On 

Ethernet networks, the hexadecimal address FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF represent

the Answer MAC address.

broadcast

What happens if part of an FTP message is not delivered to the destination?

Select one:
a.
The part of the FTP message that was lost is re-sent
b.
The FTP source host sends a query to the destination host
c.
The message is lost because FTP does not use a reliable delivery method
d.
The entire FTP message is re-sent

How does the network layer use the MTU value?

Select one:
a.
The MTU is passed to the network layer by the data link layer
b.
The network layer depends on the higher level layers to determine the MTU
c.
The network layer depends on the data link layer to set the MTU, and adjusts the
speed of transmission to accommodate it
d.
To increase speed of delivery. The network layer ignores the MTU

What is the purpose of using a source port number in a TCP communication?

to keep track of multiple conversations between devices

Which transport layer feature is used to guarantee session establishment?

TCP 3-way handshake

Which standard specifies the Ethernet MAC sublayer functionality in a computer

NIC?
IEEE 802.3

A client application needs to terminate a TCP communication session with a server.

Place the termination process steps in the order that they will occur. (Not all options
are used.)
1. client sends FIN
2. server sends ACK
3. server sends FIN
4. client sends ACK

What type of applications are best suited for using UDP?

applications that are sensitive to delay

What is the purpose of the TCP sliding window?

to request that a source decrease the rate at which it transmits data

What are three responsibilities of the transport layer? (Choose three.)

1. meeting the reliability requirements of applications, if any
2. multiplexing multiple communication streams from many users or applications on
the same network
3. identifying the applications and services on the client and server that should handle
transmitted data

Which three fields are used in a UDP segment header? (Choose three.)
1. Length
2. Source Port
3. Checksum

Network congestion has resulted in the source learning of the loss of TCP segments
that were sent to the destination. What is one way that the TCP protocol addresses
this?
The source decreases the amount of data that it transmits before it receives an
acknowledgement from the destination.

Which action is performed by a client when establishing communication with a server

via the use of UDP at the transport layer?
The client sets the window size for the session

Which number or set of numbers represents a socket?

192.168.1.1:80

What is an advantage of UDP over TCP?

UDP communication requires less overhead.

Which two services or protocols use the preferred UDP protocol for fast transmission
and low overhead? (Choose two)
1. DNS
2. VoIP

What OSI layer is responsible for establishing a temporary communication session

between two applications and ensuring that transmitted data can be reassembled in
proper sequence?
transport

Refer to the exhibit. What does the value of the window size specify?
the amount of data that can be sent before an acknowledgment is required

Which key combination allows a user to abort setup mode?

Ctl-C

Which IPv4 address can a host use to ping the loopback interface?
127.0.0.1

Which value, that is contained in an IPv4 header field, is decremented by each router
that receives a packet?
Time-to-Live

When transporting data from real-time applications, such as streaming audio and
video, which field in the IPv6 header can be used to inform the routers and switches
to maintain the same path for the packets in the same conversation?
Flow Label

How does the network layer use the MTU value?

The MTU is passed to the network layer by the data link layer`

Within a production network, what is the purpose of configuring a switch with a

default gateway address?
The default gateway address is used to forward packets originating from the switch to
remote networks.

What are two functions that are provided by the network layer?
providing end devices with a unique network identifier
directing data packets to destination hosts on other networks

A router may have to fragment a packet when forwarding it from one medium to
another medium that has a smaller ___?
MTU

The acronym is used to define the process that allows multiple devices to share a
single routable IP address.
NAT or PAT
If there are two or more possible routes to the same destination, the ____ is used to
determine which route is used in the routing table.
Metric

During the boot process, where will the router bootstrap program look for the IOS
image by default?
flash

Which portion of the network layer address does a router use to forward packets?
network portion

What is a hop?
How man to pc 4 from pc1
pc1-sw- x-x-x-sw pc4?

A hop is an intermediary Layer 3 device that a packet has to traverse to reach its
destination. In this case, the number of hops a packet has to traverse from PC-1 to PC-
4 is three, as there are three routers from source to destination.
pc1-sw- x-x-x-sw pc4

Which two characteristics are associated with UDP sessions? (Choose two.)
Destination devices receive traffic with minimal delay.

Received data is unacknowledged.

What happens if part of an FTP message is not delivered to the destination?

The part of the FTP message that was lost is re-sent.

A host device needs to send a large video file across the network while providing data
communication to other users. Which feature will allow different communication
streams to occur at the same time, without having a single data stream using all
available bandwidth?
Multiplexing

What kind of port must be requested from IANA in order to be used with a specific
application?
registered port

What type of information is included in the transport header?

destination and source port numbers

Which flag in the TCP header is used in response to a received FIN in order to
terminate connectivity between two network devices?
ACK

During a TCP session, a destination device sends an acknowledgment number to the

source device. What does the acknowledgment number represent?
the next byte that the destination expects to receive
What information is used by TCP to reassemble and reorder received segments?
sequence numbers

What does TCP do if the sending source detects network congestion on the path to the
destination?
The source will decrease the amount of data that it sends before it must receive
acknowledgements from the destination.

What is a characteristic of UDP?

UDP reassembles the received datagrams in the order they were received.

Why does HTTP use TCP as the transport layer protocol?

because HTTP requires reliable delivery

When is UDP preferred to TCP?

when an application can tolerate some loss of data during transmission

Which three application layer protocols use TCP? (Choose three.)

SMTP

FTP

HTTP

Which action is taken by a Layer 2 switch when it receives a Layer 2 broadcast

frame?
It sends the frame to all ports except the port on which it received the frame.

Refer to the graphic. H2 has sent a broadcast message to all of the hosts. If host H1
wants to reply to the broadcast message, which statement is true?
H1 sends a unicast message to H2, and the switch forwards it directly to H2.

Which term defines the processing capabilities of a switch by rating how much data
can be processed per second?
forwarding rate

Which interface command must be entered in a Layer 3 switch before an IPv4 address
can be assigned to that interface?
no switchport

Refer to the exhibit. What is the destination MAC address of the Ethernet frame as it
leaves the web server if the final destination is PC1?
00-60-2F-3A-07-CC

A collision fragment, also known as a __________ frame, is a frame of fewer than 64

bytes in length.
RUNT

What is a characteristic of a contention-based access method

It is a nondeterministic method

Which destination address is used in an ARP request frame?

FFFF.FFFF.FFFF

Which two functions or operations are performed by the MAC sublayer? (Choose
two.)
It is responsible for Media Access Control.

It adds a header and trailer to form an OSI Layer 2 PDU.

What type of address is 01-00-5E-0A-00-02?

an address that reaches a specific group of hosts

The Ethernet ________ sublayer is responsible for communicating directly with the
physical layer
MAC

Which entities are involved in a temporary communication that is established by the

transport layer?
Applications

When a client connects to an HTTP server by the use of a randomly generated source
port number, what destination port number will the HTTP server use when building a
response?
the original source port number that was randomly generated by the client

What is the application layer service being requested from Server0 by PC0?
HTTPS

Refer to the exhibit. What step in a TCP session does this capture represent?
Session Termination

Match the TCP flag to the correct step in the session establishment sequence. (Not all
options are used.)
1-SYN
2-SYN+ACK
3-ACK

Which two applications use UDP as the transport layer protocol? (Choose two.)
-DNS queries
-DHCP

What is the command netstat -r used for?

to display the host routing table

Which feature on a Cisco router permits the forwarding of traffic for which there is no
specific route?
gateway of last resort
When connectionless protocols are implemented at the lower layers of the OSI model,
what are usually used to acknowledge the data receipt and request the retransmission
of missing data?
upper-layer connection-oriented protocols

Why is NAT not needed in IPv6?

Any host or user can get a public IPv6 network address because the number of
available IPv6 addresses is extremely large.

Which statement about router interfaces is true?

A configured and activated router interface must be connected to another device in
order to operate

A technician is manually configuring a computer with the necessary IP parameters to

communicate over the corporate network. The computer already has an IP address, a
subnet mask, and a DNS server. What else has to be configured for Internet access?
the default gateway address

A computer has to send a packet to a destination host in the same LAN. How will the
packet be sent?
The packet will be sent directly to the destination host

Which router bootup sequence is correct?

1 - perform the POST and load the bootstrap program
2 - locate and load the Cisco IOS software
3 - locate and load the startup configuration file or enter setup mode

During troubleshooting procedures, from which location will most Cisco routers load
a limited IOS?
ROM

Which interfaces in each router are active and operational?

R1: G0/0 and S0/0/0
R2: G0/1 and S0/0/0

Which two files are loaded into RAM by the router when it boots? (Choose two.)
startup configuration

IOS image

A packet arrives at a router interface. The router goes through a series of steps to
determine where the packet should be forwarded. Place the steps of the router
forwarding process in the correct order.
(Not all options are used.)
1 Examine Packet Header
2 Determine Destination Network
3 Examine Routing Table
4 Identify Exit Interface to Destination from route entry
5 Move packet to forwarding interface
Match the commands to the correct actions. (Not all options are used.)
provides security on the console =
router(config-line)# Password class

displays a message when the router is accessed =

router(config)# banner motd

configures a name on the router =

router(config)# hostname CL1

Which IPv4 header field is responsible for defining the priority of the packet?
differentiated services

When would the Cisco IOS image held in ROM be used to boot the router?
when the full IOS cannot be found

A technician is configuring a router that is actively running on the network. Suddenly,

power to the router is lost. If the technician has not saved the configuration, which
two types of information will be lost? (Choose two.)
ARP cache
routing table

Fill in the blank. In a router,________ is the nonvolatile memory where the diagnostic
software, the bootup instructions, and a limited IOS are stored.
ROM

What is a service provided by the Flow Label field of the IPv6 header?
It informs network devices to maintain the same path for real-time application
packets.

Which three commands are used to set up a password for a person who attaches a
cable to a new router so that an initial configuration can be performed? (Choose
three.)
login
line console 0
password cisco

Which command displays a summary chart of all router interfaces, their IP addresses,
and their current operational status?
show ip interface brief

Which two commands can be used on a Windows host to display the routing table?
(Choose two.)
route print
netstat -r

A packet leaving PC-1 has to traverse _____ hops to reach PC-4.

3
How do hosts ensure that their packets are directed to the correct network destination?
They have to keep their own local routing table that contains a route to the loopback
interface, a local network route, and a remote default route.

Which two files, if found, are copied into RAM as a router with the default
configuration register setting boots up? (Choose two.)
IOS image file
Startup configuration

Which two interfaces will allow access via the VTY lines to configure the router?
(Choose two.)
WAN interfaces
LAN interfaces

During the process of forwarding traffic, what will the router do immediately after
matching the destination IP address to a network on a directly connected routing table
entry?
switch the packet to the directly connected interface

After troubleshooting a router, the network administrator wants to save the router
configuration so that it will be used automatically the next time that the router
reboots. What command should be issued?
copy running-config startup-config
A user is unable to access the company server from a computer. On issuing the
ipconfig command, the user finds that the IP address of the computer is displayed as
169.254.0.2. What type of address is this?

Select one:
a.
loopback
b.
link-local
c.
experimental
d.
private
Which application use UDP as the transport layer protocol?

Select one:
a.
DHCP
b.
DNS queries
c.
HTTP
d.
SMTP
e.
Telnet
Which two statements describe broadcast transmissions on a wired network? (Choose
two.)
Directed broadcasts are intended for all hosts on a local or remote network.

Limited broadcasts are only intended for the hosts on a local network.

The 8-bit binary value for 41 is

00101001

The last host address on the 10.15.25.0/24 network is

10.15.25.254

Match the legacy IP address class with the answer that represents the entire private
address range reserved within that class. (Not all options are used.)
A = 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
B = 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
C = 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255

Fill in the blank.

The shortest compressed format of the IPv6 address

2001:0DB8:0000:1470:0000:0000:0000:0200 is________
2001:DB8:0:1470::200

Which statement accurately describes public IP addresses?

Public IP addresses must be unique across the entire Internet

A network administrator notices that the default gateway device sends an ICMP
Redirect message to the workstation when the workstation tries to connect to a file
server on another network. What is the purpose for this ICMP message?
To notify the workstation, that another router on the same network, is the better
default-gateway to reach the remote server.

Your organization is issued the IPv6 prefix of 2001:0000:130F::/48 by your service

provider. With this prefix, how many bits are available for your organization to create
subnetworks?
16

A user who is unable to connect to the file server contacts the help desk. The helpdesk
technician asks the user to ping the IP address of the default gateway that is
configured on the workstation. What is the purpose for this ping command?
to test if the workstation can communicate on the network

Which type of IPv6 address is not routable and used only for communication on a
single subnet?
link-local address

Which statement is true about an interface that is configured with the IPv6 address
command?
A link-local IPv6 address is automatically configured on the interface.

At which layers of the OSI model does Ethernet function? (Choose two.)
F. Data link
G. Physical

Which standard specifies the Ethernet MAC sublayer functionality in

a computer NIC?
IEEE 802.3

What is the name given to the Ethernet MAC sublayer PDU?

Frame

What are the primary functions associated with data encapsulation at the Ethernet
MAC sublayer? (Choose three.)
B. Frame delimiting
C. Addressing
E. Error detection

What happens when a data collision occurs on an Ethernet bus?

All devices stop transmitting and try again later.

What is true about the Ethernet MAC address? (Choose three.)

C. The first 6 hexadecimal digits of a MAC address represent the OUI.
D. The vendor is responsible for assigning the last 24 bits of the MAC address.
E. The MAC address is also known as a burned-in address

What is the minimum and maximum Ethernet frame size as defined by IEEE 802.3?
64 bytes - 1518 bytes

Which field in an Ethernet frame is used for error detection?

Frame Check Sequence

Which address is used as a destination address on a broadcast Ethernet frame?

FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF

Which address is a multicast MAC address?

01-00-5E-00-00-C8

What functions are provided by the ARP process? (Choose two.)

A. Resolving IPv4 addresses to MAC addresses
C. Maintaining a table of mappings

 Which devices on a network will receive an ARP request?

All devices in the L2 broadcast domain

Fill in the blanks. When ARP receives a request to map an

IPv4 address to a MAC address, it first looks in its _____. If no entry is
found, ARP will send out an ARP_____.
ARP TABLE , REQUEST

Fill in the blanks. When a device receives an ARP request

for a device with a different IP address, it will use the _____
information to update its ARP table and then it will _____ the packet.
source, drop

Fill in the blanks. ARP _____ are sent to a broadcast MAC

address, and ARP replies are sent to a _____ MAC address
requests, unicast

Fill in the blanks. When a switch receives a broadcast

frame, it enters the source information in its _____ and then it _____
the frame to all ports except the one the frame was _____ on.
MAC address table, floods, received

Fill in the blanks. The MAC address table is sometimes

referred to as a _____ table because it is stored in _____ memory.
CAM, content addressable

What type of switching is used on current L2 switches to allow QoS?

Store-and-forward
Fragment-free

If the source and destination IPv4 addresses are on the same network,
the destination MAC address will be that of which device?
The same device as the destination IPv4 address

If the source and destination IPv4 addresses are on different

networks, the destination MAC address will be that of which device?
The default gateway

Which layer of the OSI model is concerned with end-to-end communication over the
network?
Network

Which of the following is associated with the network layer?

IP address

Why was IPv4 designed as a connectionless protocol?

IP is connectionless, which greatly reduces the overhead of IP.

On a router, what field in an IPv4 header should be examined to

determine that the maximum number of hops has been reached by the
packet on its way from the source to this destination?
TTL

When configuring a host, the gateway was not configured. How will this affect
communication to and from this device?
Communication will be limited to hosts in the local network.

In what part of a router is the running configuration being used located?

RAM

During the boot process of a Cisco router, you notice a series of hash symbols (#)
appearing on the terminal emulator screen from the console session. In what phase is
the boot process?
Loading the IOS

What are the required steps for configuring an interface on a router? (Choose two.)
Provide Layer 3 addressing information
Turn on routing on the interface

The ip default-gateway command was not used when configuring a switch. How will
this affect network communication? (Choose two.)
A. Host communication through the switch will not be affected.
E. Communication to and from the switch will be limited to hosts in the local
network.

When using the netstat -r command on a host, you see a route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0. What
does this route represent?
Destinations without a specified route are forwarded to the gateway.
A data center has recently updated a physical server to host multiple operating
systems on a single CPU. The data center can now provide each customer with a
separate web server without having to allocate an actual discrete server for each
customer. What is the network trend that is being implemented by the data center in
this situation?

Select one:

a.

virtualization

b.

BYOD

c.

maintaining communication integrity

d.

online collaboration

A network administrator notices that the default gateway devices sends an ICMP
Redirect message to the workstation when the workstation tries to connect to file
server on another network. What is the purpose for this ICMP message?

Select one:

a.

The network topology has changed and a new route toward the file server is available

b.

The default gateway does not know a route to the destination

c.

The default gateway is overwhelmed by network traffic and the request is redirected
to another router

d.

To notify the workstation, that another router on the same network, is the better
default-gateway to reach the remote server

What is an advantage of using standards to develop and implement protocols?

Select one:

a.
Standards provide flexibility for manufacturers to create devices that comply with
unique requirements

b.

A particular protocol can be implemented by one manufacturer

c.

Products from different manufacturers can interoperate successfully

d.

Different manufacturers are free to apply different requirements when implementing

a protocol

Which two components are added to the PDU at the network access layer? (Choose
two.)

Select one or more:

a.

HTTP header

b.

Trailer

c.

TCP header

d.

IP header

e.

frame header