1. You plug you new printer into a USB port on your computer. What kind of network supports connection?

a. CAN

b. LAN

c. WAN

d. PAN

2. You connect your home network to your Internet provider using a single fiber cable. What

technology allows you to download and upload data over this connection at the same time?

a. Network management

b. Multiplexing

c. Compression

d. Cloud computing

3. Which kind of protocols support addressing and communication over the internet?

a. DSL

b. TCP/IP

c. LAN

d. PC

4. You are setting up a small office network with a few desktop computers and a file server. You want to make sure only certain network users have access to the file server. What device will you need to configure to segment the network?

a. Switch

b. Cell phone tower

c. Mainframe

d. Router

5. Which of these protocols do network admins use to help them identify problems on a network?

a. HTTP

b. SMTP

c. FTP

d. SNMP

6. In trying to identify an old cable you check the connector on the end and count the number of pins. What component of the interface design are you using to help you identify this cable?

a. Electrical

b. Procedural

c. Functional

d. Mechanical

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7. What is a primary weakness of all types of twisted pair cable?

a. Cost

b. Difficult to install

c. Requires special connectors

d. Security

8. How fast can signals travel along a fiber optic cable?

a. At the speed of sound

b. At or near 100 Gbps

c. At the speed of light

d. At 10 Gbps

9. You are at school and trying to connect your smart phone to the school's wireless network, but your phone is not detecting a good signal. What device do you need to move closer to so you can get a stronger Wi-Fi signal?

a. Access Point

b. Router

c. Workstation

d. Switch

10. Which of these network media is most resistant to EMI generated by a factory's manufacturing equipment?

a. Bluetooth 5.2

b. Cat 8 twisted pair cable

c. 802.11 ax Wi-Fi

d. Multimode fiber-optic cable

11. Which of the following is most analogous to data transmitted across a network connection?

a. The sound of a person's footsteps

b. Lyrics of a song

c. Light streaming through a window

d. Ink on a sheet of paper

12. Amplitude is to frequency as:

a. The diameter of a bicycle wheel is to the speed of its rotation

b. The speed a bicycle wheel's rotation is to its diameter

c. The height of a mountain is to its width

d. The width of a mountain is to its height

13. Which shift keying technique is most resistant to noise?

a. FSK

b. QSK

c. ASK

d. PSK

14. Which character set contains the most symbols?

a. Unicode Page 3

b. UTF-8

c. ACSII

d. UTF-16

15. You are designing a website for your small business. Which character encoding scheme is most likely to be compatible with all the symbols you will need while providing the most efficient use of hardware resources for your English-language website

a. ASCII

b. UTF-8

c. UTF-16

d. Unicode

16. Data stored on the network and accessed by multiple users is an example of?

a. File server

b. Distributed processing

c. Email services

d. Print services

17. Which pair of devices would most likely not share the same LAN?

a. Printer and laptop

b. Switch and file server

c. Webserver and smartphone

d. Smart TV and smart thermostat

18. A professor lecturing to a classroom full of students is most analogous to which of the following:

a. Bus topology

b. Logical topology

c. Physical topology

d. Star topology

19. What configuration on a switch could be used to prevent some connected devices from using a network printer?

a. MAC address table

b. RSTP

c. Link Aggregation

d. VLAN

20. What is the minimum preferred category of twisted pair cable required for Gigabit Ethernet up to 100 meters?

a. Cat 5e

b. Cat 6

c. Cat 6a

d. Cat 5