Deck 8: Network Hardware in Depth

Question 1

Changing the SSID on the access point and disabling SSID broadcast is sufficient security for most wireless networks.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

What has occurred when all routers in a network have accurate information after a change in the network?

A) delivery
B) convergence
C) congestion
D) concurrence

Answer 2

B

Question 3

When a router's interface is configured to connect with a switch trunk port to route packets between VLANs, what is this called?

A) multi-homed router
B) dynamic router
C) link-state router
D) router on a stick

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT a true statement regarding the function of a switch?

A) It determines the path used based on the destination IP address.
B) It sends broadcast frames out all connected ports except the port where the frame was received.
C) Each port on a switch represents a separate collision domain.
D) Switches have the ability to operate in full-duplex mode.

Question 5

Which switching method reads a minimum of 64 bytes of an Ethernet frame before forwarding the frame?

A) cut-through
B) fragment-free
C) store-and-forward
D) auto-negotiate

Question 6

Which of the following combinations will you find in a switching table?

A) application/destination port number
B) IP address/exit interface
C) destination network/next Hop
D) MAC address/switch port number

Question 7

Which of the following is the fastest switching mode?

A) cut-through
B) fragment-free
C) store-and-forward
D) auto-negotiate

Question 8

More VLANs mean fewer logical networks, so the network is less complex.

Question 9

What category of routing protocol is used to route packets between autonomous systems?

A) distance-vector
B) link-state
C) EGP
D) IGP

Question 10

In which type of routing protocol is a router's routing table copied to neighboring routers to share internetwork information?

A) distance-state protocol
B) link-state protocol
C) hybrid protocol
D) distance-vector protocol

Question 11

Your colleagues are discussing the operation of a device in which packets are routed between VLANs on the device rather than having to exit the device to be routed. What type of device are they most likely discussing?

A) access point
B) managed switch
C) Layer 3 switch
D) router

Question 12

What type of hacker uses a scanning device to find unsecured wireless networks and breaks into those networks?

A) white hat
B) wardriver
C) script kiddy
D) phisher

Question 13

Routers can be used to control network access by inspecting the source and destination address information of packets.

Question 14

You have four switches, A, B, C, and D. Switch A is connected to Switch C and Switch B is connected to Switch D. Furthermore, Switch A and B are connected and Switch C and D are connected. One of the connections is in blocking mode. What protocol must be running on the switches?

A) RIP
B) SNMP
C) NTP
D) STP

Question 15

In general, what level of security should you use with your access points?

A) the easiest to configure
B) wireless encryption protocol
C) the most secure your systems supports
D) RADIUS

Question 16

What command issued from a command prompt will display the routing table in Windows?

A) route table
B) route print
C) route delete
D) route config

Question 17

Which of the following is NOT a function that would be found in a managed switch?

A) the ability to stop switching loops using STP
B) the ability to transfer its switching table with neighboring switches
C) the creation of VLANS to logically separate resources
D) to limit access to the network by enabling security on individual ports

Question 18

Which of the following is a common link-state routing protocol?

A) OSPF
B) RIPv2
C) EIGRP
D) BGP

Question 19

All network switches require substantial configuration before they can be put into operation in a network.

Question 20

A distance-vector protocol sends updates to its neighbors that include the contents of its routing table.

Question 21

Match each item with a statement below.
a.distance-vector protocol
b.fragment-free switching
c.cut-through switching
d.store-and-forward switching
e.Spanning Tree Protocol
f.trunk port
g.EGP
h.link-state protocol
i.metric
j.IGP
configured to carry VLAN traffic

Question 22

Match each item with a statement below.
a.distance-vector protocol
b.fragment-free switching
c.cut-through switching
d.store-and-forward switching
e.Spanning Tree Protocol
f.trunk port
g.EGP
h.link-state protocol
i.metric
j.IGP
routing protocol category in which the routing protocol is used to exchange routing information between autonomous systems

Question 23

Access control lists can be configured based on which of the following? (Choose all that apply.)

A) protocol
B) source MAC address
C) TCP port
D) destination MAC address
E) source IP address

Question 24

Which advanced feature of a NIC allows a computer to download an OS from the network instead of from a local drive?

A) onboard coprocessor
B) advanced configuration power management interface
C) shared system memory
D) preboot execution environment

Question 25

Match each item with a statement below.
a.distance-vector protocol
b.fragment-free switching
c.cut-through switching
d.store-and-forward switching
e.Spanning Tree Protocol
f.trunk port
g.EGP
h.link-state protocol
i.metric
j.IGP
value that tells routers the best path to the destination network

Question 26

Which of the following would be found in a router's routing table? (Choose all that apply.)

A) timestamp
B) destination network
C) next hop
D) MAC address
E) metric

Question 27

Match each item with a statement below.
a.distance-vector protocol
b.fragment-free switching
c.cut-through switching
d.store-and-forward switching
e.Spanning Tree Protocol
f.trunk port
g.EGP
h.link-state protocol
i.metric
j.IGP
sends entire routing table to all routers at a scheduled time

Question 28

A router's final task when handling a packet is to send the packet on to its next and possibly final destination; this is referred to as packet ____________.

Question 29

Match each item with a statement below.
a.distance-vector protocol
b.fragment-free switching
c.cut-through switching
d.store-and-forward switching
e.Spanning Tree Protocol
f.trunk port
g.EGP
h.link-state protocol
i.metric
j.IGP
entire frame is read before forwarding it to the destination port

Question 30

Match each item with a statement below.
a.distance-vector protocol
b.fragment-free switching
c.cut-through switching
d.store-and-forward switching
e.Spanning Tree Protocol
f.trunk port
g.EGP
h.link-state protocol
i.metric
j.IGP
damaged frames do not get forwarded

Question 31

What is the name of the value assigned to a routing protocol to indicate its reliability compared with other routing protocols that might be in use on the same router?

A) metric
B) administrative distance
C) hop count
D) ACL

Question 32

When a switch receives a ____________ frame, it floods the frame out all ports.

Question 33

On a router configured to use RIP, the number of routers a packet must travel through before it reaches its destination is called what? (Choose two.)

A) metric
B) hop count
C) timestamp
D) aging time

Question 34

Match each item with a statement below.
a.distance-vector protocol
b.fragment-free switching
c.cut-through switching
d.store-and-forward switching
e.Spanning Tree Protocol
f.trunk port
g.EGP
h.link-state protocol
i.metric
j.IGP
designed to stop switching loops

Question 35

Match each item with a statement below.
a.distance-vector protocol
b.fragment-free switching
c.cut-through switching
d.store-and-forward switching
e.Spanning Tree Protocol
f.trunk port
g.EGP
h.link-state protocol
i.metric
j.IGP
routing protocol category in which the routing protocol is used to exchange routing information within an autonomous system

Question 36

A switch that is configured to use the Spanning Tree Protocol will place a port in ____________ mode if sending traffic to it may cause a switching loop.

Question 37

A ____________ is used to make connections between the network interface card and the other vital components of the computer, such as the central processing unit.

Question 38

One type of security for wireless networks involves entering a list of the MAC addresses for the devices that are allowed to access the network and excluding all others. This is called MAC ____________.

Question 39

Match each item with a statement below.
a.distance-vector protocol
b.fragment-free switching
c.cut-through switching
d.store-and-forward switching
e.Spanning Tree Protocol
f.trunk port
g.EGP
h.link-state protocol
i.metric
j.IGP
frame is sent to the destination port immediately after reading the destination and source MAC address

Question 40

Match each item with a statement below.
a.distance-vector protocol
b.fragment-free switching
c.cut-through switching
d.store-and-forward switching
e.Spanning Tree Protocol
f.trunk port
g.EGP
h.link-state protocol
i.metric
j.IGP
sends the status of all its interface links to all other routers in the internetwork

Question 41

Discuss disabling SSID broadcast as a security option on an access point.

Question 42

What are two ways a switch can process multicast frames?

Question 43

What are the most common encryption protocols for wireless security? Which is the strongest? Which is the weakest?

Question 44

What are the three ways that a router can populate its routing table?

Question 45

What does the Spanning Tree Protocol do?

Question 46

What is the difference between the way that a distance-vector routing protocol and a link-state routing protocol update their networks?

Question 47

What is BGP and how is it used?

Question 48

Briefly describe an entry in a routing table from a router.

Question 49

What is a trunk port?

Question 50

Briefly describe the three types of switching methods.