week 2

1. What are the 2 types of fiber-optic cable and what differentiates them?

2. Name some features, advantages and disadvantages for fiber optic cabling (bend ratio, shielding, usage, etc).

3. Name some features, advantages and disadvantages for twisted pair cabling (bend ratio, shielding, usage, etc).

4. What is the system life cycle?

5. What is cross talk and how is it prevented it when installing twisted pair cabling?

6. A _____________ ______________occurs when transmissions are optimized for one type of cable but sent over a different type of cable

7. A _____________number is a number written in the base 16 number system.

8. Noise that can degrade or distort a signal on a network is measured with what unit?

9. A customer modem is continuously losing signal due to large distance from the transmitting device then it is experiencing a transmission flaw known as _____________________.

10. Each organization that provides host services on the public Internet is responsible for providing and maintaining ______ authoritative servers for public access.

week3

1. Describe a Service Level Agreement is and what it defines for both customer and provider.

2. The first 24 bits, known as the Organizationally Unique Identifier, of a MAC address identifies what?

3. What denotes a loopback IP address? Provide an example.

4. SIP stands for what? What is its purpose?

5. What method can be used to verify a TCP/IP is correctly configured and communicating with a network? What makes TCP a reliable delivery protocol?

6. How does a router create a broadcast domain boundary?

7. Where can you find information about top-level domain servers in the DNS hierarchy?

8. An enterprise-wide ____ can include elements of both the client-to-site and site-to-site models

9. What is PPP and what features define it?

10. Name at least 4 different cloud service models and what differentiates them from one another.

11. Describe at least 3 advantages/disadvantages of virtualization.

12. Discuss Telnet what it is, what it does and doesnt do.