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These devices provide wifi in a corporate envirnoment
What is an AP/Access Point?
This protocol is responsible for the transmission of webpages to your computer to translate text into a working webpage
What is HTTP/HyperText Transfer Protocol?
This topology is used as a description for the Internet generally
What is a Mesh Topology?
The _______ runs through the _______ or the ________ in the 568A/B wiring standard for ethernet.
What is River, Desert, Forest (Blue, Brown, Green)?
This is essentially a battery in a surge protector, used to keep components powered during an external power loss
What is a UPS/Uninterruptible Power Supply?
Connects two networks together, does not transmit broadcast packets to other networks
What is a Router?
This protocol transfers files from one point to another in the most basic way
What is FTP/File Transfer Protocol?
This topology is most strongly associated with Spanning Tree Protocol
What is Spine and Leaf?
This type of antenna has a narrow broadcast angle, meant to direct a wireless network to a specific area
What is a Directional Antenna?
These are industrial/commercial grade power devices that are usually mounted on the back of server racks to power severs and network devices mounted in the rack
What is a PDU/Power Distribution Unit?
These are configurable layer 3 devices that cannot issue IPs for themselves, but can assign VLANs
What is a managed switch?
This protocol is currently used for synchronizing computers to a central server to make sure times are correct everywhere
What is NTP/Network Time Protocol?
Provides prioritization for UDP packets associated with VOIP or other time sensitive delivery of a stream of data
What is QoS/Quality of Service?
This identifies a wireless network and can be configured to not be broadcast, but turning that off will not greatly enhance your security beyond the most amateur attackers
What is SSID/BSSID Basic Service Set Identifier?
Doing this poorly can lead to build-ups of heat in a network closet or could cause interference or even a fire if conditions are bad enough, and is a nightmare to undo and fix, should have been done correctly from the beginning.
What is Cable Management?
This piece of networking equipment has no electronic parts to it, just meant for organizing wiring infrastructure to make it easier to work on and organize a network
What is a Patch Panel?
This protocol associates MAC Addresses to IP addresses
What is ARP/Address Resolution Protocol?
Provides a secure tunnel for data between a client and server to allow access to a private network remotely
What is a VPN/Virtual Private Network?
This refers to the spread of frequencies that are actually used by a channel in a WiFi network
What is Channel Width?
The method is used to transmit electricity over a long distance, but is converted to be used in most electrical devices once it gets to a home or business
What is AC/Alternating Current?
This prevents broadcast storms and switch loops in large multi-switch networks
What is STP/Spanning Tree Protocol?
This protocol automatically assigns an IP address to Windows PC when the PC fails to obtain an IP through other methods
What is APIPA/Automatic Private Internet Protocol Addressing?
This translates addressing in packets to allow packets to traverse networks without revealing the private IP addresses of computers within a network
What is NAT/Network Address Translation?
What is WPA3 Wireless Protected Access 3?
This is used to extinguish electrical fires safely to avoid damaging electrical circuits, usually uses CO2 as it's extinguishing agent because it is non-conductive and does not leave anything to clean up
What is a Class C Fire Extinguisher?