orange, __________, blue, blue-white, ________, brown-white, __________.
What is green-white, green, and brown?
300
Electromagnetic radiation is a source of ________; the word homophone or homograph for what we hear.
What is noise?
400
The wire size standard has an acronym AWG; the A represents the country in which we are (or want to be) citizens of; the W means ______; and the G means gauge. Altogether now.....
What is Wire? American Wire Guage
400
The main difference between CAT5 and CAT6 cable is how the wires are twisted together. CAT6 cable has ________ wires.
What is bonded?
400
The classifications are printed on the cables according to the following three-letter code. C is for copper, M is for multipurpose and P is for _________.
What is plenum?
400
TIA/EIA standard for RJ-45 cables are T568A for _________ and ________ for commercial.
What is residential and T568B?
400
A STP cable has one more component that the UTP does not have, it provides protection from noise.
An umbrella ______ from the rain.
Sunglasses ______ from the harmful rays from the sun.
A jacket _______ us from the weather.
What is shield?
500
The conductor that is smallest (in diameter) between #24 AWG, #12 AWG or 500 MCM?
What is #24 AWG?
The larger the number, the smaller the diameter of the conductor.
500
The range of frequencies that a system can pass is called the _________.
What is bandwidth?
500
General purpose cables can be substituted for Plenum cables or Riser cables. Riser cables can only be substituted for _______ cables.
What is Plenum cables?
500
The protective non-conducting coating usually found on the wire is call the ________; it is homophone with the products used in homes to keep them warm.
What is insulation?
500
The difference between UTP, STP and ScTP is an addition of one more component, the Sc indicates _______.
A window has one, which lets fresh air in and keeps the insects out.