Networking Exam Study Guide – Fall 2023
20 short answer questions. You will have roughly 75 minutes to complete 20 questions. This gives you
about 3.75 minutes per question. Each question is worth a maximum of 7.5 points. I will give partial
credit for partial correctness. All questions are chosen from material covered in the course content and
reinforced in class. You will most likely get an “A” if you have mastered the following concepts and
terminology.
• NIC
• OSI layers
• IPv4 vs IPv6
• Computer Networks
• MAC Addresses / IP Addresses
• TCP vs UDP
• Switches and Hubs
• Access points
• Default gateways
• TCP three-way handshake
• DHCP
• Dotted decimal notation to binary conversion
• Binary to dotted decimal conversion
• The DNS process
• TCP/IP ports
• ARP Protocol
• Subnet masks
• IP Classes
• CIDR Notation
• Ethernet and Fiber Optic Cables
