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Subjects : cisco, it-skills, ccna
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In business LANs - which connector is used w/ twisted-pair networking cable?






2. If you want to connect 4 hosts in a home network - what would be the best deviced to be used?






3. What method of signal transmission uses radio waves to carry signals?






4. What are 2 common characteristics associated w/ dynamic routing protocols?






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






6. Important characteristic of UDP






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






8. What is the function of the DLL?






9. If you have a small network w/ 3 computers...






10. At which layer of the TCP/IP model does ethernet operate?






11. 3 primary functions of the data link layer encapsulation






12. If you have a PC - 3 routers and a Laptop... How many unique CRC calculation will take place as traffic routes from the PC to the Laptop?






13. 3 facts about the network portion of an IPv4 address






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






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






16. 2 things that will happen if a router receives an ICMP packet which has a TTL value of 1 and the destination host is several hops away






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






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






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






20. Which sublayer of the DLL prepares a signal to be transmitted at the physical layer?






21. 2 characteristics of peer-2-peer






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






23. Which 2 options represent Layer 4 addressing?






24. 2 characteristics of clients in data networks






25. Statements that describe LAN






26. What do end devices do?






27. statements of IP adressing






28. 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?






29. 3 measures of data transfer






30. What do the intermediary devices in the network do?






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






32. 3 characteristics of valid Ethernet Layer 2 addresses






33. What can be a problem that is reduced by adding end-to-end addressing?






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






35. 3 functions of the upper data link sublayer in the OSI model






36. 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?






37. What is a benefit of a WAN?






38. What is the primary purpose of Layer 4?






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






40. What is the primary reason for developing IPv6?






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






42. When a network service fails - which port is most often used to access a router for management purposes?






43. What is a disadvantage of Telnet?






44. What is the primary purpose of ARP?






45. 2 functions of encapsulation






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






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






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






49. What can get you to an outside network?






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