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 NACSE Fundamentals Exam 1

Choose the best answer:

1. What type of device is used with UTP cabling to create a star network
configuration?
a. router
b. gateway
c. hub
d. bridge

2. What category of UTP cable supports both 10Mbps and 100Mbps Ethernet?
a. Category 3
b. Category 4
c. Category 5
d. Category 6

3. Which of the following best describes the function of a MAC layer address?
a. Gets a frame to the next NIC
b. Gets a packet to the correct port
c. Gets a frame to the final destination
d. Gets a frame to the correct socket

4. Which of the following are found at the network layer of a protocol stack:
a. Datagram or Packet
b. Frame
c. Bit or Byte
d. LU

5. What is the major difference between a LAN and a WAN?

a. The type of cabling used to configure the network
b. The distance between the nodes in the network
c. The type of devices used to connect the workstations to the network
d. The type of NIC card used

6. What does MAC stand for?

a. Media Activity Concentrator
b. Media Access Control
c. Multistation Access Control
d. Medium Access Connectivity

7. What does NIC stand for?

a. Network Interface Control
b. Network Interface Card
c. National Institute for Communications
d. Network Interface Carrier

8. What does MAU stand for?

a. Multistation Access Unit
b. Multinode Activity and Usage
c. Media Access Usage
d. Media Activity Unit
9. Where are MAUs normally found?
a. Token Ring Networks
b. Ethernet Networks
c. FDDI Networks
d. Almost all LANs contain MAUs

10. The two most common NOS found in today’s networks are:
a. Windows NT and Banyan Vines
b. Novell Netware and 3Com
c. Novell Netware and Windows NT
d. Windows NT and LANtastic

11. Which is the fastest line speed (circle the best answer):
a. T1
b. SONET
c. 256Kbps
d. 512Kbps

12. What is SNMP used for in a network?

a. Node status and management
b. Mail gateway
c. Internet connectivity
d. Internet post office

13. What class of IP address can only support up to 256 unique hosts
in a network?
a. Class A
b. Class B
c. Class C
d. Class D

14. What unit of information does a bridge operate on (circle the best answer)?
a. bit
b. byte
c. frame
d. packet

15. What unit of information does a router operate on (circle the best answer)?
a. bit
b. byte
c. frame
d. packet

16. What does a repeater do?

a. Regenerate broadband signals
b. Regenerate baseband signals
c. Repeat analog signals
d. Regenerate analog signals

17. Why is a hub used in a Local Area Network?

a. Concentrate and repeat digital signals
b. To detect fiber optic loss of light
c. To regenerate the token in a Token Ring network
d. To isolate traffic between Ethernet and Token Ring networks
18. Why would a switch replace a hub in a Local Area Network?
a. To increase WAN connectivity
b. To increase Internet connectivity
c. To increase LAN performance
d. To improve backbone connectivity

19. What is the major difference between UDP and TCP?

a. One is included with UNIX OS the other is not
b. One is connection-oriented, one is connectionless
c. One is a Network Layer protocol, one is a Transport Layer protocol
d. One is user accessible, one is program accessible

20. What do the two portions of an Internet address signify?

a. Host and Network
b. MAC and End Node
c. Host and Router
d. User and MAC

21. What are two differences between bridges and routers?

a. Bridges operate on packets, routers operate on frames
b. Routers operate on MAC addresses, Bridges operate on packet address
c. Bridges are used for wide area connectivity,
Routers for local area connectivity
d. Bridges use MAC addresses, Routers use packet addresses

22. What is a Remote Procedure Call used to do?

a. Provide access through software to a server application
b. Access a redirector on a remote machine
c. Emulate a program that resides on a server
d. Emulate a UNIX workstation

23. What is the most widely installed LAN technology?

a. Ethernet
b. Token Ring
c. ARCnet
d. FDDI

24. Which class of address would be assigned to a corporation who needs

79 unique addresses?
a. Class A
b. Class B
c. Class C
d. Class E

25. In a client/server arrangement, where are the requests normally generated?

a. client
b. server
c. either
d. NIC

26. The SNA architecture is normally considered to be (circle the best answer):
a. Client/Server
b. Peer-to-Peer
c. Master/Slave
d. TCP/IP
27. What cable type is normally used to implement a 100BaseT network?
a. Twisted Pair
b. Coaxial
c. Fiber Optic
d. Broadband

28. Which of the following is NOT a protocol (circle the best answer)?
a. TCP
b. UDP
c. IPX
d. SNA

29. What are the transport and network layer protocols typically implemented
in a Novell NetWare network?
a. TCP/UDP
b. SPX/IPX
c. PU/LU
d. Ethernet and Token Ring

30. What layer of software is normally loaded on the NIC card?

a. Physical
b. Data Link
c. Network
d. Transport

31. Which network layer protocol is the Internet based on?

a. TCP
b. IP
c. IPX
d. UDP

32. In a client/server environment, what is the name of the software which

determines the destination of a users request for LAN services?
a. Redirector
b. Initiator
c. IP
d. IPX

33. What is the following binary word (10101001) written in hexidecimal:

a. AC
b. AB
c. 97
d. A9

34. Which network layer normally contains both a header and a trailer?
a. Transport
b. Network
c. Data Link
d. Physical

35. Which of the following is an example of decapsulation:

a. Adding the Session Layer header to the Application Layer data
and Application Layer header.
b. Stripping the transmission header from an outgoing frame.
c. Stripping the header and trailer from an incoming MAC frame.
d. Removing the preamble of a MAC frame before passing the data
to the Network Layer.
36. Which of the following statements are true:
a. Frames are generated at the Data Link layer.
b. Frames contain both headers and trailers.
c. Packets are generated at the Network Layer.
d. All of the above

37. Which of the following statements(s) is NOT true of a data packet:

a. Packets are generated at the network layer of the protocol stack.
b. Packets are always broken up by the Data Link layer before transmission.
c. The header of a packet is generally referred to as the Network header.
d. Packets are point to point only.

38. The binary equivalent of the internet address 127.7.55.8 is:

a. 10000000 00000111 01101100 00000011
b. 10000000 00000110 01110111 00000101
c. 01111111 00000111 00110111 00001000
d. 01111111 00000111 00111110 00000011

39. Which of the following is NOT true of Ethernet:

a. Ethernet (CSMA/CD) becomes more efficient as the traffic increases
b. Ethernet can use 10base5, 10base2, and Twisted Pair
at the physical layer.
c. MAC frames are transmitted across the physical media.
d. Is also referred to as the 802.3 standard.

40. The primary reason a jamming message is sent out over the Ethernet is to:
a. Warn other stations that a collision has been detected.
b. To corrupt the preamble of the incoming MAC frame.
c. Resynchronize all of the stations on the local Ethernet.
d. A jamming message is the same as the MAC preamble.

41. The DDP protocol is normally found in which networking architecture?

a. TCP/IP
b. SNA
c. AppleTalk
d. DECnet

42. The primary difference between a frame, packet and port is:
a. Frames are NIC to NIC, packets end to end, ports processes to process
b. The length of each
c. The speed of each
d. Frames and packets are network dependent, ports are not.

43. Which device would have the highest latency?

a. repeater
b. bridge
c. router
d. gateway

44. Which device would be the least intelligent?

a. repeater
b. router
c. gateway
d. bridge
45. A routing table would contain:
a. network and NIC addresses
b. network and port addresses
c. only NIC addresses
d. only port addresses

46. What is normally loaded on the NIC card when a workstation boots?
a. Physical layer address
b. Link Layer driver
c. IP Layer driver
d. Socket and Port drivers

47. Which of the following is not a 100Mbps technology?

a. CDDI
b. 100VGAnyLAN
c. FDDI
d. ATM

48. Which layers of the OSI model deal with frames, packets, ports respectively?
a. physical, data link, network
b. data link, network, transport
c. network, transport, session
d. transport, session, presentation

49. What is the main difference between a packet and a frame?

a. The size of the frame/packet
b. Frames are sent asynchronously, packets synchronously
c. A packet has end-to-end significance (network),
a frame has next node significance
d. Packets are generated at the DL layer, frames at the Network layer

50. Which of the following is NOT a concern of the physical layer

a. The representation of binary data
b. The timing of the binary data
c. The number of bits in a byte
d. The voltage level of each bit