Chapter 3 Vocabulary & Questions

Questions

1. Compare and contrast four different Ethernet LAN devices in increasing order of complexity (and typically cost).

2. What are some of the characteristics of shielded twisted pair (STP)?

3. What are some of the characteristics of unshielded twisted pair (UTP)?

4. What are some of the characteristics of coaxial cable?

5. What is the difference between STP and UTP?

6. What is the difference between STP and coaxial cable?

7. What is the advantage of fiber-optic cable?

8. What is the disadvantage of fiber-optic cable?

9. What is the medium for wireless communication?

10. What are EIA/TIA standards?

11. What are patch panels?

12. How many conductors does an RJ45 jack have?

13. What is a shared media environment?

14. Where on a network do collisions occur?

15. What is a collision domain?

16. What happens to a signal in a collision?

17. How do you recognize a collision domain?

18. How do repeaters extend collision domains?

19. How do hubs extend collision domains?

20. Do repeaters filter network traffic?

21. What is the four-repeater rule?

22. How can the segmentation of collision domains be achieved?

23. What is linear bus network topology?

24. What is ring network topology?

25. Are the rings of a dual ring network topology connected?

26. Where is the need of a star network topology located?

27. From a mathematical perspective, where does each node link in an extended star network topology?