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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. ICMP means...






2. MLI Means...






3. BIOS Means...






4. What is the minimum number of hard drives required to implement RAID 0 (Redundant Array of Independent Disks)?






5. Company A has two networks - one on the west side of town and one on the east side. The network administrator wants to connect the two networks with a leased line but is concerned about limiting broadcast traffic. What can the administrator do to all






6. What is Multicast Transmission?






7. What is L2TP? What is significant about this protocol?






8. IIS Means...






9. What is UDP? What are some of its attributes?






10. What is RARP?






11. NetBEUI Means...






12. DHCP means...






13. What is on Port 111?






14. List the benefits of a bus topology






15. 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






16. What is PAT?






17. What is QoS?






18. Around noon - 802.11b wireless users near the break room have intermittent - random connections. What is the problem?






19. A network technician is troubleshooting a remote home users computer that is behind a SOHO (Small Office / Home Office) router running NAT (Network Address Translation). The technician wants to ping the IP (Internet Protocol) address of the remote us






20. The system administrator performs full backups on Sundays. Incremental backups are performed every day EXCEPT Sunday. The backups start at 10 a.m. and end by 12 p.m. The system crashes on Wednesday night. Which tapes must be used to restore data?






21. BRI Means...






22. On what Port is POP3?






23. List the drawbacks of a ring topology






24. A network administrator manages a medium-sized network with a mixture of different platform computers. The network contains multiple subnets located across a large geographical area. Over half of the subnets contain a WAP (Wireless Access Point) for






25. Which of the following options allows for secure communication over the Internet?






26. A technician connects a computer to the LAN (Local Area Network) switch to analyze the traffic occurring from another computer on the network. The only traffic observed coming from the other computer is broadcast frames. What can be concluded from th






27. RIP Means...






28. Describe a bus topology






29. A computer that is working on a network is unplugged and then plugged into another switch with a new cable. The link LED (Light Emitting Diode) on the NIC (Network Interface Card) does not come on. All of the following could be the source of the prob






30. A user has set up filtering on an Internet router. The local SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server has stopped sending or receiving messages from the Internet. What is the cause of the problem?






31. LAN Means...






32. Which one of the following provides a fault-tolerant storage system containing five disks and a single controller that will function if a single disk fails?






33. Which one of the following will interfere with an IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 802.11b access point?






34. WINS Means...






35. IPX Means...






36. Which one of the following IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) standards uses






37. What is IPSEC? Why is it significant?






38. On what Port is HTTP?






39. A user complains that they can no longer access resources on the network. The user is unable to ping other nodes and ipconfig returns an IP (Internet Protocol) address that is not in the correct subnet. What is the problem?






40. 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






41. Which one of the following is a purpose for subnetting?






42. A user complains that they are unable to connect to a remote server using either FTP (File Transfer Protocol) or Telnet - although the user was able to connect yesterday. Which of the following commands is used to troubleshoot the problem?






43. A star network that uses several cable types must use which hub type in order to accommodate all client machines?






44. PSTN Means...






45. Which protocol does a diskless workstation use to obtain a network address?






46. TFTP Means...






47. MIME means...






48. DC means...






49. POP3 Means...






50. IP means...