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1. HTTP Means...






2. What is Broadcast Transmission?






3. What is ARP? What are some of its attributes?






4. The IPSec (Internet Protocol Security) protocol suite can secure network transmissions by...






5. DC means...






6. Which one of the following is true concerning bridges and their forwarding decisions?






7. A technician is troubleshooting a problem on a network using a utility to capture the packets. When the technician reviews the captured data they have only captured broadcast packets and packets from their own computer. What is the reason for this?






8. POTS means...






9. SSH Means...






10. SMB Means...






11. List the benefits of a bus topology






12. A network administrator implements four VLANs (Virtual Local Area Network) on a switch. Which device will be required to pass traffic among the VLANs (Virtual Local Area Network)?






13. Describe a ring topology

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14. What is CHAP?






15. On a switched Ethernet network that is operating perfectly - what is the state in which a user will find the activity LED (Light Emitting Diode)?






16. Which of the following methods transfers files with the use of a UDP (User Datagram Protocol)?






17. 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






18. How many concurrent connections can a Windows 2000 Professional computer support on a single share?






19. A network administrator is in charge of a large corporate network containing a DNS (Domain Name Service) server - DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server - and an internal web server. One particular subnet is experiencing trouble with Inter






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






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






22. 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






23. List the drawbacks of a ring topology






24. On what Port is SSH?






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






26. Web Server






27. What is EAP? What is it used for?






28. An 802.11a/b/g access point is installed in a computer lab. An administrator has a client that is based on 802.11g technology. There are times when the client slows or stops working entirely. What is the cause of the problem?






29. 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?






30. Which protocol could be used by a VPN (Virtual Private Network)?






31. A network administrator is troubleshooting a wireless LAN (Local Area Network) that is experiencing trouble with interference. A scan of the wireless network reports that there are two WAPs (Wireless Access Point) from different companies within rang






32. What is Multicast Transmission?






33. Disk mirroring is also known as RAID ___...






34. IP means...






35. RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service) provides which functionality for remote access?






36. PRI Means...






37. Which networking device works at the upper three layers of the OSI (Open Systems Interconnect) and connects networks with different architectures?






38. 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?






39. Which one of the following servers provides web caching services?






40. RDP means...






41. On what Port is IMAP?






42. NTFS Means...






43. A network has grown to include seventy 24 port Ethernet switches and has decreased in performance steadily as new switches are added. What adjustments can be made to the infrastructure to improve the performance?






44. MAU means...






45. An Ethernet MAC (Media Access Control) address consists of...






46. A small office network with ten computers uses a cable modem and router to connect to the Internet and distribute services to clients. After several weeks of use - the routers collision LED (Light Emitting Diode) has begun to stay on permanently. Wha






47. Which one of the following will affect the range of an 802.11b WAP (Wireless Access Point)?






48. ISO Means...






49. A client accessing a network share folder has authenticated into the system and has full access rights to a folder share. But after opening the file they find they cannot modify the files contents. What is the likely cause?






50. SNMP Means...