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Wireless ___________  __________ (WAP). This device often also acts as a router, firewall, and IP proxy. It allows for the connectivity of various wireless devices.

 ___________________cable. This is the most common type of patch cable, and is the type that you would use to connect a computer to a central connecting device like a switch. 

A testing device known as a ____________  __________________, which tests all of the pins of a connection one by one.

Which of the following devices are classified as modems, which connects to the Internet? (Choose two.)

An x_____________  __________________   is a collection of networks or subnets that are in the same administrative domain. 

Network ______________  _______________ (NIC) is installed in your computer to connect, or interface, your computer to the network. It provides the physical, electrical, and electronic connections to the network.

What would happen if you wanted to take one network address range and create six networks from it? You would have to do something called ________________, because that’s what allows you to take one larger network and break it into a bunch of smaller networks.

______________  _______________ Configuration Protocol (DHCP) assigns IP addresses to hosts with information provided by a server. It allows easier administration and works well in small to even very large network environments.

Port numbers are used at the Transport layer to identify the local host in this example. If we had to use IP addresses to identify the source hosts, that would be called ____________  ____, and we would run out of addresses. 

DNS is used to resolve a __________  _____________ domain name (FQDN)—for example, www.lammle.com or todd.lammle.com—to an IP address. An FQDN, or DNS namespace, is a hierarchy that can logically locate a system based on its domain identifier.