Question: Signal molecules that are water soluble ___________. Check all that apply.

Answer Options:
Are always large
Have polar or charged components
Are only able to pass through the plasma membrane by active transport
Bind to specific sites on receptor proteins in a membrane

Answer: Have polar or charged components
Bind to specific sites on receptor proteins in a membrane

 

Question: The earliest wide area data networks were built using

Answer Options:
X.25
ATM
T-carriers
Phone lines

Answer: Phone lines

 

Question: When a device has data to be delivered over a WAN network

Answer Options:
It stops the existing traffic over the medium to send the data
The data is merged with the existing traffic
None of the above
It waits for the medium to become idle

Answer: The data is merged with the existing traffic

 

Question: The phone network offers a

Answer Options:
FDM WAN service
None of the above
Point-to-point network service
Statistically multiplexed network service

Answer: Point-to-point network service

 

Question: Which of the following is true of synaptic signaling and hormonal signaling? Check all that apply.

Answer Options:
Hormone travel over long distance
Both nervous signaling and hormone signaling work through gap junctions
Both nervous signaling and hormone signaling act on target cells

Answer: Hormone travel over long distance
Both nervous signaling and hormone signaling act on target cells

 

Question: Availability is

Answer Options:
Ensuring timely and reliable access to and use of information
Protecting information and information systems from unauthorized use

Answer: Ensuring timely and reliable access to and use of information

 

Question: In data communications, a virtual circuit

Answer Options:
Cannot really carry data
Is another name for the NASCAR circuit
Is another name for a circuit
Can carry data over various real circuits

Answer: Can carry data over various real circuits

 

Question: Which of the following are chemical messengers that pass through the plasma membrane of cells and have receptor molecules in the cytoplasm? Check all that apply.

Answer Options:
Testosterone
Insulin
Nitric oxide

Answer: Testosterone
Nitric oxide

 

Question: A virtual circuit ID is assigned to

Answer Options:
Each source-destination pair
Each destination
Each source
Each autonomous system

Answer: Each source-destination pair

 

Question: T-1 is the simplest WAN data service provided by telecom carriers. It has a data rate of

Answer Options:
64 kbps
1.544 mbps
2.56 kbps
44.736 mbps

Answer: 1.544 mbps

 

Question: WAN technologies use broadcast

Answer Options:
True
False

Answer: False