EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which of the following is the most secure way to provide site-to-site connectivity?

Question2: 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?

Question3: A company is implementing a wireless solution in a high-density environment. Which of the following 802.11 standards is used when a company is concerned about device saturation and converage?

Question4: While troubleshooting connectivity issues, a junior network administrator is given explicit instructions to test the host's TCP/IP stack first. Which of the following commands should the network administrator run?

Question5: 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?

Question6: A technician is planning an equipment installation into a rack in a data center that practices hot aisle/cold aisle ventilation. Which of the following directions should the equipment exhaust face when installed in the rack?

Question7: A systems administrator is configuring a new device to be added to the network. The administrator is planning to perform device hardening prior to connecting the device. Which of the following should the administrator do first?

Question8: A network engineer is completing a wireless installation in a new building. A requirement is that all clients be able to automatically connect to the fastest supported network. Which of the following best supports this requirement?

Question9: Which of the following is used to describe the average duration of an outage for a specific service?

Question10: Which of the following can also provide a security feature when implemented?

Question11: Which of the following allows a remote user to connect to the network?

Question12: A network administrator configured a router interface as 10.0.0.95 255.255.255.240. The administrator discovers that the router is not routing packets to a web server with IP 10.0.0.81/28.
Which of the following is the best explanation?

Question13: A network engineer is designing a secure communication link between two sites. The entire data stream needs to remain confidential. Which of the following will achieve this goal?

Question14: Which of the following best describes a group of devices that is used to lure unsuspecting attackers and to study the attackers' activities?

Question15: A network engineer needs to virtualize network services, including a router at a remote branch location. Which of the following solutions meets the requirements?

Question16: A network administrator performed upgrades on a server and installed a new NIC to improve performance. Following the upgrades, usera are unable to reach the server. Which of the following is the most likely reason.

Question17: Which of the following attacks can cause users who are attempting to access a company website to be directed to an entirely different website?

Question18: Which of the following cloud service models most likely requires the greatest up-front expense by the customer when migrating a data center to the cloud?

Question19: SIMULATION
Users are unable to access files on their department share located on file server 2. The network administrator has been tasked with validating routing between networks hosting workstation A and file server 2.
INSTRUCTIONS
Click on each router to review output, identify any issues, and configure the appropriate solution.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Question20: Which of the following is a company most likely enacting if an accountant for the company can only see the financial department's shared folders?

Question21: A network administrator is configuring access points for installation in a dense environment where coverage is often overlapping. Which of the following channel widths should the administrator choose to help minimize interference in the 2.4GHz spectrum?

Question22: A support agent receives a report that a remote user's wired devices are constantly disconnecting and have slow speeds. Upon inspection, the support agent sees that the user's coaxial modern has a signal power of -97dB.

Question23: 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?

Question24: Which of the following attacks utilizes a network packet that contains multiple network tags?

Question25: 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.

Question26: Which of the following devices can operate in multiple layers of the OSI model?

Question27: 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.

Question28: 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?

Question29: A customer needs six usable IP addresses. Which of the following best meets this requirement?

Question30: Network administrators are using the Telnet protocol to administer network devices that are on the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet. Which of the following tools should the administrator use to best identify the devices?

Question31: Which of the following is a characteristic of the application layer?

Question32: An organization has a security requirement that all network connections can be traced back to a user. A network administrator needs to identify a solution to implement on the wireless network.
Which of the following is the best solution?

Question33: A user's VoIP phone and workstation are connected through an inline cable. The user reports that the VoIP phone intermittently reboots, but the workstation is not having any network-related issues Which of the following is the most likely cause?

Question34: A network technician is troubleshooting network latency and has determined the issue to be occuring two network switches( Switch10 and Switch11). Symptoms reported included poor video performance and slow file copying. Given the following informtion:

Which of the following should the technician most likely do to resolve the issue?

Question35: Early in the morning, an administrator installs a new DHCP server. In the afternoon, some users report they are experiencing network outages. Which of the following is the most likely issue?

Question36: A network administrator is planning to implement device monitoring to enhance network visibility.
The security that the solution provies authentication and encryption. Which of the following meets these requirements?

Question37: A technician is setting up DNS records on local servers for the company's cloud DNS to enable access by hostname. Which of the following records should be used?

Question38: Which of the following technologies are X.509 certificates most commonly associated with?

Question39: A network technician needs to install patch cords from the UTP patch panel to the access switch for a newly occupied set of offices. The patch panel is not labeled for easy jack identification.
Which of the following tools provides the easiest way to identify the appropriate patch panel port?

Question40: Which of the following most likely requires the use of subinterfaces?

Question41: A company wants to implement data loss prevention by restricting user access to social media platforms and personal cloud storage on workstations. Which of the following types of filtering should the company deploy to achieve these goals?

Question42: A company's marketing team created a new application and would like to create a DNS record for newapplication.comptia.org that always resolves to the same address as www.comptia.org.
Which of the following records should the administrator use?

Question43: SIMULATION
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.

Question44: A storage network requires reduced overhead and increased efficiency for the amout of data being sent. Which of the following should an engineer likely configure to meet these requirements?

Question45: A network technician is troubleshooting a web application's poor performance. The office has two internet links that share the traffic load. Which of the following tools should the technician use to determine which link is being used for the web application?

Question46: SIMULATION
After a recent power outage, users are reporting performance issues accessing the application servers. Wireless users are also reporting intermittent Internet issues.
INSTRUCTIONS
Click on each tab at the top of the screen. Select a widget to view information, then use the drop- down menus to answer the associated questions.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Question47: A newtwork administrator needs to create an SVI on a Layer 3-capable device to separate voice and data traffic. Which of the following best explains this use case?

Question48: A network administrator is configuring a wireless network with an ESSID. Which of the following is a user benefit of ESSID compared to SSID?

Question49: Which of the following disaster recovery concepts is calculated by dividing the total hours of operation by the total number of units?

Question50: A network engineer is completing a new VoIP installation, but the phones cannot find the TFTP server to download the configuration files. Which of the following DHCP features would help the phone reach the TFTP server?

Question51: An administrator is configuring a switch that will be placed in an area of the office that is accessible to customers. Which of the following is the best way for the administrator to mitigate unknown devices from connecting to the network?

Question52: 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?

Question53: An administrator is setting up an SNMP server for use in the enterprise network and needs to create device IDs within a MIB. Which of the following describes the function of a MIB?

Question54: A network administrator is notified that a user cannot access resources on the network. The network administrator checks the physical connections to the workstation labeled User 3 and sees the Ethernet is properly connected. However, the network interface's indicator lights are not blinking on either the computer or the switch. Which of the following Is the most likely cause?

Question55: A network engineer configures a new switch and connects it to an existing switch for expansion and redundancy. Users immediately lose connectivity to the network. The network engineer notes the following spanning tree information from both switches:
Switch 1
Port State Cost
1 Forward 2
2 Forward 2
Switch 2
Port State Cost
1 Forward 2
2 Forward 2
Which of the following best describes the issue?

Question56: A company's network is experiencing high latency and packet loss during peak hours. Network monitoring tools show increased traffic on a switch. Which of the following should a network technician implement to reduce the network congestion and improve performance?

Question57: Which of the following is most likely responsible for the security and handling of personal data in Europe?

Question58: A network administrator is planning to host a company application in the cloud, making the application available for all internal and third-party users. Which of the following concepts describes this arrangement?

Question59: Which of the following is most commonly associated with many systems sharing one IP address in the public IP-addressing space?

Question60: SIMULATION
A network technician needs to resolve some issues with a customer's SOHO network. The customer reports that some of the devices are not connecting to the network, while others appear to work as intended.
INSTRUCTIONS
Troubleshoot all the network components and review the cable test results by clicking on each device and cable.
Diagnose the appropriate component(s) by identifying 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.

Cable Test Results:
Cable 1:

Cable 2:

Cable 3:

Cable 4:

Question61: Which of the following is a cost-effective advantage of a split-tunnel VPN?

Question62: A virtual machine has the following configuration:
- IPv4 address: 169.254.10.10
- Subnet mask: 255.255.0.0
The virtual machine can reach colocated systems but cannot reach external addresses on the Internet. Which of the following Is most likely the root cause?

Question63: 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?

Question64: A client with a 2.4GHz wireless network has stated that the entire office is experiencing intermittent issues with laptops after the WAP was moved. Which of the following is the most likely reason for these issues?

Question65: Which of the following steps in the troubleshooting methodology comes after using a top-to-top buttom examination of the OSI model to determine cause?

Question66: A network administrator needs to add 255 useable IP addresses to the network. A /24 is currently in use. Which of the following prefixes would fulfill this need?

Question67: Which of the following facilities is the best example of a warm site in the event of information system disruption?

Question68: Which of the following describes the best reason for using BGP?

Question69: A systems administrator is investigating why users cannot reach a Linux web server with a browser but can ping the server IP. The server is online, the web server process is running, and the link to the switch is up. Which of the following commands should the administrator run on the server first?

Question70: Which of the following network cables involves bounding light off of protective cladding?

Question71: Which of the following must be implemented to securely connect a company's headquarters with a branch location?

Question72: A customer is adding fiber connectivity between adjacent buildings. A technician terminates the multimode cable to the fiber patch panel. After the technician connects the fiber patch cable, the indicator light does not turn on. Which of the following should a technician try first to troubleshoot this issue?

Question73: An organization wants to ensure that incoming emails were sent from a trusted source. Which of the following DNS records is used to verify the source?

Question74: Three access points have Ethernet that runs through the ceiling. One of the access points cannot reach the internet. Which of the following tools can help identify the issue?

Question75: A user connects to a corporate VPN via a web browser and is able to use TLS to access the internal financial system to input a time card. Which of the following best describes how the VPN is being used?

Question76: Which of the following steps of the troubleshooting methodology would most likely include checking through each level of the OSI model after the problem has been identified?

Question77: SIMULATION
A network technician was recently onboarded to a company. A manager has tasked the technician with documenting the network and has provided the technician with partial information from previous documentation.
INSTRUCTIONS
Click on each switch to perform a network discovery by entering commands into the terminal.
Type help in each terminal to view a list of available commands.
Fill in the missing information using the drop-down meus provided.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Question78: A Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a company purchases a new phone that will be used while traveling to different countries. The CEO needs to be able to place outgoing calls and receive incoming calls on the phone using a SIM card. Which of the following cellular technologies does the CEO's phone need?

Question79: Which of the following protocols provides remote access utilizing port 22?

Question80: Which of the following routing protocols uses an autonomous system number?

Question81: 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 wold help identify which ports are open on the remote file server?

Question82: A customer recently moved into a new office and notices that some wall plates are not working and are not properly labeled Which of the following tools would be best to identify the proper wiring in the IDF?

Question83: A network engineer is now in charge of all SNMP management in the organization. The engineer must use a SNMP version that does not utilize plaintext data. Which of the following is the minimum version of SNMP that supports this requirement?

Question84: An organizatin is struggling to get effective coverage using the wireless network. The organization wants to implement a solution that will allow for continous connectivity anywhere in the facility.
Which of the following should the network administ rator suggest to ensure the best coverage?

Question85: SIMULATION
A network administrator has been tasked with configuring a network for a new corporate office.
The office consists of two buildings, separated by 50 feet with no physical connectivity. The configuration must meet the following requirements:
- Devices in both buildings should be able to access the Internet.
- Security insists that all Internet traffic be inspected before entering the network.
- Desktops should not see traffic destined for other devices.
INSTRUCTIONS
Select the appropriate network device for each location. If applicable, click on the magnifying glass next to any device which may require configuration updates and make any necessary changes.
Not all devices will be used, but all locations should be filled.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Question86: SIMULATION
Users are unable to access files on their department share located on file server 2. The network administrator has been tasked with validating routing between networks hosting workstation A and file server 2.
INSTRUCTIONS
Click on each router to review output, identify any issues, and configure the appropriate solution.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.