Quiz: Got cabling?

By taking this quiz, you'll not only sharpen your networking shorthand skills, you'll be up-to-date on important cabling news if you read the articles. Good luck!

1. Who is SearchDataCenter's networking expert?
   Your answer:
   

   See answer

2. In electronic communication, ____________ is the width of the range (or band) of frequencies that an electronic signal uses on a given transmission medium.
   Your answer:
   

   See answer

3. The shorthand for STP cabling.
   Your answer:
   

   See answer
   
   

4. The shorthand for fiber optic cabling.
   Your answer:
   

   See answer
   

   
   

5. The cable category required for 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
   Your answer:
   

   See answer

6. Do you read our newsletters? Okay, complete this tip headline: "Is your cabling ruining your _________?"
   Your answer:
   

   See answer

7. ____________ is electromagnetic noise that can occur in a cable that runs alongside one or more other signal-carrying cables. The term "------" arises from the fact that this form of ------ occurs between different cables in a group or bundle, rather than between individual wires or circuits within a single cable.
   Your answer:
   

   See answer

8. Another one for our faithful newsletter readers: "Charming the cable _______"
   Your answer:
   

   See answer

9. The most common kind of copper telephone wiring.
   Your answer:
   

   See answer

10. What does LCC stand for?
    Your answer:
    

    See answer

    
    
    
    
How'd you do? What'd you think of the quiz? E-mail us and let us know!





Digg This!     StumbleUpon     Del.icio.us





RELATED CONTENT Data center networking Cisco sprouts green data center initiative Cisco pushes for InfiniBand in the data center Get to know your data center with CMDB Fast Reference: Cabling Two departments, one budget Your guide to network cabling technology (Or: Everything you want to know about cabling but were afraid to ask) Network management on the cheap Data center networking Research Data center network cabling Data center managers' holiday wish lists Data center cable labeling standard 606a ain't all that Cisco and QLogic execs mull IDC's InfiniBand forecast Cable remediation in the data center HP BladeSystem option simplifies server provisioning How to determine data center cabling requirements Calculating costs of data center cabling infrastructure Overheating servers Best practices: A guide to cable management Intelligent data center cabling and Sarbanes-Oxley Data center network cabling Research

RELATED GLOSSARY TERMS Terms from Whatis.com − the technology online dictionary channel extender  (SearchDataCenter.com) ESCON  (SearchDataCenter.com) Systems Network Architecture  (SearchDataCenter.com)

RELATED RESOURCES 2020software.com, trial software downloads for accounting software, ERP software, CRM software and business software systems Search Bitpipe.com for the latest white papers and business webcasts Whatis.com, the online computer dictionary