Chapter 7 Vocabulary & Questions

Vocabulary

Access control byte

CSMA/CD

Data (Ethernet)

Data (IEEE 802.3)

Destination and source address

End delimiter

Ethernet

FDDI

Frame Check Sequence

IEEE 802.3

Length (IEEE 802.3)

Microsegmentation

MSAU

NIC-1

Preamble

Router

Start delimiter

Questions

1. What is the size and composition of a token?

2. What does the source address field in an FDDI frame identify?

3. Which field determines whether the frame contains asynchronous or synchronous data?

4. What are two features that are both FDDI and Token Ring share?

5. What are the three advantages that optical fiber has over copper wiring?

6. What network layer device must all network traffic pass though on a star topology?

7. What is the purpose of a NIC?

8. What are two reasons why LANs are segmented?

9. Ethernet uses which access method to detect errors within data packets or on the network?

10. Why is it cost efficient to have a switched LAN environment?