Basic Wi-Fi MCQ

1. What is the radio spectrum used by 802.11g?

Answer

Correct Answer: 2.4 GHz

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2. Which of the following devices is used to decrease the strength of the RF signal intentionally?

Answer

Correct Answer: Attenuators

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3. Which of the following are major WLAN security standards?

Answer

Correct Answer: None of the above

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4. What is the maximum dwell time that can be set for FHSS systems according to FCC specification?

Answer

Correct Answer: 400 ms

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5. What is the maximum speed of IEEE 802.11g?

Answer

Correct Answer: Up to 54 Mbps

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6. What is the full form of Wi-Fi?

Answer

Correct Answer: Wireless Fidelity

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7. Which of the following Service Sets in the infrastructure mode uses a single AP to create the wireless LAN?

Answer

Correct Answer: Basic Service Set

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8. What is the radio spectrum used by 802.11a?

Answer

Correct Answer: 5 GHz

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9. Which of the following allows roaming and a larger coverage area?

Answer

Correct Answer: Extended Service Set

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10. Which type of modulation is used by 802.11 products when they transmit data using FHSS?

Answer

Correct Answer: GFSK

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11. Which of the following calculations measures the WLAN signal as compared to the undesirable signals in the same space?

Answer

Correct Answer: Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR)

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12. What is the standard hopping rate (per second) for HomeRF?

Answer

Correct Answer: 50 hops

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13. Which of the following spread spectrum technologies is more likely to be affected by narrow band interference?

Answer

Correct Answer: DSSS

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14. What is the maximum speed of data transfer that can be achieved by 802.11n?

Answer

Correct Answer: 600 Mbps

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15. Which type of antennas are best suited for indoor environments such as university campuses?

Answer

Correct Answer: Sectorized antennas

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16. Which of the following types of WLAN client devices can you install on your desktop?

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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17. The reflection of the main RF signal caused by many objects in the transmission is known as

Answer

Correct Answer: Multipath

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18.

State whether true or false.

Ad hoc mode cannot be used in a Basic Service Set.

Answer

Correct Answer:

True 


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19. Which of the following are types of RF connectors?

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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20. Which of the following types of tools can be used to reduce attacks on a WLAN?

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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21. Which of the following types of links can you create when you create site-to-site links?

Answer

Correct Answer: Point-to-Point Links
Point-to-Multipoint Links

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22. What is the maximum number of APs supported by DSSS systems in a co-located environment?

Answer

Correct Answer: 3

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23. Which of the following is used to provide intentional passive gain in wireless networks that are using RF signals?

Answer

Correct Answer: Antenna

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24. Which of the following is/are the category/ categories of encoding for WLAN?

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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25. What is the maximum obstruction allowable in the Fresnel zone?

Answer

Correct Answer: 40 %

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26. Which of the following are the primary roles that WLANs play in today

Answer

Correct Answer: Access role
Core role

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27. In radio links, the bulge of the earth needs to be considered only when the distance between two locations is more than ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: 7 miles

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28. Which type of Ethernet cable is used to connect a WLAN AP with a LAN switch?

Answer

Correct Answer: Straight-through cable

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29. Which one of the following WEP authentication methods specified by IEEE 802.11 standard is simpler and more secure?

Answer

Correct Answer: Open System Authentication

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30. Which of the following can be used in the AAA security services?

Answer

Correct Answer: Passwords
Digital Certificates
IP address filtering
Tunneling

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31. Which of the following statements is/are true when an access point is operating in the DCF mode?

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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32. Which of the following classes of encoding for WLAN is used by 802.11a and 802.11g?

Answer

Correct Answer: OFDM

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33. Which of the following is/are true of SSID?

Answer

Correct Answer: It is case sensitive
Its length is between 2-32 characters

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34. What is the full form of WPA?

Answer

Correct Answer: Wi-Fi Protected Access

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35. Which of the following things can interfere with the 802.1b compliant Access Point?

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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36. Which of the following types of antennas is ideal for long distance and point-to-point wireless links?

Answer

Correct Answer: Parabolic Dish

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37. Which of the following regulates the power output levels of radio frequency devices that use the license-free bands?

Answer

Correct Answer: FCC

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38. What is the duration/ID value (in microseconds) if the data frame is a multicast address?

Answer

Correct Answer: 0

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39. What are Wi-Fi standard and its variations collectively known as?

Answer

Correct Answer: IEEE 802.11

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40. What is the full form of SSID?

Answer

Correct Answer: Service Set Identifier

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41. Which of the following encryption methods are used in Wi-Fi?

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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42. Which of the following is the correct sequence of 4 way handshake?

Answer

Correct Answer: Request to send, Clear to send, Data, Acknowledgement packet

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43. Which of the following formulas can be used to calculate the wavelength in meters when the frequency is known where 'w' is the wavelength to be calculated and 'f' is the frequency in hertz?

Answer

Correct Answer: w = 299,792,458 / f

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44. What are the other names for the Wi-Fi broadcast device?

Answer

Correct Answer: Router

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45. What is the full form of WEP?

Answer

Correct Answer: Wired Equivalent Privacy

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46. Which of the following is used by DSSS and FHSS for time synchronization and channel information?

Answer

Correct Answer: Beacon Frames

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47. Which of the following frequency bands is specified for indoor-only usage?

Answer

Correct Answer: 5.15 - 5.35 GHz

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48. What is the full form of BSA?

Answer

Correct Answer: Basic Service Area

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49. What is the full form of IEEE?

Answer

Correct Answer: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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50.

Which of the following is a more secure method for data transfer using encryption techniques?


Answer

Correct Answer:

WPA2 


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51. In which mode wireless devices cannot communicate directly with each other instead they use AP to forward frames to each other?

Answer

Correct Answer: Infrastructure mode

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52. In which mode does one wireless device communicate with another wireless device directly without using AP?

Answer

Correct Answer: Ad hoc mode

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53. How many U-NII license-free bands exist in the 5 GHz frequency range?

Answer

Correct Answer: 4

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54. A decrease in RF signal strength is known as _____.

Answer

Correct Answer: attenuation

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55.

State whether true or false .

The WLAN devices can send data successfully if the SNR is low.

Answer

Correct Answer:

False 


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56. How many power modes are specified for 802.11b standard?

Answer

Correct Answer: 2

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57. How many non-overlapping channels does IEEE 802.11a standard support?

Answer

Correct Answer: 23

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58. At which layer of the OSI model do most of the wireless APs operate?

Answer

Correct Answer: Layer 2

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59. How many hertz is one Gigahertz (GHz) equal to?

Answer

Correct Answer: 1,000,000,000 hertz

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60. Which of the following modulation is used by Wifi?

Answer

Correct Answer: adaptive

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61. Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities are incorporated in Wifi with the adoption of:

Answer

Correct Answer: IEEE 802.11e standard

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62. What is the fixed bandwidth defined by Wifi standard for 802.11b?

Answer

Correct Answer: 25MHz

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63. IEEE 802.11 includes the specifications for WLAN technologies that make use of radio waves and what other kind of electromagnetic radiation?

Answer

Correct Answer: infrared

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64. Which of the following keys is commonly used on wireless computer networks to increase their security?

Answer

Correct Answer: wireless

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65. What is the fixed bandwidth defined by Wifi standard for 802.11g?

Answer

Correct Answer: 20MHz

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66. Which of the following frequencies would have the greatest penetration of potential sources of interferences such as walls or trees?

Answer

Correct Answer: 900 MHz

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67. Which of the following is not an organization that influences the standards used for WLANs today?

Answer

Correct Answer: World IWR

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68. What is the name of a newer trend in which large mesh networks of wifi are provided over a large geographical area?

Answer

Correct Answer: Muni-wifi

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69. What does EIRP stand for?

Answer

Correct Answer: Effective (or Equivalent) Isotropic Radiated Power

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70. Wimax works on radio band:

Answer

Correct Answer: 802.16

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71. Wifi does not support roaming? True or False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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72. Which of the following is not an unlicensed ISM band?

Answer

Correct Answer: 150 MHz

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73. Which of the following is not a common modulation method used in wireless communication?

Answer

Correct Answer: CAHS

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74. An 802.11 frame may contain up to how many address fields?

Answer

Correct Answer: four

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75. Which of the following is not one of the three main tools used to decrease the security risks that accompany a WLAN?

Answer

Correct Answer: VIA protocol

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76. Which of the following is not a feature WPA2 security?

Answer

Correct Answer: Penetration Detection Service (PDS)

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77. What is the name given to individuals who search for unsecure networks in the hope of gaining free access to the internet?

Answer

Correct Answer: war drivers

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78. What is it called when some drives around looking for available provate access points?

Answer

Correct Answer: Wardriving

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79. The 2.4-GHz band is broken down into how many channels?

Answer

Correct Answer: 14

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80. A wireless network card operates at roughly what rate of power?

Answer

Correct Answer: 1 mW

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81. A typical off-the-shelf router (made by Netgear, Linksys, etc.) transmits with a power of roughly how many milliwatts?

Answer

Correct Answer: 20 to 30 mW

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82. IEEE's 802.11 provides specifications for which two facets of WLAN communication?

Answer

Correct Answer: media access control (MAC) physical layer (PHY)

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83. Which of the following refers to unauthorized tapping into another's wifi connection with a public utility?

Answer

Correct Answer: Piggybacking

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84. True or False? A WPAN will generally have a larger area of coverage than a WLAN.

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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85. Which of the following would an outdoor WLAN most likely require?

Answer

Correct Answer: attenas with a direct path for the signal

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86. Which of the following security systems was marked as "deprecated," and therefore a security risk, in 2004?

Answer

Correct Answer: WEP

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87. A decibel (dB) is a ratio determined by what two power quantities?

Answer

Correct Answer: signal and noise

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88. One technique used in attempts to crack a cipher or authentification mechanism is to try hundreds, maybe millions of possible passwords or phrases. What is this technique called?

Answer

Correct Answer: a "dictionary attack"

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89. IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN use a media access control protocol called:

Answer

Correct Answer: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection

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90. If a device that is rated at 40 milliwatts (mW) is added to a connector whose resistance reduces the power by 3 decibels (-3dB), what is most likely to be the device's power rating?

Answer

Correct Answer: 20 milliwatts (mW)

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91. IEEE 802.1X security protocol uses which three components?

Answer

Correct Answer: supplicant, authenticator, authentication server

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92. What do the letters DSSS stand for?

Answer

Correct Answer: Direct-Sequence Spread Spectrum

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93. IEEE 802.11i is also referred to as:

Answer

Correct Answer: WPA2

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94. Of the following choices, which 802.11 offers the highest potential speeds?

Answer

Correct Answer: 802.11n

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95. The strength of a Wi-Fi wireless radio signal is measured using what standard unit?

Answer

Correct Answer: decibels (dB)

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96. Antenna gain is characterized by what unit of measurement?

Answer

Correct Answer: dBi or dBd

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97. Which of the following is not one of the layers of the OSI networking model?

Answer

Correct Answer: Layer 5 - Security

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98. What is the unique identifier tied to your wireless or wired ethernet card called?

Answer

Correct Answer: Media Access Control

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99. Which of the following can be effectively used to restrict unnecessary traffic on your wireless network?

Answer

Correct Answer: Firewall

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100. Wireless keys are:

Answer

Correct Answer: hexadecimal numbers

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101. Wireless networks can operate on one of which two modes?

Answer

Correct Answer: ad hoc mode or infrastructure mode

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102. What do you call the name of a network that is broadcast by a router?

Answer

Correct Answer: SSID (service set identifier)

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103. The diameter of a hotspot area is about:

Answer

Correct Answer: 100-500 feet

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104. Some wireless routers provide QoS to help prioritize traffic. What does QoS stand for?

Answer

Correct Answer: Quality of Service

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105. Which one is the most secure?

Answer

Correct Answer: WPA2

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106. What does DNS stand for?

Answer

Correct Answer: Domain Name System

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107. Which of the following allows your computer to send and receive wireless signals to and from the internet?

Answer

Correct Answer: wireless network interface card

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108. The wavelength of an electromagnetic signal is inversely proportional to what other feature of that signal?

Answer

Correct Answer: the signal's frequency

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109. When trying to connect to a wireless network, at times it's name is hidden. What is the technical term for this wireless name?

Answer

Correct Answer: SSID

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110. Which of the following ISM bands is likely to be the most heavily populated?

Answer

Correct Answer: 2.4 GHz

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111. The radio waves of a WLAN are generated by which device?

Answer

Correct Answer: router

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112. What is the most basic difference between a WLAN and an Ethernet LAN?

Answer

Correct Answer: A WLAN uses radio waves, while a Ethernet LAN uses some form of cable.

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113. An IPaddress gets assigned to a computer by a wireless router. what performs this?

Answer

Correct Answer: DHCP

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114. The Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) security algorithm was first introduced in 1997 by what professional association?

Answer

Correct Answer: IEEE

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115. True or false? Wimax offers larger coverage areas with greater bandwidth and speeds compared to wifi.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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116. WPA2 increased the security of WPA from 128 bits to how many bits?

Answer

Correct Answer: 256 bits

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117. When you connect to a wireless network, you are assigned an IP address. What is an IP address?

Answer

Correct Answer: Internet Protocol address used to identify computers on the network

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118. Which of the following can redirect an Internet signal to multiple end users?

Answer

Correct Answer: router

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119. By using this type of wireless connection, you computer is secure from prying eyes:

Answer

Correct Answer: Encrypted

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120. What does AP stand for?

Answer

Correct Answer: access point

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121. What is the term assocaited with DHCP that allows your computer to acces other computers outside your network?

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Correct Answer: Gateway

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122. Wifi is used to connect devices to:

Answer

Correct Answer: Internet

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123. A specific location in which an end user can access the Internet wirelessly:

Answer

Correct Answer: access point

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124. True or False? The more users that share an access point, the slower a wireless network can become.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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125. What does the term WLAN refer to?

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Correct Answer: Wireless Local Area Network

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126. Which frequencies does Wifi use to transmit data?

Answer

Correct Answer: radio

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127. Which of the following devices would definitely not use WiFi?

Answer

Correct Answer: (none of these)

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128. Which of the following may cause transmission interference with a wireless sign?

Answer

Correct Answer: (all of these)

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129. What does the W in WLAN stand for?

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Correct Answer: wireless

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130. Wifi works on radio band:

Answer

Correct Answer: 802.11

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131. In many cases municipal wifi networks are being created with a combination of:

Answer

Correct Answer: wimax and wifi

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132. IEEE 802.11af allows WLAN operation within what two ITU-designated radio wave frequency ranges?

Answer

Correct Answer: VHF and UHF

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133. The most common way to secure a wireless connection is to use:

Answer

Correct Answer: WEP

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