Chapter 3 Quiz

2. Unshielded Twisted Pair
8. Signal travel across the medium and from device to device
11. The actual amount of data transferred. Not counting errors and acknowledgements
12. The error-checking code in an frame’s trailer
13. Extent to which signals in an Ethernet bus topology network are propagated
14. sends digital signals in which each bit of data is represented by a pulse of electricity or light
15. Packet frame headers, acknowledgements, and retransmissions
18. Actual application-to-application data transfer speed
19. Path data travels between computers on a network
20. Thin strands of glass to carry pulses of light long distances and at high data rates

1. cabling used to communicate between LANs or between hubs and switches
3. Arrangement of cabling and how cables connect one device to another in a network
4. Obsolsete to LAN medium but it is used as the network medium for Internet access via cable modem
5. uses analog techniques to encode binary 1s and 0s across a continuous range of values
6. Rules governing how and when the medium can be accessed for transmission
7. Carrier Sense, Multiple Access, Collision Detection
9. A device that absorbs signals
10. The 802.11 wireless networking standard or the Wireless Fidelity
16. In most towns you can usually find a public Wi-Fi network
17. When a signal is not terminated, it is reflected at the end of a medium