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Comptia Network +

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. GPS means...
Secure Shell
TCP / IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol)
Global Positioning System
Manages web-based activities by running Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) for storing web content and accessing web pages

2. What is on Port 443?
These are the FTP ports. Port 20 handles data and Port 21 provides control.
In the LAN (Local Area Network)
PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol)
HTTPS/ SSL

3. Which one of the following servers provides web caching services?
Proxy
Periodically (randomly) blinking
Application
Point to Point Tunneling Protocol

4. Which one of the following will affect the range of an 802.11b WAP (Wireless Access Point)?
169.254.1.1
Address Resolution Protocol. Has no error control.
A long length of antenna extension cable
Electromagnetic Interference

5. A network administrator is configuring a router to support a new subnet on a TCP / IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol) network. The subnet uses 192.168.96.0/24. The administrators company policy is to reserve the highest IP (Intern
192.168.96.254
Implement VLANs (Virtual Local Area Network)
1000BASE-CX
Central Processing unit

6. What is CHAP?
802.11b
Server Message Block OR Small-to-Midsize Business
550 meters (1 -804.46 feet)
Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol

7. A company wishes to establish a secure network connection with a sister company over the Internet. Both companies must have access to each others resources without allowing general public access. What describes the type of network that should be empl
Internetwork Packet Exchange/Sequenced Packet Exchange
Extranet
TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol)
netstat and ping

8. A WINS (Windows Internet Name Service) network administrator has disabled DNS (Domain Name Service) for security reasons. Users have lost the ability to access remote network shares named ournetworkshares and ourprivateshares. How can this be resolve
Have the administratorrecreate the shares to be named networkshares and privateshares in order to modify the share names to acceptable lengths
Extensible Authentication Protocol. It is used in 3rd party authentication providers/ multi-factor authentication.
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
Handles e-mail functions

9. Disk mirroring is also known as RAID ___...
1
Manages web-based activities by running Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) for storing web content and accessing web pages
Post Office Protocol 3
Bus

10. What is on Port 514?
Any network device with an IP address
Computers are connected to one central point w/ their own individual cables or wireless connections. This topology offers advantages over the bus topology and is used more often despite having more physical requirements than the bus topology. Benefit
Sys Log (Unix) or Event Manager (Windows)
The device ID (Identification)

11. NFS Means...
There will be no Internet access.
Hypertext transfer protocol
Have the administratorrecreate the shares to be named networkshares and privateshares in order to modify the share names to acceptable lengths
Network File System

12. DSL means...
NFS (Network File System)
53
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Digital Subscriber Line

13. If a destination address is not in a bridges forwarding table - what will the bridge do?
802.11i
53
Forward the packets to all ports except the one that originated the request
A transmission method in which data goes form a source node to all other nodes on a network. Each node receives the data and acts on it - which can generate a great deal of network traffic.

14. CPU means...
The amber light is flashing occasionally and the green light is lit steadily.
RJ-11 (Registered Jack)
Central Processing unit
802.11

15. MAC Means...
Media Access Control
nslookup
ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol)
HTTP

16. Which physical topology is used by a 10BASE2 network?
Bus
Usually restricted to spanning a particular geographic location such as an office building - a single department within a corporate office - or even a home office)
Any network device with an IP address
Direct Current

17. LAN Means...
Primary Rate Interface
passing a username and password in plaintext.
Local Area Network
2

18. How many concurrent connections can a Windows 2000 Professional computer support on a single share?
The analyzer is functioning properly.
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol.
10
Problematic workstations have cached the old IP (Internet Protocol) address of the server.

19. NAC means...
Network Access Control
1000BASE-CX
6
Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol. This is a Cisco proprietary solution.

20. The Spanning-Tree Protocol allows for redundancy of what networking device?
Industry Standards Organization
The capability of a computer or a network system to respond to a condition automatically - often resolving it - reducing the impact on the system.
Change the LANs (Local Area Network) WAP (Wireless Access Point) channel to a different channel than the other two WAPs (Wireless Access Point)
Bridge

21. Ten workstations numbered 1 through 10 are installed sequentially on a physical star network. The network uses a logical bus topology and is cabled using Category 3 UTP (Unshielded Twisted Pair). The cable to Workstation 3 has been severed. Which of
SUN RPC
Computers are connected to one central point w/ their own individual cables or wireless connections. This topology offers advantages over the bus topology and is used more often despite having more physical requirements than the bus topology. Benefit
All workstations except Workstation 3 can communicate to each other.
Public Switched Telephone Network

22. WPA Means...
Port 161 is SNMP and Port 162 is the SNMP Manager
Wireless Protected Access
Increase the TTL (Time to Live) on the DNS (Domain Name Service) servers
Transport

23. NIC means...
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol.
the NIC (Network Interface Card) is bad.
3389
Network Interface Card

24. What is PPP?
Not scalable - Expensive - Difficult to reconfigure - move - or change - Not fault tolerant
Point to Point Protocol
Exterior Gateway Protocol
172.192.4.256

25. Which one of the following choices is the MOST secure place to store tape backups?
Manages web-based activities by running Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) for storing web content and accessing web pages
Application
Not scalable - Expensive - Difficult to reconfigure - move - or change - Not fault tolerant
In a locked room in an offsite location

26. Which one of the following IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) standards uses CSMA / CA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Avoidance)?
RJ-11 (Registered Jack)
Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol. This is a Cisco proprietary solution.
Proxy Server
802.11

27. Which protocol could be used by a VPN (Virtual Private Network)?
128 bit addresses
Eliminate any sources of RFI (Radio Frequency Interference) around the WAP (Wireless Access Point) Answer: D
Remote Desktop Protocol
PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol)

28. Which one of the following is true concerning bridges and their forwarding decisions?
Point to Point Tunneling Protocol
Change the LANs (Local Area Network) WAP (Wireless Access Point) channel to a different channel than the other two WAPs (Wireless Access Point)
Bridges operate at OSI (Open Systems Interconnect) Layer 2 and use MAC (Media Access Control) addresses to make decisions.
nslookup

29. On what Port is the Proxy Server?
8080
IMAP (Mail Client)
Internet Protocol
Domain Name Service OR Domain Name Server

30. Which one of the following IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) standards uses
Media Access Control
Post Office Protocol
2.4 GHz (Gigahertz).
1000BASE-LX and10 GBASE-LR

31. Which of the following options allows for secure communication over the Internet?
VPN (Virtual Private Network)
To decrease network congestion Answer: D
NFS (Network File System)
Hypertext transfer protocol over secure sockets layer.

32. A valid MAC (Media Access Control) address is how many bytes long?
Secure Shell
Wired Equivalent Privacy
Digital Subscriber Line
6

33. What is on Port 23?
File Transfer Protocol
IMAP (Mail Client)
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy)
Telnet

34. On what Port is HTTPS/ SSL?
443
53
40 bit - 128 bit - 64 bit
ping

35. Which one of the following IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) standards has the shortest maximum distance?
Wireless Access Point
1000BASE-CX
Telnet
CSU / DSU (Channel Service Unit / Data Service Unit)

36. DC means...
Direct Current
802.11b
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy)
Quality of Service

37. Telephony Server
Internet Protocol Security
Handles the call center and call routing and can be thought of as a sophisticated network answering machine
Hypertext Markup Language
Primary Rate Interface

38. SSH Means...
Internet Service Provider
Bus
Secure Shell
Internet Control Message Protocol

39. Which networking device works at the upper three layers of the OSI (Open Systems Interconnect) and connects networks with different architectures?
Local Area Network
Client-server networks are the opposite of peer-to-peer networks. A single server uses a network operating system for managing the entire network.
69
Gateway

40. Application Server
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Manages network applications
A long length of antenna extension cable
Electromagnetic Interference

41. A small company connected to the Internet through a SOHO (Small Office / Home Office) router wants to make an internal web server public on the Internet. Computers on the LAN can access the web pages but Internet users cannot. What should be done to
100 Mbps (Megabits per second)
A long length of antenna extension cable
Make certain the web site has an external DNS (Domain Name Service) name and a public IP address - and that port 80 is open on the router.
Each computer is directly connected to other computers in the same network and data flows in a circle shape from computer to computer and eventually back to the source. This topology isn't very popular because it's not easily scalable and the cable r

42. Fault Tolerance
This IP (Internet Protocol) address cannot be pinged remotely.
raphical User Interface
443
The capability of a computer or a network system to respond to a condition automatically - often resolving it - reducing the impact on the system.

43. What is EGP?
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Exterior Gateway Protocol
VPN (Virtual Private Network)
User Datagram Protocol. This protocol is connectionless and routable.

44. What is the mechanism a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server uses to track which IP (Internet Protocol) address is assigned to a particular computer?
MAC (Media Access Control) address
Network Address Translator
Problematic workstations have cached the old IP (Internet Protocol) address of the server.
Password Authentication Protocol

45. SMB Means...
Networked Basic Input/Output System Extended User Interface
PDC (Primary Domain Controller)
Server Message Block OR Small-to-Midsize Business
New Technology File System

46. MPLS
MultiProtocol Label Switching
Problematic workstations have cached the old IP (Internet Protocol) address of the server.
A transmission method in which data is transferred from a specific source address to a specific destination address. (Network nodes not involved in the transfer ignor the transmission.)
Post Office Protocol 3

47. On what Port is Telnet?
NFS (Network File System)
bytes 1-3
23
CSU / DSU (Channel Service Unit / Data Service Unit)

48. File Server
Stores and dispenses files
gateway.
100BASE-FX Answer: D
T1 (T-Carrier Level 1).

49. ATM Means...
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
Primary Rate Interface
Plain Old Telephone Service
Asynchronous Transfer Mode

50. What is on Port 3389?
Enable infrastructure mode and obtain the IP (Internet Protocol) address automatically on all clients
Application
Hypertext Markup Language
RDP/ Terminal Services