Exam 4: Making Connections

The ____ component of USB strictly specifies the exact dimensions of the interface's connectors and cabling.

____________________ is an easy-to-use,flexible,and low-cost digital interface that is capable of supporting transfer speeds of up to 3.2 Gbps.

InfiniBand can address (interconnect)____ of devices,using both copper wire and fiber-optic cables.

The starting and ending sequences of the synchronous connection are called flags.

The Thunderbolt interface is an older interface designed for mainframe computers.

In a(n)____________________ connection,a single character,or byte of data,is the unit of transfer between the sender and receiver.

To prepare a data character for an asynchronous transmission,a few extra bits of information are added to the data bits of the character to create a(n)____________________.

If control simplicity is your primary goal,point-to-point connection of terminals is clearly superior to multipoint connections.

____________________ is a process in which a computer asks a peripheral if it has any data to transmit to the computer.

Fibre Channel can support the interconnection of up to ____ devices only.

FireWire supports two types of data connections: an asynchronous connection and a(n)____ connection.

A stop bit is always a 0.

A primary that performs ____ polling polls only the first terminal,which then passes the poll to the second terminal,and each successive terminal passes the poll along.

A ____ port is a connection in which eight data lines transmit an entire byte of data at one moment in time.

Because of their higher efficiency,asynchronous connections have almost completely replaced synchronous connections.

The ______ protocol is a high-speed protocol commonly found on Apple laptops and incorporates two currently existing standards.

What was the early disadvantage of USB?

USB is an example of a full-duplex connection.

____________________ polling is the polling method in which the mainframe computer (primary)polls each terminal (secondary),one at a time,in round-robin fashion.

To prepare a data character for transmission,a ____ bit is added to the beginning of the character and informs the receiver that an incoming data frame is arriving.