Chapter 1

[Link] is the range of transmission for a WPAN?

10 feet
[Link] what rate is the number of wireless hostpots increasing each year?
350%
[Link] of the following technologies came first chronologically?
leased transmission lines
4.A Bluetooth network that contains one master and at least one slave device forms a ____.
piconet
[Link] an organization’s data processing center becomes inoperable, it can move all data processing
operations to a ____, often within an hour.
Hot site
6____ give team-based workers the ability to access the network resources that they need while
collaborating in a team environment.
WLANs
[Link] is the maximum transmission distance for FSO?
4 miles
[Link] must a WiMax transmitter be located?
on the roof of a building
9Why is a WLAN less expensive for business than a wired LAN?
no need to tunnel through walls and ceilings to install cable
[Link] ____ technology has a transmission distance of up to 10 meters.
Bluetooth
11.A WAP cell phone runs a tiny browser program called a microbrowser that uses Wireless Markup
Language (WML) instead of HTML.
True
[Link] increasingly ____ workforce is one characteristic of today’s business world.
mobile
13.A large amount of equipment is required to create a wireless LAN.
False
14What aspect of RF may produce biological damage?
heating effects
15How many millions of bits per second can be transmitted in a Wi-Fi network?
11
[Link] employee who purchases an access point and secretly brings it into the office in order to provide
personal wireless access has installed what is known as a ____ access point.
rogue
[Link] a Web server sends a Web page back to a PC, it is only sending HTML code; the ____ is
responsible for interpreting that code and displaying the results on the screen.
Web browser
[Link] sector of the economy has adopted wireless technology most completely?
travel
[Link] a wireless network, the ____ acts as a base station to receive the signals and transmit signals back
to the wireless network interface cards in the other wireless devices.
access point
20.A cold site is a fully functional office space generally run by a commercial disaster recovery service
that allows a business to continue computer and network operations to maintain business continuity.
False
[Link] airlines use WLAN technology to communicate with the aircraft once it has parked or is taxiing
on the ground.
True
22.____ is a low-power wireless data and voice transmission technology.
Bluetooth
[Link] can a RFID tag be read?
anywhere within the range of a transmitted radio signal
[Link] type of device is used for communication in a fixed broadband wireless network?
antenna
[Link] is well documented that high levels of RF can produce biological damage.
True

Chapter 2

[Link] is another name for a NIC?

client network adapter
[Link] Windows has become the ____ standard operating system today for personal desktop
computers and network servers.
de facto
[Link] type of remote wireless bridge connection is used to connect multiple LAN segments together?
point-to-multipoint
[Link] does an access point receive electrical power if it is mounted in a location that is not close to an
electrical outlet?
through the unused wires in a standard unshielded twisted pair (UTP) Ethernet cable
[Link], who regulates standards that are developed by consortia?
the marketplace
[Link] facto standards are not actually standards at all.
True
[Link] is the name for the computer network architecture standards developed by the IEEE?
Project 802
[Link] a remote wireless bridge is in repeater mode it functions as a standard AP only and does not
communicate with other remote wireless bridges.
False
[Link] cards consist of a small circuit board that contains flash memory chips and a dedicated controller
chip.
True
[Link] one type of wireless NIC is available for laptop computers.
False
[Link] 802.11b standard can support wireless devices that are up to ____ meters apart.
115
[Link] bridges have what is known as ____ that minimizes the spread of the signal so that it can reach
farther distances.
delay spread
13.A device called a ____ must sometimes be attached to a PDA in order to establish a wireless
connection. The device contains a slot for a wireless NIC or similar device.
sled
[Link] industry experts recommend one access point for no more than ____ users if they are
performing basic e-mail, light Web surfing, and occasionally transferring medium-sized files.
50
[Link] IEEE 802.11g draft was a compromise based on input from several different chip
(microprocessor) manufacturers, who had a major stake in the outcome.
True
[Link] function is performed by a wireless gateway?
Authentication, Encryption, and bandwidth management
[Link] IEEE 802.11 standard outlines the use of ____ transmissions for WLANs.
diffused infrared
[Link] a remote wireless bridge is set to ____, it can only transmit to another bridge in root mode.
non-root mode
[Link] is a disadvantage of standards?
they can open domestic markets in larger countries to overseas competition
[Link] with Windows ____, all Microsoft desktop operating systems recognize a wireless NIC
without the need for any external software drivers.
XP
[Link] radio frequency spectrum is divided into ____ different sections or bands.
450
[Link] a business is registered as a ____ they are qualified be placed in an online database of wireless
hotspot locations.
Wi-Fi Zone
[Link] IEEE committee establishes standards for wireless wide area networks?
802.16
[Link] of the following statements describes the difference between a CF wireless NIC and a PC card?
PC card is larger than CF
25.A(n) ____ card improves input/output speed over a PC Card by increasing the bus width to 32 bits yet
still supports lower-voltage PC Cards.
CardBus

Chapter 3

[Link] of the following units is used to measure frequency?

hertz
[Link] type of RF loss is caused by the equipment transmitting the signal?
Voltage Standing Wave Ratio
[Link] of the following types of wave is imperceptible?
radio
4.____ polarization is typically used in wireless LANs with the dual antennas of access points pointing
upward.
Vertical
5.A basic rule of thumb is that each 6 dB increase in EIRP results in a quadrupling of the transmission
range (distance from the antenna), and a 6 dB reduction in EIRP translates into reducing the range by
four.
False
[Link] a wireless transmission data travels on invisible radio waves.
True
[Link] digital modulation technique is similar to frequency modulation?
frequency shift keying
8.A ____ dipole antenna produces a flatter signal than a standard dipole antenna.
high-gain
[Link] maximum EIRP for IEEE 802.11b WLANs is ____ mW.
100
10.____ antennas are used for long distance, point-to-point wireless links, such as connecting buildings
that are up to 42 kilometers (25 miles) apart.
Highly-directional
11.____ can occur intentionally from an external power source that amplifies the signal, or
unintentionally when an RF signal bounces off an object and combines with the original signal to amplify
it.
Gain
[Link] a digital signal needs to be transmitted over an analog medium, such as when a computer
needs to send digital signals over an analog telephone line or TV cable, a device known as a(n) ____ is
used.
modem
[Link] an RF signal moves from one medium to another of a different density the signal actually
bends instead of traveling in a straight line. This is known as ____.
refraction
[Link] length of an antenna should be about ____ the wavelength.
1/4
[Link]-directional antennas are generally concave dish-shaped devices.
True
[Link] of the following is an electromagnetic wave?
Light, Heat, and Radio
[Link] is the free space loss (in dB) for IEEE 802.11b and 802.11g WLANs when the distance in meters
is 100?
80
[Link] a wave completes its trip and returns back to the starting point it has finished two cycles.
False
19.____ modulation changes the number of waves representing one cycle.
Frequency
[Link] uses three types of modulation. The video portion uses ____.
AM
[Link] is a problem with measuring RF loss using a linear scale?
it does not reveal what the loss is in relation to the whole
[Link] ASK 1 bit has a carrier signal (positive voltage) while a 0 bit has no signal (zero voltage).
True
[Link] waves travel freely through space in all directions at the speed of light, or
approximately ____ per second.
186,000 miles
24.A loss of 10 decibels means that ____ percent of the power has been lost in mW.
90
[Link] term ____ describes the rate of electrical flow.
Current

Chapter 4

[Link] the speed of the WLAN will cause shorter delays in waiting for reflections.
False
[Link] using the Shared Wireless Access Protocol, devices can be as far as 45 meters (150 feet) apart
and can send and receive data at rates up to ____ Mbps.
10
[Link] FHSS, the amount of time needed to move from one frequency to another is the ____ time.
hop
[Link] does OFDM work?
signals are broken up and the parts are sent in parallel
[Link] value of layers in the OSI reference model is that it divides networking into a series of tasks, and
then illustrates how those tasks relate to each other.
True
[Link] 802.11b standard specifies ____ frequencies that can be used, beginning at 2.412 GHz.
14
[Link] ____ field of an 802.11a frame consists of 10 repetitions of a short training sequence signal and
two repetitions of a long training sequence signal.
Synchronization
[Link] layer of the OSI reference model permits the devices on the network to hold ongoing
communications across the network?
session
[Link] uses a bit pattern called a ____ code.
chipping
[Link] has divided the ____ layer into two sublayers: Logical Link Control (LLC) and Media Access
Control (MAC).
Data Link
[Link] techniques are used by vendors to achieve 2x mode for transmissions?
Combine two frequency channels, use different coding rate schemes and reallocating the individual
carriers.
[Link] divides the 2.4 GHz frequency into ____ different frequencies spaced 1 GHz apart.
79
[Link] is the top layer of the OSI reference model?
application
14.____ signals by nature transmit on only one frequency or a very narrow portion of the frequencies.
Radio
[Link] a device must wait to transmit until it receives the last reflected signal, this in effect puts a
ceiling limit on the overall speed of the WLAN. What is the current ceiling for WLAN speed?
between 10 and 20 Mbps
[Link] the 52 subchannels, 32 are used for standard transmissions and 20 are used for FEC transmissions.
False
[Link] was the concept used by FHSS technology developed?
during World War II
[Link] which layers are WLAN features isolated by IEEE standards?
PHY and MAC
[Link] system is preferred for 802.11b WLANs?
DSSS
[Link] to FCC regulations, all FHSS systems in the 900 MHz band must change frequencies
through 50 channels and cannot spend more than ____ on one frequency each 20 seconds.
400 milliseconds
[Link] ____ coding technique consists of a set of 64 8-bit code words.
complementary code keying
[Link] is a disadvantage of narrowband transmissions?
interference from another radio signal
[Link] transmitting with FHSS, if interference is encountered on a particular frequency then that part
of the signal will be retransmitted on the previous frequency of the hopping code.
False
[Link] wireless technology has advanced at such a rapid pace, the earliest WLANs are now
essentially obsolete.
True
[Link] Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) standards for 802.11b are based on ____.
DSSS