Exam 7: Local Area Networks: Part I

More complex bus topologies consisting of multiple interconnected cable segments are termed ____.

The ____________________ design refers to the pattern formed by the locations of the elements of the network,as it would appear if drawn on a sheet of paper.

The Fast Ethernet standards are based on 1000-Mbps transmission speeds,or 1 gigabit (1 billion bits)per second.

Switches can be used in combination with routers to further isolate traffic segments in a local area network.

In a shared segment network,each workstation then has a private or dedicated connection.

____ cabling has become the preferred medium for star-wired bus topologies.

Explain the switch filtering function.

A(n)____________________ is the physical (hardware)layout used to interconnect the workstations within a local area network.

The ____ topology consists of a simple cable,or bus,to which all devices attach.

A local area network performs file serving when it's connected to a workstation with a large storage disk drive that acts as a central storage repository,or ____ server.

A hub is a simple device that requires virtually no overhead to operate.

A ____ is a device that interconnects two segments of local area networks and acts as a filter.

In a ____ architecture,the data frame begins to exit the switch almost as soon as it begins to enter the switch.

____________________ means that when the signal is transmitted from a given workstation,the signal propagates away from the source in both directions on the cable.

Whether shared or dedicated segments are involved,the primary goal of a(n)____ is to isolate a particular pattern of traffic from other patterns of traffic or from the remainder of the network.

The most popular example of a contention-based protocol is the token-passing protocol.

The spanning tree algorithm allows you to run cable spans between two or more networks.

If the circuit cards are ____________________,it is possible to insert and remove cards while the power to the unit is still on.

With ____,you can send electrical power over the Ethernet connection.

A local area network cannot interface with other local area networks.