Exam 12: Basic Switching and Switch Configuration

____ represents an effort to provide more error-reducing benefits than cut-through switching, while keeping latency lower than does store-and-forward switching.

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Question 21

In ____________________ communications, devices can send and receive signals simultaneously.

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Question 22

In ____________________ communications, devices can send and receive signals, but not at the same time.

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Question 23

What are the Gigabit Ethernet specifications and the governing IEEE standards?

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Question 24

Routers, switches, bridges, and gateways segment networks and thus create separate collision domains.

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Question 25

What are some of the frame size errors that occur on Ethernet networks?

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Question 26

Switches that use ____ forwarding start sending a frame immediately after reading the destination MAC address into their buffers.

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Question 27

A bridge maintains a ____ that maps the MAC addresses on each segment to the corresponding port on the bridge to which each segment is connected.

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Question 28

The MAC-to-switch-port mapping is stored in the switch's ______________________________.

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Question 29

____ switches read the entire frame, no matter how large, into their buffers before forwarding.

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Question 30

Match each item with a statement below:

the length of time that is required to forward, send, or otherwise propagate a data frame

Broadcast storm

also known as error sensing

Alignment error

a sudden rush of network transmissions that causes all other network communications to slow down due to the volume of data competing for access to the same bandwidth on the communications medium

Latency

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the length of time that is required to forward, send, or otherwise propagate a data frame

also known as error sensing

a sudden rush of network transmissions that causes all other network communications to slow down due to the volume of data competing for access to the same bandwidth on the communications medium

segments a network by filtering traffic at the Data Link layer

Ethernet contention method

switches that require all attached network interface devices to use the same transmit/receive speed

virtual local area network that allows you to logically segment a network

a frame with an FCS error and an octet missing

limits collision domains to five segments of wire, four repeaters and/or hubs, and three populated hubs between any two stations on a 10-Mbps network

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Question 31

Describe a simple way to reduce broadcast traffic.

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Question 32

How are collisions handled by CSMA/CD?

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Question 33

A(n) ____ is the physical area in which a packet collision might occur.

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Question 34

Generally speaking, a switch does not require an IP address, because switches operate mainly on Layer 2 (____ addresses).

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Question 35

Fragment-free switches are also known as ____ switches.

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Question 36

Describe the violation command for configuring port security.

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Question 37

In ____ memory buffering, each port has a certain amount of memory that it can use to store frames.

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Question 38

Cisco uses the term ____ to refer to the process by which a switch learns addresses on its own.

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Question 39

To start configuration mode, first type ____ at the command prompt.

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Question 40

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____ represents an effort to provide more error-reducing benefits than cut-through switching, while keeping latency lower than does store-and-forward switching.

In ____________________ communications, devices can send and receive signals simultaneously.

In ____________________ communications, devices can send and receive signals, but not at the same time.

What are the Gigabit Ethernet specifications and the governing IEEE standards?

Routers, switches, bridges, and gateways segment networks and thus create separate collision domains.

What are some of the frame size errors that occur on Ethernet networks?

Switches that use ____ forwarding start sending a frame immediately after reading the destination MAC address into their buffers.

A bridge maintains a ____ that maps the MAC addresses on each segment to the corresponding port on the bridge to which each segment is connected.

The MAC-to-switch-port mapping is stored in the switch's ______________________________.

____ switches read the entire frame, no matter how large, into their buffers before forwarding.

Describe a simple way to reduce broadcast traffic.

How are collisions handled by CSMA/CD?

A(n) ____ is the physical area in which a packet collision might occur.

Generally speaking, a switch does not require an IP address, because switches operate mainly on Layer 2 (____ addresses).

Fragment-free switches are also known as ____ switches.

Describe the violation command for configuring port security.

In ____ memory buffering, each port has a certain amount of memory that it can use to store frames.

Cisco uses the term ____ to refer to the process by which a switch learns addresses on its own.

To start configuration mode, first type ____ at the command prompt.

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