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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. Which dial-up protocol is capable of passing multiple LAN (Local Area Network) protocols across the wire?
PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol)
Wired Equivalent Privacy
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
389
2. Print Server
Manages printers on the network
20 & 21
550 meters (1 -804.46 feet)
802.2
3. NTFS Means...
The users will not be affected by the change.
Point to Point Tunneling Protocol
Bayonet-Neill-Concelman or British Naval Connector
New Technology File System
4. On what Port is HTTP?
Routing Internet Protocol
80
Secure Shell
WINS (Windows Internet Name Service)
5. Which networking device works at the upper three layers of the OSI (Open Systems Interconnect) and connects networks with different architectures?
Domain Name Service OR Domain Name Server
Gateway
Internet Control Message Protocol
Presentation
6. What is on Port 3389?
RDP/ Terminal Services
128 bit addresses
Open Source Path First - this is a routing protocol
All workstations except Workstation 3 can communicate to each other.
7. List the benefits of a star topology
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8. Fax Server
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9. Name the seven most common physical topologies
Bus - Star - Ring - Mesh - Point-to-point - Point-to-multipoint - Hybrid
Hypertext transfer protocol
Simple Network Management Protocol
Access Control List
10. A facility designed to receive computer equipment during a disaster recovery is known as a...
Trivial File Transfer Protocol
53
cold site.
SSH
11. On what Port is SNMP?
Transmission Control Protocol
POP3
161 & 162
TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol)
12. What is DHCP? What is its key attribute?
1000BASE-LX and10 GBASE-LR
Bridge
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.
MAC (Media Access Control) address
13. What is on Port 110?
They are connected to a switch when trying to capture packets.
POP3
Quality of Service
23
14. A Windows 2000 work station has a TCP / IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol) address of 169.254.12.1. Which statement describes the state of the computers TCP / IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol) configuration?
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
Easy to install - Inexpensive - Less actual cable required
The computer is set for DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) - but no DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server is available for the network.
Server Message Block OR Small-to-Midsize Business
15. BNC Means...
Point-to-Point Protocol
Gateway
Global System for Mobile Communications
Bayonet-Neill-Concelman or British Naval Connector
16. NetBEUI Means...
Firewall
Networked Basic Input/Output System Extended User Interface
passing a username and password in plaintext.
Hypertext transfer protocol over secure sockets layer.
17. Which of the following is a self-assigned address based on APIPA (Automatic Private Internet Protocol Addressing)?
Any device on the network that can ask for access to resources
bytes 1-3
169.254.1.1
Wireless LAN
18. Each of the following wireless standards use a 2.4 GHz (Gigahertz) ISM (Industrial - Scientific - and Medical) band EXCEPT...
80
802.11a.
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension
Networked Basic Input/Output System
19. On what Port is SSH?
22
It is an address assigned to a NIC (Network Interface Card).
NFS (Network File System)
Client-server networks are the opposite of peer-to-peer networks. A single server uses a network operating system for managing the entire network.
20. What is BGMP?
An eight-position connector which uses UTP (Unshielded Twisted Pair).
Border Gateway Multicast Protocol - A routing protocol for router to router activity.
Check the connection from the WAP (Wireless Access Point) to the network
All hosts can communicate.
21. PAP (Password Authentication Protocol) secures PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) sessions by...
Change the LANs (Local Area Network) WAP (Wireless Access Point) channel to a different channel than the other two WAPs (Wireless Access Point)
An eight-position connector which uses UTP (Unshielded Twisted Pair).
Point-to-Point Protocol
passing a username and password in plaintext.
22. Which one of the following is an IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) copper cable standard?
SSH
143
1000BASE-CX
Hard to troubleshoot - Difficult to change or move - Doesn't offer much fault tolerance
23. FTP Means
The device ID (Identification)
File Transfer Protocol
Alternating Current
40 bit - 128 bit - 64 bit
24. A star network that uses several cable types must use which hub type in order to accommodate all client machines?
Hybrid hub
Verification
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
Network Interface Card
25. Which one of the following will affect the range of an 802.11b WAP (Wireless Access Point)?
gateway.
nslookup
Windows Internet Name Service
A long length of antenna extension cable
26. List the drawbacks of a bus topology
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27. PRI Means...
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy)
Primary Rate Interface
Integrated Services digital Network
40 bit - 128 bit - 64 bit
28. What is QoS?
Time domain reflectometer
CSU / DSU (Channel Service Unit / Data Service Unit)
Quality of Service
3389
29. Describe a star topology
Computers are connected to one central point w/ their own individual cables or wireless connections. This topology offers advantages over the bus topology and is used more often despite having more physical requirements than the bus topology. Benefit
40 bit - 128 bit - 64 bit
Bridges operate at OSI (Open Systems Interconnect) Layer 2 and use MAC (Media Access Control) addresses to make decisions.
ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol)
30. RDP means...
Internet Service Provider
Verification
Remote Desktop Protocol
An eight-position connector which uses UTP (Unshielded Twisted Pair).
31. A network administrator notices in his secure wireless office that many of his wireless client machines constantly lose network connectivity. The wired clients never have downtime. Theadministrator also notices that the wireless clients all lose conn
Internetwork packet exchange
Check the connection from the WAP (Wireless Access Point) to the network
These are the FTP ports. Port 20 handles data and Port 21 provides control.
Peer-To-Peer and Client-Server
32. Network
They get their name because they truly are 'at the service' of the network and run specialized software for the network's maintenance and control known as the network operating system. Sometimes servers have more than one job. But whether servers are
Two or more connected computers that can share resources
DNS (Domain Name Service) server settings
Forward the packets to all ports except the one that originated the request
33. Upon which devices can NAT (Network Address Translation) be used?
The file has been opened by another user and is open for read only.
ifconfig
Firewall
Application
34. A network administrator is troubleshooting connectivity from a client machine. An error message that reads 'Page Cannot be Displayed' is shown in the browser whenever a FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) is typed in the address bar. However - if the
Post Office Protocol 3
53
25
10 GBASE-LR
35. What is Multicast Transmission?
ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol)
Client - protocol - and adapter
25
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.
36. ICMP means...
Internet Protocol Security. This is the defacto standard for VPN security.
110
Internet Control Message Protocol
MultiProtocol Label Switching
37. On what Port is LDAP?
SMTP Server
Electromagnetic Interference
161 & 162
389
38. 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
Enable infrastructure mode and obtain the IP (Internet Protocol) address automatically on all clients
2.4 GHz (Gigahertz).
SMB (Server Message Block)
10 GBASE-LR
39. The Spanning-Tree Protocol allows for redundancy of what networking device?
HTTP
Hard to troubleshoot - Difficult to change or move - Doesn't offer much fault tolerance
Any device on the network that can ask for access to resources
Bridge
40. Physical Topology
All workstations except Workstation 3 can communicate to each other.
Network Time 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.
Provides remote users with access to the network through modems and an IP connection
41. Which one of the following is an IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) fiber optic standard?
In a locked room in an offsite location
They get their name because they truly are 'at the service' of the network and run specialized software for the network's maintenance and control known as the network operating system. Sometimes servers have more than one job. But whether servers are
10 GBASE-LR
Handles e-mail functions
42. 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)?
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.
Periodically (randomly) blinking
CSU / DSU (Channel Service Unit / Data Service Unit)
Uniform Resource Locator
43. At which layer of the OSI (Open Systems Interconnect) model does UDP (User Datagram Protocol) reside?
Transport
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy)
Network and Transport
SUN RPC
44. What is on Port 514?
172.192.4.256
Sys Log (Unix) or Event Manager (Windows)
Network File System
Application
45. 802.11 security is defined in...
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.
802.11i
In the LAN (Local Area Network)
private IP (Internet Protocol) addresses must be obtained dynamically from the ISP (Internet Service Provider).
46. A firewall differs from a proxy server in that a proxy server operates at which of the following levels of the OSI (Open Systems Interconnect) model?
There will be no Internet access.
Application
Secure Sockets Layer
Port Address Translator
47. DC means...
MAC (Media Access Control) address
Metropolitan Area Network
Direct Current
Not scalable - Expensive - Difficult to reconfigure - move - or change - Not fault tolerant
48. Servers
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49. A workstation with a static IP (Internet Protocol) address can print and authenticate to a server - but cannot browse to www.comptia.org. What is the FIRST item to troubleshoot?
Port 20 must also be unblocked.
DNS (Domain Name Service) server settings
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.
Application
50. What is on Port 80?
HTTP
25
TCP / IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol)
Network Time Protocol