EMT Practice Test

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Question1: An ISP technician gets a call from a business that just changed equipment but can no longer connect to the internet. The technician checks the APo table on the ISP switch, and there is no corresponding MAC address present Instead, the entry is "Incomplete" Which of the following could cause this condition?

Question2: A network technician needs to install network devices in a new building. The building will be a pan of the corporate network and has the connection to the core network already. Which of the following devices must be configured in the new building?

Question3: Jeff, a user, is having a problem with a POTS line. Which of the following tools would Jeff use to make sure the phone lines have a dial tone?

Question4: Lab Simulation
Alter recent changes to the pictured network, several users are unable to access the servers.
Only PC1, PC2, PC3, and PC4 are clickable and will give you access to the command prompt and the adapter configuration tabs.
Instructions: Verify the settings by using the command prompt, after making any system changes.
Next, restore connectivity by making the appropriate changes to the infrastructure.
When you have completed these steps, select the Done button to submit.

Question5: Joe, an employee at a large regional bank, wants to receive company email on his personal smartphone and table: To authenticate on the mail server, he must first a custom security application on those mobile services.
Which of the following policies would BEST enforce this requirement?

Question6: A content filter is set to analyze XML and JSON that users access from the Internet. At which of the following layers is this analysis taking place?

Question7: Some users are reporting a high response time to access network resources after a new network router was installed. Which of the following documents should be updated every time a change is implemented on the network to have information about the metrics that represents how the network behaves during the normal scenarios?

Question8: A technician is investigating the cause of a network outage. Which of the following documents should be checked to rule out configuration issues?

Question9: A request is made to open an additional port on a firewall. The request is approved, and the port is opened. Which of the following BEST describes this process?

Question10: A network technician needs to separate a web server listening on port 80 from the internal LAN and secure the server from the public Internet. The web server should be accessible to the public Internet over port 80 but not the private LAN. Currently, the network is segmented with a network-based firewall using the following IP addressing scheme on each interface:

Which of the following ones should the technician use to place the web server and which of the following firewall rules should the technician configure?

Question11: A school is implementing a wireless network and wants to ensure there is adequate coverage.
The gymnasium has thick cinder-block walls, and there are several offices adjacent to it. Which of the following should the network technician recommend to ensure full coverage while minimizing the total number of APs purchased?

Question12: A network technician receives a call from a user in the accounting department stating that Internet connectivity has been lost after receiving a new workstation. No other users in accounting are reporting similar issues. The network technician is able to ping the machine from the accounting department's router, but is not able to ping the machine from the IT network. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?

Question13: No link lights on a switch's SFP are functioning, so the network technician re-terminates the end.
After testing the cable, the tester is showing a db loss of-9. Which of the following types of cable is MOST likely being tested?

Question14: A network technician is setting up the wireless network for a company's new branch office. After doing a site survey, the technician discovers there is a lot of interference from 2.4GHz devices at the location on channel 11. Which of the following would be the BEST channel on which to set up the WAPs?

Question15: A network manager notices several outages have occurred due to modifications that were made without being properly tested. Which of the following will the network manager MOST likely implement to prevent future occurrences?

Question16: A technician is investigating the cause of a network outage. Which of the following documents should be checked to rule out configuration issues?

Question17: A switch vendor recently released a patch to fix a critical vulnerability found in its switch OS. Which of the following should a network administrator do NEXT according to best practices?

Question18: The process of attempting to exploit a weakness in a network after being given permission by the company is known as:

Question19: A technician must install and configure a network device in a building with 20 classrooms. Each room must be on a separate subnet and should not be able to see traffic from other subnets.
Which of the following is the MOST cost-effective solution?

Question20: A wireless administrator has configured a secure wireless network that can only be associated to specific domain accounts. This was done to help mitigate any risks associated with the wireless signal propagating outside of the facility. Which of the following has the administrator implemented?

Question21: A network technician is troubleshooting an end-user connectivity problem. The network technician goes to
the appropriate IDF but is unable to identify the appropriate cable due to poor labeling. Which of the
following should the network technician use to help identify the appropriate cable?

Question22: A technician is allocating the IP address space needed for a new remote office. This office will contain the engineering staff with six employees and the digital marketing staff with 55 employees. The technician has decided to allocate the 192.168.1.0/24 block to the remote office. The engineering staff has been allocated the 192.168.1.64/29 subnet. Using the LEAST amount of space possible, which of the following would be the last usable IP address in the engineering subnet?

Question23: A user would like to connect two laptops together and transfer files via the Ethernet ports. Which of the following should MOST likely be provided to the user to accomplish this?

Question24: A company recently experienced a breach that brought its business to a halt. An attacker was able to access its intemal systems, run elevated commands to retrieve sensitive data, and then remove critical OS files. The company wants to stop such attacks in the future. Which of the following should a technician recommend?

Question25: Which of the following BEST describes an exploit?

Question26: An assistant systems analyst reports the following findings of an investigation of slow Internet connections in a remote office to the senior systems analyst:

Which of the following devices is causing the issue?

Question27: You are tasked with creating a network that will accomplish the following requirements Requirements:
1) The remote sales team must be able to connect to the corporate network
2) Each department must have ONLY two PCs and a server
3) Each department must be segmented from each other
4) The following VLANs have been designated:
a) VLAN 2- Finance
b) VLAN 12- Sales
c) VLAN 22- Human Resources (HR)
Complete the network by dragging the required objects into the diagram
INSTRUCTIONS: Objects can be used multiple times and not all placeholders need to be filled

Question28: An end-user device requires a specific IP address every time it connects to the corporate network;
however, corporate policy does not allow the use of static IP addresses. Which of the following will allow
the request to be fulfilled without breaking the corporate policy?

Question29: A network administrator is going to be performing a major upgrade to the network. Which of the following
should the administrator use in case of a failure?

Question30: A small company has decided to use a single virtual appliance to filter spam as well as reverse proxy and filter traffic to its internal web server. Which of the following has the company MOST likely deployed?

Question31: Keeping an authoritative and timely record of network devices and their settings is a key activity of which of the following?

Question32: You have been tasked with setting up a wireless network in an office. The network will consist of 3 Access Points and a single switch. The network must meet the following parameters:




INSTRUCTIONS
Click on the devices to review their information and adjust the settings of the APs to meet the given requirements.
If any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Question33: A development team has been testing a web server on a virtual server to create a web application. Once satisfied, the development team clones the entire virtual server into production. The development team needs to use HTTP, HTTPS, and SSH to connect to the new server. Which of the following should the network administrator do to help secure this new production VM? (Choose two.)

Question34: A network manager is reviewing recent changes after learning the network health metrics are no longer being recorded. The manager discovers the ACL has been updated to the following:

Which of the following lines in the ACL points to the issue?

Question35: A technician replaces a customer's router, and is now unable to ping the ISP's gateway.
Which of the following should the technician check?

Question36: A network administrator has signed up for service with a new ISP. The administrator was given the IP address of 172.17.10.254/30 to use on the external interface of the Internet-facing router.
However, the network administrator cannot reach the Internet using that address. Which of the following is the MOST likely explanation?

Question37: SIMULATION
After recent changes to the pictured network, several users are unable to access the servers.
Only PC1, PC2, PC3, and PC4 are clickable and will give you access to the command prompt and the adapter configuration tabs.
INSTRUCTIONS
Verify the settings by using the command prompt, after making any system changes.
Next, restore connectivity by making the appropriate changes to the infrastructure.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Question38: A company has attempted to introduce a new major network segment to allow growth in capacity. On the core switch, a GBIC was used to interconnect with a newly placed downstream distribution switch for the first time. Soon after this implementation, a network flood and an outage occurred between the core and new distribution network modules. Which of the following should the network administrator troubleshoot FIRST in order to rectify the issue?

Question39: A home user is configuring a wireless router and must decide which wireless standard to use.
The user has many devices that require a lot of bandwidth and must be able to communicate at a far distance from the router.
Which of the following wireless standards will BEST meet the home user's requirements?

Question40: A network technician receives a request for a disaster recovery solution. Management has requested no downtime in the event of a disaster. Which of the following disaster recovery solutions is the appropriate choice?

Question41: A company's web-based application has a database that is set up for high availability in case of a failure. Which of the following is necessary to achieve this type of setup?

Question42: You have been tasked with testing a CAT5e cable. A summary of the test results can be found on the screen.
Step 1: Select the tool that was used to create the cable test results.
Step 2: Interpret the test results and select the option that explains the results. After you are done with your analysis, click the 'Submit Cable Test Analysis' button.

Question43: A home user states during a basement remodel, one of the workers cut the network cable that goes from the modem to the WAP and nothing else has changed. According to the network troubleshooting methodology, which of the following is the NEXT step?

Question44: A network engineer has connected the storefront with the maintenance shed on the other side of a golf course using 802.11 wireless bridges and omnidirectional antennas. However, the signal strength is too weak. Which of the following is the MOST efficient and cost-effective solution to solve the issue?

Question45: Which of the following components should be used to provide interconnectivity between virtual machines in distinct broadcast domains inside the hypervisor's environment?

Question46: An employee, who Is using a laptop connected to the wireless network. Is able to connect to the Internet but not to internal company resources.
A systems administrator reviews the following information from the laptop:

The administrator was expecting to see a network address within 10.100.0.0/23. which is consistent with the company's wireless network. The network administrator verifies the company's wireless network is configured and working properly. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

Question47: A network administrator is attempting to limit the installation of malware on company workstations. The administrator wants to remove root access from the user accounts. Which of the following is this an example of?

Question48: A network technician has implemented ACLs to limit access to cloud based the storage.
Witch of the following security management has the technician enforced?

Question49: A network technician is troubleshooting wireless connectivity issues after a business used a single WAP at its all-company annual sales convention. During the convention, some users reported an inability to connect to the WAP. while others were able to connect sporadically with low bandwidth. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

Question50: A network technician installs a web server on the firewall. Which of the following methods should the technician implement to allow access to outside users without giving access to the inside network?

Question51: A network administrator has had difficulty keeping track of IP address assignments on networking devices
and clients recently. Which of the following is the BEST technology to aid in this scenario?

Question52: The backups server connects to a NAS device using block-level storage over Ethernet. The performance is very slow, however, and the network technician suspects the performance issues are network related. Which of the following should the technician do to improve performance?

Question53: A critical vulnerability is discovered on a network device. The vendor states it has already patched this vulnerability in its current release. Which of the following actions should an administrator take?

Question54: Which of the following concepts would BEST describe when a company chooses to use a third-party vendor to host and administer a critical application?

Question55: Drag and Drop Question
GigSwitch1 is currently configured with a speed of 100 and Duplex is set to Auto on all interfaces.
Interface 2 will be connected to GigSwitch2 which is used for all departments. Interface 1 will be used for HR traffic only.
GigSwitch1 needs to be configured with the following parameters:
* Configure the necessary protocol to prevent switching loops
* Configure GigSwitch1 with a /24 IP address for management
* Traffic across Interface 1 needs to be forced to accept and receive
up to 100Mbps data at the same time
* Traffic across Interface 2 needs to be forced to use Gigabit speeds
and maximum performance
Drag and drop the appropriate configurations to their corresponding requirements.
All placeholders must be filled. Not all configurations will be used.

Question56: A company requires a network storage solution that allows for the use of OS-specific credentials and permissions. The company purchases a SOHO solution, which includes support for SMB, iSCSI, FTP, Telnet, and NFS natively out of the box. Which of the following should be done FIRST?

Question57: A network administrator reviews the following command output while troubleshooting a system that is unable to connect to the www.comptia.com website:

Which of the following is the reason the system cannot connect?

Question58: A workstation is configured with the following network details:

Software on the workstation needs to send a query to the local subnet broadcast address. To which of the following addresses should the software be configured to send the query?

Question59: Which of the following occurs when antenna gain is increased on an access point?

Question60: A system administrator receives reports from users of odd behavior in regard to a recently installed server.
While reviewing the server network configuration, the systems administrator does both a forward and a reverse DNS lookup on the host, along with the network adapter configuration.

Which of the following is the problem identified in the output above?

Question61: A company has attempted to introduce a new major network segment to allow growth in capacity. On the core switch, a GBIC was used to interconnect with a newly placed downstream distribution switch for the first time.
Soon after this implementation, a network flood and an outage occurred between the core and new distribution network modules. Which of the following should the network administrator troubleshoot FIRST in order to rectify the issue?

Question62: A network technician notices the site-to-site VPN and Internet connection have not come back up at a
branch office after a recent power outage. Which of the following is an out-of-band method the technician
would MOST likely utilize to check the branch office's router status?

Question63: The software in a virtualized environment that controls resource allocation and allows multiple operating system guests to run on the same physical platform is known as the:

Question64: A user reports a network failure on a computer. The technician determines that the computer and NIC are operating properly. Which of the following tools can the technician use to trace the network cabling back to the punch down block?

Question65: A network technician is installing a new SOHO branch office that requires the use of a DOCSIS-compatible.
The modern needs to be connected to the ISP's network at the demark. Which of the following cable type should be used?

Question66: You have been tasked with testing a CAT5e cable. A summary of the test results can be found on the screen.
Step 1: Select the tool that was used to create the cable test results.
Step 2: Interpret the test results and select the option that explains the results. After you are done with your analysis, click the 'Submit Cable Test Analysis' button.

Question67: A company only wants preapproved laptops to be able to connect to a wireless access point.
Which of the following should be configured?

Question68: A technician is sent to troubleshoot a faulty network connection. The technician tests the cable, and data passes through successfully. No changes were made in the environment, however, when a network device is connected to the switch using the cable, the switchport will not light up.
Which of the following should the technician attempt NEXT?

Question69: Jeff, an administrator, has just finished installing a new switch and connected two servers with IPs of 192.168.105.20 and .30. The servers are able to communicate with each other, but are unable to reach the Internet. Jeff sees the following information in the switch configuration:
interface VLAN 105
IP address 192.168.105.5 255.255.255.0
Jeff is able to ping the router at 192.168.105.1 from the switch. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the problem?

Question70: A company finds that many desktops are being reported as missing or lost. Which of the following would BEST assist in recovering these devices?

Question71: A network technician has deployed a new 802.11ac network and discovers some of the legacy POS equipment only supports WPA and 802.11a. Which of the following is the MOST secure method of connecting all devices while avoiding a performance impact to modern wireless devices?

Question72: A network administrator discovered a rogue access point was sending a signal from inside the corporate headquarters. Which of the following would prevent the access point from providing access to the company's internal network?

Question73: A network manager is reviewing the IP addressing scheme a junior technician created for a new department that has 102 hosts. Using the smallest network possible, which of the following is the correct subnet mask for the new department?

Question74: Which of the following would Kim, a technician, do to monitor remote traffic through an access point?

Question75: Your company recently purchased a new building down the street from the existing office. For each of the tasks below, select the appropriate antenna type and encryption object for all wireless access point (AP).
1. Create an encrypted wireless connection between the two buildings that BEST controls signal propagation, while maximizing security.
2. Restrict the wireless signal generated by the access points (APs) inside Building 1, so that it minimizes broadcast beyond the building.
3. Maximize wireless coverage inside Building 1.
4. Building 1's internal wireless network is for visitors only and must not require any special configuration on the visitor's device to connect.
Instructions: When you have completed the simulation, select the Done button to submit.

Question76: A network technician is segmenting a network to allow for unauthenticated public connections to a server. Which of the following devices would BEST safeguard the internal network from the public facing server?

Question77: A new building needs to be joined to an existing network, but management has decided that running fiber is too expensive. Since the buildings are about 1000ft (305m) apart, the IT department has been asked to propose alternatives. Which of the following is the BEST device to add to each building to facilitate the extension of the network while meeting budgetary demands?

Question78: Which of the following concepts would MOST likely be used to identify individual pieces of hardware throughout their life cycle?

Question79: A network administrator is deploying a new switch in an existing IDF. The current switch has only copper Ether ports available to use for the trunk ports. Which of the following cable type should the network administrator deploy?

Question80: A junior network technician receives a help desk ticket from an end user who is having trouble accessing a web application that was working the previous day. After talking with the end user and gathering information about the issue, which of the following would be the most likely course of action for the technician to perform NEXT?

Question81: Drag and Drop Question
Drag and drop the fiber cable connection types to the appropriate image.

Question82: A workstation is configured with the following network details:

Software on the workstation needs to send a query to the local subnet broadcast address. To which of the following addresses should the software be configured to send the query?

Question83: Drag and Drop Question
Under each network device, drag and drop the associated broadcast and/or collison description.
Objects may be used multiple times, as needed.

Question84: Drag and Drop Question
Build a T-658B Connection

Question85: An engineer is rebooting a remote server after applying monthly patches. The patches are large and may take the server down for up to 20 minutes. The engineer wants to know exactly when the server comes up. The server's static IP address is 192.10.10.54. Which of the following commands can the engineer issue to accomplish this task?

Question86: Kim, a technician, is configuring an 802.11n access point. Other WAPs on the network use 802.11b.
Which of the following will Kim have to setup to make sure these WAPs will be able to communicate?

Question87: An IP camera has a failed PoE NIC. This is the third time in months that a PoE NIC has failed on this device. The technician suspects a possible power issue. Which of the following should be used to test the theory?

Question88: Which of the following problems is MOST likely to arise when configuring an IPv6 over IPv4 tunnel?

Question89: A network technician is attempting to troubleshoot a connectivity issue. The issue is only reported during the evening hours, and only a single workstation loses connectivity. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

Question90: An administrator is replacing an existing WAP because the customer is reporting that the connection speeds are too slow. Which of the following should be installed?

Question91: A company requires a network storage solution that allows for the use of OS-specific credentials and permissions. The company purchases a SOHO solution, which includes support for SMB, iSCSI, FTP, Telnet, and NFS natively out of the box. Which of the following should be done FIRST?

Question92: A network technician is performing a firmware upgrade on a switch. The firmware needs to be downloaded to the device. Which of the following methods should the techician use to retrieve the updated firmware?

Question93: Which of the following BEST describes the RADIUS authentication service protocol?

Question94: A contractor is setting up and configuring conference rooms for a convention. The contractor sets up each room in the conference center to allow wired Internet access going to individual tables.
The contractor measured the distance between the hotel's patch panel to the jack, and the distance is within Cat 5e specifications. The contractor is concerned that the room will be out of specification if cables are run in each room from the wall jacks. Which of the following actions should the contractor take to ensure the cable runs meet specifications and the network functions properly?

Question95: Joe, an employee, wants to copy text from a message on his corporate email account to a new message on his personal email account. However, the copy and paste functions of the clipboard are grayed out and unavailable. Which of the following policies would be responsible for this behavior?

Question96: At which of the following layers of the OSI model does compression occur?

Question97: A small town is attempting to attract tourists who visit larger nearby cities. A network engineer is asked to implement a network encompassing the five-block town center and nearby businesses. The inclusion of smartphones and portable devices is crucial to the plan. Which of the following is the network engineer being asked to implement?

Question98: Two WAPs are positioned with overlapping coverage, but seamless roaming across them is not working.
Which of the following should be checked?