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QUESTION 1

How do you configure the inside interface of a router to use NAT?

ANSWER

While configuring the interface, use the command i p nat inside.

QUESTION 2

How do you configure the outside interface of a router to use NAT?

ANSWER

While configuring the interface, use the command i p nat outside.

QUESTION 3

How do you tell a router which traffic to run through NAT?

ANSWER

Create an access list that identifies the traffic that you want to use NAT to control.

QUESTION 4

Give an example of setting up a NAT access list on a router.

ANSWER

From config mode, use the command i p access-list extended NAT, to call the access list NAT.

QUESTION 5

How do you define the I P address range for a NAT access list to use?

ANSWER

Use the command "50 permit i p 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.255 any" to start the access list sequence at 50 in case you want to put any exclusions in the access list later. This example would cause all traffic from the 192.0.0.0 network to flow through NAT.

QUESTION 6

After creating a NAT access list, what is the final step to enable it on the router?

ANSWER

You have to turn on the NAT inside interface with the command "i p nat inside source list NAT int g0/1 overload". That would enable the access list called NAT to become active on int g0/1.

QUESTION 7

What is the purpose behind the "overload" keyword in the command to turn on NAT on a router?

ANSWER

Overload tells the router to use Port Address Translation, or PAT.

QUESTION 8

What are the 2 commands that can be used to see the status of NAT on a router?

ANSWER

show i p nat statistics and show i p nat translations.

QUESTION 9

When using static NAT, do you need to configure an ACL?

ANSWER

No, when using static NAT, everything is configured in the NAT statement.

QUESTION 10

What is the command to set up static NAT on a router?

ANSWER

i p nat inside source static 192.168.1.2 100.65.0.2. That would set up a permanent NAT from the I P address 192.168.1.2 that would always be translated to the address 100.65.0.2.

QUESTION 11

What is Dynamic NAT with Pools?

ANSWER

A pool of inside global I P addresses, also known as publicly routable addresses, is dynamically assigned one-to-one to ACL defined hosts in the network. As each inside host uses one of the available NAT I P addresses, it is no longer available for use.

QUESTION 12

How do you implement Dynamic NAT with Pools?

ANSWER

Set an inside interface to use NAT with the commands int g0/1 followed by i p nat inside. Exit out of interface config and then use the command i p nat pool 1-pool 100.65.3.1. 100.65.3.255 netmask 255.255.255.0. All NAT addresses would be between 100.65.3.1 and 100.65.3.255.

QUESTION 13

After setting up a Dynamic NAT I P address range, what is the 2nd step?

ANSWER

Create an access list to use with that pool with the command i p access-list ext 1-nat to name it 1. Then create the I P address range with the command "50 permit ip 192.168.3.0 0.0.0.255 any"

QUESTION 14

After Dynamic NAT has been set up and the access list has been set up to be used with it, what is the final step?

ANSWER

Add the NAT statement to the inside interface from config mode with the command i p nat inside source list 1-nat pool 1-pool. This will use the access list named 1 and the dynamic pool named 1.

QUESTION 15

What is a troubleshooting benefit of using Network Time Protocol, or NTP?

ANSWER

All log messages are timestamped, so you can see if there are discontinuities when reviewing log entries. You can then review them in chronological order.

QUESTION 16

How do you configure NTP on a Cisco device?

ANSWER

From config mode, use the command clock timezone CST -6, for example. On the next line, tell the device to observe daylight savings time with the command clock summer-time CST recurring.

QUESTION 17

After setting up a Cisco device to use NTP, what is the final step?

ANSWER

From Enable mode, set the local time with the command clock set 15:30:00 18 January 2021.

QUESTION 18

How can you view the date and time that are configured on a Cisco device?

ANSWER

From enable mode, use the command show clock.

QUESTION 19

What are the 3 NTP modes that a Cisco device can run in?

ANSWER

1) In client mode, the device gets its time from the NTP server. 2) In server mode, the device provides NTP information to clients. 3) A Cisco device can also perform in both client and server mode at the same time.

QUESTION 20

How do you configure a Cisco device to be an NTP client?

ANSWER

From config mode, point the device to the NTP server with the command ntp server 192.68.88.1, for example.

QUESTION 21

How can you check the NTP status of a Cisco device after configuring it to use NTP?

ANSWER

A minute or so after configuring the device, from enable mode run the command show ntp associations.

QUESTION 22

How can you check the clock configuration to make sure it is correct?

ANSWER

From enable mode use the command show ntp status. It can take between 5 and 10 minutes for a device to synchronize with its assigned NTP server.

QUESTION 23

How can you make a Cisco router act as an NTP server?

ANSWER

From config mode, use the command ntp master 2. The number 2 is to tell devices in that network to trust that router. The lower that number is, the more trusted the device is.

QUESTION 24

What are 5 bits of information that are given to a client that is assigned I P information from a DHCP server?

ANSWER

I P address, subnet mask, default gateway, DNS server, and lease time for its I P address.

QUESTION 25

With Domain Name System, or DNS, what is a Resolver?

ANSWER

Resolvers make requests to higher-level DNS servers on behalf of hosts in a network.

QUESTION 26

How do you assign an interface to use a DHCP server?

ANSWER

While configuring that interface, use the command i p address dhcp and then no shut the interface.

QUESTION 27

How can you determine if an interface has gotten its I P address from DHCP?

ANSWER

Use the command show i p interface brief. The results will show the I P addresses assigned to all local interfaces, and also the method that was used to obtain that I P address.

QUESTION 28

Can a default route be assigned by a DHCP server?

ANSWER

Yes, and that route can be viewed with the command show I P route.

QUESTION 29

Does DHCP use Layer 3 or Layer 2 connectivity.

ANSWER

It requires Layer 2 connectivity between the requesting host and the DHCP server. In order to facilitate that, unless the default gateway is also the DHCP server, set up a DHCP relay through that router to the distant DHCP server.

QUESTION 30

How do you set up DHCP relay on a router?

ANSWER

While configuring the outside facing interface, use the command i p helper-address 192.168.88.1, if the remote DHCP server's IP address was 192.168.88.1.

QUESTION 31

Name 4 things that are often configured to be sent to a centralized syslog server?

ANSWER

Alerts for failed login attempts, STP events, OSPF events, and BGP events.

QUESTION 32

What is the logging command on Cisco devices that is enabled by default?

ANSWER

Logging console, which can be turned on with that command from config mode if it is not already on.

QUESTION 33

How can you view syslog messages remotely?

ANSWER

The logging monitor command must be issued from config mode. Once that is enabled and someone is logged in via telnet or SSH, they can then issue the command terminal monitor.

QUESTION 34

Where are local syslog entries stored and how can they be viewed?

ANSWER

They are stored in RAM by default and can be viewed with the show logging command.

QUESTION 35

How can you send local syslog entries to a remote location?

ANSWER

From config mode, enter the command logging 192.168.88.2 to send the log entries to that I P address.

QUESTION 36

What are the 8 syslog message levels, starting with the most severe?

ANSWER

1) 0 and 1 are Alert Emergency that require immediate action because the system is unusable. 2) 2, 3, and 4 are Critical Error Warnings that are Critical Event, Error Event, or Warning Event - in that order. 3) 5 and 6 are Notification Informational. 4) 7 is used for Debugging.

QUESTION 37

How can you tell the local syslog server which level of events should be sent to the local collection server?

ANSWER

With the logging trap level-name command | 1, in this example only sending notifications that are level 1 or higher.

QUESTION 38

What is Simple Network Management Protocol, or SNMP?

ANSWER

An Application layer protocol that queries devices for all sorts of information used for trending and troubleshooting purposes.

QUESTION 39

Give 5 examples of metrics that can be monitored with SNMP.

ANSWER

Port utilization, temperature, RAM, CPU, and storage.

QUESTION 40

What is a troubleshooting benefit of SNMP notifications?

ANSWER

You can set up SNMP notifications to let you know if there are issues with your devices, often before customers even realize they have a problem.

QUESTION 41

Is SNMP read-only?

ANSWER

In some instances, SNMP can make changes to equipment remotely to resolve issues.

QUESTION 42

Give 2 examples of things that SNMP can do to resolve issues.

ANSWER

Shut or no shut ports, and also change VLAN information.

QUESTION 43

Give 4 characteristics of both FTP and TFTP.

ANSWER

FTP: Uses TCP, Uses authentication, Used on modern devices, and Transfers faster. TFTP: Uses UDP, does not use authentication, Used on old and new devices, and often used for configuration backup files.

QUESTION 44

In general, what is Quality of Service, or QoS, designed to do?

ANSWER

Identify traffic, mark it, and then enact policies on it. It enables administrators to deal with issues such as jitter, delay, loss, and bandwidth.

QUESTION 45

What is bandwidth?

ANSWER

A link's speed measured in bits per seconds, or bps.

QUESTION 46

What is one-way delay?

ANSWER

The time it takes a packet to reach its destination.

QUESTION 47

What is round-trip delay?

ANSWER

The time it takes a packet to reach a host, and then return to the sending host.

QUESTION 48

What is Jitter?

ANSWER

When there is a rapid variance in delay, such as 30 ms, 300 ms, 40 ms, 200 ms, etc.

QUESTION 49

What is Loss?

ANSWER

How many packets are lost between a sending host and a receiving host.

QUESTION 50

When is traffic acted upon when using QoS?

ANSWER

When it enters or leaves an interface.

QUESTION 51

What is the Classification portion of QoS?

ANSWER

The process of identifying certain traffic.

QUESTION 52

What does Differentiated Services, or DiffServ, do in QoS?

ANSWER

Marks traffic into different classes.

QUESTION 53

In QoS, what is queueing?

ANSWER

Placing marked packets into buckets to be sent at certain times during congestion.

QUESTION 54

What is a Differentiated Services Code Point, or DSCP, in QoS?

ANSWER

A 6-bit field within an I P header that shows that traffic has already been classified so that a router does not have to then examine and classify that packet.

QUESTION 55

When DiffServ classifies data, what is used to show its classification?

ANSWER

Either decimal or text can be used to show the classification of that data.

QUESTION 56

Describe the Expedited Forwarding, or EF, DiffServ classification.

ANSWER

It is 46 in decimal form, or expedited forward in text. It is used for low latency, jitter, and lost packets, such as with VoIP.

QUESTION 57

Describe the Assured Forwarding DiffServ classification.

ANSWER

It is a collection of 12 different DSCP values. It has 4 queue types, each with 3 levels of drop priority - Low, Medium, and High.

QUESTION 58

In general, what is the purpose of queueing?

ANSWER

It is used on all networking equipment to store packets that need to traverse busy interfaces.

QUESTION 59

What is the First-in First-out queueing process?

ANSWER

The first packet in is the first packet to leave.

QUESTION 60

What are the 3 parts of queueing packet traffic?

ANSWER

A Classifier places packets into a queue. A Scheduler takes packets from the queue for transmission. Prioritization chooses packets from certain queues to send first.

QUESTION 61

Where should voice traffic be placed when queueing traffic?

ANSWER

Into a low-latency queue so that it doesn't sit in the queue for long, which can affect the quality of voice transmissions.

QUESTION 62

Give 5 aspects of traffic shaping.

ANSWER

1) Monitors bit rates to keep them within limits. 2) Holds packets in queues. 3) Needs to account for low-latency apps to avoid jitter or delay. 4) Controls Bursting. 5) Is used for Egress only.

QUESTION 63

Give 6 aspects of traffic policing.

ANSWER

1) Monitors bit rates to keep them within limits. 2) Drops packets. 3) Has a more simple configuration. 4) Has short methods of Bursting. 5) Bidirectional. 6) Discards excess or remarks packets.

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