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Subjects : cisco, it-skills, ccna
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1. What is the primary reason for developing IPv6?






2. Which combination of keys can be used to interrupt a ping or traceroute process?






3. What is the purpose of resource records in DNS?






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






5. What type of routing uses information that is manually entered into the routing table?






6. What makes fiber preferable to copper for interconnecting buildings?






7. Which layer supplies services and allows user interface?






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






9. 2 characteristics of peer-2-peer






10. 2 common methods for settin a UTP ethernet port to MDI or MDIX?






11. What is the primary purpose of ARP?






12. What is a characteristic of a logical point-to-point topology?






13. 3 statements about the role of routers in the network






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






15. What process routers use to determine the subnet network address w/ an IP address and a subnet mask?






16. 3 statements of media acess control






17. What 2 type of cables would most commonly be used for new runs?






18. What is the role of the OSI Application Layer?






19. What is the purpose of a default gateway?






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






21. What device can check for faults - integrity and performance of media?






22. If you have a full-duplex operational network - what can happen?






23. 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?






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






25. After a browser makes a request to a web server in the standard port - what will be the port number in the TCP header?






26. On a ethernet segment - why do hosts that experience a collision use a random delay before attempting to transmit?






27. What is the purpose of the preamble in an ethernet frame?






28. What is dinamically selected by the source host when forwarding data?






29. At which layers of the OSI model does ethernet operate?






30. What is an effect of improperly applying a network cable connector?






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






32. When a device is moved from one network to the other...?






33. Important characteristic of UDP






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






35. Given IP 172.16.134.64 and S/M 255.255.255.224 - this IP is an...?






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






37. There are 4 different hosts connected to a hub - media is being transfered between 2 of them but the other 2 will also like to transfer media. What must the latest hosts do to transfer the media?






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






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






40. What is the purpose of the TCP/IP Network Application Layer?






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






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






43. Host1 is in the process of setting up a TCP session with Host2. Host1 sent a SYN message to begin establishment - what happens next?






44. 2 features that make switches preferable to hubs






45. What is an automated service that matches resource names w/ required IP addresses?






46. Which portion of the network layer address does a router use to forward packets?






47. What is PDU?






48. A company is planning to subnet a network w/ 27 hosts. What would be the subnet mask used for this?






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






50. What is the name of the application layer protocol used for file sharing on Microsoft Networks?