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Ccna Final Exam

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QUESTION 1

1. What two ICMPv6 message types must be permitted through IPv6 access control lists to allow resolution of Layer 3 addresses to Layer 2 MAC addresses?

ANSWER

neighbour solicitations neighbour advertisements

QUESTION 2

Which range of link-local addresses can be assigned to an IPv6-enabled interface?

ANSWER

FE80::/10

QUESTION 3

What would be the interface ID of an IPv6 enabled interface with a MAC address of 1C-6F-65-C2-BD-F8 when the interface ID is generated by using the EUI-64 process?

ANSWER

1E6F:65FF:FEC2:BDF8

QUESTION 4

An organization is assigned an IPv6 address block of 2001:db8:0:ca00::/56. How many subnets can be created without using bits in the interface ID space?

ANSWER

256

QUESTION 5

When a switch configuration includes a user-defined error threshold on a per-port basis, to which switching method will the switch revert when the error threshold is reached?

ANSWER

store-and-forward

QUESTION 6

Which two statements are correct about MAC and IP addresses during data transmission if NAT is not involved?

ANSWER

-Destination IP addresses in a packet header remain constant along the entire path to a target host. -Destination and source MAC addresses have local significance and change every time a frame goes from one LAN to another.

QUESTION 7

What is one main characteristic of the data link layer?

ANSWER

It shields the upper layer protocol from being aware of the physical medium to be used in the communication.

QUESTION 8

What are three characteristics of the CSMA/CD process?

ANSWER

- A device listens and waits until the media is not busy before transmitting. - After detecting a collision, hosts can attempt to resume transmission after a random time delay has expired. - All of the devices on a segment see data that passes on the network medium.

QUESTION 9

What are two primary responsibilities of the Ethernet MAC sublayer?

ANSWER

accessing the media data encapsulation

QUESTION 10

Which two commands can be used on a Windows host to display the routing table?

ANSWER

route print netstat -r

QUESTION 11

What are two functions that are provided by the network layer?

ANSWER

- directing data packets to destination hosts on other networks - providing end devices with a unique network identifier

QUESTION 12

Which two statements describe features of an IPv4 routing table on a router?

ANSWER

- If there are two or more possible routes to the same destination, the route associated with the higher metric value is included in the routing table. - If a default static route is configured in the router, an entry will be included in the routing table with source code S.

QUESTION 13

How does the service password-encryption command enhance password security on Cisco routers and switches?

ANSWER

It encrypts passwords that are stored in router or switch configuration files.

QUESTION 14

Why would a Layer 2 switch need an IP address?

ANSWER

to enable the switch to be managed remotely

QUESTION 15

What characteristic describes identity theft?

ANSWER

the use of stolen credentials to access private data

QUESTION 16

A user sends an HTTP request to a web server on a remote network. During encapsulation for this request, what information is added to the address field of a frame to indicate the destination?

ANSWER

the MAC address of the default gateway

QUESTION 17

Data is being sent from a source PC to a destination server. Which three statements correctly describe the function of TCP or UDP in this situation?

ANSWER

- The source port field identifies the running application or service that will handle data returning to the PC. - UDP segments are encapsulated within IP packets for transport across the network. - The UDP destination port number identifies the application or service on the server which will handle the data.

QUESTION 18

A company uses the address block of 128.107.0.0/16 for its network. What subnet mask would provide the maximum number of equal size subnets while providing enough host addresses for each subnet in the exhibit?

ANSWER

255.255.255.128

QUESTION 19

A network administrator wants to have the same subnet mask for three subnetworks at a small site. The site has the following networks and numbers of devices: Subnetwork A: IP phones - 10 addresses Subnetwork B: PCs - 8 addresses Subnetwork C: Printers - 2 addresses

ANSWER

255.255.255.240

QUESTION 20

What two pieces of information are displayed in the output of the show ip interface brief command?

ANSWER

IP addresses Layer 1 statuses

QUESTION 21

A user is complaining that an external web page is taking longer than normal to load.The web page does eventually load on the user machine. Which tool should the technician use with administrator privileges in order to locate where the issue is in the network?

ANSWER

tracert

QUESTION 22

A network technician is researching the use of fiber optic cabling in a new technology center. Which two issues should be considered before implementing fiber optic media?

ANSWER

- Fiber optic cabling requires different termination and splicing expertise from what copper cabling requires. - Fiber optic provides higher data capacity but is more expensive than copper cabling.

QUESTION 23

What technique is used with UTP cable to help protect against signal interference from crosstalk?

ANSWER

twisting the wires together into pairs

QUESTION 24

A network administrator is designing the layout of a new wireless network. Which three areas of concern should be accounted for when building a wireless network?

ANSWER

interference security coverage area

QUESTION 25

Users report that the network access is slow. After questioning the employees, the network administrator learned that one employee downloaded a third-party scanning program for the printer. What type of malware might be introduced that causes slow performance of the network?

ANSWER

worm

QUESTION 26

Which scenario describes a function provided by the transport layer?

ANSWER

A student has two web browser windows open in order to access two web sites. The transport layer ensures the correct web page is delivered to the correct browser window.

QUESTION 27

What does the term "attenuation" mean in data communication?

ANSWER

loss of signal strength as distance increases

QUESTION 28

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator is trying to configure the switch but receives the error message that is displayed in the exhibit. What is the problem?

ANSWER

The administrator must first enter privileged EXEC mode before issuing the command.

QUESTION 29

Which two protocols operate at the top layer of the TCP/IP protocol suite?

ANSWER

POP DNS

QUESTION 30

A company has a file server that shares a folder named Public. The network security policy specifies that the Public folder is assigned Read-Only rights to anyone who can log into the server while the Edit rights are assigned only to the network admin group. Which component is addressed in the AAA network service framework?

ANSWER

authorization

QUESTION 31

What three requirements are defined by the protocols used in network communications to allow message transmission across a network?

ANSWER

message size message encoding delivery options

QUESTION 32

What are two characteristics of IP?

ANSWER

- does not require a dedicated end-to-end connection - operates independently of the network media

QUESTION 33

An employee of a large corporation remotely logs into the company using the appropriate username and password. The employee is attending an important video conference with a customer concerning a large sale. It is important for the video quality to be excellent during the meeting. The employee is unaware that after a successful login, the connection to the company ISP failed. The secondary connection, however, activated within seconds. The disruption was not noticed by the employee or other employees.

ANSWER

security quality of service fault tolerance

QUESTION 34

What are two common causes of signal degradation when using UTP cabling?

ANSWER

improper termination low-quality cable or connectors

QUESTION 35

Which subnet would include the address 192.168.1.96 as a usable host address? 192.168.1.64/26 192.168.1.32/27 192.168.1.32/28 192.168.1.64/29

ANSWER

192.168.1.64/26

QUESTION 36

Which two statements describe how to assess traffic flow patterns and network traffic types using a protocol analyzer?

ANSWER

- Capture traffic during peak utilization times to get a good representation of the different traffic types. - Perform the capture on different network segments.

QUESTION 37

What is the consequence of configuring a router with the ipv6 unicast-routing global configuration command?

ANSWER

The IPv6 enabled router interfaces begin sending ICMPv6 Router Advertisement messages.

QUESTION 38

Which three layers of the OSI model map to the application layer of the TCP/IP model?

ANSWER

application session presentation

QUESTION 39

What will happen if the default gateway address is incorrectly configured on a host?

ANSWER

The host cannot communicate with hosts in other networks.

QUESTION 40

What are two features of ARP?

ANSWER

If a host is ready to send a packet to a local destination device and it has the IP address but not the MAC address of the destination, it generates an ARP broadcast. If a device receiving an ARP request has the destination IPv4 address, it responds with an ARP reply.

QUESTION 41

A network administrator is adding a new LAN to a branch office. The new LAN must support 90 connected devices. What is the smallest network mask that the network administrator can use for the new network?

ANSWER

255.255.255.128

QUESTION 42

What are two ICMPv6 messages that are not present in ICMP for IPv4?

ANSWER

Neighbour Solicitation Router Advertisement

QUESTION 43

A client packet is received by a server. The packet has a destination port number of 80. What service is the client requesting?

ANSWER

HTTP

QUESTION 44

What is an advantage for small organizations of adopting IMAP instead of POP?

ANSWER

Messages are kept in the mail servers until they are manually deleted from the email client.

QUESTION 45

A technician can ping the IP address of the web server of a remote company but cannot successfully ping the URL address of the same web server. Which software utility can the technician use to diagnose the problem?

ANSWER

nslookup

QUESTION 46

Which two functions are performed at the LLC sublayer of the OSI Data Link Layer to facilitate Ethernet communication?

ANSWER

- enables IPv4 and IPv6 to utilize the same physical medium - places information in the Ethernet frame that identifies which network layer protocol is being encapsulated by the frame

QUESTION 47

The global configuration command ip default-gateway 172.16.100.1 is applied to a switch. What is the effect of this command?

ANSWER

The switch can be remotely managed from a host on another network.

QUESTION 48

What happens when the transport input ssh command is entered on the switch vty lines?

ANSWER

Communication between the switch and remote users is encrypted.

QUESTION 49

A disgruntled employee is using some free wireless networking tools to determine information about the enterprise wireless networks. This person is planning on using this information to hack the wireless network. What type of attack is this?

ANSWER

reconnaissance

QUESTION 50

What service is provided by HTTP?

ANSWER

A basic set of rules for exchanging text, graphic images, sound, video, and other multimedia files on the web.

QUESTION 51

A client packet is received by a server. The packet has a destination port number of 67. What service is the client requesting?

ANSWER

DHCP

QUESTION 52

What are two problems that can be caused by a large number of ARP request and reply messages?

ANSWER

The ARP request is sent as a broadcast, and will flood the entire subnet. A large number of ARP request and reply messages may slow down the switching process, leading the switch to make many changes in its MAC table.

QUESTION 53

A group of Windows PCs in a new subnet has been added to an Ethernet network. When testing the connectivity, a technician finds that these PCs can access local network resources but not the Internet resources. To troubleshoot the problem, the technician wants to initially confirm the IP address and DNS configurations on the PCs, and also verify connectivity to the local router. Which three Windows CLI commands and utilities will provide the necessary information?

ANSWER

ping ipconfig nslookup

QUESTION 54

During the process of forwarding traffic, what will the router do immediately after matching the destination IP address to a network on a directly connected routing table entry?

ANSWER

switch the packet to the directly connected interface

QUESTION 55

What characteristic describes antispyware?

ANSWER

applications that protect end devices from becoming infected with malicious software

QUESTION 56

A network administrator needs to keep the user ID, password, and session contents private when establishing remote CLI connectivity with a switch to manage it. Which access method should be chosen?

ANSWER

SSH

QUESTION 57

What are the two most effective ways to defend against malware?

ANSWER

Update the operating system and other application software. Install and update antivirus software.

QUESTION 58

Which type of security threat would be responsible if a spreadsheet add-on disables the local software firewall?

ANSWER

Trojan horse

QUESTION 59

Which frame field is created by a source node and used by a destination node to ensure that a transmitted data signal has not been altered by interference, distortion, or signal loss?

ANSWER

frame check sequence field

QUESTION 60

A network administrator is adding a new LAN to a branch office. The new LAN must support 4 connected devices. What is the smallest network mask that the network administrator can use for the new network?

ANSWER

255.255.255.248

QUESTION 61

What service is provided by POP3?

ANSWER

retrieves email from the server by downloading the email to the local mail application of the client.

QUESTION 62

What two security solutions are most likely to be used only in a corporate environment?

ANSWER

virtual private networks intrusion prevention systems

QUESTION 63

What characteristic describes antivirus software?

ANSWER

applications that protect end devices from becoming infected with malicious software

QUESTION 64

What mechanism is used by a router to prevent a received IPv4 packet from traveling endlessly on a network?

ANSWER

It decrements the value of the TTL field by 1 and if the result is 0, it discards the packet and sends a Time Exceeded message to the source host.

QUESTION 65

A client packet is received by a server. The packet has a destination port number of 69. What service is the client requesting?

ANSWER

TFTP

QUESTION 66

An administrator defined a local user account with a secret password on router R1 for use with SSH. Which three additional steps are required to configure R1 to accept only encrypted SSH connections?

ANSWER

Configure the IP domain name on the router. Generate the SSH keys. Enable inbound vty SSH sessions.

QUESTION 67

Which two functions are performed at the MAC sublayer of the OSI Data Link Layer to facilitate Ethernet communication?

ANSWER

places information in the Ethernet frame that identifies which network layer protocol is being encapsulated by the frame. implements trailer with frame check sequence for error detection.

QUESTION 68

An IPv6 enabled device sends a data packet with the destination address of FF02::2. What is the target of this packet?

ANSWER

all IPv6 configured routers on the local link

QUESTION 69

What are the three parts of an IPv6 global unicast address?

ANSWER

subnet ID global routing prefix interface ID

QUESTION 70

A client is using SLAAC to obtain an IPv6 address for its interface. After an address has been generated and applied to the interface, what must the client do before it can begin to use this IPv6 address?

ANSWER

It must send an ICMPv6 Neighbor Solicitation message to ensure that the address is not already in use on the network.

QUESTION 71

A new network administrator has been asked to enter a banner message on a Cisco device. What is the fastest way a network administrator could test whether the banner is properly configured?

ANSWER

Exit privileged EXEC mode and press Enter .

QUESTION 72

What method is used to manage contention-based access on a wireless network?

ANSWER

CSMA/CA

QUESTION 73

What is a function of the data link layer?

ANSWER

provides for the exchange of frames over a common local media

QUESTION 74

What is the purpose of the TCP sliding window?

ANSWER

to request that a source decrease the rate at which it transmits data

QUESTION 75

What characteristic describes spyware?

ANSWER

software that is installed on a user device and collects information about the user

QUESTION 76

Which switching method drops frames that fail the FCS check?

ANSWER

store-and-forward switching

QUESTION 77

Two pings were issued from a host on a local network. The first ping was issued to the IP address of the default gateway of the host and it failed. The second ping was issued to the IP address of a host outside the local network and it was successful. What is a possible cause for the failed ping?

ANSWER

Security rules are applied to the default gateway device, preventing it from processing ping requests.

QUESTION 78

What service is provided by FTP?

ANSWER

Allows for data transfers between a client and a file server.

QUESTION 79

A user is attempting to access http://www.cisco.com/ without success. Which two configuration values must be set on the host to allow this access?

ANSWER

DNS server default gateway

QUESTION 80

Which two statements accurately describe an advantage or a disadvantage when deploying NAT for IPv4 in a network?

ANSWER

NAT introduces problems for some applications that require end-to-end connectivity. NAT provides a solution to slow down the IPv4 address depletion.

QUESTION 81

What subnet mask is needed if an IPv4 network has 40 devices that need IP addresses and address space is not to be wasted?

ANSWER

255.255.255.192

QUESTION 82

Which information does the show startup-config command display?

ANSWER

the contents of the saved configuration file in the NVRAM

QUESTION 83

What is the subnet ID associated with the IPv6 address 2001:DA48:FC5:A4:3D1B::1/64?

ANSWER

2001:DA48:FC5:A4::/64

QUESTION 84

Users are reporting longer delays in authentication and in accessing network resources during certain time periods of the week. What kind of information should network engineers check to find out if this situation is part of a normal network behavior?

ANSWER

the network performance baseline

QUESTION 85

What characteristic describes a VPN?

ANSWER

a tunneling protocol that provides remote users with secure access into the network of an organization

QUESTION 86

Which two statements are correct in a comparison of IPv4 and IPv6 packet headers?

ANSWER

The Source Address field name from IPv4 is kept in IPv6. The Time-to-Live field from IPv4 has been replaced by the Hop Limit field in IPv6.

QUESTION 87

A network administrator wants to have the same network mask for all networks at a particular small site. The site has the following networks and number of devices: IP phones - 22 addresses PCs - 20 addresses needed Printers - 2 addresses needed Scanners - 2 addresses needed The network administrator has deemed that 192.168.10.0/24 is to be the network used at this site. Which single subnet mask would make the most efficient use of the available addresses to use for the four subnetworks?

ANSWER

255.255.255.224

QUESTION 88

What is an advantage to using a protocol that is defined by an open standard?

ANSWER

It encourages competition and promotes choices.

QUESTION 89

A network administrator is adding a new LAN to a branch office. The new LAN must support 200 connected devices. What is the smallest network mask that the network administrator can use for the new network?

ANSWER

255.255.255.0

QUESTION 90

What are three commonly followed standards for constructing and installing cabling?

ANSWER

cable lengths pinouts connector types

QUESTION 91

A client packet is received by a server. The packet has a destination port number of 143. What service is the client requesting?

ANSWER

IMAP

QUESTION 92

What are two characteristics shared by TCP and UDP?

ANSWER

port numbering use of checksum

QUESTION 93

Which value, that is contained in an IPv4 header field, is decremented by each router that receives a packet?

ANSWER

Time-to-Live

QUESTION 94

A client packet is received by a server. The packet has a destination port number of 21. What service is the client requesting?

ANSWER

FTP

QUESTION 95

What attribute of a NIC would place it at the data link layer of the OSI model?

ANSWER

MAC address

QUESTION 96

A network administrator is adding a new LAN to a branch office. The new LAN must support 10 connected devices. What is the smallest network mask that the network administrator can use for the new network?

ANSWER

True answer: 255.255.255.240

QUESTION 97

A user is executing a tracert to a remote device. At what point would a router, which is in the path to the destination device, stop forwarding the packet?

ANSWER

when the value in the TTL field reaches zero

QUESTION 98

Which two traffic types use the Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP)?

ANSWER

video voice

QUESTION 99

Which wireless technology has low-power and data rate requirements making it popular in home automation applications?

ANSWER

Wi-Fi

QUESTION 100

Which layer of the TCP/IP model provides a route to forward messages through an internetwork?

ANSWER

internet

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