Your mnemonic trick to remember the OSI layer

This is something I never really forgotten (which probably helps when starting to study for the CCNA) is the OSI model ..

I thought, why don't we all share how we remember them :P

So here is my one (top to bottom)

[Application] All
[Presentation] Pros
[Session] Search
[Transport] Top
[Network] Notch
[Data Link] Donut
[Physical] Places

The CBT Nugget one is not too bad either (Bottom to Top)

[Application] Away
[Presentation] Pizza
[Session] Sausage
[Transport] Throw
[Network] Not
[Data Link] Do
[Physical] Please

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Comments

astorrs

tiersten wrote:

IBM need to get a bit more colour in their gear.

Yeah, what's it like working in a dark black data center.

tiersten wrote:

The only thing I'm missing a zSeries

Good luck! They start at a little over a million each...

We just dropped $500K on a pair of i570's to replace some older iSeries boxes - and they'll always be AS/400's to me too. It's not your fault IBM likes to rename everything every 5 years - what the heck was wrong with <n>Series anyway. At least IBM didn't rename all the O/S's to follow z/OS - can you imagine AIX as "p/OS"

mamono

Slowhand wrote:

I found that it was much easier to remember all the layers, and their order, once I began to grasp an understanding of what each does and what types of devices (or functions) reside in each. The mnemonic devices didn't do much for me. Well, there was one, but I don't think anyone's going to want to hear it. . .

I am the same way. I just know it straight as it is for face value. Makes it easier to break down with direct reference as opposed to having to use the mnemonic or start singing a song like the alphabet.

dontstop

Holy thread revival batman

A - Australia
P - Post
S - Seems
T - To
N - Never
D - Deliver
P - Parcels

NotHackingYou

I guess I'm the only backwards one. Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away

tbhouston

Guess the guy saying OSI was dead 4 years ago was slightly off.

physical
data
networking
transmits
sexy
pictures
always

I tried the pizza one but i kept getting the order wrong. So I came up with one that makes me giggle and easier for me personally to remember

Roguetadhg

Please, Do not tell state police anything!

odysseyelite

A -A
P- Priest
S- Slapped
T- The
N- Nun
D- During
P- Prayer

FloOz

LBC90805 wrote: »

not strictly OSI but:

Don't = DATA
Smoke = SEGMENT
Pot = PACKET
For = FRAME
Breakfast = BITS

thank you so much for this! lol

RomBUS

I always remembered the bottom to top ones but never from top to bottom

Some funny ones here though

RouteMyPacket

Tried and true old school

Application : All
Presentation : People
Session : Seem
Transport: To
Network: Need
Data-link: Data
Physical: Processing

shecool

I took a CCNA course a few years ago and the instructor taught us this one:

Please
Do
Not
Touch
Sally's
Pretty
Ass

I have never forgot it, haha.

erpadmin

People
Do
Need
To
Stop
Playing
Around

Adam
Prefers
Stephanie
To
Not
Date
People

Forwards and Backwards...after about 11-12 years, I still know it.

etaparon

Application : All
Presentation : PRO
Session : SPORTS
Transport: TEAMS
Network: NEED
Data-link: DEFENSIVE
Physical: PLAYERS

GREAT IF YOU ARE A FOOTBALL FAN

Death Dream

Eeeh, resurrections of a dead thread...

All
Pussy
Seems
To
Need
Deep
Penetration

I didn't see it listed, so there that one is.

Hondabuff

1) Please
2) Do
3) Not
4) Touch
5) Steves
6) Pet
7) Alligator

lsud00d

I go with the pizza thing but use "Programmers" instead and think of my dev friend because he confirmed he does not throw sausage pizza away.

Then, for TCP/IP I do

Pain
In
The
Ass

Iceman25k

Studying for the Network+ got Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away ingrained in my head. I've tried the others, but I keep coming back to the Pizza model because I love pizza, you love pizza, everybody loves pizza.

JeanM

shecool wrote: »

I took a CCNA course a few years ago and the instructor taught us this one:

Please
Do
Not
Touch
Sally's
Pretty
Ass

I have never forgot it, haha.

Hahaha, your instructor?

mohamedshajid

Hmmm. Jibbajabba this is good post to understand the OSI Model layers actually no one would be understand the actual functions of each layers probably what does or what are the protocols that has been used? but of course this is good method to memorized the things in either way good or bad (Bad is the best), If you give any tips with function therefore good method to remember the whole thing

cyberguypr

shecool wrote: »

I took a CCNA course a few years ago and the instructor taught us this one:

Please
Do
Not
Touch
Sally's
Pretty
Ass

I have never forgot it, haha.

True story: I dated a Sally many moons ago. To my benefit, she did not agree with your mnemonic.

manicmartian

People
Don't
Need
Those
Stupid
Packets
Anyway

CiscoWayne

I just remembered:

Physical
Data-link
Network
Transport
Meh
Meh
Meh

lol

techfiend

People
Do
Need
To
See
Pamela
Anderson

volfkhat

Please
Do
Not
Trust
Shady
Punk-
@sses!

bender_fender100

All
People
Seem
To
Need
Dominos
Pizza

I just personally like going in that order, but I know that the bottom is L1 and upward. I didn't make this one up, but when I learned this one, the layers just stuck to my head easier.

Deathmage

All
People
Seem
To
Need
Data
Processing

TWX

shecool wrote: »

I took a CCNA course a few years ago and the instructor taught us this one:

Please
Do
Not
Touch
Sally's
Pretty
Ass

I have never forgot it, haha.

Poor Sally, she's living proof as to how misogynistic computing has been.

I learned it as Please Do Not Take Sally's Panties Away.

I don't know when I learned it exactly, but I might have learned it close to 20 years ago when I got my A+.

TechGuru80

Plazma wrote: »

Ohhh i got a good one !

I have used the pizza on before but here goes

Application : All
Presentation : People
Session : Seem
Transport: To
Network: Need
Data-link: Data
Physical: Processing

That is my go to.

Also have heard:
People
Don't
Need
To
See
Paula
Abdul

toasterboy1

Pew
Dead
Ninja
Turtles
Smell
Pretty
Awful

And just realized a few weeks ago encapsulation is alphabetical. I guess technically backwards but from bottom up it works.
Bit
Frame
Packet
Segment

dave0212

I always remembered the actual names but was once told this in an interview (by the interviewer)

All
Prostitutes
Seem
To
Need
Double
Penetration

And toasterboy1, I always remembered the encapsulation as weak sun block

SPF10