Cabling Installation and Maintenance: Testing Jeopardy Contest
Cabling Jeopardy - Testing

Testing Jeopardy

March 2010

Think you know all there is to know about testing? JDSU challenges you to match wits with this month's Testing Jeopardy contest.

Each month, Cabling Installation & Maintenance will draw one lucky Testing expert at random from all the correct answers received, who will win a prize courtesy of JDSU. This month's prize is a $200 gas card.

View the complete rules of Cabling Jeopardy.

   
Testing Jeopardy - March 2010

1. What does Ping measure?

 
 a. Network throughput
 b. Round trip delay and lost packets

  

2. Viewing the advertised speed and duplex of an Ethernet port can help identify which potential condition?

 
 a. Duplex mis-matches
 b. Incorrect VLAN tags
 c. Duplicate IP addresses

  

3. How do you accurately measure the amount of cable remaining on a spool?

 
 a. Measure a sample length, weigh the whole spool, and calculate length, less actual weight of spool
 b. Conduct a capacitance to open test (single-ended) and calculate length based upon standard unit capacitance values for the cable
 c. With access to both ends of the cable, measure resistance and calculate length based upon wire gauge
 d. All of the above

  

4. What does LLDP stand for in network discovery that supersedes proprietary protocols such as Cisco Discovery Protocol, Extreme Discovery Protocol, and Nortel Discovery Protocol?

 
 a. Linked Loop Discovery Protocol
 b. Least Lump-sum Discovery Protocol
 c. Link Layer Discovery Protocol

  
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