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1. What is a drawback of the CSMA/CD access method?






2. 2 common methods for settin a UTP ethernet port to MDI or MDIX?






3. What does the IEEE 802.2 standard represent in Ethernet technologies?






4. Which characteristics describe fiber optic cable?






5. What is the primary function of encapsulating packets into frames?






6. Which IP packet field will prevent endless loops?






7. Which device is used to create or divide broadcast domains?






8. 3 statements of media acess control






9. What would be the response displayed after pinging 127.0.0.1 and there is a 0 packet transmission?






10. During encapsulation - what happens in the Data Link Layer?






11. When is a straight-through cable used in a network?






12. What are 2 commands used to view a host routing table?






13. Important characteristic of UDP






14. Where is the IOS file stored at?






15. If host A's DG is 10.0.0.1 and host B's DG is 10.0.0.2 - when the router's IP address is 10.0.0.1. Which one will go through?






16. When destination network is not in the routing table - What are 2 actions the router might take?






17. statements of IP adressing






18. What is a disadvantage of Telnet?






19. If there are potential electrical and/or electromagnetic hazards - what type of media is recommended for backbone cabling?






20. What command will you use to place the router into the correct mode to configure an appropiate interface to connect a LAN?






21. What are 3 pieces of info about a route contained in a routing table?






22. How many host addresses can be assigned to a subnetwork when using the 130.68.0.0 network address w/ a subnet mask of 255.255.248.0?






23. What are 3 properties of contention-based media access for a shared media?






24. After a routers ends its boot sequence - the admin wants to check the routers config. From the EXEC mode - which commands can the admin use?






25. What is a characteristic of a single-mode fiber-optic cable?






26. Which OSI model layer is responsible for regulating the flow of information from source to destination - reliably and accurately?






27. After an ethernet collision - which device has priority to transmit data?






28. Why are port numbers included in the TCP header of a segment?






29. What do you need to use for an initial configuration on a Cisco router?






30. Why is flow control used for TCP data transfer?






31. An admin needs to keep contents private - which access method should he use?






32. What networking devices are recommended to be assigned static IP addresses?






33. Network Protocols






34. 2 functions of encapsulation






35. What statements describe the logical token-passing topology?






36. If there is a graphic representation of a company network wiring and equipment - What is this called?






37. With TCP/IP encapsulation - which range of port numbers identifies all well known applications?






38. 3 factors that should be considered when implementing Layer 2 protocols






39. In business LANs - which connector is used w/ twisted-pair networking cable?






40. What are 2 forms of application layer software?






41. 3 statements about routes and their use






42. During a TCP session - if packets arrive out of order - what will happen?






43. When a collision occurs using CSMA/CD - how do hosts w/ data to transmit respond after the backoff period expires?






44. What event occurs during the 3-way handshake?






45. What is a mechanism used by TCP to provide flow control as segments travel from source to destination?






46. An admin needs a media that can run up to 100m in legth. Which type of media would be best?






47. What command can be used to determine if the router has experienced any input or output errors?






48. Which OSI layer is responsible for binary transmission - cable specification - and physical aspects of network communication?






49. If the router says: 'Switch-East4#' What identifies the CLI mode represented?






50. What is the primary purpose of ARP?






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