Exam 9: Network Fundamentals and Configuration

In a wireless network using an access point, how does the sending device know that the frame was received?

What is the unit of information used to send a frame onto the network medium?

Which network component extends from a computer's NIC to a switch?

Which of the following is a device or software that works at the Network layer of the OSI model?

While troubleshooting a connection problem to one of your servers named accounting.company.local, you start by using the ping program. When you try to ping accounting, you get an error but you are successful when you try to ping accounting.company.local. Where does the problem most likely lie?

When configuring a computer's IPv4 address, you must enter a default gateway for the computer to communicate on the local network.

Which of the following is true of IPv6 addresses?

A colleague has asked you where the media access control address of his computer is located? What do you tell him?

Why is the UDP Transport layer protocol a good choice for implementing the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol?

In the layers of the network communication process, in which layer would you find TCP/IP?

When configuring the IP address settings for a computer, which of the following is true?

What command-line tool can you use in Fedora Linux to display and change network interface settings?

What do TCP and UDP use to identify the source and destination Application layer protocols that a segment or datagram should be processed by?

You are running a video editing application on Windows 10. When you open a file in the application that is stored on a Windows server, what protocol are you most likely using to open the file and at what TCP/IP model layer does it operate?

You are troubleshooting a computer that is being used primarily to serve Web pages and respond to Active Directory requests. Which operating system are you most likely using?

Using a spreadsheet application, you open a file that is located on one of your Windows servers. Which OSI model layer is responsible for determining whether the request to open the file should be handled by the local file system or the network?

What part of a frame does a switch use to determine where to forward the frame?

In the TCP/IP layered architecture, which of the following is a protocol that operates at the Internetwork layer?

When a protocol of the TCP/IP suite adds a header to a UDP datagram, what unit of information has been created?

In which element of a DNS server would you find a CNAME?