IT2 STUDY ADVANCEMENT EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2022/2023

Which type of network are the workstations basewide as in one command connected to another command or one base connected to another base? (Page 1-1) - Answer - Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) During the pinging process what is the ping that is sent out called? (Page 1-6) - Answer - Echo message Which names are reserved by DOS to reserve the first serial and parallel ports, respectively? (Page 1-6) - Answer - COM1 and LPT1 Which term refers to duplicate hardware and network facility segments that are available at all times? (Page 1-8) - Answer - Redundancy What are the three major types of LAN configurations or topologies? (Page 1-9) - Answer - Star, Bus, and Ring What is the wiring concentrator which allows workstations to be either inserted or bypassed on the ring? (Page 1-10) - Answer - Multi-station Access Unit (MAU) What are the two principal network access methods? (Page 1-12) - Answer - Contention and Token passing Which control procedure sends multiple blocks of data and returns a single acknowledgement for many blocks, thereby increasing the amount of time spent transmitting data? (Page 1-12) - Answer - SDLC What provides a basis for coordinating the development of standards that relate to the flexible interconnection of incompatible systems using data communications facilities? (Page 1-13) - Answer - Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model Which layer of the OSI model is the physical layer? (Page 1-14) - Answer - 1 Which layer of the OSI model is the data link layer? (Page 1-14) - Answer - 2 Which layer of the OSI model is the network layer? (Page 1-14) - Answer - 3 Which layer of the OSI model is the transport layer? (Page 1-15) - Answer - 4 Which layer of the OSI model is the session layer? (Page 1-15) - Answer - 5 Which layer of the OSI m