__________ refers to the network command for how to format the conversation between two devices.

• Addressing

• Protocol

• Media

• Domain

The network equipment used for the transmission of data are simply specialized computers that are designed for the acceptance, storage, and __________ of data signals.

• understanding

• structuring

• retransmission

• reforming

__________ are considered the “traffic cops” for the flow of information inside and outside of the network, and to accomplish this have signaling rules called “protocols” on what to do for network failure for the rerouting of traffic.

• Routers

• Hubs

• Gateways

• Switches

The flow of traffic is from a user’s client computer, to a __________, to a __________, and then out to the Internet or to a local data center to access the services needed.

• switch, router

• router, gateway

• router, switch

• switch, hub

The OSI and TCP/IP models structure the __________ used for signaling and the separation of function in a network.

• addressing

• media

• domain

• protocol

The security professional’s interest in __________ lies in defining the points that allow access for investigation, interruption, and attacks

• network structures

• network devices

• network traffics

• network segmentation

The __________, known as “Layer 2,” contains the broad start and stop signaling used to alert the switches to the beginning and ending of a transmission of data.

• physical layer

• application layer

• transport layer

• network layer

The term MAC or __________ is the method for defining the data to be moved on a switch’s forwarding from one switch port to another until it reaches the destination computer or router for further forwarding.

• machine access control

• media address control

• media access control

• machine address control

In the __________, the network interface card’s MAC address is used to create a one-to-one relation to a logical address called the Internet Protocol Address, or more simply the “IP address.”

• physical layer

• application layer

• transport layer

• network layer

The final network division is that of the __________ and is correlated with the various processes and services a server/computer provides to other computers.

• physical layer

• application layer

• transport layer

• network layer