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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. POP3 Means...
Gateway
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
HTTPS/ SSL
Post Office Protocol 3
2. NetBIOS Means...
File Transfer Protocol
Networked Basic Input/Output System
A long length of antenna extension cable
Time domain reflectometer
3. Logical Topology
Firewall
1000BASE-CX
A network map showing exactly how data moves through the network.
Plain Old Telephone Service
4. Which one of the following security protocols creates a secure connection over the Internet?
Bus - Star - Ring - Mesh - Point-to-point - Point-to-multipoint - Hybrid
L2TP (Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol)
Basic Input/Output System
Network Time Protocol
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
Put a router between the two network segments
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy)
VPN (Virtual Private Network)
6. What is LEAP?
PDC (Primary Domain Controller)
1000BASE-CX
Transmission Control Protocol
Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol. This is a Cisco proprietary solution.
7. What is on Ports 20 and 21?
143
Not scalable - Expensive - Difficult to reconfigure - move - or change - Not fault tolerant
These are the FTP ports. Port 20 handles data and Port 21 provides control.
Wireless LAN
8. BIOS Means...
Configure the DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server to increase lease expiration time
514
Basic Input/Output System
Internet Protocol Security
9. What is on Port 22?
SSH
HTTP
Stores and dispenses files
TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol)
10. There is a suspected SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) virus on the workstation. E-mail programs are not currently running. Which of the following utilities should be run to see if there are any open SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) sockets?
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.
netstat
Media Access Unit - Media attachment Unit
Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
11. The 802.11 frequency band is...
Hypertext transfer protocol over secure sockets layer.
2.4 GHz (Gigahertz).
Packets from entering and leaving a network
3389
12. PKI means...
Public Key Infrastructure
Alternating Current
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
Proxy Server
13. Disk mirroring is also known as RAID ___...
NFS (Network File System)
Remote Desktop Protocol
SMB (Server Message Block)
1
14. SNMP Means...
Simple Network Management Protocol
POP3
10
Port 20 must also be unblocked.
15. 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
The analyzer is functioning properly.
802.1x
2
Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol. This is a Cisco proprietary solution.
16. DHCP means...
Media Access Control
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
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
Routing Information Protocol
17. On what Port is RDP?
802.1x
PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol)
Internetwork packet exchange
3389
18. What is NAT?
SUN RPC
10 GBASE-LR
Network Address Translator
143
19. When one connection to a host fails in a full mesh network - it means...
rlogin
All hosts can communicate.
Network File System
Public Key Infrastructure
20. POTS means...
Plain Old Telephone Service
514
Any network device with an IP address
larger subnet masks.
21. To increase the number of available IP (Internet Protocol) addresses - IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) uses which one of the following options?
Firewall
Port 161 is SNMP and Port 162 is the SNMP Manager
The 'memo maker' that sends and receives paperless faxes over the network
128 bit addresses
22. Given the following output - which utility was used? Default Server: bigserver.datacenter.com Address: 4.12.18.1
Extensible Authentication Protocol. It is used in 3rd party authentication providers/ multi-factor authentication.
WINS (Windows Internet Name Service)
encapsulating the data payload.
nslookup
23. What is PAT?
Port Address Translator
Connect Workstation 6 and Workstation 2 using a barrel connector
File Transfer Protocol
Implement VLANs (Virtual Local Area Network)
24. What is the maximum standard distance allowed to connect a customer via an ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) line?
Server Message Block OR Small-to-Midsize Business
A. 18 -000 feet (5 -486.4 meters)
10
192.168.96.254
25. List the benefits of a bus topology
Plain Old Telephone Service
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol - a network service that assigns IP addresses to clients. Should remember that it uses scopes to manage any excluded/ static IP addresses.
Hard to troubleshoot - Difficult to change or move - Doesn't offer much fault tolerance
Easy to install - Inexpensive - Less actual cable required
26. Which media access method is used for an IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 802.5 network?
1000BASE-LX and10 GBASE-LR
The amber light is flashing occasionally and the green light is lit steadily.
Token passing
netstat
27. HTTPS means...
Address Resolution Protocol. Has no error control.
SUN RPC
Fully Qualified Domain Name
Hypertext transfer protocol over secure sockets layer.
28. PRI Means...
Routing Internet Protocol
Bridge
Internet Service Provider
Primary Rate Interface
29. Which IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 802.x standard defines the operation of the LLC (Logical Link Control) sublayer of the OSI (Open Systems Interconnect) models Data Link layer?
SSH
2
802.2
72.16.16.1
30. What is Unicast?
Select the most probable cause
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.)
Sundays full backup as well as Mondays - Tuesdays - and Wednesdays tapes
Increase the TTL (Time to Live) on the DNS (Domain Name Service) servers
31. What is BGMP?
Border Gateway Multicast Protocol - A routing protocol for router to router activity.
Point to Point Tunneling Protocol
1000BASE-LX and10 GBASE-LR
MultiProtocol Label Switching
32. Around noon - 802.11b wireless users near the break room have intermittent - random connections. What is the problem?
An old microwave oven is being used in the break room which causes interference with the access point.
BootP (Boot Protocol)
Client-server networks are the opposite of peer-to-peer networks. A single server uses a network operating system for managing the entire network.
Trivial File Transfer Protocol
33. FQDN means...
D. Switch and bridge
SQL Server
Internet Information Services
Fully Qualified Domain Name
34. Client Machine
Any device on the network that can ask for access to resources
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.
A. 18 -000 feet (5 -486.4 meters)
172.192.4.256
35. A companys disaster recovery plan requires that a hot site be maintained for fault tolerance. Which of the following would achieve this goal?
Not scalable - Expensive - Difficult to reconfigure - move - or change - Not fault tolerant
An exact duplicate of the infrastructure is mirrored offsite.
1000BASE-CX
69
36. Host
Basic Input/Output System
Someone has enabled an additional DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server.
Any network device with an IP address
Internet Information Services
37. A new intranet web server has been installed for a company. The clients access the intranet server by its DNS (Domain Name Service) name. To automatically change the clients to connect to the new server - an administrator modifies the DNS (Domain Nam
10
Problematic workstations have cached the old IP (Internet Protocol) address of the server.
443
IMAP (Mail Client)
38. PAP (Password Authentication Protocol) secures PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) sessions by...
passing a username and password in plaintext.
D. Switch and bridge
10
Hypertext transfer protocol over secure sockets layer.
39. Upon which devices can NAT (Network Address Translation) be used?
Transport
10
A transmission method in which data is sent from a server to specific nodes that are defined as members of a multicast group. Network nodes not in the group ignore the data.
Firewall
40. What is RARP?
Internet Protocol
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol.
53
Point to Point Tunneling Protocol
41. Which two devices both operate at the same layer of the OSI (Open Systems Interconnect) model?
L2TP (Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol)
D. Switch and bridge
Networked Basic Input/Output System
Telnet
42. On what Port is SNMP?
53
161 & 162
Routing Internet Protocol
Post Office Protocol 3
43. ISP Means...
Network and Transport
Internet Service Provider
Network Address Translator
A. 18 -000 feet (5 -486.4 meters)
44. NAC means...
Disk Operating System or Denial of Service
Network Access Control
Routing Internet Protocol
Hybrid hub
45. GPS means...
Global Positioning System
encapsulating the data payload.
128 bit addresses
1433
46. What is OSPF?
Open Source Path First - this is a routing protocol
A network map defining the specific characteristics of a network such as where workstations and other devices are located and the arrangement of all the physical media such as cables.
LDAP - Active Directory (Windows) - e-Directory (Novell) - Open Directory (Apple)
Secure Shell
47. SSL Means...
NetBios
Network and Transport
A 2.4 GHz (Gigahertz) cordless telephone is in use.
Secure Sockets Layer
48. TFTP Means...
1000BASE-LX and10 GBASE-LR
128 bit addresses
Plain Old Telephone Service
Trivial File Transfer Protocol
49. Fax Server
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183
50. What is on Port 69?
Split the scope addresses between the servers assigning 192.168.0.1 through 192.168.0.127 for the PDC (Primary Domain Controller) and 192.168.0.128 through 192.168.0.254 for the BDC (Backup Domain Controller).
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
80
TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol)