Network Essentials
Short-answer quiz
 

1A PC has a modem on COM2, a sound card , and a printer on LPT1. You want to install a network card in this machine. What IRQ port could you use for this network card?

2Which type of cable is .25" inches thick and carries a signal approximately 200 meters before attenuation sets in?

3You just installed 10Base2 wire for a small home based network. What connectors were used for this small network to connect the cables to the network interface cards?

4What network device moves packets from one physical media to another and will pass broadcast storms from one segment to another?

5Name two reasons why the Point to Point Protocol or PPP protocol works better than its predecessor, SLIP?

6You are considering using a gateway to communicate between a Windows NT network using the NETBeui protocol and an IBM network using the DLC protocol. Which layers of the OSI model would use the services of a gateway?

7What impedance is found on common Cable TV wire, or RG-59 cable?

8What network device is incapable of passing broadcast traffic?

9Which level of RAID will help to copy partitions onto another physical hard drive for fault tolerance reasons but will only use 1 hard disk controller?

10Routers can use either RIP or OSPF to determine routes for packets to take. Which of these two protocols is based on a distance-vector algorithm?

11Which WAN technology is faster, X.25 or Frame Relay?

12You need to find a protocol that will guarantee delivery of your packets across a network. What kind of protocol are you looking for?

13A client of yours suggests that they want you to install twisted pair cable in his new office. You know you can select between 5 categories of twisted pair. What minimum category would meet your client's specification for 10BaseT cabling?

14If you are building a small network with Windows 95 machines and you don't want to use NetBEUI as a transport protocol, what other protocol could you substitute that has similar features and compatibility?

15When a network card tries to capture every packet of data it sees on the network, it is operating in what mode?

16If network utilization has increased and you want to control this factor using an economical solution, what hardware device could be implemented so that bandwidth can be controlled to some extent?

17If a new client computer using the IPX protocol cannot access a shared file on an existing network that is made up of various other protocols including TCP/IP, what action could you take to resolve this problem?

18What three components make up a Plug and Play network?

19John wants to use a bridge to connect two TCP/IP networks that use different subnet masks. Is this a correct choice?

20Which networking device is better at filtering network traffic, a bridge, a brouter, or a router?

21Novell's NetWare uses a file system that is similar to Windows 95 but it includes one other element. What is this element?

22Why does a network adapter use a MAC address?

23What server to server protocol is used to transfer messages between computers using TCP/IP?

24A machine is configured in WINS for M-node. What does this mean?

25Mark has configured his DHCP server to assign IP addresses to all his Windows 95 clients for a period of 3 days. After what period of time will his DHCP clients automatically attempt to renew their IP address leases?

26You have 20 computers in one room and you find that they reboot on a sporadic basis. The room itself has an ambient temperature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit and you notice two space heaters nearby. What could be the problem here?

27Of all the backup methods you can use on your network, there are 2 which will reset or clear the archive bit for a file. What are these 2 methods?