CWNA Guide to Wireless LANs, Third edition

Mark Ciampa
Solutions – Chapter 2

Review Questions
1. Each of the following is an advantage of standards except

A. interoperability

B. protection

C. more competition

D. increased costs

2. Standards that set by an official body are called

A. de jure

B. de facto

C. de rigueur

D. de consortia

3. The current IEEE WLAN standard is

A. IEEE 802.11h

B. IEEE 802.11-2009

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 C. OSI/IEEE 802.1x

D. IEEE PHY 2008-802.11

4. IEEE 802.11 specified that either radio frequency waves or _____ could be used

in a WLAN.

A. circuit packet transfer (CPT)

B. low-frequency emission signals (LFES)

C. ultraviolet light

D. infrared light

5. A(n) _____ transmission requires that the emitter and detector be directly aimed

at one another.

A. reflected

B. diffused

C. directed

D. indirected

6. Each of the following is a data rate of IEEE 802.11b except

A. 54 Mbps

B. 1 Mbps

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 C. 5.5 Mbps

D. 11 Mbps

7. A mobile wireless device is official known as a(n)

A. Mobile Transfer Detector (MTD)

B. port

C. module

D. station

8. What happens when a mobile wireless devices moves away from the transmitter

in a WLAN?

A. nothing; the maximum data rates remain the same no matter how far away the

device is located

B. the connection is dropped after the device moves away more than 10 feet (30

meters)

C. all authentications must be renegotiated every 3 feet (9 meters)

D. the device decreases its data rates to the next lower acceptable data level

9. _____ is the theoretical maximum rated speed of a network.

A. data rate

B. throughput
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 C. bit/byte rate

D. Packet Calculation Level (PCL)

10. What is the maximum data speed of an IEEE 802.11a WLAN?

A. 48 Mbps

B. 64 Mbps

C. 68 Mbps

D. 54 Mbps

11. An IEEE 802.11g network can transmit at the same maximum speed as

A. IEEE 802.11b

B. IEEE 802.11a

C. IEEE 802.11r

D. IEEE 802.11x

12. Each of the following is an improvement of IEEE 802.11n over previous WLAN

standards except

A. speed

B. security

C. coverage area

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 D. form factor

13. _____ is a 32-bit bus in the PC Card form factor

A. Type IV

B. PCCMIA

C. EDO

D. CardBus

14. _____ is a combination of an SD card and an input/output (I/O) device such as a

wireless NIC.

A. Secure Digital Input Output (SDIO)

B. CF-PCA

C. NIC-CIA

D. ExpressCard

15. Which of the following would not be found on a laptop computer?

A. Mini-PCMCIA

B. Mini-PCI

C. Mini-PCI-e

D. Type II slot

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 16. An access point consists of each of the following except

A. an antenna and a radio transmitter/receiver to send and receive wireless

signals

B. special bridging software to interface wireless devices to other devices

C. a wired network interface that allows it to connect by cable to a standard

wired network

D. an infrared transmitter/emitter

17. A(n) _____ does not contain the management and configuration functions

A. lightweight access point

B. fat access point

C. autonomous access point

D. switch access point

18. A(n) _____ does not have to be individually connected by a cable to the existing

wired network but instead each device communicates wirelessly with the next

closest one.

A. backhaul access point

B. thin access point

C. fat access point

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 D. mesh access point

19. A wireless workgroup bridge is used to connect

A. a wired network segment with a wireless network segment

B. a wireless network segment with another wireless network segment

C. a gateway and a bridge

D. a router and a switch

E. mirror slack

20. A(n) _____ provides encryption and authentication services for a wireless

network and resides between the wireless network and the wired network to serve

as the entry point to the wired network.

A. remote authentication server

B. access point

C. mesh hub router

D. Enterprise Encryption Gateway (EEG)

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