You are installing networking wiring for a new ethernet network at your company's main office building. the project specifications call for category 5 utp network cabling and rj-45 wall jacks. near the end of the project, you run out of wire before the last few runs are complete. you have a spool of category 3 network cable in storage. upon investigation, it appears very similar to category 5 wiring.

should you substitute category 3 cabling for category 5 cabling to finish the project?

Your boss wants you to configure his laptop so that he can access the company network when he is on the road. you suggest a vpn connection to him. he is very concerned about security and asks you how secure vpn is. what do you tell him?

Data is processed, stored, and transmitted as a series of 1s and 0s. each 1 or 0 is called a(n) . a series of eight 0s and 1s, called a(n) , represents one character—a letter, number, or punctuation mark. data becomes when it is presented in a format that people can understand and use. digital signals are represented by two different , such as +5 volts and +.2 volts. digital data can also take the form of light and dark spots etched onto the surface of a cd or the positive and negative orientation of particles on the surface of a hard disk. data consists of numbers that might be used in arithmetic operations. it can be represented digitally using the number system. data is composed of letters, symbols, and numerals that are not used in arithmetic operations. computers represent this type of data using , ebcdic, unicode, or utf-8. data is quantified using terms such as or kibibyte (1024 bytes), and prefixes such as or mebi (1,048,576), and giga or (1,073,741,824). to reduce file size and transmission times, digital data can be compressed. compression provides the means to compress data and reconstitute it into its original state. compression throws away some of the original data during the compression process. compressed files usually have at the end of the file name and are represented with special icons. these files have to be or unzipped before you can view the data they contain.

What are procedures that keep a data base current