An acronym and meaning for a pair of wires without a shield.
What is UTP, Unshielded Twisted Pair?
100
A category is the method of rating communication wiring based on the cable's ability to carry information; this is the abbreviation.
What is CAT or CAT#? {Example: CAT 5e}
100
Wires routed through floors are ______ cables; pipes that are run through floors are called the same. {Hint, the sun ____ in the east.}
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 "twist"-ed upon itself, one solid color and one striped color. One full twist is ____ length.
What is twist length?
200
Telephone cable can only carry telephone signals, the category is #3, written as _______; carries a maximum of 16 million bits per second.
What is CAT3?
200
Plenum locations are usually above these parts of rooms.
What is the ceiling (Drop Ceiling or Suspended Ceiling)?
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.
Hint: If you lead a symphony, you are one. If you take tickets on a train, you are one.
What is conductor?
300
Interior building UTP cable has a solid conductor for strength. Patch cords require flexibility and have a ________ 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 or magnetic fields are a source of ________ that cause disruptions in the communication signal.
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
CAT 6 cables may have bonded twisted pairs and have this separator between each pair.
What is a buffer?
400
The classifications are printed on the cables according to the following three-letter code. CM is for communication cable and P is for _________, R is for _________, and "CM_" or "CMG" is general purpose.
What is plenum and riser?
400
TIA/EIA standard for RJ-45 cables are T568A for ________ and T5678__ for commercial.
What is residential and T568B?
400
Attenuation is the ________ of a signal from transmitter to receiver.
What is loss?
500
The conductor that is smallest (in diameter) between #24 AWG, #12 AWG or #6 AWG.
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 _________. A radio station like Power 99 has a range of frequencies from 98.90 MHz to 99.10 MHz. {Mega Hertz}
What is bandwidth?
500
True or False: A Riser cable can be replaced with a Plenum cables.
What is True?
500
The protective non-conducting coating usually found on the wire is call the I________.
What is insulation?
500
The difference between UTP (unshielded TP), STP (shielded TP) 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.