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Subjects : cisco, it-skills, ccna
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1. Which combination of keys can be used to interrupt a ping or traceroute process?






2. What connectors are commonly associated w/ Cisco's V.35 serial cables?






3. 2 common methods for settin a UTP ethernet port to MDI or MDIX?






4. What is a disadvantage of Telnet?






5. 3 properties of peer-2-peer applications






6. What information is added during encapsulation at OSI Layer 3?






7. 2 functions of encapsulation






8. Group of hosts that have identical bit patterns in the high order bits of their addresses






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






10. What are 3 common problems w/ large networks?






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






12. When do changes take effect in a Cisco router?






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






14. 3 common problems w/ a large network






15. What is the primary funcion of the trailer in the Data Link Layer encapsulation?






16. 3 protocols that operate in the application layer






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






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






19. What is the purpose of a default gateway?






20. How many bits make up an IPv4 address?






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






22. 2 features that make switches preferable to hubs






23. Important characteristic of UDP






24. A router interface has been assigned an IP address of 172.16.192.166 with a mask of 255.255.255.248. To which subnet does the IP address belong?






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






26. What layer encapsulates segments into packets?






27. 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?






28. Which type of cable is most often associated w/ fiber-optic cable?






29. What subnet mask will an admin assign to the network address 172.30.1.0 if its possible to have 254 hosts?






30. 2 characteristics of peer-2-peer






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






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






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






34. In a connectionless system - What is correct?






35. 3 facts about the network portion of an IPv4 address






36. 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






37. What are the advantages of using a client-server model?






38. What do end devices do?






39. 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?






40. statements of IP adressing






41. 3 characteristics of valid Ethernet Layer 2 addresses






42. What describes the purpose of default route?






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






44. How does the application layer on a server process multiple client requests for services?






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






46. 3 statements about the role of routers in the network






47. What kind of problems are caused by excessive broadcast traffic on network segments?






48. In an IPv4 environment - what information is used by the router to forward data packets from one interface of a router to another?






49. What application layer protocol is used to support file transfers between client and server?






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