A connection-oriented protocol used to ensure the reliability of data transmissions.
What is Transmission Control Protocol?
100
A series of interconnected devices that share hardware and software resources and is limited to a given office, floor or building
What is a Local Area Network (LAN)
100
A protocol service that resolves domain names to IP addresses
What is Domain Name System (DNS)
100
A network transmission device that amplifies and re-times a packet signal so it can be sent along the outgoing cable segments
What is a repeater
100
The standardization body that is an international organization of scientists, engineers, technicians and educators that develop standards for networking cables and data transmission
What is Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
200
A protocol used to handle logical addressing
What is Internet Protocol (IP)
200
A far-reaching system of networks that usually extends across states and countries
What is a Wide Area Network
200
A service protocol that provides a way for a server to automatically assign IP addresses to nodes on the network
What is Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
200
A central network device used in a star topology to join networks
What is hub
200
A standard developed by ISO and ANSI, that provides a theoretical framework for network hardware and software communications based on seven layers
What is Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model
300
A connectionless protocol that does not ensure reliable data transmission but is fast.
What is User Datagram Protocol
300
A network that is limited to personal devices and is limited to approximately 33 feet
What is a Personal Area Network
300
A protocol designed to exchange e-mail between networked devices such as over the Internet
What is Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
300
A network device that connects networks and forwards packets be using the ANDing decision-making process to find the network ID.
What is a router
300
A private network that is like a private and secure tunnel through a larger network and is restricted to designated member clients only.
What is a Virtual Private Network (VPN)
400
A protocol used by routers to communicate routing information
What is Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
400
A network that links multiple LANs in a large city
What is a Metropolitan Area Network
400
A protocol service that enables network managers to continuously monitor network activity
What is Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
400
A device that links network nodes and/or segments that forwards and filters frames between the nodes and/or segments
What is a switch
400
Signal interference caused by magnetic force fields generated by electrical devices.
What is Electrical Magnetic Interference (EMI)
500
A protocol that is used to enable resolution of IP addresses to MAC address
What is Address Resolution Protocol
500
Multiple LANs in a specific area or region that are owned or managed by one institution
What is a Campus Area Network
500
A protocol that works behind the scenes to help IP track error conditions
What is Internet Control Message Protocols
500
A central hub that links token ring nodes into a topology that physically resembles a star.
What is Multistation Access Unit (MAU)
500
A technology that uses advanced modulation technologies on existing telecommunications networks for high-speed networking between a subscriber and a telecommunications company.