How many cable fibers are normally required by almost all network technologies that use fiber-optic cable?

1. (p. 455-456) How many cable fibers are normally required by almost all network technologies that use fiber-optic cable?
A. One
B. Two
C. three
D. four

                                          

2. (p. 45) If the computers on the network connect via the same piece of cable, what topology is employed?
A. bus
B. star
C. ring
D. mesh

3. (p. 46) Which of the following topologies provide no fault tolerance? (Select all correct answers.)
A. bus
B. ring
C. star
D. mesh
E. both A and B

4. (p. 46) With both bus and ring networks, where is the single point of failure that will bring down the entire network?
A. the cable
B. the hub
C. the server
D. the client

5. (p. 48) Which network topology offers the greatest level of fault tolerance?
A. bus
B. ring
C. star
D. mesh

6. (p. 50) What kind of cable is described as a central conductor wire, surrounded by insulating materials, placed inside a braided metal shield?
A. unshielded twisted pair
B. coaxial
C. shielded twisted pair
D. fiber-optic

7. (p. 51) What is the most common use of coaxial cable in networking today?
A. connecting computers in a small network
B. connecting two computers in a point-to-point connection
C. connecting a cable modem to an Internet Service Provider (ISP)
D. in a multipoint connection

8. (p. 52) What is the only important measure of coax cabling?
A. RG rating
B. Ohm rating
C. length
D. amps

9. (p. 54) What is the minimum category rating of UTP cabling you would need for a network that runs at 1000 Mbps?
A. CAT1
B. CAT2
C. CAT5
D. CAT5e

10. (p. 55) What distance can a signal travel on a fiber-optic cable?
A. 500 meters
B. 1 kilometer
C. 1000 meters
D. tens of kilometers

11. (p. 56) What type of fiber-optic cable uses lasers to send signals?
A. single-mode
B. multimode
C. CAT6
D. STP

12. (p. 55) Which of the following cable types does NOT use copper wires?
A. coax
B. STP
C. UTP
D. fiber-optic

13. (p. 52) What rating defines how much a cable resists the flow of electricity?
A. category rating
B. number of twisted pairs
C. Ohm rating
D. RG rating

14. (p. 54) UTP category ratings are based on what?
A. The highest frequency and bandwidth that the cable can handle
B. The maximum length of the cable segments
C. The number of devices that can be used on a network
D. The IEEE 802 standards

15. (p. 54) Of the following, which is the fastest category of UTP cabling?
A. CAT5
B. CAT3
C. CAT5e
D. CAT6