Basics
Topology
Security
Miscellaneous
100
Two or more computers connected together to share resources is a _______.
What is a network?
100
Topology describes the physical _______ of the computer network.
What is the layout?
100
_______ is a security protocol that encrypts the information moving from the access point (AP) through the wireless network.
What is WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy)?
100
WAN stands for _______.
What is Wide Area Network?
(WLAN=Wireless Local Area Network)
200
A _______ prevents outsiders from accessing your network.
What is a firewall?
200
Which type of topology is shown here?
What is a bus (or linear bus)?
200
True or False? It is difficult for hackers to figure out the default password for a router.
What is FALSE—default password is usually the
manufacturer’s name (eg. Linksys, Netgear) or "admin"
200
_________ is the ISP for our school district.
What is MEC (Metropolitan Education Council)?
300
Networks break down all messages into smaller parts called _______.
What are packets?
300
In a star topology, packets are sent to the _______ before going on to the correct device.
What is the controller (or hub)?
300
By not broadcasting the _______, you make your wireless network invisible to neighbors and criminals.
What is the SSID?
300
In _______ networks, signals are transmitted via radio waves.
What is wireless?
400
What does a router do?
What is direct packets to the correct place?
400
Give TWO different examples of a LAN.
What is our classroom, our school, a business, an at-
home-network, etc.?
400
Which type of wireless network encryption is more secure? WPA or WEP?
What is WPA—newer, provides additional security beyond WEP (and WPA2 is even better)
400
What device enables the computer to transmit data over telephone/cable lines, and converts information between analog and digital signals?
What is a modem?
500
A NIC card is the translator between the _______ and the _______. The network cannot communicate without it.
What is the (1) computer (or workstation or device) and the (2) network?
500
A router provides you with a(n) _______.
A. terminator
B. access point
C. modem
D. ISP
What is B - access point?
500
Why would you want to enable the wireless MAC filter for your wireless network?
What is so that you can allow only known MAC addresses (allow only known devices to connect to your network), or to exclude known MAC addresses (block known devices,
say, your neighbors from connecting to your network).
500
Put the following data transmission speeds in
order from SLOWEST to FASTEST:
T3 – Broadband – T1 – Dial-up
What is Dial-up, Broadband, T1, T3