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Comptia Network +

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Servers

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2. What is on Port 80?
Remote Desktop Protocol
802.2
Network and Transport
HTTP

3. What is RARP?
Public Switched Telephone Network
CSU / DSU (Channel Service Unit / Data Service Unit)
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol.
Networked Basic Input/Output System

4. Given the following output - which utility was used? Default Server: bigserver.datacenter.com Address: 4.12.18.1
Direct Current
nslookup
Proxy server
Internet Protocol Security. This is the defacto standard for VPN security.

5. FQDN means...
In the LAN (Local Area Network)
Post Office Protocol
Fully Qualified Domain Name
TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol)

6. A home user has been assigned one static IP (Internet Protocol) address. If the user wishes to use the 192.168.0.1 address range - what technology should the user implement?
Proxy server
Post Office Protocol
DNS
Wireless Access Point

7. IIS Means...
New Technology File System
Network Address Translator
Internet Information Services
10 GBASE-LR

8. Which one of the following is a purpose for subnetting?
To decrease network congestion Answer: D
169.254.1.1
A long length of antenna extension cable
Bayonet-Neill-Concelman or British Naval Connector

9. Which media access method is used for an IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 802.5 network?
Exterior Gateway Protocol
Token passing
Presentation
New Technology File System

10. Which one of the following options is a security standard for 802.11?
netstat
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy)
Exterior Gateway Protocol
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).

11. Which one of the following is an IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) fiber optic standard?
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.)
Routing Internet Protocol
10 GBASE-LR
An exact duplicate of the infrastructure is mirrored offsite.

12. 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
Bus - Star - Ring - Mesh - Point-to-point - Point-to-multipoint - Hybrid
Routing Internet Protocol
100 Mbps (Megabits per second)
The analyzer is functioning properly.

13. 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?
Internet Control Message Protocol
netstat and ping
Someone has enabled an additional DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server.
Internetwork Packet Exchange/Sequenced Packet Exchange

14. A facility designed to receive computer equipment during a disaster recovery is known as a...
Bluetooth enabled cell phones
cold site.
110
An old microwave oven is being used in the break room which causes interference with the access point.

15. Which dial-up protocol is capable of passing multiple LAN (Local Area Network) protocols across the wire?
T1 (T-Carrier Level 1).
The computer is set for DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) - but no DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server is available for the network.
Routing Internet Protocol
PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol)

16. This is not a valid IP (Internet Protocol) addresses
Client - protocol - and adapter
This IP (Internet Protocol) address cannot be pinged remotely.
172.192.4.256
Primary Rate Interface

17. List the benefits of a star topology

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18. What is ARP? What are some of its attributes?
Manages web-based activities by running Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) for storing web content and accessing web pages
Presentation
Initial installation cost may be higher - One central single point of failure (the hub or other device)
Address Resolution Protocol. Has no error control.

19. BIOS Means...
8080
The analyzer is functioning properly.
Basic Input/Output System
53

20. What is the maximum standard distance allowed to connect a customer via an ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) line?
An eight-position connector which uses UTP (Unshielded Twisted Pair).
A. 18 -000 feet (5 -486.4 meters)
Firewall
Network News Transfer Protocol

21. A company wants to have an intranet. Where would the intranet web server be located in the network?
Global Positioning System
In the LAN (Local Area Network)
All workstations except Workstation 3 can communicate to each other.
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.

22. NTP means...
CSU / DSU (Channel Service Unit / Data Service Unit)
These are the FTP ports. Port 20 handles data and Port 21 provides control.
Network Time Protocol
rp

23. 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?
gateway.
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol.
111
Implement VLANs (Virtual Local Area Network)

24. Host
Any network device with an IP address
25
Token passing
Network News Transfer Protocol

25. What is UDP? What are some of its attributes?
NetBios
Configure the DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server to increase lease expiration time
User Datagram Protocol. This protocol is connectionless and routable.
Re-enter the username and password in the VPN (Virtual Private Network) connection and reconnect

26. 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
This IP (Internet Protocol) address cannot be pinged remotely.
550 meters (1 -804.46 feet)
T1 (T-Carrier Level 1).
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

27. Print Server
Access Control List
Telnet
Electromagnetic Interference
Manages printers on the network

28. 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
A network's physical topology gives you the lay of the land and the logical topology illustrates how the signals and data travel throughout the layout.
There are too many collisions occurring in traffic. Disconnect each network card individually to find and replace the one that is broadcasting.
Disk Operating System or Denial of Service
CSU / DSU (Channel Service Unit / Data Service Unit)

29. What is LEAP?
Initial installation cost may be higher - One central single point of failure (the hub or other device)
Configure the DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server to increase lease expiration time
Port 161 is SNMP and Port 162 is the SNMP Manager
Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol. This is a Cisco proprietary solution.

30. ISO Means...
Industry Standards Organization
Public Switched Telephone Network
SMTP Server
3.1

31. Client Machine
Verification
MT-RJ (Mechanical Transfer-Registered Jack)
Any device on the network that can ask for access to resources
RDP/ Terminal Services

32. Name the seven most common physical topologies
Network File System
There will be no Internet access.
Bus - Star - Ring - Mesh - Point-to-point - Point-to-multipoint - Hybrid
This IP (Internet Protocol) address cannot be pinged remotely.

33. What is PAT?
Public Key Infrastructure
To decrease network congestion Answer: D
Port Address Translator
WINS (Windows Internet Name Service)

34. 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)?
Periodically (randomly) blinking
802.11b
Re-enter the username and password in the VPN (Virtual Private Network) connection and reconnect
WINS (Windows Internet Name Service)

35. What is QoS?
TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol)
Quality of Service
1000BASE-CX
D. Switch and bridge

36. Disk mirroring is also known as RAID ___...
Internet connection
passing a username and password in plaintext.
1
443

37. ISP Means...
A. 18 -000 feet (5 -486.4 meters)
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)
Internet Service Provider
There will be no Internet access.

38. What is IP?
Internet Protocol
80
Connect Workstation 6 and Workstation 2 using a barrel connector
Firewall

39. PPTP Means...
The Internet router is blocking port 25.
Basic Rate Interface
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.
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol

40. Which one of the following will interfere with an IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 802.11b access point?
Bluetooth enabled cell phones
To decrease network congestion Answer: D
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
T1 (T-Carrier Level 1).

41. AC means...
SQL Server
Digital Subscriber Line
Point to Point Tunneling Protocol
Alternating Current

42. ICMP means...
Transmission Control Protocol
Internet Control Message Protocol
DNS (Domain Name Service) server settings
An exact duplicate of the infrastructure is mirrored offsite.

43. NAT Means...
Sundays full backup as well as Mondays - Tuesdays - and Wednesdays tapes
Network Address Translation
File Transfer Protocol
22

44. 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?
Run more than one central processing unit (CPU) and whose resources are available to other users on the network to access when needed. Something this powerful is typically referred to only as a server today. Don't confuse workstations with client mac
802.2
Application
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol

45. List the drawbacks of a ring topology
Routing Internet Protocol
Not scalable - Expensive - Difficult to reconfigure - move - or change - Not fault tolerant
Transport
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

46. What is the minimum number of hard drives required to implement RAID 0 (Redundant Array of Independent Disks)?
2
The 'memo maker' that sends and receives paperless faxes over the network
1433
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

47. A network administrator adds a router to create a new subnet. Which of the following network services requires configuration to accommodate NetBIOS (Network Basic Input / Output System) on the new network?
WINS (Windows Internet Name Service)
NetBios
Client-server networks are the opposite of peer-to-peer networks. A single server uses a network operating system for managing the entire network.
Proxy Server

48. Web Server
All hosts can communicate.
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
Manages web-based activities by running Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) for storing web content and accessing web pages
Two or more connected computers that can share resources

49. What is on Port 25?
TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol)
SMTP Server
Proxy
Eliminate any sources of RFI (Radio Frequency Interference) around the WAP (Wireless Access Point) Answer: D

50. Each of the following wireless standards use a 2.4 GHz (Gigahertz) ISM (Industrial - Scientific - and Medical) band EXCEPT...
They are connected to a switch when trying to capture packets.
Simple Network Management Protocol
802.11a.
RDP/ Terminal Services