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Cisco Network Fundamentals

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1. HTTP is used to...

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2. Which is the most popular network service? HTTP - FTP - Telnet or Email?
Protocol
Acknowledgment message
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Email. (Note: HTTP is technically a protocol - so that is incorrect)

3. Is a connection using Telnet
A network that can carry voice - video - and data over the same network
Virtual terminal session. A connection using Telnet is called a VTY session/connection
Email. (Note: HTTP is technically a protocol - so that is incorrect)
IP addresses

4. Mnemonic for OSI layers
SAMBA
All People Seem To Need Data Processing
Server message block - a request/response protocol
Service - protocol

5. Client and server processes are considered to be in what layer?
The application layer - layer 7
Multiplexing
Protocol
Segmentation

6. Which is the best bet for network devices like gateways - switches - servers and printers--dynamic or static addressing?
A NIC
Static
Transport - layer 4
2. FTP requires one for commands and replies and one for actual file transfer

7. ACK is what?
Fault tolerance - Scalability - Quality of Service - Security
Service - protocol
Identifies the SMTP client process to the SMTP server process. (Newer version is EHLO)
Acknowledgment message

8. NAK is?
Mail User Agent (i.e. - Thunderbird)
Acknowledgment message
Segmentation
Negative Acknowledgment message

9. What DOS command displays all the cached DNS entries on a WinXP/Win2k system?
Ipconfig/displaydns
Acknowledgment message
Identifies the SMTP client process to the SMTP server process. (Newer version is EHLO)
Service - protocol

10. DHCP enables clients on a network to...
Client/server
GET - POST - PUT
End device is a data producer/consumer - e.g. client/server - Intemediary device Provides connectivity and ensures data flows across network
Get IP addresses

11. A limited-use protocol owned by a company is?
UDP port 110
GET - POST - PUT
Static
Proprietary

12. Is ebay P2P or client/server?
Client/server
Service - protocol
Router
Acknowledgment message

13. The application layer is which layer of the OSI model?
SAMBA
Segmentation
Layer 7 is the application layer and all its components: applications - services and protocols
MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) and MDA (Mail Delivery Agent)

14. A ___________ provides the function for doing something - whereas a ___________ provides the rules the service uses
Protocol
Service - protocol
The application layer - layer 7
80

15. What two separate processes does the email server operate?
TCP - Transmission Control Protocol
25
MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) and MDA (Mail Delivery Agent)
Layer 7 is the application layer and all its components: applications - services and protocols

16. Four characteristics that are addressed by network architecture design
Fault tolerance - Scalability - Quality of Service - Security
The application layer - layer 7
Protocol
Application - presentation and session

17. Which layer is concerned with end to end message delivery?
Application - presentation and session
Transport - layer 4
SMB
Negative Acknowledgment message

18. Linux uses SAMBA - which is a version of which file transfer protocol?
SMB
Layer 7 is the application layer and all its components: applications - services and protocols
Negative Acknowledgment message
A service or process that runs in the background to 'listen' to client requests

19. Which OSI layer is associated with IP addressing? 1 - 2 - 3 or 4?
IP addresses
Get IP addresses
3
GET - POST - PUT

20. The device that connects another device to the media?
A service or process that runs in the background to 'listen' to client requests
TCP/UDP port 53
Client/server
A NIC

21. Layers of TCP/IP Model
23
Application - Transport - Internet - Network Access
The application layer - layer 7
2. FTP requires one for commands and replies and one for actual file transfer

22. Typical port for Telnet?
Server message block - a request/response protocol
Two or more computers connected through a network to share resources without a dedicated server involved.
23
End device is a data producer/consumer - e.g. client/server - Intemediary device Provides connectivity and ensures data flows across network

23. Generally - which is best for end-user devices? Dynamic (DHCP) addressing or static?
Identifies the SMTP client process to the SMTP server process. (Newer version is EHLO)
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Dynamic
GET - POST - PUT

24. Dividing data streams into smaller pieces suitable for transmission is called multiplexing - segmentation - encapsulation - or protocol?
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Client. Even though a device can be both - the device requesting is defined as client
Segmentation
A network that can carry voice - video - and data over the same network

25. What is GET?
End device is a data producer/consumer - e.g. client/server - Intemediary device Provides connectivity and ensures data flows across network
The application layer - layer 7
A client request for data
Service - protocol

26. Typical ports for FTP?
Transfer files that make WWW - Don't be fooled; DNS is for resolving names to IP addresses
A service or process that runs in the background to 'listen' to client requests
20 and 21
Application - presentation and session

27. The three most common HTTP message types are?
Server message block - a request/response protocol
GET - POST - PUT
A client request for data
TCP - Transmission Control Protocol

28. What does MUA stand for?
Establish consistent rules for exchanging data - Specifies how data inside the messages are structured and the types of messages that are sent between source and destination - Defines message dialogs (correct response and correct services invoked)
UDP port 110
A network that can carry voice - video - and data over the same network
Mail User Agent (i.e. - Thunderbird)

29. What type of addressing is find at the OSI layer 2?
Layer 7 is the application layer and all its components: applications - services and protocols
The application layer - layer 7
Physical and MAC
The application layer - layer 7

30. SMB stands for what?
UDP port 110
Client/server
Server message block - a request/response protocol
Application - Transport - Internet - Network Access

31. Protocols perform what tasks?
Two or more computers connected through a network to share resources without a dedicated server involved.
Identifies the SMTP client process to the SMTP server process. (Newer version is EHLO)
Get IP addresses
Establish consistent rules for exchanging data - Specifies how data inside the messages are structured and the types of messages that are sent between source and destination - Defines message dialogs (correct response and correct services invoked)

32. What does SMTP stand for?
Identifies the SMTP client process to the SMTP server process. (Newer version is EHLO)
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Application - presentation and session
Proprietary

33. The TCP/IP application layer consists roughly of which three OSI layers?
Two or more computers connected through a network to share resources without a dedicated server involved.
Application - presentation and session
Negative Acknowledgment message
Protocol

34. What does IP stand for?
Email. (Note: HTTP is technically a protocol - so that is incorrect)
Application - presentation and session
Internet protocol
IP addresses

35. Typical port for DHCP?
UDP port 67
Proprietary
Client/server
Service - protocol

36. Interweaving multiple data streams into one shared communication channel is?
Multiplexing
Acknowledgment message
Layer 7 is the application layer and all its components: applications - services and protocols
Physical and MAC

37. Typical port for HTTP?
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
IP addressing - layer 3
Client. Even though a device can be both - the device requesting is defined as client
80

38. Converged Network
Layer 7 is the application layer and all its components: applications - services and protocols
Do the following to application layer data so that data from source device can be interpreted by the appropriate application on the destination device - Coding and conversion - Compression - Encryption
Client/server
A network that can carry voice - video - and data over the same network

39. The elements of communication include a message source - a message destination - and a _________ - or medium to transport the message.
Channel
Application - Presentation - Session - Transport - Network - Datalink - Physical
UDP port 110
TCP - Transmission Control Protocol

40. Typical port for DNS?
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
TCP/UDP port 53
Dynamic
.com or .net

41. End vs Intermediary Device
Acknowledgment message
TCP/UDP port 53
End device is a data producer/consumer - e.g. client/server - Intemediary device Provides connectivity and ensures data flows across network
Ipconfig/displaydns

42. What is the correct OSI top down layer order?
Physical and MAC
GET - POST - PUT
Mail exchange record; maps a domain name to a list of mail exchange servers for that domain
Application - Presentation - Session - Transport - Network - Datalink - Physical

43. Which term describes a specific set of rules that determine the formatting of messages and the process of encapsulation used to forward data?
25
Static
Fault tolerance - Scalability - Quality of Service - Security
Protocol

44. DNS is used to resolve internet names to ________________? (Hint: plural)
2. FTP requires one for commands and replies and one for actual file transfer
Dynamic
Multiplexing
IP addresses

45. MX is what?
Mail exchange record; maps a domain name to a list of mail exchange servers for that domain
Application - Transport - Internet - Network Access
80
Negative Acknowledgment message

46. Which is associated with layer 4 of the OSI model--IP - TCP - FTP - or TFTP?
TCP - Transmission Control Protocol
IP addresses
Multiplexing
Layer 7 is the application layer and all its components: applications - services and protocols

47. Give an example of a top level domain
Router
.com or .net
A network that can carry voice - video - and data over the same network
A service or process that runs in the background to 'listen' to client requests

48. Typical port for POP?
A NIC
UDP port 110
Email. (Note: HTTP is technically a protocol - so that is incorrect)
Multiplexing

49. What is a server daemon?

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50. In the client/server model - the device requesting the service is referred to as the ...?
Mail User Agent (i.e. - Thunderbird)
A client request for data
Client. Even though a device can be both - the device requesting is defined as client
TCP/UDP port 53