Exam 3: Networking

Nick bought a new Ethernet NIC and installed it on his new PC. He observes that the link lights on the NIC are flashing orange. What do flashing orange link lights usually indicate?

You are working as a network administrator for an organization. You are to set up a fully-meshed Frame Relay network to connect four remote branch sites. How many PVCs are required in this network?

Routing tables contain a metric field that indicate the cost of a particular route. Which of the following could be possible parameters expressed in this field?

Which of the following is one of two devices that can complete a connection between the WAN router at the customer site and the service provider?

You have been assigned the task of connecting a new switch to an existing switch. You want to set up the VLAN Trunking Protocol to enable VLAN information passing between the switches. Which of the following should you do to accomplish this?

A networks uses only RIP v1 as the routing protocol. What is the maximum number of usable IP addresses that can be supported on each LAN if one Class C address block is used?

David needs to implement a routing protocol that meets the following requirements: quick convergence, support VLSM, CIDR, IP, IPX, and minimal usage of bandwidth for routing updates. Which of the following protocols should he use?

David is working as a network administrator at his organization. One of the switches on his network has a port status LED that is alternating between green and amber. What could this indicate?

One of your customers has an office set up with a central headquarters and four branch offices. The customer is planning to add five more branch offices in the next two years. He wants you to implement a WAN technology that is economical and facilitate the addition of these branch offices to the HQ. None of the ports on the HQ router should be left free. Which of the following should be used?

Which of the following specifies the interval a router running IGRP waits before sending out its complete routing table to its neighbors?

A VTP domain at your organization is made of a VTP server and three VTP clients. You want to add an additional switch to this domain. By default, what is the default mode of the new switch when it joins the domain?

A switch receives a frame from a host on the network. The source MAC address on the frame is not listed in the MAC address table, but the destination MAC address is. What happens with the frame?

John wants to divide his organization's network into 6 subnets. He should be able to allocate a maximum of 25 hosts on each subnet. The organization's network address is 202.142.16.5. Which of the following classful subnet masks should he use?

You want to prevent hosts from accessing the network if their MAC address is not authenticated to do so. Which of the following can be configured on a switch to prevent hosts with unauthorized MAC addresses from connecting to the network through a switch?

A large company has three offices located in different parts of the same city, and have created a network connecting the three offices. What network type best defines this setup?

You are the network administrator at your organization. You need to ensure that a web server in your internal network is accessible from the Internet. Since the network uses private addressing, you have configured IP-to-registered-address mapping using the following command on the router:R1 (config)# ip nat inside source static 192.168.4.2198.18.4.254Many users are complaining that they are not able to access the web server from the internet. You first try to ping from the internet, without much success. You then issue the show IP NAT translations command and obtain a blank output. Which of the following issues related to this NAT configuration could it most likely be?

Jack is having a tough time monitoring the users who want to access illegitimate web sites through the corporate Internet connection. At this point in time, the corporate network is not secure and protected. Jack wants to block unauthorized traffic from entering or leaving his corporate network. Which network device should he use?

Which of the following network devices moves frames of data between two nodes through the use of IP Addresses?

As a network administrator of APR.com, which of following is the most important preventive measure that you should take on a regular basis to secure and protect your PC?

The proper command line syntax for mapping a network share to a local drive letter in Windows is: