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| True/False: Original Ethernet was contention/competition-based |
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| Carrier-sensing Multiple Access with Collision Detection |
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| What happens when a collision occurs? |
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| Transmitting devices will stop and wait for a random time period before resending data |
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| At which layer is Ethernet defined? |
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| Layer 1 (mostly) and layer 2 |
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| What is the format of the Ethernet frame? |
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| What is the length field used for in the Ethernet frame? |
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| Indicated length of data field |
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| Where is the data field pulled from? |
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| What is the FCS part of an Ethernet frame format? |
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| Frame Check Sequence, a 32-bit CRC that works on an odd/even parity check (if odd, parity bit = 0, even = 1) |
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| What is the minimum size of an Ethernet frame format? The maximum? |
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| How many Bytes can the data field of an Ethernet frame format be? |
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| Why is the smallest size of the data field 46B? |
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| Or it would be too small to detect |
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| What layer is the logical address defined at? |
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| What layer is the physical address defined at? |
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| Layer 2 - Data link address |
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| In the Ethernet family, what is considered as Original Ethernet? |
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| In the Ethernet family, what is considered as Fast Ethernet? |
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| In the Ethernet family, what is considered as Gigabit Ethernet? |
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IEEE 802.3z (1000 Mbps/1 GB)
802.3ab (CAT 5E or above) |
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| In the Ethernet family, what is considered as 10 Gigabit Ethernet? |
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IEEE 802.3ae (fiber)
IEEE 802.3an |
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| True/False: A switch can have multiple ports of WAPs |
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| A switch is a layer _ device |
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| What are the components of a switch? |
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-Interface ports (10/100/1000 Mbps)
-CPU
-RAM
-OS |
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| A MAC Address table is also known as a what? |
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| How does a switch learn the MAC address of each computer? |
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| In what ways can a managed switch be configured? |
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-MAC table
-Duplex settings
-SNMP
-VLAN
-Port mirroring |
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| Term: Multiple switches connecting different departments |
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| In diagrams, how are the different ports labeled? |
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E: 10 Mbps
F: 100 Mbps
G: 1 Gbps |
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| A hub is a layer _ device |
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