A _____ protocol is a protocol in which each workstation takes a turn at transmission, and the turns are uniformly distributed over all workstations. a. round-robin b. CSMA/CD c. CSMA/CA. d. CSMA/CT If a receiver has just received one packet of data with bytes numbered 600 to 700, it will respond immediately with _____. a. an ACK of 700 b. an ACK of 701 c. an ACK of 800 d. it will not respond just yet The _____ sublayer is primarily responsible for logical addressing and providing error control and flow control information. a. medium access control (MAC) b. physical access control (PAC) c. medium physical control (MPC) d. logical link control (LLC) A _____ system transmits 10-Mbps baseband (digital) signals over twisted pair for a maximum of 100 meters per segment length. a. 1Base 5 b. 10BaseTX c. 10Base T d. 100BaseTX _____ was the standard created for fiber-optic systems. a. 1Base5 b. 10BaseTX c. 100BaseTX. d. 100baseFX _____ area networks can cover large geographic distances, including the entire Earth. a. Personal b. Local c. Wide d. Universal The most popular contention-based protocol is _____. a. token ring b. round-robin c. carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) d. carrier sense multiple access with collision detection (CSMA/CD) The interval during which the signals propagate down the bus and back is the _____ a. exponential backoff b. collision window c. attenuation d. bounce window In CSMA/CA, the amount of time a device is made to wait before it can transmit is called the _____ a. frame space (FS) b. frame time (FT) c. interframe space (FS) d. intraframe time (IFT) A _____ is a device that interconnects two or more workstations in a star-wired bus local area network and immediately retransmits the data it receives from any workstation out to all other workstations connect. a. hub b. switch c. router d. repeater. A transparent bridge creates the internal port table by using a form of _____. a. forward learning b. backward correction c. backward learning d. forward correction In a _____ architecture, the data frame begins to exit the switch almost as soon as it begins to enter the switch. a. forward b. backward c. cut-through d. random-propagation