These can connect people and promote unregulated communication where everyone share, and make a difference.
What are Networks?
100
A network infrastructure contains these three components.
What are Devices, Media & Services?
100
In this network, there are still many points of contact and many specialized devices such as, personal computers, phones, TVs, and tablet computers, but there is one common network infrastructure.
What is a converged network?
100
This is the act of working with another or others on a joint project.
What is Collaboration?
100
This refers to the trend of end users being able to use their personal devices to access the business network and resources.
What is BYOD or Bring Your Own Device.
200
This next stage of the Internet will bring together people, process, data, and things to make networked connections more relevant and valuable.
What is the Internet of Everything or (IOE)?
200
These devices form the interface between users and the underlying communication network.
What are end devices?
200
Unlike converged networks, this network are disparate; meaning that the data network, telephone network, and video network for televisions could not communicate with each other
What are dedicated networks?
200
This is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components including servers, backup power supplies, communication connections, environmental controls and security devices.
What is a data center?
200
This device performs the function of determining the path that messages should take through internetworks
What is a firewall?
300
These combine instructor-led classes with online courseware to provide the best of both delivery methods
What are Blended courses?
300
These devices interconnect end devices and work behind the scenes to ensure that data flows across the network.
What are intermediary devices?
300
This tool is used to test the network connectivity of two nodes/devices.
What is Ping?
300
This is an emerging trend for home networking that uses existing electrical wiring to connect devices.
What is powerline networking?
300
These are interactive websites where people create and share user-generated content with friends and family.
What is social media?
400
Cisco refers to this which centers on the impact of the Internet and networks on people and businesses.
What is the Human Network?
400
This provides the channel over which the message travels from source to destination.
What is network medium?
400
This is a utility that lists the networks data has to traverse from the user's originating end device to a distant destination network.
What is tracert or traceroute?
400
This network attack occurs on the first day that a vulnerability becomes known.
What is zero-day or zero-hour?
400
This is an audio-based medium that allows people to deliver their recordings to a wide audience.
What is a podcast?
500
These two have changed everything we do, from the way we learn, to the way we communicate, to how we work, and even how we play.
What are Networks and the Internet?
500
This corporate connection option is a dedicated connection from the service provider to the customer premise which are actually reserved circuits that connect geographically separated offices for private voice and/or data networking.
What is a leased line?
500
This is one of the basic characteristic of a network that limits the impact of a failure, so that the fewest number of devices are affected by it.
What is fault tolerant?
500
This security solution allows organizations to provide secure access to remote workers
What is VPN (Virtual Private Network)?
500
This refers to a model of network computing where a program or application runs on a connected server or servers rather than on a local computing device such as a PC, tablet or smartphone.