What IEEE standard defines the Link Aggregation Control

Protocol (LACP)?
Question 1 options:

D) 802.3ad

What is the name of a VLAN that is transported over a trunk port

without an 802.1Q tag?
Question 2 options:
C) Native

Question 3 (1 point)

What are the steps a DHCP client goes through when requesting
an IP address? Make sure they are in the correct order.
Question 3 options:
A) DHCPDISCOVER, DHCPOFFER, DHCPREQUEST, DHCPACK

Question 4 (1 point)

How many collision domains are shown in the following

diagram?
Question 4 options:
A) 1

B) 2

C) 3

D) 4

Question 5 (1 point)

Which type of fiber-optic cabling only allows an individual light

path through it?
Question 5 options:
D) Single-mode

Question 6 (1 point)
What is the name of a device that can be connected to a T1 line
and can convert frame formats and support remote diagnostics?
Question 6 options:
B) SmartJack

Question 7 (1 point)

What is the name of the Cisco's initial proprietary first-hop

redundancy protocol?
Question 7 options:

A) HSRP

Question 8 (1 point)

What is the name of the protocol that is commonly used to

authenticate devices that connect via DSL?
Question 8 options:
B) PPPoE

Question 9 (1 point)

Which of the following applies to the diagram shown here?

(Choose two.)
Question 9 options:

The diagram represents a full-mesh WAN topology.

It directly connects every site to every other site.

The directly connected sites allow suboptimal path to be located instead relaying traffic via another site.

There is a WAN link from each remote site to the main site.

Question 10 (1 point)

What is the name of the mechanism used by TCP to increase and

decrease the number of segments that are sent between each
other before an acknowledgment is required?
Question 10 options:

D) Windowing

Question 11 (1 point)
Ethernet standard 1000BASE-SX uses SMF and has a distance
limitation of 5km. What is the bandwidth capacity of 1000BASE-
SX?
Question 11 options:
A) 10Mbps

B) 100Mbps

C) 1Gbps

D) 100Gbps

E) 1000Gbps

Question 12 (1 point)

What is the name of the address that is used by a router (at

Layer 3) to identify specific devices?
Question 12 options:

A) IP

Question 13 (1 point)

Which category of UTP cabling is used for 10 Gigabit Ethernet?

(Select all that apply.)
Question 13 options:
A) Category 6a
Question 14 (1 point)

How many bits are in an IPv4 address?

Question 14 options:
A) 32

Question 15 (1 point)

How is a switch elected as a root bridge for spanning tree if the

bridge priorities are the same?
Question 15 options:

B) The switch with the lowest MAC address will become the root bridge.

Question 16 (1 point)

When uplinking a switch, it is common to use interface

converters such as GBICs. What is another common name for
these various interface converters?
Question 16 options:

A) Transceivers

Question 17 (1 point)

Which option is a benefit of implementing a client/server

arrangement over a peer-to-peer arrangement? (Choose two.)
Question 17 options:
 Simplified administration

Easy scalability

Question 18 (1 point)

What are the two different supported frame formats that are
used when deploying a T1 leased line?
Question 18 options:

Super Frame

Extended Super Frame

Question 19 (1 point)

A service level agreement (SLA) is used to specify the specific

performance metrics (for example, available bandwidth and
maximum delay) that are guaranteed for a service over a certain
percentage of time.
Question 19 options:
A) True

Question 20 (1 point)

What is the binary version of the decimal number 49?

Question 20 options:

B) 00110001

Question 21 (1 point)
What is the purpose of a DNS server?
Question 21 options:

A) Routing packets to the Internet

D) Providing an IP address for a fully qualified domain name

Question 22 (1 point)

At the moment, PC1 cannot reach the Internet. You add a static
default route to R1 that sends all traffic to an unknown
destination out S1/1. Can a user on PC1 access the Internet?

Question 22 options:
A) Yes, PC1 has Internet access.

B) No, packets will not make it past R1.

 C) No, packets can make it to the Internet, but they will never make it back to PC1.

D) No, packets will stop at R2.

Question 23 (1 point)

What factors are used to calculate the OSPF cost?

Question 23 options:
B) Bandwidth

Question 24 (1 point)

MPLS inserts a 32-bit header between Layer 2 and Layer 3

headers. Because this header is ________ between the Layer 2
and Layer 3 headers, it is sometimes referred to as a(n) ________
header.
Question 24 options:
A) inserted, insert

B) added, addon

C) inserted, proxy

D) shimmed, shim

Question 25 (1 point)

What is the most popular topology that is used on modern LANs?

Question 25 options:
 B) Star

Question 26 (1 point)

What port is used for SSH?

Question 26 options:
B) 22

Question 27 (1 point)

What is the name of the address that is used by a switch to

identify specific devices?
Question 27 options:
A) MAC

Question 28 (1 point)

How many subnets do you get with a subnet of 192.168.1.0/28?

Question 28 options:

C) 16

Question 29 (1 point)

What port is used for HTTPS?

Question 29 options:
C) 443

Question 30 (1 point)
Which mode of PIM uses a rendezvous point (RP)?
Question 30 options:

C) Sparse mode

Question 31 (1 point)

Which data flow is NOT supported by IPv6?

Question 31 options:
A) Broadcast

Question 32 (1 point)

Which component of IEEE 802.1X represents the device that

wants to gain access to the network?
Question 32 options:
D) Supplicant

Question 33 (1 point)

An IEEE 802.1D port goes through four states when transitioning

to the forwarding state. What is the correct order?
Question 33 options:

A) Blocking, learning, listening, forwarding

Question 34 (1 point)
What is the name of the technology that will soon change the
landscape of modern networking by moving the control
functionality of a networking device to a central managed
location?
Question 34 options:
D) Software-defined networking (SDN)

Question 35 (1 point)

Which of the following applies to client-server network? (Choose

two.)
Question 35 options:
Client/server networks can have better performance than a peer-to-peer network because their resources
can be located on dedicated servers rather than on a PC running a variety of end-user applications.
The following diagram represents a client/server network.

Question 36 (1 point)

What is the purpose of RTP in VoIP?

Question 36 options:
 A) It carries voice and video.

Question 37 (1 point)

What is the purpose of ARP?

Question 37 options:
A) ARP resolves the MAC address to a NetBIOS name.

B) ARP resolves an IP address to a hostname.

C) ARP locates the default gateway of the network.

D) ARP resolves the IP address of a Host to its MAC address.

Question 38 (1 point)

Optical carrier (OC) links can carry speeds far faster than more
traditional WAN technologies. What is the bandwidth of an OC-
192 connection?
Question 38 options:
A) 51.48Mbps

B) 192Mbps

C) 622.08Gbps

D) 2.4Gbps

E) 9.6Gbps
Question 39 (1 point)

What type of media is used using the 100Base-FX Ethernet

standard?
Question 39 options:
A) MMF

B) SMF

C) Category 5e

D) Category 6a

Question 41 (1 point)

Which wiring standard is used on modern Ethernet connectors

and jacks?
Question 41 options:
A) TIA/EIA-568-B

B) TIA/EIA-568-A

C) IEEE 802.3

D) IEEE 802.2

Question 42 (1 point)
What is the result of the binary conversion in the example shown
here?
128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1
1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0
Question 42 options:

D) 150

Question 43 (1 point)

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Media

Access Control (MAC) sublayer of the data link layer (Layer 2) of
the OSI reference layered model?
Question 43 options:

D) The use of flow control on a network to prevent a receiver from being overwhelmed.

Question 44 (1 point)

It is common in DHCP configurations to exclude IP addresses

from the scope of addresses you make available. What type of
device might you exclude from a DHCP configuration?
Question 44 options:

D) Storage server

Question 45 (1 point)

Which of the following are NOT examples of wireless media?

Question 45 options:

D) DSL

Question 46 (1 point)

The following image is an example of what type of WAN

connection?

Question 46 options:

A) ISDN network, packet-switched connection

B) Frame Relay network, circuit-switched connection

C) Frame Relay network, packet-switched connection

D) ISDN network, circuit switched connection

Question 47 (1 point)

Which two types of media are twisted-pair cable?

Question 47 options:
 A) STP and UTP

B) MMF and SMF

C) RG-59 and RG-58

D) RJ-11 and RJ-45

Question 48 (1 point)

You have a subnet mask of 255.255.255.248. What is the prefix

notation?
Question 48 options:
A) /29

Question 49 (1 point)

What is the most common connector that is used with UTP

cabling carrying Ethernet traffic?
Question 49 options:
B) RJ-45

Question 50 (1 point)

The IP address range of 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 is what

address class?
Question 50 options:
 B) B

51. What are sections A and B of the IP address?

Question 1 options:
B) Section A is the network portion, and Section B is the host portion.

52. A Bluetooth connection between a mobile phone and a

headset is an example of what type of network category?
Question 2 options:
D) PAN

53. What is the IEEE standard that is used to enforce user

authentication?
Question 3 options:
C) 802.1X

54. What format can be used to represent the low order 64 bits
of an IPv6 address by reformatting a devices MAC address?
Question 4 options:
D) EUI-64

55. How many octets are in an IPv4 address?

Question 6 options:
 B) 4

56. Both PC1 and Server 1 have a default gateway. What is the
purpose of a default gateway?

Question 8 options:
C) Route packets to a different subnet

57. What factors are used in the calculation of the default EIGRP
metric?
C) Bandwidth, delay

58. What is the STP port cost for a 100 Mbps (Fast Ethernet) connection?

Question 11 options:
A) 19

59. The data rate for a T3 link is ________.

Question 12 options:
C) 44.736 Mbps

60. What are two IPv6 transition technologies that can coexist
with IPv4 to help ensure a smooth transition from IPv4 to IPv6?
 Dual stack

Tunneling

61. Which of the following layers of the OSI reference model is

primarily concerned with forwarding data based on logical
addresses?

C) Network layer

62. Which IP addresses assignment method leads to less

administrative efforts for Information Technology professionals?
D) DHCP

63. What symbol can be used to represent a group of

consecutive 0s in an IPv6 address?

C) Double colon

64. IPv6 enables hosts to generate their own IPv6 addresses

without the need for a DHCPv6 server. This is referred to as
stateless address autoconfiguration (SLAAC) and utilizes the
Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) that is built into the IPv6
protocol. What are the some of the packet types associated with
the NDP process?
Question 24 options:
A) Router Solicitation, Router Advertisement

65. What port is used for SMTP?

D) 25
66. A demarc is the point in a telephone network where the
maintenance responsibility passes from a telephone company to
the subscriber (unless the subscriber has purchased inside
wiring maintenance).
Question 26 options:
A) True

67. Which IoT wireless protocol enables technology such as

close-range contactless payment systems?
Question 28 options:
C) NFC

68. Identify the type of fiber connector in the image below:

Question 31 options:
A) MT-RJ is a popular connector for two fibers in a very small form factor

B) LC connectors have a flange on top, similar to an RJ-45 connector, that aids secure connection

C) The SC uses a push-pull connector similar to common audio and video plugs and sockets

D) The ST connector uses a half-twist bayonet type of lock

69. Which of the following is a not a network category based on
the geographic dispersion of network components?
Question 33 options:
D) World-area network (WAN)

70. Which of the following is a multicast routing protocol?

Question 34 options:
A) PIM

71. Which of the following is an exterior gateway protocol?

Question 36 options:
A) BGP

72. Which of the following transport layer protocol of the OSI

reference model is a connection-oriented protocol that provides
reliable transport between two communicating hosts?

B) Transport Control Protocol (TCP)

73. It is a
network
whose scale
is even
smaller than
a LAN. An
example of
this type of
network is a
connection
between a
PC and a
digital
camera via a
universal
serial bus.
 It interconnects network components within a local region.

It interconnects network components that are geographically dispersed between two locations.

It interconnects locations scattered throughout a metropolitan area.

1. Local-area network (LAN)

2. Wide-area network (WAN)

3. Metropolitan-area network (MAN)

4. Personal-area network (PAN)

74. Which OSI reference model layer is responsible for the

following?
(a) Setting up session
(b) Maintaining a session
(c) Tearing down a session

C) Session layer (Layer 5)

75. What port is used for HTTP?

F) 80

76. What is the minimum media type that must be used to run
1000BASE-T?
C) Cat 5e

76. You have an IP address with a prefix notation of /27. What is

the dotted-decimal form of the subnet mask?
 D) 255.255.255.224

77. What is the hop count that is used by RIP to indicate an

unreachable metric?
Question 6 options:
A) 16

78. How does a switch prevent loops?

Question 8 options:
A) IEEE 802.1Q

B) IEEE 802.1D

C) IEEE 802.11

D) IEEE 802.3

79. Organizations use DNS servers to resolve DNS queries. What

type of DNS server would be used to look up the website
www.pearson.com?
Question 9 options:
A) Internal

B) External

C) Gateway

D) Default

80. What port is used for FTP?

Question 10 options:
A) 20 and 21
81. What are the two commonly available PPP authentication
mechanisms?
Question 12 options:

PAP

CHAP

82. What is the name of the specification that indicates the

frequencies that are dedicated for data transmission over cable
lines?
Question 14 options:
A) DOCSIS

83. You can configure user authentication at Layer 2 of the OSI.

What IEEE standard would you use for this?
Question 16 options:
A) IEEE 802.1X

84. Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN) is a Cisco technology that

automates the creation of VPN connections in a WAN topology.
In what type of WAN topology is DMVPN most commonly used?
Question 22 options:
A) Point to point

B) Ring

C) Full mesh

D) Hub and spoke

85. How many bytes are in an IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tag?

 B) 4

86. What is the name of the digital modem device that is used to
terminate a T1 circuit?
C) CSU/DSU

87. What is the MAC address that is used to send a frame to

every local Ethernet device?

B) FFFF.FFFF.FFFF

88. What is the STP port cost for a 10 Gbps (Ten Gig Ethernet) connection?

D) 4

89. What is the administrative distance of a directly connected

network?
Question 30 options:
A) 0

90. What is the name of the device that is used primarily to

secure a network?
C) Firewall

91. How many bits are used for an IPv6 address?

B) 128

92. Which of the following is a distance vector routing protocol

that uses a metric of hops?
D) RIP
93. Which of the following layers is NOT part of the TCP/IP
protocol stack?
C) Presentation

94. The following image is an example of what type of WAN

connection?

A) ISDN network, packet-switched connection

B) Frame Relay network, circuit-switched connection

C) Frame Relay network, packet-switched connection

D) ISDN network, circuit switched connection

ection?