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Introduction To The Cisco IOS

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1. If no commands have been typed in 1 minute and 44 seconds - the console connection will be closed
EXEC session
Exec-timeout 1 44
Router(config)#interface Multilink
Router(config)#banner motd

2. Log in as a particular user
Router#login
Router#mrinfo
Enter interface configuration mode and configure serial 0/0
configure terminal (config t)

3. Config t - hostname Chicago
Atlanta#erase startup-config
Router(config)#interface FastEthernet
Router#disable
set the name of a router to Chicago

4. Bridge-Group Virtual Interface
outer#disconnect
Router(config)#enable last-resort
Router(config)#interface BVI
Router(config)#int serial 5

5. Displays information about the physical interface itself. It'll also give you the type of serial cable plugged into a serial port. Usually - this will only be a DTE cable that plugs into a type of data service unit (DSU)
Which of the following commands displays the configurable parameters and statistics of all interfaces on a router?
% Incomplete command
Router#sh controllers serial 0/0
You type Router#sh ru and receive an % ambiguous command error. Why did you receive this message?

6. Configure RIP Protocol
Router(config)#router rip
Atlanta#erase startup-config
CLI
How many simultaneous Telnet sessions does a Cisco router support by default?

7. Serial interface
% Invalid input detected at '^' marker
Router#access-template
Router(config)#interface Serial
Router#config t

8. Power-on seft test (POST) - loads the Cisco IOS from flash - loads config from NVRAM
Router(config)#service password-encryption
Booting a router
Router(config)#enable secret todd
Router(config-subif)#

9. Sh int e0; config t; int e0; ip address 172.16.10.2 255.255.255.0; no shut; sh int e0
Router(config-subif)#
Router#logout
Which command will show you whether a DTE or a DCE cable is plugged into serial 0?
Configure an IP address on e0

10. Terminal controller
Router#sh running-config (sh run)
What layer of the OSI model would you assume the problem is in if you type show interface serial 1 and receive: Serial1 is a down - line protocol is down
Router(config)#line tty
Router#sh ip interface (brief)

11. Sets the enable password to todd
Router(config)#interface Lex
Router#sh int fastethernet 0/0
Router#disable
Router(config)#enable password todd

12. Enable secret Cisco
Router(config)#interface Loopback
Which of the following commands sets the secret password to Cisco?
Router#clock
Router(config)#int fa 0/0

13. Sets the aux password; Router(config-line)#password todd; Router(config-line)#login
Router#terminal history size
Router(config)#router rip
Router(config)#interface Async
Router(config)#line aux 0

14. Shows last 10 commands entered by default
Add a secondary IP address
Router#clock
Router#sh history
Router(config)#interface Group-Async

15. Sets the enable secret password to todd
Router(config)#enable secret todd
If you wanted administrators to see a message when logging into the router - which command would you use?
Which of the following commands will display the current IP addressing and the layer 1 and 2 status of an interface? (Choose three.)
Router#clear

16. Stops console messages from popping up and disrupting the input you're trying to type
Router(config)#interface Multilink
show inter et 0 and notice the port is administratively down
Router#clock
Router(config-line)#logging synchronous

17. Multilink Frame Relay bundle interface
Router(config)#banner incoming
Router#login
Router(config)#interface MFR
Router#config t

18. This tells the router to authenticate through a TACACS server
Router(config-line)#logging synchronous
Router(config)#enable secret
Enable the interface
Router(config)#enable use-tacacs

19. Configure fastethernet slot0/port0
set a serial interface to provide clocking to another router at 64Kb
Password required - but none set: Which of the following sequences will address this problem correctly?
Atlanta(config-if)#description Sales Lan
Router(config)#int fa 0/0

20. Debugging functions (see also 'undebug')
Router#debug
show inter et 0 and notice the port is administratively down
set the enable secret password to cisco
outer#disconnect

21. Show interfaces
configure terminal (config t)
Which of the following commands displays the configurable parameters and statistics of all interfaces on a router?
Which command will show you whether a DTE or a DCE cable is plugged into serial 0?
Which command will delete the contents of NVRAM on a router?

22. Interface range command
Router#logout
EXEC session
Router(config)#interface range
Down arrow

23. Shows previous commands entered
You type Router#sh ru and receive an % ambiguous command error. Why did you receive this message?
Router#clear counters s0/0
Router#connect
Down arrow

24. Turn off privileged commands
Router#disable
Tab
Router(config-subif)#
If you wanted administrators to see a message when logging into the router - which command would you use?

25. Exit from the EXEC
Router#logout
Router(config)#interface Vif
Router(config)#banner exec
You type Router#sh ru and receive an % ambiguous command error. Why did you receive this message?

26. Reset functions
Router#
Router(config)#line vty
Router(config)#line <0-70>
Router#clear

27. 10Mbps Ethernet network connection
Attachment Unit Interface (AUI) connection
delete the configuration stored in NVRAM
configure terminal (config t)
Router#logout

28. Provide information once connected to the device
Router#sh int ethernet0
Router#logout
Router(config-line)#line vty 0 4
Router(config)#banner

29. Banner motd
Router(config)#interface Multilink
If you wanted administrators to see a message when logging into the router - which command would you use?
You set the console password - but when you display the configuration - the password doesn't show up; it looks like this: Password 7098C0BQR
Router(config)#line tty

30. Virtual Template interface
Router(config)#interface Dialer
Router(config)#interface Loopback
Router#disable
Router(config)#interface Virtual-Template

31. For manual emergency modes setting
Enter interface configuration mode and configure serial 0/0
Router(config)#interface Tunnel
Router#bfe
Router(config)#banner login

32. Set only once and affects the entire router
global command
Enter interface configuration mode and configure serial 0/0
Router(config-if)#
Router(config)#line console

33. Sets a console user-mode password
Router(config)#line tty
Router(config)#line console
outer#disconnect
Router#connect

34. Router(config-if)#ip address 172.16.20.2 255.255.255.0 secondary
% Ambiguous command:
Router#clear counters s0/0
Router#sh terminal
Add a secondary IP address

35. Indicates that the line has been scrolled to the left
Router(config)#banner motd
Router(config)#interface CTunnel
Router(config)#$
Router#disable

36. Command-line interface
Router(config)#interface Serial
Router#exit
Router(config)#banner incoming
CLI

37. Loopback interface
Router(config)#interface Loopback
Router(config)#enable last-resort
Router#disable
What layer of the OSI model would you assume the problem is in if you type show interface serial 1 and receive: Serial1 is a down - line protocol is down

38. Enter configuration mode
Router(config)#interface Group-Async
set the name of a router to Chicago
Router#configure
global command

39. Sets the console password
Down arrow
You need to find the broadcast address used on a LAN on your router. What command will you type into the router from user mode to find the broadcast address?
Router(config)#line console 0
Router(config)#line vty

40. Exit the console
Router#logout
set the name of a router to Chicago
Router#exit
Router#clear counters s0/0

41. Async interface
Router(config)#int serial 5
Tab
Router#login
Router(config)#interface Async

42. To configure routing protocols such as RIP and IGRP
Router(config-router)#
Up arrow
Router#logout
Cisco IOS

43. WAN connections
Enter global configuration mode
Router#copy
Atlanta#copy run start
Serial interfaces

44. Exit the console
% Incomplete command
You set the console password - but when you display the configuration - the password doesn't show up; it looks like this: Password 7098C0BQR
Router>logout
Attachment Unit Interface (AUI) connection

45. There is more than one show command sthat starts with the letters ru.
Atlanta(config-if)#description Sales Lan
You type Router#sh ru and receive an % ambiguous command error. Why did you receive this message?
Router#sh history
reinitialize the router and totally replace the running-config with the current startup-config

46. Clear counters on an interface
Router(config)#interface range
Router#clear counters s0/0
Atlanta#erase startup-config
Up arrow

47. Gives a message to every person dialing into or connecting to the router via Telnet or auxiliary port - or even through a console port
Router(config)#interface Virtual-Template
Used to verify configuration
Router#clear
Router(config)#banner motd

48. A login banner to be displayed on all connected terminals; displayed after the MOTD banner but before the login prompts; delete it with the no banner login command
Router#exit
set the name of a router to Chicago
Router(config)#interface Group-Async
Router(config)#banner login

49. The administrator has the interface shut down.
Router#exit
Router#sh int ethernet0
Exec-timeout 1 44
Serial0 is administratively down - line protocol is down

50. Slot/Port for Modems
Used to verify configuration
Router(config-line)#exec-timeout
Router#clock
Router(config)#line x/y