Networking Basics
This device breaks collision domains and operates at Layer 2
What is a switch?
Hutchinson Community College was founded in this year
1928
This Smithsonian-affiliated museum is dedicated to space exploration
What is the Kansas Cosmosphere?
This Kansas city is known as the “Air Capital of the World” for its long history of aircraft manufacturing
What is Wichita?
This protocol is used to translate human-readable domain names into IP addresses.
What is DNS?
This is the purpose of the ARP protocol?
What is to map an IPv4 address to a MAC address?
This is the nickname of HutchCC's athletic teams
What are the Blue Dragons?
This command module, now displayed at the Cosmosphere, carried the crew of the Apollo 13 mission
What is the Odyssey?
This 34th U.S. President, born in Texas but raised in Abilene, Kansas, made the state proud on the national stage
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Often paired with TCP, this connectionless transport protocol is used for speed rather than reliability.
What is UDP?
This type of IPv6 address begins with FE80
What is a Link-local address?
This is the president of Hutchinson Community College
Who is Dr. Tricia Paramore?
This immersive dome theater at the Cosmosphere allows visitors to view films on a wraparound screen
What is the Carey Digital Dome Theater?
This Kansas town became notorious in the 1800s as a center of cattle drives, saloons, and the exploits of Wild Bill Hickok and Wyatt Earp
What is Dodge City?
Used to automatically assign IP addresses, this protocol allows devices to join a network without manual configuration
What is DHCP?
A router consults this to learn where to forward packets
What is a routing table?
This was the original name of Hutchinson Community College
What is Hutchinson Junior College?
This Mercury spacecraft, which carried Alan Shepard as the first American in space, is housed in the Cosmosphere
This Mercury spacecraft, which carried Alan Shepard as the first American in space, is housed in the Cosmosphere.
The geographic center of the contiguous United States is located near this small Kansas town
What is Lebanon, Kansas?
Used for transferring files, this protocol operates on ports 20 and 21 and does not secure data by default
What is FTP?
This ICMP message is sent when a host cannot be reached
What is Destination Unreachable?
This school newspaper interviewed your favorite instructor about Cybersecurity Awareness Month
What is the Collegian?
One of the few Soviet-era space capsules on display outside Russia, this type of capsule can be viewed at the Cosmosphere
What is a Vostok/Soyuz capsule?
This prehistoric sea once covered most of Kansas, leaving behind the fossils and chalk formations the state is known for today
What is the Western Interior Seaway?
This routing protocol, known as a path-vector protocol, is the backbone of global Internet routing
What is BGP?