Provisioning
Hardware
Networking
Rack
Miscellaneous
100
This is an open-source tool that helps users build, change, and manage infrastructure in a cloud or data center.
What is Terraform?
What is OpenTofu?
100
The patch panel used in our new 1/2 rack does not require punchdown jacks.
This is the type of our patch panel?
What is a keystone patch panel?
What is a coupler patch panel?
What is a feed-through patch panel?
100
This is the most common wiring ordering for ethernet cables. It is designed for better signal isolation and noise protection.
What is T-568B?
100
The height of a rack unit (U) in inches.
What is 1.75 inches?
100
Proxmox is an example of this type of hypervisor. This is where the hypervisor's operating system interacts directly with the system hardware to host a virtual machine.
What is a Type-1 hypervisor?
200
This is a configuration language used to define and manage infrastructure as code (IaC). This is used within Terraform/OpenTofu.
What is HCL?
(Hashicorp Configuration Language)
200
This newer connector allows the twisted pairs of an ethernet cable to be fed through the entire length of the connector for easier alignment and crimping.
What is a pass-through RJ45(8P8C) connector?
200
This type of network is often paired with network clients that allows clients to connect to other networks in different geographical locations remotely over a secure tunnel.
What is a VPN (Virtual Private Network)?
200
The rack hypervisors support up to this many gigabytes of RAM (Random Access Memory) for workloads.
What is 96GB of DDR5-5200MHz?
200
This is the number of PoE devices deployed on our rack.
What is 12 (PoE devices)?
300
This environment allows networked devices to run software retrieved from the network. This allows sysadmins to provision a device without the need for traditional installation media.
What is PXE?
(Preboot eXecution Environment)
300
**DAILY DOUBLE!!**
This structure extends horizontally and is unsupported at one end. Most of our semester's project used this type of mounting mechanism, where the mounted devices are solely supported by 2 of the 4 posts.
What is a cantilever?
300
This is a unique identifier for a device on a network. This identifier is tied to the physical network device. The first portions of the address generally specify the vendor or manufacturer of the device.
What is a MAC (Media Access Control) address?
Also acceptable: hardware address, physical address, or burned-in address (BIA).
300
This is the name of the company that makes the SFP+ switch.
What is MikroTik?
300
This is the semester when SIGSysAdmin first started hosting general meetings for the ACM@UIC members.
(Whoever is closest gets the points.)
What is the Spring 2012 semester?
400
Due to Hashicorp changing the licensing of Terraform, OpenTofu was forked before the license change under this license.
What is the Mozilla Public License v2 (MPLv2)?
400
This external hardware interface allows syncronous transfer speeds up to 80Gbps (Gigabits per second). Speeds can be boosted to 120Gbps if speeds are asyncronous.
What is Thunderbolt 5?
400
Typically used in high speed networking, this type of cabling uses twisted conductors to transfer data over a short distance.
The SFP+ connectors in our semester's rack project is an example of this type of cabling.
What is DAC (Direct Attached Copper)?
400
The number of crimped network cables in the new rack.
(Including cables routing to the back of the rack)
(Whoever gets closest wins the points.)
What is 22 crimped ethernet cables?
10 for Pis, 4 for Hypervisor to patch panel, 1 for power supply to patch panel, 5 for patch panel to switch, 1 for access point to switch, 1 for SFP+ switch to PoE switch.
400
This RFC defines the Hypertext Jeopardy Protocol (HTJP), where one connects to a server, sends an answer, and expects a correct question.
(Googling is okay for this question)
What is RFC 8565?
500
When in a PXE, this DHCP option specifies the boot file name to be executed by the client.
What is DHCP option 67?
500
This plug type is standardized by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association and utilizes two poles and a grounding pin to deliver alternating current power. It supports up to 15 amps of current.
What is NEMA 5-15P?
500
DHCP uses this protocol and port to negotiate IP address assignments in a given network.
What is UDP port 67 (for servers)?
What is UDP port 68 (for clients)?
500
The MS-01 compute nodes support M.2 SSDs up to this form factor.
What is M.2 22110?
This directly translates to 22mm (width) x 110mm (length).
(We currently have M.2 2280 installed)
500
This video game is based in Chicago where a computing network (ctOS) connecting every device together into a single system is implemented. Hackers run rampant, commiting cyber crimes and exploiting vulnerabilities in public utilities and private companies alike.
What is Watch Dogs (2014)?
