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Testout Network Pro Exam VocabularyPart 1 Exam
Active Directory - Answer- The new Windows 2000 directory service. It stores
information about all the network resources such as user accounts, computers, printers,
servers, and so on. Active Directory makes it easy for administrators to manage the
network resources, and makes it easy for users to locate and use the resources.
Active Directory Sites and Services Snap-In - Answer- A Microsoft Management
Console (MMC) snap-in that lets you create and work with the configuration partition of
an Active Directory database.
Active Server Pages (ASP) - Answer- Microsoft's answer to the slower and more limited
performance of CGI scripts written in Perl. They combine HTML pages, scripts,
programming objects, and ActiveX components to create dynamic Web pages.
ActiveX - Answer- A set of programming tools based on the Component Object Model
(COM), which provides the low-level services that allow programming objects to
communicate with each other. ActiveX is used for Internet applications that need to be
optimized for speed and size.
AD (Advertised Distance) - Answer- The Advertised Distance (AD) is the cost to the
destination network as reported by the neighbor router. The AD is also called the
reported distance (RD).
Ad hoc - Answer- A wireless networking architecture topology that does the following:
Works in peer-to-peer mode without a WAP (the wireless NICs in each host
communicate directly with one another)
Uses a physical mesh topology
Cheap and easy to set up but cannot handle more than four hosts
Requires special modifications to reach wired networks
Adapter card - Answer- The physical interface between the computer and the network
cable. An adapter card communicates with the computer's hardware, firmware, and
software to allow the computer to communicate with the local area network. Also called
a network adapter card, network card, or NIC.
, Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) - Answer- A protocol that maps an IP address to the
Media Access Control (MAC) address of a computer on a network.
ADMD (Administration Management Domain) - Answer- An ADMD is a public operating
agency that controls an X.400 management domain. These domains are the backbone
for transferring electronic messages. ADMDs handle messages sent between PRMDs.
Administrative distance - Answer- The administrative distance is a metric used to show
how trustworthy a router deems information from a specific protocol. Administrative
distances are as follows:
0= Connected interface
0= Static route out of an interface
1= Static route to a next-hop address
Etc...
Protocols with lower administrative distances are considered more trustworthy.
Administrative share - Answer- Windows 2000 provides share names that are used for
administration. These names are C$, D$, E$, etc. and Admin$.The $ hides the shared
folder from a user who browses the computer. Administrative shares are used to
remotely connect to a computer to perform administrative tasks.
Administrative template - Answer- A group of registry settings stored in a file
(Registry.pol). Adminstrative templates can be distributed using Active Directory-based
Group Policy Objects (GPOs).
ADSI Edit - Answer- A graphical Windows 2000 support tool that lets you view, edit, and
create objects and attributes in the Active Directory database.
Advanced RISC Computing (ARC) naming convention - Answer- The syntax used for
recovering data in a secondary partition. ARC paths specify the hardware adapter and
disk controller, the numbers of the hardware adapter, the SCSI bus, the disk, and the
partition.
AH (Authentication Header) - Answer- Authentication Header (AH) is one of two
services comprising IPSec, Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) being the other. AH
is used primarily for authenticating the two communication partners of an IPSec link. AH
provides no privacy however, and is often combined with ESP to achieve integrity and
confidentiality.
ANDing process - Answer- The internal process used by TCP/IP to determine whether a
packet is destined for a host on a local or remote network. TCP/IP performs the function
of ANDing the host's IP address with its subnet mask. When a packet is sent on the
network, the destination IP address is ANDed with the same subnet mask.
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