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Introduction To The Cisco IOS

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1. To configure routing protocols such as RIP and IGRP
Router(config-router)#
Router#clear
Booting a router
Atlanta#sh start

2. 'out-of-band' (meaning out of the network) access
What keystroke will terminate setup mode?
Which of the following commands will configure all the default VTY ports on a router?
Router(config)#interface Multilink
Auxiliary port

3. Virtual Template interface
Router(config)#interface Virtual-Template
Router(config)#line tty
Router#configure
set a user-mode password for the console port

4. Configure a DCE serial interface in bits per second
configure terminal (config t)
Router#mrinfo
Router(config-if)#clock rate 64000
Router(config)#int fa 0/0

5. Allows you to configure modem commands so that a modem can be connected to the router
Router(config)#enable password
Router(config)#interface MFR
Router(config)#interface Multilink
Auxiliary port

6. First Line number
set the enable secret password to cisco
Router(config)#interface Vif
Router(config)#line <0-70>
Router#sh int fastethernet 0/0

7. Enter configuration mode
Router#configure
You type Router#sh ru and receive an % ambiguous command error. Why did you receive this message?
Router(config)#interface Virtual-Template
How many simultaneous Telnet sessions does a Cisco router support by default?

8. Enable secret Cisco
Booting a router
You type Router#sh ru and receive an % ambiguous command error. Why did you receive this message?
Router(config-if)#clock rate 64000
Which of the following commands sets the secret password to Cisco?

9. Lex interface
Router#disable
Atlanta(config-if)#description Sales Lan
Which of the following commands displays the configurable parameters and statistics of all interfaces on a router?
Router(config)#interface Lex

10. Cisco Internetwork Operating System
Router#disable
Router#erase
Router(config)#interface Multilink
Cisco IOS

11. Create a temporary Access-List entry
Router#access-template
Enter interface configuration mode and configure serial 0/0
configure terminal (config t)
Auxiliary port

12. Setup mode
Router(config)#interface Loopback
Router(config)#enable password todd
If you delete the contents of NVRAM and reboot the router - what mode will you be in?
Router#terminal history size

13. Log in as a particular user
Router#exit
Router#terminal history size
Up arrow
Router#login

14. Sets the aux password; Router(config-line)#password todd; Router(config-line)#login
Used to verify configuration
Password required - but none set: Which of the following sequences will address this problem correctly?
Router(config)#line aux 0
Router(config-if)#

15. A line-activation (exec) banner to be displayed when an EXEC process is created
Router(config)#banner exec
What keystroke will terminate setup mode?
Router(config)#int ethernet 0
% Ambiguous command:

16. Sets the console password
Router(config)#line console 0
Router(config-if)#clock rate 64000
Which of the following commands sets the secret password to Cisco?
see the terminal history size

17. Configure fastethernet slot0/port0
Router(config)#int fa 0/0
Router#logout
Add a secondary IP address
Router(config)#enable password

18. Exit from the EXEC
Router(config)#interface Group-Async
Router#logout
Router#access-enable
Router#sh version

19. Router(config-if)#ip address 172.16.20.2 255.255.255.0 secondary
Add a secondary IP address
Router(config)#enable password todd
Router(config)#enable use-tacacs
configure terminal (config t)

20. Clear counters on an interface
Which of the following commands will configure all the default VTY ports on a router?
Down arrow
Router#clear counters s0/0
Router(config)#line aux

21. Set only once and affects the entire router
global command
Password required - but none set: Which of the following sequences will address this problem correctly?
Router(config)#enable use-tacacs
What keystroke will terminate setup mode?

22. Erase start
Router(config)#interface Null
set the name of a router to Chicago
Which command will delete the contents of NVRAM on a router?
Router(config)#int ethernet 0

23. Subinterfaces allow you to create logical interfaces within the router
Router(config-subif)#
Router(config)#interface BVI
reinitialize the router and totally replace the running-config with the current startup-config
Router(config)#line tty

24. Manually save the file from DRAM to NVRAM
Tab
Atlanta#copy run start
Serial interfaces
Auxiliary port

25. Tunnel interface
Used to verify configuration
Router#login
Router(config)#interface Tunnel
Router(config)#interface Async

26. Changes buffer size (max 256)
Router(config-if)#clock rate 64000
Router(config)#interface Group-Async
Router#terminal history size
Configure an IP address on e0

27. Change the running-config running in dynamic RAM (DRAM)
Router#exit
configure terminal (config t)
Router#sh int fastethernet 0/0
Router(config)#line vty

28. Command-line interface
Router(config-line)#
see the terminal history size
CLI
Configure an IP address on e0

29. Show info for ethernet0
configure terminal (config t)
Router#access-profile
Router#sh int ethernet0
Router#mrinfo

30. Erase startup-config
delete the configuration stored in NVRAM
Router(config)#line vty
Router#sh protocols
Router(config)#interface Dialer

31. Command entered incorrectly
% Invalid input detected at '^' marker

32. Sets the telnet password
Tab
Which of the following commands will configure all the default VTY ports on a router?
EXEC session
Router(config-line)#line vty 0 4

33. Banner motd
Atlanta#sh run
Router#access-enable
If you wanted administrators to see a message when logging into the router - which command would you use?
What command do you type to save the configuration stored in RAM to NVRAM?

34. Sets the description of an interface; use it to keep track of circuit numbers - locations - etc.
Router#exit
Router(config)#interface Null
see if a serial interface needed to provide clocking
Atlanta(config-if)#description Sales Lan

35. Stops console messages from popping up and disrupting the input you're trying to type
Router#clear counters s0/0
Router(config-line)#logging synchronous
Router(config)#banner incoming
Router(config)#interface Multilink

36. Exit the console
Router>logout
Router(config)#interface FastEthernet
see if a serial interface needed to provide clocking
Router#logout

37. Privileged mode
Router#logout
Router#sh terminal
see if a serial interface needed to provide clocking
Router#

38. Sets the enable password on older - pre-10.3 systems - and isn't ever used if an enable secret is set
Atlanta#copy run start
see the terminal history size
Router(config-line)#logging synchronous
Router(config)#enable password

39. FastEthernet IEEE 802.3
Router(config)#line vty
Atlanta#copy run start
Router(config)#interface Group-Async
Router(config)#interface FastEthernet

40. Config t - line console 0 - login - password todd
set a user-mode password for the console port
How many simultaneous Telnet sessions does a Cisco router support by default?
show inter et 0 and notice the port is administratively down
Label the interface 'WAN to Miami'

41. Router#copy run startup
What command do you type to save the configuration stored in RAM to NVRAM?
Router#sh terminal
How many simultaneous Telnet sessions does a Cisco router support by default?
outer#disconnect

42. Async interface
Router(config)#interface Virtual-TokenRing
You set the console password - but when you display the configuration - the password doesn't show up; it looks like this: Password 7098C0BQR
Router#sh version
Router(config)#interface Async

43. Encrypts passwords; sh run - config t - Router(config)#no service password-encryption
Router#exit
Configure an IP address on e0
Router(config)#service password-encryption
Router#debug

44. View the config that will run when the router is reloaded; tells us how much NVRAM is being used
Router(config)#interface BVI
Atlanta#sh start
Router(config)#line aux 0
Router(config)#interface Virtual-TokenRing

45. Change a router configuration stored on a TFTP host
configure network (config net)
Used to verify configuration
Router#connect
Router#sh int fastethernet 0/0

46. Null interface
Router(config)#interface Null
Router#erase
Used to verify configuration
Router#sh running-config (sh run)

47. Indicates that the line has been scrolled to the left
Atlanta#erase startup-config
Router(config)#$
You set the console password - but when you display the configuration - the password doesn't show up; it looks like this: Password 7098C0BQR
Router#sh controllers serial 0/0

48. Configure serial port 5
Router(config-if)#clock rate 64000
Atlanta#erase startup-config
Router(config)#int serial 5
Router(config)#line console 0

49. Exit from the EXEC
Serial interfaces
Setup mode
Router(config)#enable last-resort
Router#exit

50. Apply user-profile to interface
Router#sh version
Router(config)#interface range
Router#access-profile
Auxiliary port