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1. According to John Chambers, CEO of Cisco (a leading networking technology company),
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the information age is the second Industrial Revolution.
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2. Due to recent advances in high speed communication networks, the information lag, or the
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time it takes for information to be disseminated around the world, has been significantly
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3. One perspective of data communications and networking as stated in the textbook, examines
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the management of networking technologies, including security, network design, and
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managing the network on a day-to-day basis and long term basis.
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4. The first electronic data communication system was the telephone developed by Alexander
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Graham Bell.
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5. The first transcontinental telephone service was established in the 1940s.
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6. An Inter-Exchange Carrier (IXC) provides only local telephone services to homes and
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businesses.
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7. Common carriers include the RBOCs, IXCs, and Cable TV companies.
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8. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 now permits the RBOCs to provide long distance
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outside the region in which they provide local telephone services.
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9. The Internet was started by the U.S. Department of defense in 1969 as a network of four
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computers called ARPANET.
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10. Telecommunications is the transmission of voice and video as well as data and implies t t t t t t t t t t t t t
transmitting a longer distance than in a data communication network.
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11. A local area network (LAN) connects other LANs and BNs located in different areas to each
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other and to wide area networks in a span from 3 to 30 miles.
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12. An intranet is a LAN that uses Internet technologies and is publicly available to people
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outside of the organization.
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13. A car manufacturer may give access to certain portions of its network to some of its suppliersvia
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Internet. This is an example of an Extranet.
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14. The OSI model is the most widely used network model to develop and build networks today.
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Answer: True Difficulty:Moderate t Reference: p. 16 t t t
15. The network layer is responsible for routing messages from the source computer to the
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destination computer.
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16. In the OSI model, the application layer is the end user’s access to the network.
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17. The application layer is the seventh layer of the Internet model and provides the end user’s
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access to the network.
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18. At the transport layer in the Internet model, TCP is responsible for breaking large files
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received from the application layer into smaller packets and opening a connection to a server
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for transferring the packets.
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20. Data communication standards enable each layer in the sending computer to communicate
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with its corresponding layer in the receiving computer.
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21. The specification stage of the formal standardization process consists of developing
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nomenclature and identifying the problems to be addressed.
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22. ANSI is a voting participant in the ISO.
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23. Passive optical networking, a key trend for the future, means that virtually any computer willbe
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able to communicate with any other computer in the world.
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24. The high bandwidth requirements (high communications needs) for video have slowed its
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integration into computer networks.
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25. An Application Service Provider (ASP) develops a specific system and companies purchase
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or rent the service without installing the system on their own computers.
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1. Data communications and networking can be considered as a global area of study because:
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