Quiz About Air Force

1. What Air Force instruction series covers communications and information?

30

31

32

33

2. What Air Force publication establishes policy on how C4 systems are acquired, operated, and maintained?

AFPD 33-1

AFPD 33-2

AFI 33-202

AFI 33-204

3. What Air Force publication identifies responsibilities for supporting critical Air Force communications and information networks, primarily through network control centers?

AFPD 33-1

AFPD 33-2

AFI 33-115, Volume 1

AFI 33-115, Volume 2

4. What Air Force publication provides the policy and procedures for certifying network professionals who manage and operate government-provided information systems on Air Force networks?

Air Force Policy Directive (AFPD)AFPD 33-1

Air Force Policy Directive (AFPD) 33-2

Air Force Instruction (AFI) 33-115 Volume 1

Air Force Instruction (AFI) 33-115 Volume 2

5. What organization does communication and information services entering and exiting the base or site fall under the operational control of?

Base Security Services Information Assurance Office

Base Computer Security control office

Base Network Control Center

Base Command Post

6. What function within the Network Control Center provides technical assistance to the unit functional system administrators and workgroup managers?

Network security

Network performance

Network management

Network administration

7. Whose network area of responsibility starts at the user's terminal and ends at the server, but does not include the network backbone infrastructure components?

Unit client support administrator

Unit functional support administrator

Network Control Center help desk

Network Control Center network administration

8. What Air Force Instruction sets the policies that unit client support administrators must comply with?

33-115

33-116

33-202

33-204

9. What Network Control Center function responds to detected security incidents, network faults (errors), and user reported outages at the time of help desk referral?

Network administration

Network management

Configuration management

Information protection operations

10. What Network Control Center function is the central point of contact for network distribution and maintenance/update of an Air Force Computer Emergency Response Team and automated systems security and antivirus software?

Network management

Security management

Network administration

Configuration management

11. Performance management can be broken into which two separate functional categories?

Monitoring and tuning

Baselining and tuning

Baselining and monitoring

Inspecting and monitoring

12. To determine the level of network service provided to the users, you will make a measurement of the total response time

Average bandwidth and availability of the network

Rejection rate and average bandwidth

Systems failure rate and average bandwidth

Rejection rate and availability of the network

13. What Network Control Center function increases network reliability by giving the network manager tools to detect problems and initiate recovery procedures?

Fault management

Network management

Performance management

Configuration management

14. What does Network Security work to ensure about a network?

Availability, confidentiality, and integrity of data

Availability, confidentiality, and backup of data

Availability, integrity, and backup of data

Confidentiality, integrity, and backup of data

15. Which of the following are jobs performed by a help desk technician on a daily basis?

Account unlocks, account creations, and router reconfiguration

Network monitoring, account unlocks, and account creations

Network monitoring, account unlocks, router access lists

Operating system installations, account creations, and network monitoring

16. Within the Network Control Center, what function is initially responsible for taking trouble calls, deciding what type of problem has occurred, and what to do about the problem?

Help desk

Network management

Specific area of support

Information protection operations

17. What is one of the most important communications skills you can develop as a help desk operator?

Speaking

Writing

Listening

Briefing

18. What software is used to open trouble tickets for customer trouble calls?

Microsoft Access

Remedy

The C+ database

Fileit

19. What is a set of subnetsthat are connected with routers?

Internetwork

Intranetwork

Homogeneous network

Heterogeneous network

20. What is a set of systems/nodes on a local segment that can be off a switch or a router?

Internetwork

Intranetwork

Homogeneous network

Heterogeneous network

21. What type of network environments consist of computer systems from different vendors that run different operating systems and communication protocols?

Internetwork

Intranetwork

Homogeneous network

Heterogeneous network

22. What type of network is made up of components from the same vendor or compatible equipment that all run under the same operating system or network operating system?

Internetwork

Intranetwork

Homogeneous network

Heterogeneous network

23. What type of communications network serves users within a confined geographical area?

Local area network

Metropolitan area network

Wide area network

Enterprise network

24. What type of communications network links geographically dispersed offices in other cities or around the globe?

Local area network

Metropolitan area network

Wide area network

Enterprise network

25. How many users are in a peer-to-peer network?

2 to 10

10 to 50

50 to 250

250 to 1000

26. How many users are in a single-server network?

2 to 10

10 to 50

50 to 250

250 to 1000

27. How many users are in a multi-server high-speed backbone network?

2 to 10

10 to 50

50 to 250

250 to 1000

28. In most cases, the frequencies used by wireless networks are in what frequency band?

Television band

Very high frequency (VHF) band

Ultra high frequency (UHF) band

Industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM)

29. What is the distorting and/or weakening of a signal as it traverses the media called?

Attenuation

Impedance

Resistance

Inductive coupling

30. What is a measurement of data transferred through the medium between network connections?

Attenuation

Impedance

Throughput

Inductive coupling

31. What is a form of communication that transmits information as a serial stream of bits or bytes?

Asynchronous communication

Synchronous communication

Half-duplex communication

Duplex communication

32. Which of the following categories of twisted-pair cable has the highest throughput?

Cat 2

Cat 3

Cat 4

Cat 5

33. A fiber optic network uses a laser or light-emitting diode to send a signal through what portion of the cable?

Core

Buffer

Kevlar

Cladding

34. Light signals in fibe optic cables can travel distances in excess of how many miles before they need to be boosted?

25

50

100

125

35. What type of optic fiber is used to span extremely long distances?

Duplex

Half duplex

Multi mode

Single mode

36. What type of optic fiber is designed for the local area network environment and light is typically generated with a light emitting diode?

Duplex

Half duplex

Multi mode

Single mode

37. What are the principal advantages of fiber optics with present day transmission technology?

Sturdiness and security

Security and throughput

Sturdiness and media cost

Throughput and media cost

38. What network topology consists of a single central cable to which all computers and other devices connect?

Star

Bus

Ring

Mesh

39. What is the greatest risk to a bus network?

The bus network server

Security is easily breached

The bus itself becoming inoperable

The middle node connected to the bus

40. On what network topology, can multiple transmit frames can co-exist?

Star

Bus

Hybrid

Fiber Distributed Data Interface

41. What is the major Department of Defense contribution to networking?

The Ada programming language

The File Transfer Protocol utility

The Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model

The Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Suite

42. What is a set of rules that define how communications are to take place in a network, including the format, timing, sequences, and error checking and correction?

A network operating system

A protocol

A standard

A baseline

43. What layer of the Open Systems Interconnection reference model is really a set of rules regarding the hardware used to transmit data?

Physical

Data Link

Network

Transport

44. What layer of the Open Systems Interconnection reference model provides the grammar by which machines converse with each other and serves as a vehicle for information transmission?

Physical

Data Link

Network

Transport

45. What layer of the Open Systems Interconnection reference model prevents a fast computer from overwhelming a slow terminal?

Physical

Data Link

Network

Transport

46. A feature which involves the periodic insertion of points into data from which any recovery necessary can be started is known as what?

Checkpointing

Data transfers

Formatting function

Error recognition and recovery

47. Which layer of the Open Systems Interconnections model is concerned with network security, file transfers, and formatting functions?

Session

Transport

Application

Presentation

48. The IEEE 802.3 standard describes a local area network using what kind of topology?

Bus

Star

Token bus

Token ring

49. What protocol is used by the IEEE 802.3 standard to avoid collisions on the network?

User Data Protocol

Network File System

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection

50. What does a station specifically send when it sends a general request through the network asking any station to respond to receive the token?

Broadcast address

Tapped approach

Who follows frame

Solicit successor frame

51. The IEEE 802.5 standard was developed to cover what local area network topology?

Bus

Ring

Token bus

Token ring

52. Why can a token ring network cover a greater distance than a token bus network without loss of signal?

Because they can use wire centers

Because each workstation repeats the signal

Because they require significantly more cable

Because each workstation creates less signal distortion

53. What X series protocol is a Message Handling System (MHS) standard, that defines the structure of a store-and-forward e-mail message handling system?

X.25

X.50

X.400

X.500

54. This question was taken out.

True

False

55. Which protocol of Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol provides a connectionless datagram "network access" layer?

Internet Protocol

Transmission Control Protocol

User Datagram Protocol

Network File System

56. Which protocol of Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol is a connection oriented, reliable, host-to-host transport protocol?

Internet Protocol

Transmission Control Protocol

User Datagram Protocol

Network File System

57. What makes it possible for implementers to produce new Network File System systems without having to reconstruct their own system's internal data representation formats to suit Network File System?

Remote procedure call

User datagram protocol

EXternal data representation

Transmission control protocol

58. As information passes down through the protocol layers, what is the packet that is formed called?

Protocol control information

User datagram protocol

Protocol data unit

Transmission control protocol

59. What is the only layer in the Open Systems Interconnection reference model that simply transmits the completed frame?

Data Link

Transport

Network

Physical

60. What layer in the Open Systems Interconnection reference model adds a trailer to the packet?

Data Link

Transport

Network

Physical

61. In the Ethernet environment, what is the minimum number of octets in a frame so it can be sent and received?

30

38

46

54

62. What is used to identify network nodes on a physically connected network?

Media access control address

Network server name

Subnet mask address

Node serial number

63. What is the binary equivalent to the dotted decimal number 96?

01100000

01100110

00001100

10000001

64. How many octets is the standard Internet Protocol broken down into?

2

4

6

8

65. What communications device converts binary electrical signals into acoustic signals for transmission over telephone lines?

Hub

Switch

Modem

Router

66. What communications device is used for converting analog signals to digital for transmission on digital lines?

Hub

Codecs

Modem

Router

67. What Network Interface Card module drives the signal onto and from the physical medium?

Encode/Decode

Frame Buffering

Transmit/Receive

MAC Layer Processing

68. What Network Interface Card module converts information into a coded data stream?

Encode/Decode

Frame Buffering

Transmit/Receive

MAC Layer Processing

69. What Network Interface Card module temporarily holds data for processing to or from the network?

Encode/Decode

Frame Buffering

Transmit/Receive

MAC Layer Processing

70. What network component serves as a central connecting point and is used to extend the physical media by repeating the signal it receives in one port out to all the other ports indiscriminately?

Hub

Codecs

Modem

Router

71. What type of hub has special capabilites for configurations and or management?

An active hub

An intelligent hub

A Passive hub

A smart hub

72. What network condition usually begins slowly and (if not stopped) gradually grows in severity until all traffic flow on the network is effectively stopped?

Jabber

Hub port noise

Broadcast Storm

Random Squitter

73. What is a group of devices connected to the same physical media such that if two devices access the media at the same time, the result is a collision of the two signals?

A token domain

A jabber domain

A broadcast domain

A collision domain

74. The purpose of a network repeater is that is?

Amplifies the network signal

Regenerates any signal received

Amplifies and routes the signal

Internally routes the signal

75. What is a local area network connection device with two or more ports that forwards frames from one LAN segment to another?

Hub

Bridge

Switch

Repeater

76. What are the four basic functions of a bridge?

Listen, learn, filter, forward

Listen, direct, filter, forward

Detect, direct, filter, forward

Listen, learn, detect, direct

77. Bridging loops are created when

There is only one path to the destination

There is more than one path to the destination

The destination is unreachable by only one path

The destination is unreachable by multiple path

78. What is used to logically eliminate loops within a network?

Internet Protocol

Transmission Control Protocol

Router Intranet Protocol

Spanning Tree Algorithm

79. The bridge in a network with the highest priority (the lowest number) is called the

Main

Base

Root

Master

80. Switching conducted at the layer 2 category is based soley upon what information?

The Media Access Control address

The Internet Protocol address

The destination address

The source address

81. Switching conducted at the layer 3 category is based upon what information?

The Media Access Control and Internet Protocol addresses

The Media Access Control and source addresses

The Internet Protocol and source addresses

The source and destination address

82. What type of switch is limited in its applications to small workgroups where throughput is an issue but where potential network errors will not upset the network?

Cut through

Fragment free

Dynamic route

Store and Forward

83. What type of switch reads the first 64 bytes before forwarding the frame?

Cut through

Fragment free

Dynamic route

Store and Forward

84. What is the technology called that allows Network Interface Card (NIC) to determine the type of Ethernet signal transmitted by a device at the other end and adjust its speed to the highest common speed between the two devices?

Auto negotiation

Autodatasensing

Speed sensing

Auto timing

85. What is a logical grouping of end stations, independent of physical location, with a common set of requirements called?

Framed local area network

Logical local area network

Private local area network

Virtual local area network

86. What is the most common method of defining Virtual local area network membership?

Port grouping

Segment grouping

Network layer grouping

Media Access Control layer grouping

87. At what level of the Open Systems Interconnection models does a router work?

Physical

Data link

Network

Transport

88. What is the primary device used for connecting these networks, both within and between networks?

Bridge

Switch

Modem

Router

89. The function performed by a router to move information from one router to another according to decided path determinations is

Directing

Routing

Switching

Vectoring

90. What type of routing is the establishment of routes by the network administrator that changes only when done manually?

Static routing

Manual routing

Dynamic routing

Group source routing

91. What type of routing involves the use of routing protocols that adjust real-time to changing network circumstances?

Static routing

Manual routing

Dynamic routing

Group source routing

92. In what Dynamic Routing protocl must packets go the complete distance before discovering the destination is unreachable?

Link State

Manual routing

Distance timing

Distance vectoring

93. What routing metric is generally based upon the bit-error rate of the link?

Delay

Reliability

Path length

Maximum transmission unit

94. What prevents a router from sending route information back to the router from which it came?

Hold downs

Split horizons

Poison reverse

Excess transfer

95. What acts as a translator between two workstaions or networks that use different operating systems, communication protocols, and data format structures?

Switch

Bridge

Router

Gateway

96. Where is the backup copy of the Cisco Internet Operating System configuration information stored in the internetworking device?

Flash memory

Nonvolatile random access memory

Random access memory/digital random access memory

Read-only memory

97. What are the network connections through which network traffic enters and exits a router called?

Interfaces

Serial interface

Switching ports

Console and auxiliary ports

98. What prompt is displayed when in the User Exec mode on a router?

Router#

Router/

Router>

Router}

99. What prompt is displayed when in the Privileged Exec mode on a router?

Router#

Router/

Router>

Router}

100. From what level can all other command modes be accessed?

User Exec level

Console Exec level

Privilege Exec level

Global Configuration level

101. From what mode is the banner motd command used in?

User Exec

Privileged Exec

Global configuration mode

Router configuration mode

102. What command is used to restrict access to the Privileged Exec mode?

Password

Enable password

Console password

Virtual terminal password

103. What command interface configuration command is used to activate an interface?

Enable int

Interface up

No shutdown

Enable interface

104. To view the current configuration of a router, what command is used from privileged exec mode?

Show running

Show router

Show config

Show nvram

105. What command is used to change the bootup values within ROM monitor mode?

Config

Confreg

Enable config

Enable confreg

106. What filters network traffic by controlling whether routed packets are forwarded or blocked at a router's interface?

Password filters

User passwords

Router protocols

Access control lists

107. What do all access lists end with?

Router name

Implicit deny

Network subnet mask

Network Internet Protocol address

108. Router access lists must be applied to

Ports

Switches

Interfaces

Proxy servers

109. What does a standard access list use to filter packets?

Destination Internet Protocol address

Source Internet Protocol address

Application port number

Routing protocols

110. What is the range of numbers that represent standard access lists?

1-40

1-99

50-99

100-199

111. What of server is set aside to perform a specific task or function all of the time?

File server

Network server

Dedicated server

Nondedicated server

112. What network type normally utilizes non-dedicated servers?

Peer-to-peer

Single-server

Multi-server

Multi-server high-speed backbone

113. What is required due to the differences between the physical speed of the print device and the processing speed of the workstation generating the print job?

File server

Print queues

Timing devices

Multi processor servers

114. What frees the computer's attention so the user can continue working while waiting for a document to print?

Print queues

Timing devices

Print spooling

Print holding folders

115. What type of server is a bundle of application software designed to significantly improve network efficiency and productivity?

Application

Domain Name System

Network Management System

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

116. What two types of environments are network operating systems implemented upon?

Peer-to-peer and multi server

Single-server and multi-server

Client-server and multi server

Peer-to-peer and client server

117. Within the Windows environment, what is the central repository for the entire software and hardware configuration settings in a computer running the Windows based NT operating system?

Registry

Systems32

WINNT/dev directory

WINNT/config directory

118. What is a set of keys, subkeys, and values from the registry stored in its own file location called?

Cave

Hive

Domain cave

Client hive

119. Data in which root-key determins which device drivers and services will load during the boot process?

HKEY_USERS

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG

120. What is a set of statistical measurements made over a period of time that characterizes network performance?

Performance reference

Comparative reference

Benchmark

Baseline

121. What is a detailed analysis of the performance of a specific application or a specific network element?

Performance reference

Comparative reference

Benchmark

Baseline

122. What network performance criteria is the most significant statistic to be collected and calculated?

Network availability

Percentage utilization

Traffic congestion

Data Throughput

123. The measurement of traffic volume actually being carried by the network, typically expressed in kilobytes per second is

Network response time

Percentage utilization

Traffic congestion

Data throughput

124. What type of mask is used within a network that uses the same amount of bits for masking for all subnetworks?

Subnet

Standard

Abbreviated

Variable length subnet

Quiz About Air Force

1. What Air Force instruction series covers communications and information?

2.

What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

2. What Air Force publication establishes policy on how C4 systems are acquired, operated, and maintained?

3. What Air Force publication identifies responsibilities for supporting critical Air Force communications and information networks, primarily through network control centers?

4. What Air Force publication provides the policy and procedures for certifying network professionals who manage and operate government-provided information systems on Air Force networks?

5. What organization does communication and information services entering and exiting the base or site fall under the operational control of?

6. What function within the Network Control Center provides technical assistance to the unit functional system administrators and workgroup managers?

7. Whose network area of responsibility starts at the user's terminal and ends at the server, but does not include the network backbone infrastructure components?

8. What Air Force Instruction sets the policies that unit client support administrators must comply with?

9. What Network Control Center function responds to detected security incidents, network faults (errors), and user reported outages at the time of help desk referral?

10. What Network Control Center function is the central point of contact for network distribution and maintenance/update of an Air Force Computer Emergency Response Team and automated systems security and antivirus software?

11. Performance management can be broken into which two separate functional categories?

12. To determine the level of network service provided to the users, you will make a measurement of the total response time

13. What Network Control Center function increases network reliability by giving the network manager tools to detect problems and initiate recovery procedures?

14. What does Network Security work to ensure about a network?

15. Which of the following are jobs performed by a help desk technician on a daily basis?

16. Within the Network Control Center, what function is initially responsible for taking trouble calls, deciding what type of problem has occurred, and what to do about the problem?

17. What is one of the most important communications skills you can develop as a help desk operator?

18. What software is used to open trouble tickets for customer trouble calls?

19. What is a set of subnetsthat are connected with routers?

20. What is a set of systems/nodes on a local segment that can be off a switch or a router?

21. What type of network environments consist of computer systems from different vendors that run different operating systems and communication protocols?

22. What type of network is made up of components from the same vendor or compatible equipment that all run under the same operating system or network operating system?

23. What type of communications network serves users within a confined geographical area?

24. What type of communications network links geographically dispersed offices in other cities or around the globe?

25. How many users are in a peer-to-peer network?

26. How many users are in a single-server network?

27. How many users are in a multi-server high-speed backbone network?

28. In most cases, the frequencies used by wireless networks are in what frequency band?

29. What is the distorting and/or weakening of a signal as it traverses the media called?

30. What is a measurement of data transferred through the medium between network connections?

31. What is a form of communication that transmits information as a serial stream of bits or bytes?

32. Which of the following categories of twisted-pair cable has the highest throughput?

33. A fiber optic network uses a laser or light-emitting diode to send a signal through what portion of the cable?

34. Light signals in fibe optic cables can travel distances in excess of how many miles before they need to be boosted?

35. What type of optic fiber is used to span extremely long distances?

36. What type of optic fiber is designed for the local area network environment and light is typically generated with a light emitting diode?

37. What are the principal advantages of fiber optics with present day transmission technology?

38. What network topology consists of a single central cable to which all computers and other devices connect?

39. What is the greatest risk to a bus network?

40. On what network topology, can multiple transmit frames can co-exist?

41. What is the major Department of Defense contribution to networking?

42. What is a set of rules that define how communications are to take place in a network, including the format, timing, sequences, and error checking and correction?

43. What layer of the Open Systems Interconnection reference model is really a set of rules regarding the hardware used to transmit data?

44. What layer of the Open Systems Interconnection reference model provides the grammar by which machines converse with each other and serves as a vehicle for information transmission?

45. What layer of the Open Systems Interconnection reference model prevents a fast computer from overwhelming a slow terminal?

46. A feature which involves the periodic insertion of points into data from which any recovery necessary can be started is known as what?

47. Which layer of the Open Systems Interconnections model is concerned with network security, file transfers, and formatting functions?

48. The IEEE 802.3 standard describes a local area network using what kind of topology?

49. What protocol is used by the IEEE 802.3 standard to avoid collisions on the network?

50. What does a station specifically send when it sends a general request through the network asking any station to respond to receive the token?

51. The IEEE 802.5 standard was developed to cover what local area network topology?

52. Why can a token ring network cover a greater distance than a token bus network without loss of signal?

53. What X series protocol is a Message Handling System (MHS) standard, that defines the structure of a store-and-forward e-mail message handling system?

54. This question was taken out.

55. Which protocol of Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol provides a connectionless datagram "network access" layer?

56. Which protocol of Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol is a connection oriented, reliable, host-to-host transport protocol?

57. What makes it possible for implementers to produce new Network File System systems without having to reconstruct their own system's internal data representation formats to suit Network File System?

58. As information passes down through the protocol layers, what is the packet that is formed called?

59. What is the only layer in the Open Systems Interconnection reference model that simply transmits the completed frame?

60. What layer in the Open Systems Interconnection reference model adds a trailer to the packet?

61. In the Ethernet environment, what is the minimum number of octets in a frame so it can be sent and received?

62. What is used to identify network nodes on a physically connected network?

63. What is the binary equivalent to the dotted decimal number 96?

64. How many octets is the standard Internet Protocol broken down into?

65. What communications device converts binary electrical signals into acoustic signals for transmission over telephone lines?

66. What communications device is used for converting analog signals to digital for transmission on digital lines?

67. What Network Interface Card module drives the signal onto and from the physical medium?

68. What Network Interface Card module converts information into a coded data stream?

69. What Network Interface Card module temporarily holds data for processing to or from the network?

70. What network component serves as a central connecting point and is used to extend the physical media by repeating the signal it receives in one port out to all the other ports indiscriminately?

71. What type of hub has special capabilites for configurations and or management?

72. What network condition usually begins slowly and (if not stopped) gradually grows in severity until all traffic flow on the network is effectively stopped?

73. What is a group of devices connected to the same physical media such that if two devices access the media at the same time, the result is a collision of the two signals?

74. The purpose of a network repeater is that is?

75. What is a local area network connection device with two or more ports that forwards frames from one LAN segment to another?

76. What are the four basic functions of a bridge?

77. Bridging loops are created when