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Introduction To The Cisco IOS

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1. Bridge-Group Virtual Interface
Router(config)#int ethernet 0
EXEC session
Router(config)#interface Multilink
Router(config)#interface BVI

2. Virtual Template interface
Router#clock
Router(config)#interface Virtual-Template
Auxiliary port
Router(config)#interface Multilink

3. There is more than one show command sthat starts with the letters ru.
If you wanted administrators to see a message when logging into the router - which command would you use?
Router#clear
You type Router#sh ru and receive an % ambiguous command error. Why did you receive this message?
Cisco IOS

4. Access from console port - -modem into AUX port - and telnet
You set the console password - but when you display the configuration - the password doesn't show up; it looks like this: Password 7098C0BQR
EXEC session
What command do you type to save the configuration stored in RAM to NVRAM?
Router(config-line)#

5. Lex interface
Router(config)#banner motd
Router(config)#interface Lex
Atlanta#erase startup-config
Router#login

6. Go back from privileged mode into user mode
Router#disable
Which of the following commands will configure all the default VTY ports on a router?
Router(config)#interface MFR
Router#configure

7. Router(config)#line vty 0 4
Router#login
Router#disable
Which of the following commands will configure all the default VTY ports on a router?
Router#sh controllers serial 0/0

8. Sh int e0; config t; int e0; ip address 172.16.10.2 255.255.255.0; no shut; sh int e0
Atlanta(config-if)#description Sales Lan
Configure an IP address on e0
Enable the interface
Router(config)#line console

9. Command-line interface
Router(config)#banner incoming
Router(config)#int ethernet 0
CLI
see the terminal history size

10. Clock rate 64000
set a serial interface to provide clocking to another router at 64Kb
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)#logging synchronous
Router(config-if)#

11. Change the startup-config stored in NVRAM
Router(config)#banner motd
configure memory (config mem)
Router#mrinfo
Router(config)#line vty

12. Show interfaces
Router(config)#banner motd
Router(config-line)#
% Ambiguous command:
Which of the following commands displays the configurable parameters and statistics of all interfaces on a router?

13. Sets the time-out for the console EXEC session; never timing out (0 0) to 35 -791 minutes and 2 -147 -483 seconds. The default is 10 minutes
Router(config-line)#exec-timeout
Router(config-if)#
show inter et 0 and notice the port is administratively down
Router#access-template

14. Sets the description of an interface; use it to keep track of circuit numbers - locations - etc.
Atlanta(config-if)#description Sales Lan
Serial interfaces
Router#logout
Router(config)#interface BVI

15. Exit from the EXEC
What command do you type to save the configuration stored in RAM to NVRAM?
Router(config)#interface Dialer
Router#logout
Router(config-router)#

16. Exit the console
Router#access-profile
Router(config)#interface Loopback
% Incomplete command
Router>logout

17. Disconnect an existing network connection
Cisco IOS
Router(config)#hostname Todd
outer#disconnect
Router#clear

18. Interface configuration mode
% Invalid input detected at '^' marker.
Router(config)#enable password
Router>
Router(config-if)#

19. For manual emergency modes setting
Router#bfe
Router#sh int fastethernet 0/0
You set the console password - but when you display the configuration - the password doesn't show up; it looks like this: Password 7098C0BQR
Which of the following commands sets the secret password to Cisco?

20. Quick status of layers 1 and 2 of each interface as well as the IP addresses used
Router#sh protocols
% Invalid input detected at '^' marker
Router(config)#int serial 5
Router(config)#banner exec

21. Allows you to configure modem commands so that a modem can be connected to the router
Auxiliary port
Bring up Ethernet0
Atlanta(config-if)#description Sales Lan
You set the console password - but when you display the configuration - the password doesn't show up; it looks like this: Password 7098C0BQR

22. To configure routing protocols such as RIP and IGRP
Router(config-router)#
Router>
Cisco IOS
EXEC session

23. Configure RIP Protocol
Router(config-line)#exec-timeout
Router(config)#router rip
Router#exit
Router#sh version

24. Sets the enable password on older - pre-10.3 systems - and isn't ever used if an enable secret is set
Router#sh controllers serial 0/0
Router(config)#enable password
Enter global configuration mode
Serial0 is administratively down - line protocol is down

25. Dialer interface
Router(config)#interface Dialer
Router>sh controllers s 0
Router(config)#hostname Todd
Router(config)#banner incoming

26. Sets a console user-mode password
Router>logout
Router(config)#line console
Which of the following commands displays the configurable parameters and statistics of all interfaces on a router?
Set telnet connection to have no password

27. To configure user-mode passwords
If you wanted administrators to see a message when logging into the router - which command would you use?
Router(config-line)#
Booting a router
Router#bfe

28. Sh run
view the config
Which of the following commands will display the current IP addressing and the layer 1 and 2 status of an interface? (Choose three.)
outer#disconnect
Router(config)#interface Null

29. Open a terminal connection
Router(config)#service password-encryption
Router(config)#banner login
% Invalid input detected at '^' marker.
Router#connect

30. No shut
Enable the interface
Password required - but none set: Which of the following sequences will address this problem correctly?
Router#access-enable
Router(config)#interface Virtual-Template

31. FastEthernet IEEE 802.3
Atlanta#sh run
Router(config-line)#
Router(config)#interface FastEthernet
Router(config)#$

32. Sets the aux password; Router(config-line)#password todd; Router(config-line)#login
Which command will show you whether a DTE or a DCE cable is plugged into serial 0?
Router(config)#banner exec
Router#clear counters s0/0
Router(config)#line aux 0

33. Reset functions
Router#
Router#clear
Router(config)#interface Lex
configure terminal (config t)

34. Slot/Port for Modems
Router(config-router)#
delete the configuration stored in NVRAM
Router(config)#line x/y
If you wanted administrators to see a message when logging into the router - which command would you use?

35. Sets the enable password to todd
If you delete the contents of NVRAM and reboot the router - what mode will you be in?
Router(config)#enable password todd
Which of the following commands will display the current IP addressing and the layer 1 and 2 status of an interface? (Choose three.)
Router#copy

36. Configure serial port 5
Router#clear
Router(config)#int serial 5
If you delete the contents of NVRAM and reboot the router - what mode will you be in?
Router#disable

37. Show controllers int
Atlanta#sh start
reinitialize the router and totally replace the running-config with the current startup-config
see if a serial interface needed to provide clocking
Router#logout

38. Gives a message to every person dialing into or connecting to the router via Telnet or auxiliary port - or even through a console port
configure network (config net)
global command
If you wanted administrators to see a message when logging into the router - which command would you use?
Router(config)#banner motd

39. The show controllers serial 0 command will show you whether either a DTE or DCE cable is connected to the interface. If it is a DCE connection - you need to add clocking with the clock rate command.
Router(config)#interface CTunnel
Router#sh int fastethernet 0/0
Which command will show you whether a DTE or a DCE cable is plugged into serial 0?
Router(config)#enable password todd

40. Erase flash or configuration memory
Router#erase
Router(config)#line x/y
Router(config)#$
Atlanta#erase startup-config

41. Global configuration mode and changes what's known as the running-config
configure terminal (config t)
Auxiliary port
Serial0 is administratively down - line protocol is down
Console port

42. Changes buffer size (max 256)
Router#terminal history size
Router(config-subif)#
Atlanta#sh start
Router#exit

43. Create a temporary Access-List entry
Router(config)#interface Virtual-Template
Router(config)#interface Lex
Router#access-enable
configure memory (config mem)

44. Ctrl+C
Console port
Exec-timeout 1 44
What keystroke will terminate setup mode?
show inter et 0 and notice the port is administratively down

45. Exit from the EXEC
Router#exit
If you wanted administrators to see a message when logging into the router - which command would you use?
Router(config)#line vty
% Invalid input detected at '^' marker.

46. 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)
Router(config)#enable secret todd
Router(config)#enable last-resort
Router#sh controllers serial 0/0
Which of the following commands sets the secret password to Cisco?

47. Sets the user-mode password for the auxiliary port. It's usually used for attaching a modem to the router - but it can be used as a console as well
Router(config-router)#
Router(config)#enable password todd
Router(config)#line aux
Router(config)#interface range

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
Bandwidth
Router(config)#banner login
set a serial interface to provide clocking to another router at 64Kb
outer#disconnect

49. Log in as a particular user
Enable the interface
Router#login
Router(config)#hostname Todd
Router>sh controllers s 0

50. Config t - int e0 - no shut
Router#help
Router#clear
show inter et 0 and notice the port is administratively down
Booting a router