Question1: In a small office environment, one computer is set up to provide Internet access to three other computers that are not interconnected. This is an example of which of the following topology types?
Question2: A technician is asked to provide centralized SSID management across the entire WAN. The BEST solution would be to:
Question3: A network technician is planning a network scope. The web server needs to be within 12.31.69.1 to 12.31.69.29. Which of the following would meet this requirement?
Question4: Which of the following security concepts is related to ensuring that encrypted data is not edited while in transit?
Question5: An office area contains two PoE-enabled WAPs. After the area was remodeled, new cable uplinks were installed in the ceiling above the fluorescent lights. However, after the WAPs were reconnected, users reported slowness and application errors. An intern reviewed the network and discovered a lot of CRC errors. A network engineer reviewed the intern's work and realized UTP cabling was used. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the CRC errors?
Question6: An international company is transferring its IT assets, including a number of WAPs, from the United States to an office in Europe for deployment. Which of the following considerations should the company research before implementing the wireless hardware?
Question7: A network technician is reviewing an upcoming project's requirements to implement laaS. Which of the following should the technician consider?
Question8: Which of the following BEST describes a North-South traffic flow?
Question9: A small office has a wireless network with several access points that are used by mobile devices.
Users occasionally report that the wireless connection drops or becomes very slow. Reports confirm that this only happens when the devices are connected to the office wireless network.
Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?
Question10: A network technician is investigating an IP phone that does not register in the VoIP system Although it received an IP address, it did not receive the necessary DHCP options The information that is needed for the registration is distributes by the OHCP scope All other IP phones are working properly. Which of the following does the technician need to verify?
Question11: A network technician receives a support ticket about an employee who has misplaced a company-owned cell phone that contains private company information.
Which of the following actions should the network technician take to prevent data loss?
Question12: A network technician is investigating an issue with handheld devices in a warehouse. Devices have not been connecting to the nearest APs, but they have been connecting to an AP on the far side of the warehouse. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?
Question13: Users within a corporate network need to connect to the Internet, but corporate network policy does not allow direct connections. Which of the following is MOST likely to be used?
Question14: A technician is monitoring a network interface and notices the device is dropping packets. The cable and interfaces, however, are in working order.
Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?
Question15: A network technician is deploying multiple switches for a new office. The switches are separately managed and need to be cabled in to support dual firewalls in a HA setup. Which of the following should the technician enable to support proper stability of the network switches?
Question16: A company is using a DHCP server with 12-hour leases for its device configurations. A user records the information that the DHCP server provides and uses the information to connect a device with a manual IP set. Over time, the user experiences intermittent connectivity and recurring connection timeouts. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?
Question17: Which of the following OSI model layers would allow a user to access and download files from a remote computer?
Question18: A network administrator needs to implement routing capabilities in a hypervisor. Which of the following should the administrator most likely implement?
Question19: Which of the following connectors and terminations are required to make a Cat 6 cable that connects from a PC to a non-capable MDIX switch? (Choose two.)
Question20: A systems operator is granted access to a monitoring application, configuration application, and timekeeping application. The operator is denied access to the financial and project management applications by the system's security configuration. Which of the following BEST describes the security principle in use?
Question21: Which of the following is an example of on-demand scalable hardware that is typically housed in the vendor's data center?
Question22: Which of the following is used to elect an STP root?
Question23: Which of the following demarcation connections would be MOST appropriate to use with a cable modem being installed in a SOHO situation?
Question24: Which of the following cable types would MOST likely be used to provide high-speed network connectivity between nearby buildings?
Question25: A network administrator wants to test the throughput of a new metro Ethernet circuit to verify that its performance matches the requirements specified in the SLA.
Which of the following would BEST help measure the throughput?
Question26: Which of the following is the IEEE link cost for a Fast Ethernet interface in STP calculations?
Question27: A network engineer is designing a wireless network that has the following requirements:
- Network speed must be higher than 100Mbps
- Must use the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands
Which of the following 802.11 standards should the engineer select?
Question28: A trusted vendor emailed a security advisory to an engineer. The advisory listed publicly disclosed security issues and resolutions for the vendor's installed network devices. Which of the following describes this security concept?
Question29: Which of the following must be functioning properly in order for a network administrator to create an accurate timeline during a troubleshooting process?
Question30: A network technician is implementing a solution that will allow end users to gain access to multiple applications after logging on. Which of the following authentication methods would allow this type of access?
Question31: SIMULATION
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:
- The SSIDs need to be configured as CorpNet with a key of S3cr3t!
- The wireless signals should not interfere with each other
- The subnet the Access Points and switch are on should only support 30 devices maximum
- The Access Points should be configured to only support TKIP clients at a maximum speed INSTRUCTONS Click on the wireless devices and review their information and adjust the settings of the access points to meet the given requirements.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.
Question32: A network technician is installing a wireless network in an office building. After performing a site survey, the technician determines the area is very saturated on the 2.4GHz and the 5GHz bands.
Which of the following wireless standards should the network technician implement?
Question33: A network administrator corrected a rule on a misconfigured firewall. Which of the following should the administrator do NEXT when applying the network troubleshooting methodology?
Question34: SIMULATION
You are tasked with verifying the following requirements are met in order to ensure network security.
Requirements:
Datacenter
- Ensure network is subnetted to allow all devices to communicate properly while minimizing address space usage
- Provide a dedicated server to resolve IP addresses and hostnames correctly and handle port 53 traffic Building A
- Ensure network is subnetted to allow all devices to communicate properly while minimizing address space usage
- Provide devices to support 5 additional different office users
- Add an additional mobile user
- Replace the Telnet server with a more secure solution
Screened subnet
- Ensure network is subnetted to allow all devices to communicate properly while minimizing address space usage
- Provide a server to handle external 80/443 traffic
- Provide a server to handle port 20/21 traffic
INSTRUCTIONS
Drag and drop objects onto the appropriate locations. Objects can be used multiple times and not all placeholders need to be filled.
Available objects are located in both the Servers and Devices tabs of the Drag & Drop menu.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.
Question35: Which of the following topologies is designed to fully support applications hosted in on-premises data centers, public or private clouds, and SaaS services?
Question36: The security manager reports that individual systems involved in policy or security violations or incidents cannot be located quickly. The security manager notices the hostnames all appear to be randomly generated characters. Which of the following would BEST assist the security manager identifying systems involved in security incidents?
Question37: Users are moving back into an office that had been vacant for a while. Ten workstations are hooked up in the office, but one workstation cannot obtain a link with the switch. A network engineer checks the documentation and cable labeling, and everything is hooked up as expected.
The engineer moves the connection to a different switchport. but a link still cannot be obtained.
When the engineer puts a tone generator on the infrastructure cable, no tone is heard at the far end. Which of the following issues is the engineer MOST likely trying to find?
Question38: A network administrator is configuring a database server and would like to ensure the database engine is listening on a certain port. Which of the following commands should the administrator use to accomplish this goal?
Question39: Which of the following commands can be used to display the IP address, subnet address, gateway address, and DNS address on a Windows computer?
Question40: Which of the following is used when a workstation sends a DHCP broadcast to a server on another LAN?
Question41: A technician is running new Cat 5e cables to a server room. Which of the following tools should the technician use to terminate the cables at the patch panel?
Question42: A network administrator wants to balance the amount of data between two networking cards.
Which of the following can be used for two or more networking cards?
Question43: After a firewall replacement, some alarms and metrics related to network availability stopped updating on a monitoring system relying on SNMP. Which of the following should the network administrator do FIRST?
Question44: A network technician is investigating why a core switch is logging excessive amounts of data to the syslog server. The running configuration of the switch showed the following logging information:
Which of the following changes should the technician make to BEST fix the issue?
Question45: A network technician has identified a breach and is attempting to determine how the attacker connected to a device on the network. The technician uses tcpdump to perform a port scan and receives the following result:
Which of the following describes how the attacker connected to the device?
Question46: Which of the following storage connection types should be used to allow the consolidation of the physical connections for SAN and LAN in just one Layer 2 protocol?
Question47: A technician is setting up a new router, configuring ports, and allowing access to the Internet.
However, none of the users connected to this new router are able to connect to the Internet.
Which of the following does the technician need to configure?
Question48: A technician wants to monitor and provide traffic segmentation across the network.
The technician would like to assign each department a specific identifier.
Which of the following will the technician MOST likely use?
Question49: A Chief Information Officer (CIO) wants to improve the availability of a company's SQL database Which of the following technologies should be utilized to achieve maximum availability?
Question50: A user is unable to reach any resources on the internet. A technician goes to the site and obtains the following output from the workstation:
Which of the following commands should the technician use to correct the issue?
Question51: A technician wants to assign addresses to PCs on a subnet that uses IPv4 and IPv6. The DHCP server only supports IPv4. Which of the following can the technician use to assign IPv6 addresses without DHCP?
Question52: Which of the following options represents the participating computers in a network?
Question53: A company hired a technician to find all the devices connected within a network. Which of the following software tools would BEST assist the technician in completing this task?
Question54: A Wi-Fi network was recently deployed in a new, multilevel building. Several issues are now being reported related to latency and drops in coverage. Which of the following is the first step to troubleshoot the issues?
Question55: A network engineer needs to enable device monitoring using authentication and encryption.
Which of the following protocols offers this option?
Question56: A technician reviews a network performance report and finds a high level of collisions happening on the network. At which of the following layers of the OSI model would these collisions be found?
Question57: Which of the following policies is MOST commonly used for guest captive portals?
Question58: A customer wants to log in to a vendor's server using a web browser on a laptop. Which of the following would require the LEAST configuration to allow encrypted access to the server?
Question59: A network administrator discovers that users in an adjacent building are connecting to the company's guest wireless network to download inappropriate material.
Which of the following can the administrator do to MOST easily mitigate this issue?
Question60: A technician has spent most of the day replacing a server running DHCP. Some of the users have begun to call the help desk stating that Internet connection stopped working even after rebooting. Upon investigation, the users' PCs with issues all have IP addresses that start with
169.254.x.x. The technician completes the replacement and powers on the new DHCP server.
Which of the following is the BEST way to provide the PCs with issues a new IP address?
Question61: A network administrator is getting reports of some internal users who cannot connect to network resources. The users slate they were able to connect last week, but not today. No changes have been configured on the network devices or server during the last few weeks. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?
Question62: A new office space is being designed. The network switches are up, but no services are running yet. A network engineer plugs in a laptop configured as a DHCP client to a switch. Which of the following IP addresses should be assigned to the laptop?
Question63: Which of the following attacks MOST likely utilizes a botnet to disrupt traffic?
Question64: Which of the following OSI model layers would allow a user to access and download files from a remote computer?
Question65: Which of the following would most likely be considered for an IDF installation in a secure facility?
Question66: Which of the following is a requirement when certifying a network cabling as Cat 7?
Question67: A fiber patch cable, which was being stored in an unsecure telecommunications closet with janitorial supplies, was damaged and caused an outage. A network technician replaced the broken cable with a new cable from a sealed bag. However, this solution did not resolve the outage. Which of the following is the MOST likely explanation?
Question68: An organization has a factory automation solution that requires accurate timing between devices.
Which of the following should the network administrator implement?
Question69: A technician needs to find the MAC address of a connecting router. Which of the following commands should the technician use?
Question70: A technician is connecting DSL for a new customer. After installing and connecting the on- premises equipment, the technician verifies DSL synchronization. When connecting to a workstation, however, the link LEDs on the workstation and modem do not light up. Which of the following should the technician perform during troubleshooting?
Question71: A company wants to invest in new hardware for the core network infrastructure. The management team requires that the infrastructure be capable of being repaired in less than 60 minutes if any major part fails. Which of the following metrics is MOST likely associated with this requirement?
Question72: A company wants to implement a large number of WAPs throughout its building and allow users to be able to move around the building without dropping their connections.
Which of the following pieces of equipment would be able to handle this requirement?
Question73: A network administrator has received calls every day for the past few weeks from three users who cannot access the network. The administrator asks all the users to reboot their PCs, but the same users still cannot access the system. The following day, three different users report the same issue, and the administrator asks them all to reboot their PCs; however, this does not fix the issue. Which of the following is MOST likely occurring?
Question74: Which of the following disaster recovery metrics is used to describe the amount of data that is lost since the last backup?
Question75: A network administrator would like to enable NetFlow on a Layer 3 switch but is concerned about how the feature may impact the switch. Which of the following metrics should the administrator graph using SNMP to BEST measure the feature's impact?
Question76: Which of the following protocols would enable a company to upgrade its internet connection by acquiring its own public IP prefixes and autonomous system number?
Question77: Which of the following is most closely associated with the management plane?
Question78: A network technician receives a report about a performance issue on a client PC that is connected to port 1/3 on a network switch. The technician observes the following configuration output from the switch:
Which of the following is a cause of the issue on port 1/3?
Question79: A company is reviewing ways to cut the overall cost of Its IT budget. A network technician suggests removing various computer programs from the IT budget and only providing these programs on an as-needed basis. Which of the following models would meet this requirement?
Question80: An engineer is gathering data to determine the effectiveness of UPSs in use at remote retail locations. Which of the following statistics can the engineer use to determine the availability of the remote network equipment?
Question81: An administrator would like to search for network vulnerabilities on servers, routers, and embedded appliances. Which of the following tools would MOST likely accomplish this?
Question82: A technician recently set up a small office network for nine users. When the installation was complete, all the computers on the network showed addresses ranging from 169.254.0.0 to
169.254.255.255. Which of the following types of address ranges does this represent?
Question83: A user at a hotel sees two SSIDs; both are called "HotelWireless". After the PC connects to one of the APs, the user notices their browser homepage has been changed. Which of the following BEST describes this AP?
Question84: Several WIFI users are reporting the inability to connect to the network. WLAN users on the guest network are able to access all network resources without any performance issues. The following table summarizes the findings after a site survey of the area in question:
Which of the following should a wireless technician do NEXT to troubleshoot this issue?
Question85: An administrator is adjusting the routing policy to ensure the headquarters location can connect to a new out-of-state branch office via BGP. Which of the following types of networks is being described?
Question86: A network engineer installed a new fiber uplink for an office and wants to make sure that the link meets throughput requirements. Which of the following tools should the engineer use to verify that the new link is sufficient?
Question87: Which of the following assists a network administrator in reverse engineering malware and viruses?
Question88: A network technician is working at a new office location and needs to connect one laptop to another to transfer files. The laptops are newer models and do not have Ethernet ports. Access points are not available either. Which of the following types of wireless network SSIDs does the network technician need to configure to be able to connect the laptops together?
Question89: Which of the following network topologies BEST describes a central device connected to multiple independent devices?
Question90: A wireless network technician is receiving reports from some users who are unable to see both of the corporate SSIDs on their mobile devices. A site survey was recently commissioned, and the results verified acceptable RSSI from both APs in all user areas. The APs support modern wireless standards and are all broadcasting their SSIDs. The following table shows some of the current AP settings:
Which of the following changes would result in all of the user devices being capable of seeing both corporate SSIDs?
Question91: An engineer recently decided to upgrade the firmware on a router. During the upgrade, the help desk received calls about a network outage, and a critical ticket was opened. The network manager would like to create a policy to prevent this from happening in the future.
Which of the following documents should the manager create?
Question92: A client moving into a new office wants the IP network set up to accommodate 412 network- connected devices that are all on the same subnet. The subnet needs to be as small as possible.
Which of the following subnet masks should be used to achieve the required result?
Question93: Which of the following records is the main type in a reverse DNS lookup zone?
Question94: Which of the following routing protocols is generally used by major ISPs for handling large-scale internet traffic?
Question95: A network technician is designing a SOHO environment where cost is a consideration. The requirements include access to the Internet and access to the guest house which is 100 feet away. The location of the Internet modem is located in the main house. Which of the following is the BEST option to accomplish these requirements?
Question96: Which of the following is MOST commonly used to address CVEs on network equipment and/or operating systems?
Question97: A customer is having issues accessing local resources on the network. A technician questions the user and discovers that a small switch had been taken out of storage and installed so that additional devices could be connected in the room. The technician runs the ping command from the PC to the network server and does not find any issues. However, data transfers to the server are slow, and the transfer appears to be locked up at times. Which of the following is the most likely cause of the issue?
Question98: A network technician needs to determine the IPv6 address of a malicious website. Which of the following record types would provide this information?
Question99: To comply with an industry regulation, all communication destined to a secure server should be logged and archived on a storage device. Which of the Mowing can be configured to fulfill this requirement?
Question100: A technician receives feedback that some users are experiencing high amounts of jitter while using the wireless network. While troubleshooting the network, the technician uses the ping command with the IP address of the default gateway and verifies large variations in latency.
The technician thinks the issue may be interference from other networks and non-802.11 devices.
Which of the following tools should the technician use to troubleshoot the issue?
Question101: The Chief Executive Officer of a company wants to ensure business operations are not disrupted in the event of a disaster. The solution must have fully redundant equipment, real-time synchronization, and zero data loss. Which of the following should be prepared?
Question102: An administrator would like to create a fault-tolerant ring between three switches within a Layer 2 network.
Which of the following Ethernet features should the administrator employ?
Question103: Which of the following is the DNS feature that controls how long a lookup is stored in cache on a server?
Question104: An infrastructure company is implementing a cabling solution to connect sites on multiple continents. Which of the following cable types should the company use for this project?
Question105: A technician performed a manual reconfiguration of a firewall, and network connectivity was reestablished. Some connection events that were previously sent to a syslog server are no longer being generated by the firewall. Which of the following should the technician perform to fix the issue?
Question106: 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?
Question107: After HVAC failures caused network outages, the support team decides to monitor the temperatures of all the devices. The network administrator cannot find a command that will display this information. Which of the following will retrieve the necessary information?
Question108: A network administrator needs to implement an HDMI over IP solution. Which of the following will the network administrator MOST likely use to ensure smooth video delivery?
Question109: Lisa, a technician, is tasked to monitor various analog POTS lines for voice activity. Which of the following hardware tools would be used?
Question110: A network administrator is troubleshooting a PC that cannot connect to the LAN. The administrator runs the ipconfig command at the command prompt and gets the following output:
Which of the following is misconfigured?
Question111: A network is secured and is only accessible via TLS and IPSec VPNs. Which of the following would need to be present to allow a user to access network resources on a laptop without logging in to the VPN application?
Question112: A network technician is configuring a wireless network that consists of multiple APs for better coverage and allows roaming between the APs. Which of the following types of SSIDs should the technician configure?
Question113: The process of attempting to exploit a weakness in a network after being given permission by the company is known as:
Question114: An administrator is troubleshooting analog telephony issues on the punch down block. Which of the following tools would be MOST useful in this scenario?
Question115: A large metropolitan city is looking to standardize the ability for police department laptops to connect to the city government's VPN. The city would like a wireless solution that provides the largest coverage across the city with a minimal number of transmission towers. Latency and overall bandwidth needs are not high priorities. Which of the following would BEST meet the city's needs?
Question116: Which of the following firewall rules will block destination telnet traffic to any host with the source IP address 1.1.1.2/24?
Question117: Which of the following is a characteristic of the application layer?
Question118: Which of the following is the MOST secure connection used to inspect and provide controlled internet access when remote employees are connected to the corporate network?
Question119: A network administrator is implementing process changes based on recommendations following a recent penetration test. The testers used a method to gain access to the network that involved exploiting a publicly available and fixed remote code execution vulnerability in the VPN appliance.
Which of the following should the administrator do to BEST prevent this from happening again?
Question120: A technician is installing an 802.11n network. The technician is using a laptop that can connect at a maximum speed of 11 Mbps. The technician has configured the 802.11n network correctly but thinks it could be the type of WLAN card used on the laptop. Which of the following wireless standards is the WLAN card MOST likely using?
Question121: Which of the following describes when an active exploit is used to gain access to a network?
Question122: A user cannot connect to the network, although others in the office are unaffected. The network technician sees that the link lights on the NIC are not on. The technician needs to check which switchport the user is connected to, but the cabling is not labeled. Which of the following is the best way for the technician to find where the computer is connected?
Question123: An IT technician needs to increase bandwidth to a server. The server has multiple gigabit ports.
Which of the following can be used to accomplish this without replacing hardware?
Question124: A retail store recently acquired the store next door. The owners would like this store to support Gigabit Ethernet for up to 328ft (100m). Which of the following is the MOST cost-effective solution?
Question125: A user stores large graphic files. The time required to transfer the files to the server is excessive due to network congestion. The user's budget does not allow for the current switches to be replaced. Which of the following can be used to provide FASTER transfer times?
Question126: Which of the following focuses on application delivery?
Question127: A company wants an administrator to perform a vulnerability test. The administrator finds the company has a POTS phone system. Which of the following can the administrator use to point out the phone system vulnerability?
Question128: A network technician discovered multiple failed logins on a production server. Upon investigation, the technician determined that a client plugged a personal laptop in to the corporate LAN, which allowed malware on the laptop to probe the network. Which of the following would have prevented this unauthorized device?
Question129: A network administrator needs to configure a server to use the most accurate NTP reference available. Which of the following NTP devices should the administrator select?
Question130: Which of the following is the NEXT step to perform network troubleshooting after identifying an issue?
Question131: Which of the following bandwidth management techniques uses buffers al the client side to prevent TCP retransmissions from occurring when the ISP starts to drop packets of specific types that exceed the agreed traffic rate?
Question132: A network technician is configuring a new subnet on the distribution switch to support 15 network printers. Which of the following available subnets is the best choice to support all 15 printers on the LAN?
Question133: Which of the following devices would be used to extend the range of a wireless network?
Question134: A user is having difficulty with video conferencing and is looking for assistance. Which of the following would BEST improve performance?
Question135: A firewall that detects and prevents attacks from outside the network based on learned data patterns can BEST be described as which of the following?
Question136: A network technician crimped a length of UTP with TIA\EIA-568A on one end and TIA\EIA-568B on the other. Which of the following cable types did the technician create?
Question137: A company's data center is hosted at its corporate office to ensure greater control over the security of sensitive data. During times when there are increased workloads, some of the company's non-sensitive data is shifted to an external cloud provider.
Which of the following cloud deployment models does this describe?
Question138: In a small office environment, one computer is set up to provide Internet access to three other computers that are not interconnected. This is an example of which of the following topology types?
Question139: A network analyst is providing access to an FTP server that stores files that are needed by external contractors who are working on a project. In which of the following network locations should the FTP server be placed to achieve the MOST secure environment?
Question140: The following configuration is applied to a DHCP server connected to a VPN concentrator:
There are 300 non-concurrent sales representatives who log in for one hour a day to upload reports, and 252 of these representatives are able to connect to the VPN without any Issues. The remaining sales representatives cannot connect to the VPN over the course of the day. Which of the following can be done to resolve the issue without utilizing additional resources?
Question141: A network engineer turned on logging to assist with troubleshooting a suspected configuration issue. Which of the following would provide the network engineer with the most informative log information?
Question142: A network technician visits a site that needs voice connectivity to the corporate office and installs four IP phones. The phone exchange resides at the telephone company. Which of the following technologies is being used?
Question143: A technician is investigating an intermittent connectivity issue that occurs when specific WAPs are turned on. The technician checks into the issue further and finds the WAPs that are having issues share channel five. Which of the following is most likely causing the issue?
Question144: Which of the following is a valid alternative to maintain a deployed proxy technology while saving physical space in the data center by moving the network service to the virtualization infrastructure?
Question145: A network technician reviews an entry on the syslog server and discovers the following message from a switch:
SPANNING-TREE Port 1/1 BLOCKED
Which of the following describes the issue?
Question146: An administrator is able to list the interfaces on a switch after providing the community string
"public". Which of the protocols is the administrator MOST likely using?
Question147: A customer cannot reach a web application on a local server. The network consultant suspects that the server is not accepting the HTTPS connection. Which of the following commands should the consultant run on the server to determine what is occurring?
Question148: A company upgrades its network and PCs to gigabit speeds. After the upgrade, users are not getting the expected performance. Technicians discover that the speeds of the endpoint NICs are inconsistent. Which of the following should be checked first to troubleshoot the issue?
Question149: A corporate client is experiencing global system outages. The IT team has identified multiple potential underlying causes throughout the enterprise. Each team member has been assigned an area to troubleshoot. Which of the following approaches is being used?
Question150: A technician is responsible for configuring a new firewall. The hardware team has already installed, powered, and connected the system. Which of the following types of documentation should the technician utilize to complete the task?
Question151: Users report that a database server responds slowly or drops connections to other servers at random during busy times. A technician notices the database and servers are connected to an access switch in the office. Which of the following should the technician do to improve the performance of the database server?
Question152: A bank installed a new smart TV to stream online video services, but the smart TV was not able to connect to the branch Wi-Fi. The next day, a technician was able to connect the TV to the Wi- Fi, but a bank laptop lost network access at the same time. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?
Question153: Which of the following statements about the OSI model is true?
Question154: A network administrator wants to improve the security of the management console on the company's switches and ensure configuration changes made can be correlated to the administrator who conformed them.
Which of the following should the network administrator implement?
Question155: A technician troubleshoots a computer that has intermittent network connectivity and notices the termination point is loose. The technician also observes that the patch cable has already been replaced.
Which of the following should the technician do NEXT?
Question156: A network technician is configuring a new firewall for a company with the necessary access requirements to be allowed through the firewall. Which of the following would normally be applied as the LAST rule in the firewall?
Question157: A technician manages a DHCP scope but needs to allocate a portion of the scope's subnet for statically assigned devices. Which of the following DHCP concepts would be BEST to use to prevent IP address conflicts?
Question158: A company cell phone was stolen from a technician's vehicle. The cell phone has a passcode, but it contains sensitive information about clients and vendors. Which of the following should also be enabled?
Question159: A network administrator is configuring a static DSL connection on the perimeter router to use a backup route to the fiber connection using OSPF routing. The administrator notices all traffic is going over the DSL connection and both links are working. Which of the following should the administrator do to adjust the routing settings for the fiber connection to be used by the router?
Question160: Which of the following is the reason why a company's network may contain a DHCP server?
Question161: A network technician is adding a 10/100 switch with RJ45 connectors to the company network to accommodate new computers being added to a network segment. There is no auto-MDIX port on the switch that needs to be connected to the existing switch on the segment. Which of the following should the technician use to make the connection?
Question162: Which of the following would be BEST to use to detect a MAC spoofing attack?
Question163: A user notifies a network administrator about losing access to a remote file server. The network administrator is able to ping the server and verifies the current firewall rules do not block access to the network fileshare. Which of the following tools would help identify which ports are open on the remote file server?
Question164: Which of the following technologies provides a failover mechanism for the default gateway?
Question165: An IT technician is working on a support ticket regarding an unreachable website. The technician has utilized the ping command to the website, but the site is still unreachable. Which of the following tools should the technician use NEXT?
Question166: The management team has instituted a 48-hour RTO as part of the disaster recovery plan. Which of the following procedures would meet the policy's requirements?
Question167: According to troubleshooting methodology, which of the following should the technician do NEXT after determining the most likely probable cause of an issue?
Question168: Two companies want to build an encrypted tunnel between them and use a PSK for initial authentication. Which of the following is the BEST protocol for the companies to use?
Question169: A technician received a report that some users in a large, 30-floor building are having intermittent connectivity issues. Users on each floor have stable connectivity, but do not have connectivity to other floors. Which of the following devices is MOST likely causing the issue?
Question170: A network engineer is concerned about VLAN hopping happening on the network. Which of the following should the engineer do to address this concern?
Question171: At which of the following OSI model layers would a technician find an IP header?
Question172: Users report that the network is slower than usual when accessing on-premises email. Which of the following should a network technician do to confirm the issue?
Question173: Which of the following is the most cost-effective way for a network administrator to establish a persistent, secure connection between two facilities?
Question174: Joe, a user, reports intermittent connectivity issues, but a technician notices that the only time Joe has issues is when he is logged into the database. Losing connection after authenticating to a database, but still having access to network resources such as file/print services and email, would MOST likely be caused by:
Question175: A technician is expanding a wireless network and adding new access points. The company requires that each access point broadcast the same SSID. Which of the following should the technician implement for this requirement?
Question176: A technician is writing documentation regarding a company's server farm. The technician needs to confirm the server name for all Linux servers. Which of the following commands should the technician run?
Question177: A network technician receives a report from the server team that a server's network connection is not working correctly. The server team confirms the server is operating correctly except for the network connection. The technician checks the switchport connected to the server and reviews the following data;
Which of the following should the network technician perform to correct the issue?
Question178: A user is unable to navigate to a website because the provided URL is not resolving to the correct IP address. Other users are able to navigate to the intended website without issue. Which of the following is most likely causing this issue?
Question179: Which of the following describes a manually entered route?
Question180: Which of the following technologies allows traffic to be sent through two different ISPs to increase performance?
Question181: An engineer is designing a network topology for a company that maintains a large on-premises private cloud. A design requirement mandates internet-facing hosts to be partitioned off from the internal LAN and internal server IP ranges. Which of the following defense strategies helps meet this requirement?
Question182: A non-employee was able to enter a server room. Which of the following could have prevented this from happening?
Question183: A Wi-Fi network was recently deployed in a new, multilevel building. Several issues are now being reported related to latency and drops in coverage. Which of the following is the FIRST step to troubleshoot the issues?
Question184: Which of the following ports is used for secure email?
Question185: Which of the following can be used to aggregate logs from different devices and would make analysis less difficult?
Question186: A network engineer is investigating reports of poor network performance. Upon reviewing a device configuration, the engineer finds that duplex settings are mismatched on both ends. Which of the following would be the MOST likely result of this finding?
Question187: Which of the following would be used to enforce and schedule critical updates with supervisory approval and include backup plans in case of failure?
Question188: A technician is troubleshooting a computer issue for a user who works in a new annex of an office building. The user is reporting slow speeds and intermittent connectivity. The computer is connected via a Cat 6 cable to a distribution switch that is 492ft (150m) away. Which of the following should the technician implement to correct the issue?
Question189: A network technician has determined the cause of a network disruption. Which of the following is the NEXT step for the technician to perform?
Question190: Which of the following physical security methods Is the MOST effective to prevent tailgating?
Question191: A network administrator received a report staling a critical vulnerability was detected on an application that is exposed to the internet. Which of the following Is the appropriate NEXT step?
Question192: A technician finds that the network card is no longer functioning. At which of the following OSI layers is the problem occurring?
Question193: Which of the following OSI model layers contains IP headers?
Question194: A technician needs to change an incoming fiber line into an RJ45 copper connection for uplinking a new switch. Which of the following would BEST satisfy this requirement?
Question195: A technician wants to install a WAP in the center of a room that provides service in a radius surrounding a radio. Which of the following antenna types should the AP utilize?
Question196: A network technician is reviewing the interface counters on a router interface. The technician is attempting to confirm a cable issue. Given the following information:
Which of the following metrics confirms there is a cabling issue?
Question197: A network technician has multimode fiber optic cable available in an existing IDF. Which of the following Ethernet standards should the technician use to connect the network switch to the existing fiber?
Question198: A help desk supervisor reviews the following excerpt of a call transcript:
Which of the following was the agent trying to accomplish with this exchange?
Question199: A network administrator would like to purchase a device that provides access ports to endpoints and has the ability to route between networks. Which of the following would be BEST for the administrator to purchase?
Question200: A company is upgrading the network switches at its backup data center, which is geographically separated from the main data center. The company hired a contractor to physically install and cable the new switches in their cabinets. Which of the following should the network engineering team provide to ensure the job is completed accurately?
Question201: A network technician configures a firewall's ACL to allow outgoing traffic for several popular services such as email and web browsing. However, after the firewall's deployment, users are still unable to retrieve their emails. Which of the following would BEST resolve this issue?
Question202: Which of the following would be BEST suited for a long cable run with a 40Gbps bandwidth?
Question203: Which of the following cable types is MOST commonly used with POTS?
Question204: Which of the following will reduce routing table lookups by performing packet forwarding decisions independently of the network layer header?
Question205: Which of the following has the capability to centrally manage configuration, logging, and firmware versioning for distributed devices?
Question206: Which of the following factors should be considered when evaluating a firewall to protect a datacenter's east-west traffic?
Question207: A company's cloud model consists of the following:
- An on-premises data center
- An IaaS cloud provider
- A private-direct connection from on premises to IaaS
Which of the following best describes the deployment model the company is using?
Question208: A new company recently moved into an empty office space. Within days, users in the next office began noticing increased latency and packet drops with their Wi-Fi-connected devices. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for this issue?
Question209: A customer wants to segregate the traffic between guests on a hypervisor. Which of the following does a technician need to configure to meet the requirement?
Question210: A help desk technician is troubleshooting a Windows server named SQL.local and wants to check which port a specific application is running on. Which of the following commands should the technician run?
Question211: A network engineer is upgrading an existing edge gateway. The company currently uses a router and needs to be able to filter on all OSI layers. Which of the following should the engineer use to upgrade the gateway?
Question212: A company wants to set up a backup data center that can become active during a disaster. The site needs to contain network equipment and connectivity. Which of the following strategies should the company employ?
Question213: A network technician is manually configuring the network settings for a new device and is told the network block is 192.168.0.0/20. Which of the following subnets should the technician use?
Question214: Which of the following routing protocols is used to exchange route information between public autonomous systems?
Question215: Which of the following records can be used to track the number of changes on a DNS zone?
Question216: A security engineer is trying to determine whether an internal server was accessed by hosts on the internet. The internal server was shut down during the investigation.
Which of the following will the engineer review to determine whether the internal server had an unauthorized access attempt?
Question217: A company's network is set up so all Internet-bound traffic from all remote offices exits through a main datacenter. Which of the following network topologies would BEST describe this setup?
Question218: A technician thinks one of the router ports is flapping. Which of the following available resources should the technician use in order to determine if the router is flapping?
Question219: While setting up a new workstation, a technician discovers that the network connection is only
100 full duplex (FD), although it is connected to a gigabit switch.
While reviewing the interface information in the switch CLI, the technician notes the port is operating at IOOFD but Shows many RX and TX errors. The technician moves the computer to another switchport and experiences the same issues.
Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of the low data rate and port errors?
Question220: Which of the following attack vectors represents a large number of devices sending access requests to a website, making it unavailable to respond?
Question221: Which of the following IP transmission types encrypts all of the transmitted data?
Question222: Which of the following WAN technologies utilizes an optical SONET carrier and has a maximum bandwidth of 155.54Mbps?
Question223: An engineer is gathering data to determine the effectiveness of UPSs in use at remote retail locations. Which of the following statistics can the engineer use to determine the availability of the remote network equipment?
Question224: Which of the following passwords would provide the best defense against a brute-force attack?
Question225: An organization wants to implement a method of centrally managing logins to network services.
Which of the following protocols should the organization use to allow for authentication, authorization and auditing?
Question226: A GRE tunnel has been configured between two remote sites. Which of the following features, when configured, ensures the GRE overhead does not affect payload?
Question227: A network device is configured to send critical events to a syslog server; however, the following alerts are not being received:
Severity 5 LINK-UPDOWN: Interface 1/1, changed state to down
Severity 5 LINK-UPDOWN: Interface 1/3, changed state to down
Which of the following describes the reason why the events are not being received?
Question228: An administrator has added four switches to a campus network. The switch in wiring closet A is only connected to the switch in wiring closet C. The switch in wiring closet B is connected to the switch in wiring closet C as well as wiring closet D. The switch in wiring closet D is only connected to the switch in wiring closet B. Which of the following topologies is represented in this design?
Question229: When Jeff, a technician, is troubleshooting a problem, which of the following is the NEXT step after verifying full system functionality?
Question230: A disaster recovery team needs a solution that would best meet the following requirements:
- The server infrastructure has been pre-installed
- The fail-over location offers basic life support.
- The fail-over location provides basic network connectivity.
- Minimizing cost is preferred over quicker business recovery times
- The expected time for services to be fully operational is days.
Which of the following sites would meet the requirements?
Question231: A network engineer performed a migration to a new mail server. The engineer changed the MX record, verified the change was accurate, and confirmed the new mail server was reachable via the IP address in the A record. However, users are not receiving email. Which of the following should the engineer have done to prevent the issue from occurring?
Question232: A network administrator creates a new network, 10.10.0.0/24, on a DHCP server. The administrator wants to ensure that 10.10.0.10-10.10.0.15 are not allocated to other devices.
Which of the following features should the administrator configure?
Question233: A technician is assisting a user who cannot access network resources when the workstation is connected to a VoIP phone. The technician identifies the phone as faulty and replaces it.
According to troubleshooting methodology, which of the following should the technician do NEXT?
Question234: A network administrator wants to reduce overhead and increase efficiency on a SAN. Which of the following can be configured to achieve these goals?
Question235: Which of the following is MOST likely to generate significant East-West traffic in a datacenter?
Question236: A technician is troubleshooting a previously encountered issue. Which of the following should the technician reference to find what solution was implemented to resolve the issue?
Question237: Which of the following networking devices operates at Layer1?
Question238: A network administrator wants to install new VoIP switches in small network closet but is concerned about the current heat level of the room. Which of the following should the administrator take into consideration before installing the new equipment?
Question239: Following a fire in a data center, an executive is concerned about the amount of data that must be reentered. Which of the following describes the executive's concern?
Question240: A technician is assisting a user who cannot connect to a website. The technician attempts to ping the default gateway and DNS server of the workstation.
According to troubleshooting methodology, this is an example of:
Question241: A hacker used a packet sniffer on the network to capture the hardware address of the server.
Which of the following types of attacks can the hacker perform now?
Question242: A new global ISP needs to connect from central offices in North America to the United Kingdom.
Which of the following would be the BEST cabling solution for this project?
Question243: Which of the following architectures is used for FTP?
Question244: A network administrator walks into a datacenter and notices an unknown person is following closely. The administrator stops and directs the person to the security desk. Which of the following attacks did the network administrator prevent?
Question245: A company has a geographically remote office. In order to connect to the internet, the company has decided to use a satellite WAN link. Which of the following is the GREATEST concern for this type of connection?
Question246: A network technician is planning the infrastructure for a new data center that will support a
10GBASE-T network. Traffic in the data center is expected to be high, and data integrity is very important. Which of the following would the network technician most likely include in the plan?
Question247: Which of the following would be used to forward requests and replies between a DHCP server and client?
Question248: A systems administrator is running a VoIP network and is experiencing jitter and high latency.
Which of the following would BEST help the administrator determine the cause of these issues?
Question249: Which of the following describes traffic going in and out of a data center from the internet?
Question250: An ISP configured an internet connection to provide 20Mbps, but actual data rates are occurring at 10Mbps and causing a significant delay in data transmission. Which of the following specifications should the ISP check?
Question251: A company's primary ISP is experiencing an outage. However, the network administrator notices traffic continuing to flow through a secondary connection to the same ISP. Which of the following BEST describes this configuration?
Question252: Several users with older devices are reporting intermittent connectivity while in an outdoor patio area. After some research, the network administrator determines that an outdoor WAP might help with the issue. However, the company does not want the signal to bleed into the building and cause interference. Which of the following should the network administrator perform to BEST resolve the issue?
Question253: While troubleshooting a network outage, a technician discovers symptoms that indicate a patch cable is connecting the core switch to the router. A network engineer confirms the theory is plausible, and the technician tests the cable. The cable passes the test, and the technician properly plugs the cable back into the correct network ports. However, the network outage continues. Which of the following is the NEXT step the technician should take to troubleshoot the network outage?
Question254: Hubs are differentiated from switches in that between the two, only hubs have:
Question255: Which of the following security methods uses physical characteristics of a person to authorize access to a location?
Question256: Which of the following describes a manually entered route?
Question257: Which of the following protocols is widely used in large-scale enterprise networks to support complex networks with multiple routers and balance traffic load on multiple links?
Question258: A technician is investigating why a PC cannot reach a file server with the IP address
192.168.8.129. Given the following TCP/IP network configuration:
Which of the following configurations on the PC is incorrect?
Question259: A technician is troubleshooting a network issue and needs to view network traffic on a switch in real-time. Which of the following would allow the technician to view network traffic on a switch?
Question260: A network engineer performs the following tasks to increase server bandwidth:
- Connects two network cables from the server to a switch stack
- Configure LACP on the switchports
- Verifies the correct configurations on the switch interfaces
Which of the following needs to be configured on the server?
Question261: A company streams video to multiple devices across a campus. When this happens, several users report a degradation of network performance. Which of the following would MOST likely address this issue?
Question262: A PC and a network connectivity, and a help desk technician is attempting to resolve the issue.
The technician plans to run a constant ping command from a Windows workstation while testing various possible reasons for the connectivity issue.
Which of the following should the technician use?
Question263: A network switch was installed to provide connectivity to cameras monitoring wildlife in a remote location. The organization is concerned that intruders could potentially leverage unattended equipment in the remote location to connect rogue devices and gain access to the organization's resources. Which of the following techniques would BEST address the concern?
Question264: A company, which is located in a coastal town, retrofitted an office building for a new data center.
The underground fiber optics were brought in and connected to the switches in the basement network MDF. A server data center was built on the fifth floor with the two rooms vertically connected by fiber optics. Which of the following types of environmental sensors is most needed?
Question265: A technician notices that equipment is being moved around and misplaced in the server room, even though the room has locked doors and cabinets. Which of the following would be the BEST solution to identify who is responsible?
Question266: A technician is deploying a new switch model and would like to add it to the existing network monitoring software. The technician wants to know what metrics can be gathered from a given switch. Which of the following should the technician utilize for the switch?
Question267: A network administrator currently collects log files from several different servers. Which of the following would allow the network administrator to collect log files on a centralized host?
Question268: A network administrator is checking to see if anything has changed. Which of the following steps of the troubleshooting methodology is involved?
Question269: A building is equipped with light sensors that turn off the fluorescent lights when natural light is above a certain brightness. Users report experiencing network connection issues only during certain hours. The west side of the building experiences connectivity issues in the morning hours and the east side near the end of the day. At night the connectivity issues affect the entire building. Which of the following could be the cause of the connectivity issues?
Question270: Hotspot Question
You have been tasked with implementing an ACL on the router that will:
1. Permit the most commonly used secure remote access technologies from the management network to all other local network segments.
2. Ensure the user subnet cannot use the most commonly used remote access technologies in the Linux and Windows Server segments.
3. Prohibit any traffic that has not been specifically allowed.
INSRUCTIONS
Use the drop-downs to complete the ACL.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.
Question271: A technician monitors a switch interface and notices it is not forwarding frames on a trunked port.
However, the cable and interfaces are in working order. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of the issue?
Question272: A technician is equipped with a tablet, a smartphone, and a laptop to troubleshoot a switch with the help of support over the phone. However, the technician is having issues interconnecting all these tools in troubleshooting the switch. Which of the following should the technician use to gain connectivity?
Question273: Client devices cannot enter a network, and the network administrator determines the DHCP scope is exhausted. The administrator wants to avoid creating a new DHCP pool.
Which of the following can the administrator perform to resolve the issue?
Question274: An engineer is using a tool to run an ICMP sweep of a network to find devices that are online.
When reviewing the results, the engineer notices a number of workstations that are currently verified as being online are not listed in the report.
The tool was configured to scan using the following information:
- Network address: 172.28.16.0
- CIDR: /22
The engineer collected the following information from the client workstation:
- IP address: 172.28.17.206
- Subnet mask: 255.255.252.0
Which of the following MOST likely explains why the tool is failing to detect some workstations?
Question275: 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?
Question276: The lack of a formal process to grant network permissions to different profiles of employees and contractors is leading to an increasing number of security incidents. Non-uniform and overly permissive network accesses are being granted. Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate method to improve the security of the environment?
Question277: A network technician needs to correlate security events to analyze a suspected intrusion.
Which of the following should the technician use?
Question278: A company wants to add a local redundant data center to its network in case of failure at its primary location. Which of the following would give the LEAST amount of redundancy for the company's network?
Question279: A help desk engineer needs to configure two servers to have the same public IP addresses.
Which of the following technologies should the engineer use?
Question280: A technician is contracted to install a redundant cluster of devices from the ISP In case of a hardware failure within the network. Which of the following would provide the BEST redundant solution in Layer 2 devices?
Question281: A network technician for a bank configured a WLAN that provides good coverage. Bank employees are now reporting Wi-Fi issues when the microwave in the lunch room area is used.
Which of the following frequencies should the technician use to minimize interference?
Question282: All packets arriving at an interface need to be fully analyzed. Which of the following features should be used to enable monitoring of the packets?
Question283: A client utilizes mobile tablets to view high-resolution images and videos via Wi-Fi within a corporate office building. The previous administrator installed multiple high-density APs with Wi-Fi
5, providing maximum coverage, but the measured performance is still below expected levels.
Which of the following would provide the BEST solution?
Question284: A network administrator is talking to different vendors about acquiring technology to support a new project for a large company.
Which of the following documents will MOST likely need to be signed before information about the project is shared?
Question285: A network contains 25 access points. Which of the following devices would be best to change configurations on all the devices remotely?
Question286: Which of the following technologies would MOST likely be used to prevent the loss of connection between a virtual server and network storage devices?
Question287: An IDS was installed behind the edge firewall after a network was breached. The network was then breached again even though the IDS logged the attack. Which of the following should be used in place of these devices to prevent future attacks?
Question288: A user reports that a new VoIP phone works properly, but the computer that is connected to the phone cannot access any network resources. Which of the following MOST likely needs to be configured correctly to provide network connectivity to the computer?
Question289: A network engineer is designing a new secure wireless network. The engineer has been given the following requirements:
1. Must not use plaintext passwords
2. Must be certificate based
3. Must be vendor neutral
Which of the following methods should the engineer select?
Question290: Which of the following tools can the technician use to analyze TCP/IP packets when trying to determine a connection problem within a subnet?
Question291: A network technician is investigating an issue with a desktop that is not connecting to the network. The desktop was connecting successfully the previous day, and no changes were made to the environment. The technician locates the switchport where the device is connected and observes the LED status light on the switchport is not lit even though the desktop is turned on Other devices that arc plugged into the switch are connecting to the network successfully.
Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of the desktop not connecting?
Question292: Which of the following OSI model layers would allow a user to access and download files from a remote computer?
Question293: Which of the following can have multiple VLAN interfaces?
Question294: Which of the following network topologies contains a direct connection between every node in the network?
Question295: A technician is configuring a static IP address on a new device in a newly created subnet. The work order specifies the following requirements:
-The IP address should use the highest address available in the subnet.
- The default gateway needs to be set to 172.28.85.94.
- The subnet mask needs to be 255.255.255.224.
Which of the following addresses should the engineer apply to the device?
Question296: Which of the following DNS records works as an alias to another record?
Question297: After running a Cat 8 cable using passthrough plugs, an electrician notices that connected cables are experiencing a lot of cross talk. Which of the following troubleshooting steps should the electrician take first?
Question298: A network administrator is testing connectivity at a new corporate site. The site has a wireless guest as well as a wired employee network. After verifying connectivity, the administrator checks link speeds by using a speed testing website. The speed testing website shows lower download and upload speeds for the wired network than the wireless network. Which of the following is the MOST likely explanation?
Question299: An IT director is setting up new disaster and HA policies for a company. Limited downtime is critical to operations. To meet corporate requirements, the director set up two different datacenters across the country that will stay current on data and applications. In the event of an outage, the company can immediately switch from one datacenter to another.
Which of the following does this BEST describe?
Question300: A company just migrated its email service to a cloud solution. After the migration, two-thirds of the internal users were able to connect to their mailboxes, but the connection fails for the other one- third of internal users. Users working externally are not reporting any issues. The network administrator identifies the following output collected from an internal host:
c:\user> nslookup newmail.company.com
Non-Authoritative answer:
Name: newmail.company.com
IPs: 3.219.13.186, 64.58.225.184, 184.168.131.243
Which of the following verification tasks should the network administrator perform NEXT?
Question301: A technician was cleaning a storage closet and found a box of transceivers labeled 8Gbps. Which of the following protocols uses those transceivers?
Question302: An IT administrator received an assignment with the following objectives:
- Conduct a total scan within the company's network for all connected hosts.
- Detect all the types of operating systems running on all devices.
- Discover all services offered by hosts on the network.
- Find open ports and detect security risks.
Which of the following command-line tools can be used to achieve these objectives?
Question303: A network administrator wants to know which systems on the network are at risk of a known vulnerability. Which of the following should the administrator reference?
Question304: An organization with one core and five distribution switches is transitioning from a star to a full- mesh topology.
Which of the following is the number of additional network connections needed?
Question305: Which of the following is used to determine whether or not a user's account is authorized to access a server remotely?
Question306: In a small office environment, one computer is set up to provide Internet access to three other computers that are not interconnected. This is an example of which of the following topology types?
Question307: Which of the following is a benefit of the spine-and-leaf network topology?
Question308: A network requirement calls for segmenting departments into different networks. The campus network is set up with users of each department in multiple buildings. Which of the following should be configured to keep the design simple and efficient?
Question309: A network technician is working to upgrade an existing wireless system in order to improve the coverage of APs throughout the building. Which of the following should the technician perform to determine the optimal placement of APs for the new wireless system?
Question310: Which of the following describes a manually entered route?
Question311: Users in a branch can access an in-house database server, but it is taking too long to fetch records. The analyst does not know whether the issue is being caused by network latency. Which of the following will the analyst MOST likely use to retrieve the metrics that are needed to resolve this issue?
Question312: A technician is trying to determine whether an LACP bundle is fully operational. Which of the following commands will the technician MOST likely use?
Question313: Users have reported an issue connecting to a server over the network. A workstation was recently added to the network and configured with a shared USB printer. Which of the following is most likely causing the issue?
Question314: A systems administrator needs to improve WiFi performance in a densely populated office tower and use the latest standard.
There is a mix of devices that use 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz.
Which of the following should the systems administrator select to meet this requirement?
Question315: 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?
Question316: After a critical power issue, the network team was not receiving UPS status notifications. The network team would like to be alerted on these status changes.
Which of the following would be BEST to use for these notifications?
Question317: A network manager is configuring switches in IDFs to ensure unauthorized client computers are not connecting to a secure wired network. Which of the following is the network manager MOST likely performing?
Question318: Which of the following network devices can perform routing between VLANs?
Question319: An IT intern moved the location of a WAP from one conference room to another. The WAP was unable to boot following the move. Which of the following should be used to fix the issue?
Question320: A network attack caused a network outage by wiping the configuration and logs of the border firewall. Which of the following sources, in an investigation to determine how the firewall was compromised, can provide the MOST detailed data?
Question321: A network technician is having issues connecting an IoT sensor to the internet. The WLAN settings were entered via a custom command line, and a proper IP address assignment was received on the wireless interface. However, when trying to connect to the internet, only HTTP redirections are being received when data is requested. Which of the following will point to the root cause of the issue?
Question322: A company joins a bank's financial network and establishes a connection to the clearinghouse servers in the range 192 168.124.0/27. An IT technician then realizes the range exists within the VM pool at the data center. Which of the following is the BEST way for the technician to connect to the bank's servers?
Question323: A technician is deploying a low-density wireless network and is contending with multiple types of building materials. Which of the following wireless frequencies would allow for the LEAST signal attenuation?
Question324: The following instructions were published about the proper network configuration for a videoconferencing device:
"Configure a valid static RFC1918 address for your network. Check the option to use a connection over NAT." Which of the following is a valid IP address configuration for the device?
Question325: Which of the following technologies prevents network collisions to maximize safe delivery of network data?
Question326: Which of the following types of planes propagates routing information in an SDWAN solution?
Question327: Which of the following describes the ability of a corporate IT department to expand its cloud- hosted VM environment with minimal effort?
Question328: A network field technician is installing and configuring a secure wireless network. The technician performs a site survey.
Which of the following documents would MOST likely be created as a result of the site survey?
Question329: Which of the following is considered a physical security detection device?
Question330: A global company has acquired a local company. The companies are geographically separate.
The IP address ranges for the two companies are as follows:
- Global company: 10.0.0.0/16
- Local company: 10.0.0.0/24
Which of the following can the network engineer do to quickly connect the two companies?
Question331: A technician is investigating packet loss to a device that has varying data bursts throughout the day. Which of the following will the technician MOST likely configure to resolve the issue?
Question332: A technician needs to set up a wireless connection that utilizes MIMO on non-overlapping channels. Which of the following would be the best choice?
Question333: Users are reporting that all of a sudden some of the files stored on the remote file server share are becoming corrupted and cannot be opened. A technician is dispatched to the server room to troubleshoot. The technician verifies that no changes to the network infrastructure occurred recently. Which of the following tools is MOST likely to reveal why files are becoming corrupted?
Question334: Which of the following transceiver types can support up to 40Gbps?
Question335: Which of the following is used to require network devices to authenticate before gaining access to a LAN?
Question336: Which of the following documents is MOST likely to be associated with identifying and documenting critical applications?
Question337: Which of the following ports is a secure protocol?
Question338: Given the following information:
Which of the following command-line tools would generate this output?
Question339: Which of the following does OSPF use to communicate routing updates?
Question340: A network technician is observing the behavior of an unmanaged switch when a new device is added to the network and transmits data.
Which of the following BEST describes how the switch processes this information?
Question341: Which of the following types of datacenter architectures will MOST likely be used in a large SDN and can be extended beyond the datacenter?
Question342: A network administrator is implementing OSPF on all of a company's network devices. Which of the following will MOST likely replace all the company's hubs?
Question343: A company has multiple offices around the world. The computer rooms in some office locations are too warm. Dedicated sensors are in each room, but the process of checking each sensor takes a long time. Which of the following options can the company put in place to automate temperature readings with internal resources?
Question344: Which of the following would MOST likely be used to review disaster recovery information for a system?
Question345: Which of the following is used to track and document various types of known vulnerabilities?
Question346: An administrator is trying to retrieve management information from the network devices on their LAN. Which of the following monitoring resources provides the ability to collect this information encrypted over the network?
Question347: A desktop support department has observed slow wireless speeds for a new line of laptops using the organization's standard image. No other devices have experienced the same issue. Which of the following should the network administrator recommend troubleshooting FIRST to resolve this issue?
Question348: An attacker targeting a large company was able to inject malicious A records into internal name resolution servers. Which of the following attack types was MOST likely used?
Question349: Which of the following STP states indicates an inactivated port due to a loop?
Question350: A technician is trying to configure a previously owned WAP. The technician successfully logs into the administrative console and attempts to input the IP address on the WAP. However, the WAP is not accepting the command. Which of the following is causing the problem?
Question351: A network administrator is setting up a WAP and wants to disable the ability of gaining access from the parking garage. Which of the following should the network administrator review?
Question352: Which of the following can be used to limit the ability of devices to perform only HTTPS connections to an internet update server without exposing the devices to the public internet?
Question353: A company is connected to an ISP, but owns the premise router with an internal CSU/DSU.
Which of the following is considered the demarc?
Question354: A network administrator is troubleshooting a connection to a remote site. The administrator runs a command and sees the following output:
Which of the following is the cause of the connection issue?
Question355: A user is trying to reach an internet destination. A systems administrator thinks that packets are being dropped in transit. Which of the following command-line tools would confirm if the packets are being dropped?
Question356: Many IP security cameras use RTSP to control media playback. Which of the following default transport layer port numbers does RTSP use?
Question357: Branch users are experiencing issues with videoconferencing. Which of the following will the company MOST likely configure to improve performance for these applications?
Question358: The power company notifies a network administrator that it will be turning off the power to the building over the weekend.
Which of the following is the BEST solution to prevent the servers from going down?
Question359: Which of the following cable types is employed to protect against interference in the physical environment or when security is a concern?
Question360: A customer hired a network consultant to provide advice on the installation of new wireless access. The customer has several devices that operate in either the 5.0GHz range or the 2.4GHz range, and the best performance must be available. Which of the following standards should the technician suggest?
Question361: An ISP is unable to provide services to a user in a remote area through cable and DSL. Which of the following is the NEXT best solution to provide services without adding external infrastructure?
Question362: Which of the following is the best VPN to use for only encrypting and routing data for a specific destination?
Question363: A network technician recently replaced a managed switch in an enterprise network with a new managed switch. Users on the switch can communicate with each other but now cannot access other network segments. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason that the users are unable to access any network segments?
Question364: A network administrator needs to run a single command-line tool capable of displaying routing table and multicast memberships.
Which of the following would BEST help the administrator achieve the requirements?
Question365: A network technician at a university is assisting with the planning of a simultaneous software deployment to multiple computers in one classroom in a building.
Which of the following would be BEST to use?
Question366: Which of the following is an advanced distance vector routing protocol that automates routing tables and also uses some features of link-state routing protocols?
Question367: A company is being acquired by a large corporation. As part of the acquisition process, the company's address should now redirect clients to the corporate organization page. Which of the following DNS records needs to be created?
Question368: Which of the following is the most accurate NTP time source that is capable of being accessed across a network connection?
Question369: A network administrator wants to implement an authentication process for temporary access to an organization's network. Which of the following technologies would facilitate this process?
Question370: A network engineer is installing hardware in a newly renovated data center. Major concerns that were addressed during the renovation included air circulation, building power redundancy, and the need for continuous monitoring. The network engineer is creating alerts based on the following operation specifications:
Question371: A technician needs to configure a routing protocol for an internet-facing edge router. Which of the following routing protocols will the technician MOST likely use?
Question372: A small office is looking to deploy wireless to cover one half of the work area only. The technician is restricted to suspending the WAP in the middle of the office due to network jack limitations.
Which of the following antenna types would BEST meet these requirements?
Question373: A network device needs to discover a server that can provide it with an IPv4 address. Which of the following does the device need to send the request to?
Question374: A user reports that a crucial fileshare is unreachable following a network upgrade that was completed the night before. A network technician confirms the problem exists. Which of the following troubleshooting steps should the network technician perform NEXT?
Question375: A network architect is developing documentation for an upcoming IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack implementation. The architect wants to shorten the following IPv6 address:
ef82:0000:0000:0000:0000:1ab1:1234:1bc2. Which of the following is the MOST appropriate shortened version?
Question376: A technician installed an 8-port switch in a user's office. The user needs to add a second computer in the office, so the technician connects both PCs to the switch and connects the switch to the wall jack. However, the new PC cannot connect to network resources. The technician then observes the following:
- The new computer does not get an IP address on the client's VLAN.
- Both computers have a link light on their NICs.
- The new PC appears to be operating normally except for the network issue.
- The existing computer operates normally.
Which of the following should the technician do NEXT to address the situation?
Question377: While troubleshooting a network, a VoIP systems engineer discovers a significant inconsistency in the amount of time required for data to reach its destination and return. Which of the following terms BEST describes this issue?
Question378: A technician is troubleshooting a connectivity issue with an end user. The end user can access local network shares and intranet pages but is unable to access the internet or remote resources.
Which of the following needs to be reconfigured?
Question379: A technician is troubleshooting reports that a networked printer is unavailable. The printer's IP address is configured with a DHCP reservation, but the address cannot be pinged from the print server in the same subnet.
Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of the connectivity failure?
Question380: A store owner would like to have secure wireless access available for both business equipment and patron use. Which of the following features should be configured to allow different wireless access through the same equipment?
Question381: A network technician is troubleshooting a connectivity issue. All users within the network report that they are unable to navigate to websites on the internet; however, they can still access local network resources. The technician issues a command and receives the following results:
Pinging comptia.com [172.67.217.56] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 172.67.217.56: TTL expired in transit.
Reply from 172.67.217.56: TTL expired in transit.
Reply from 172.67.217.56: TTL expired in transit.
Reply from 172.67.217.56: TTL expired in transit.
Which of the following best explains the result of this command?
Question382: Which of the following layers of the OSI model has new protocols activated when a user moves from a wireless to a wired connection?
Question383: A newly installed VoIP phone is not getting the DHCP IP address it needs to connect to the phone system. Which of the following tasks needs to be completed to allow the phone to operate correctly?
Question384: At which layer of the OSI model do MAC addresses operate?
Question385: Which of the following can be used to validate domain ownership by verifying the presence of pre-agreed content contained in a DNS record?
Question386: Hotspot Question
A network technician needs to resolve some issues with a customer's SOHO network. The customer reports that some of the PCs are not connecting to the network, while others appear to be working as intended.
INSTRUCTIONS
Troubleshoot all the network components.
Review the cable test results first, then diagnose by clicking on the appropriate PC, server, and Layer 2 switch.
Identify any components with a problem and recommend a solution to correct each problem.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please dick the Reset All button.
Question387: A technician is assisting a user who cannot connect to a network resource. The technician first checks for a link light. According to troubleshooting methodology, this is an example of:
Question388: Which of the following documents would be used to define uptime commitments from a provider, along with details on measurement and enforcement?
Question389: Which of the following is used to classify network data for the purpose of providing QoS?
Question390: Which of the following uses the link-state routing algorithm and operates within a single autonomous system?
Question391: Which of the following diagnostic commands relies on proper forwarding of ICMP ECHO packets?
Question392: Given the following information:
Which of the following would cause performance degradation between PC A and PC B?
Question393: Due to concerns around single points of failure, a company decided to add an additional WAN to the network. The company added a second MPLS vendor to the current MPLS WAN and deployed an additional WAN router at each site. Both MPLS providers use OSPF on the WAN network, and EIGRP is run internally. The first site to go live with the new WAN is successful, but when the second site is activated significant network issues occur. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause for the WAN instability?
Question394: A network security engineer locates an unapproved wireless bridge connected to the corporate LAN that is broadcasting a hidden SSID, providing unauthenticated access to internal resources.
Which of the following types of attacks BEST describes this finding?
Question395: A technician is searching for a device that is connected to the network and has the device's physical network address. Which of the following should the technician review on the switch to locate the device's network port?
Question396: A number of remote users have reported being unable to securely log on to the company's network. Upon speaking with some of the employees experiencing the issue, no changes were made to their configurations, usernames, or passwords. The technician establishes a theory that one of the VPN concentrators may be down. Which of the following should the technician do NEXT?
Question397: A company recently upgraded all of its printers to networked multifunction devices. Users can print to the new devices, but they would also like the ability to scan and fax files from their computers. Which of the following should the technician update to allow this functionality?
Question398: A security administrator is trying to prevent incorrect IP addresses from being assigned to clients on the network. Which of the following would MOST likely prevent this and allow the network to continue to operate?
Question399: A company recently added an addition to their office building. A technician runs new plenum network cables from the switch on one side of the company's gymnasium 80 meters (262 ft.) to the new offices on the other side, draping the wires across the light fixtures. Users working out of the new offices in the addition complain of intermittent network connectivity. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of the connectivity issue?
Question400: In which of the following locations is a VPN headend found?
Question401: Which of the following is the MOST appropriate use case for the deployment of a clientless VPN?
Question402: Which of the following services can provide data storage, hardware options, and scalability to a third-party company that cannot afford new devices?
Question403: A sales team at a company uses a SaaS solution primarily for videoconferencing and a CRM application that connects to a database server in the corporate data center. Which of the following VPN solutions would allow secure, remote access for sales staff to the CRM application without impacting videoconferencing traffic?
Question404: Which of the following is used to estimate the average life span of a device?
Question405: A network administrator connects two unmanaged switches together with a straight-through Ethernet cable. The administrator reviews the connection and notices that the uplinks are not on.
Which of the following options offers the best solution for the issue?
Question406: A building was recently remodeled in order to expand the front lobby. Some mobile users have been unable to connect to the available network jacks within the new lobby, while others have had no issues. Which of the following is the most likely cause of the connectivity issues?
Question407: A network engineer receives the following when connecting to a switch to configure a port:
telnet 10.1.200.1
Connecting to 10.1.200.1..Could not open connection to the host, on
port 23: Connect failed.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause for the failure?
Question408: A technician is installing the Wi-Fi infrastructure for legacy industrial machinery at a warehouse.
The equipment only supports 802.11a and 802.11b standards. Speed of transmission is the top business requirement. Which of the following is the correct maximum speed for this scenario?
Question409: A network technician is troubleshooting a network issue for employees who have reported issues with speed when accessing a server in another subnet. The server is in another building that is
410ft (125m) away from the employees' building. The 10GBASE-T connection between the two buildings uses Cat 5e. Which of the following BEST explains the speed issue?
Question410: Which of the following is used to limit the amount of bandwidth used on a link for different applications to improve overall performance?
Question411: A network technician needs to ensure outside users are unable to telnet into any of the servers at the datacenter. Which of the following ports should be blocked when checking firewall configuration?
Question412: Users are reporting that all of a sudden some of the files stored on the remote file server share are becoming corrupted and cannot be opened. A technician is dispatched to the server room to troubleshoot. The technician verifies that no changes to the network infrastructure occurred recently. Which of the following tools is MOST likely to reveal why files are becoming corrupted?
Question413: A new student is given credentials to log on to the campus Wi-Fi. The student stores the password in a laptop and is able to connect; however, the student is not able to connect with a phone when only a short distance from the laptop. Given the following information:
Which of the following is MOST likely causing this connection failure?
Question414: Which of the following DHCP settings would be used to ensure a device gets the same IP address each time it is connected to the network?
Question415: Classification using labels according to information sensitivity and impact in case of unauthorized access or leakage is a mandatory component of:
Question416: A network administrator is designing a wireless network. The administrator must ensure a rented office space has a sufficient signal. Reducing exposure to the wireless network is important, but it is secondary to the primary objective. Which of the following would MOST likely facilitate the correct accessibility to the Wi-Fi network?
Question417: A wireless network was installed in a warehouse for employees to scan crates with a wireless handheld scanner. The wireless network was placed in the corner of the building near the ceiling for maximum coverage. However users in the offices adjacent lo the warehouse have noticed a large amount of signal overlap from the new network. Additionally warehouse employees report difficulty connecting to the wireless network from the other side of the building; however they have no issues when Ihey are near the antenna. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?
Question418: The lack of a formal process to grant network permissions to different profiles of employees and contractors is leading to an increasing number of security incidents. Non-uniform and overly permissive network accesses are being granted. Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate method to improve the security of the environment?
Question419: Which of the following security devices would be BEST to use to provide mechanical access control to the MDF/IDF?
Question420: A network administrator redesigned the positioning of the APs to create adjacent areas of wireless coverage. After project validation, some users still report poor connectivity when their devices maintain an association to a distanced AP. Which of the following should the network administrator check FIRST?
Question421: SIMULATION
A network technician replaced a switch and needs to reconfigure it to allow the connected devices to connect to the correct networks.
INSTRUCTIONS
Click on the appropriate port(s) on Switch 1 and Switch 3 to verify or reconfigure the correct settings:
* Ensure each device accesses only its correctly associated network
* Disable all unused switch ports
* Require fault-tolerant connections between the switches
* Only make necessary changes to complete the above requirements
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.
Question422: A new technician has been tasked with implementing a QoS policy for the Network. The technician decides it would be best to monitor the information traversing the network to gain statistical information on ports and protocols utilized. Which of the following tools should the technician use to complete this objective QUICKEST?
Question423: The management team needs to ensure unnecessary modifications to the corporate network are not permitted and version control is maintained. Which of the following documents would BEST support this?
Question424: A company is designing a SAN and would like to use STP as its medium for communication.
Which of the following protocols would BEST suit the company's needs?
Question425: A MAC address is a part of which of the following OSI model layers?
Question426: Which of the following OSI model layers is where a technician would view UDP information?
Question427: ARP spoofing would normally be a part of:
Question428: A network engineer designed and implemented a new office space with the following characteristics:
One month after the office space was implemented, users began reporting dropped signals when entering another room and overall poor connections to the 5GHz network. Which of the following should the engineer do to best resolve the issue?
Question429: An administrator would like to have two servers at different geographical locations provide fault tolerance and high performance while appearing as one URL to users. Which of the following should the administrator implement?
Question430: Which of the following services provides the network information for the address when IPv6 is used for SLAAC addressing?
Question431: Due to a surge in business, a company is onboarding an unusually high number of salespeople.
The salespeople are assigned desktops that are wired to the network. The last few salespeople to be onboarded are able to access corporate materials on the network but not sales-specific resources. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?
Question432: A network administrator is troubleshooting a client's device that cannot connect to the network. A physical inspection of the switch shows the RJ45 is connected. The NIC shows no activity lights.
The network administrator moves the device to another location and connects to the network without issues. Which of the following tools would be the BEST option for the network administrator to use to further troubleshoot?
Question433: The address 6FFE:FFFF:0000:2F3B:04AC:00FF:FEBE:5C4A is an example of which of the following?
Question434: Which of the following is MOST appropriate for enforcing bandwidth limits when the performance of an application is not affected by the use of buffering but is heavily impacted by packet drops?
Question435: A website administrator is concerned the company's static website could be defaced by hacktivists or used as a pivot point to attack internal systems.
Which of the following should a network security administrator recommend to assist with detecting these activities?
Question436: Which of the following is most closely associated with attempting to actively prevent network intrusion?
Question437: A technician is installing a high-density wireless network and wants to use an available frequency that supports the maximum number of channels to reduce interference. Which of the following standard 802.11 frequency ranges should the technician look for while reviewing WAP specifications?
Question438: Which of the following ports should be used to securely receive mail that is synchronized across multiple devices?
Question439: A fiber link connecting two campus networks is broken. Which of the following tools should an engineer use to detect the exact break point of the fiber link?
Question440: A disgruntled employee executes a man-in-the-middle attack on the company network. Layer 2 traffic destined for the gateway is redirected to the employee's computer. This type of attack is an example of:
Question441: A company is moving to a new building designed with a guest waiting area that has existing network ports. Which of the following practices would BEST secure the network?
Question442: A network administrator is investigating a network connectivity issue. The administrator runs a command to view the status of the network cards. The administrator receives the following output:
RX packets:45332 errors: 45332 dropped:0 overruns 0 frame:0
Which of the following should the administrator troubleshoot based on the output?