Test Your Networking Knowledge With 20 Questions...

11 Questions | By Craeburn | Updated: Mar 22, 2022 | Attempts: 2466

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Test Your Networking Knowledge With 20 Questions... - Quiz

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1.

Which combination of ports and states would be generated by a functioning BGP peering?
- A.
  
  UDP/520 and Active
- B.
  
  UDP/520 and Established
- C.
  
  TCP/520 and Active
- D.
  
  UDP/179 and Established
- E.
  
  TCP/179 and Active
- F.
  
  TCP/179 and Established
2.

Is the following statement true or false? The multicast group membership of a packet is defined by the source IP address.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
3.

Which command would you use to view alternate paths calculated by the EIGRP protocol? (please type the full command)
4.

Which of the following statements are true regarding the IEEE 802.1D spanning tree protocol?
- A.
  
  Ports may be in the Listening, Learning, Discarding and Forwarding states.
- B.
  
  All ports on the root bridge are root ports
- C.
  
  All ports on the root bridge are Designated ports
- D.
  
  All ports on the root bridge are Forwarding
- E.
  
  Spanning tree will choose the path with the highest root path cost
- F.
  
  Spanning tree will choose the path with the lowest root path cost
5.

Which of the following statements are correct regarding the functions of OSI model and TCP/IP protocols?
- A.
  
  The network layer is responsible for path determination and logical addressing.
- B.
  
  The transport layer controls access to the physical media.
- C.
  
  TCP and UDP are network layer protocols.
- D.
  
  TCP and UDP are transport layer protocols
6.

Which of the following statements is true regarding the operation of a transparent bridge (switch)?
- A.
  
  The bridge learns destination mac addresses from frames and places them in the bridging table so that frames may be sent to the correct port and filtered from others
- B.
  
  The bridge learns source mac addresses and places them in the bridging table so that frames may be sent to the correct port and filtered from others
- C.
  
  The last unicast frame in a traffic flow must be flooded by the bridge.
- D.
  
  Broadcast frames are filtered by default on transparent bridges.
7.

An IP address cannot be assigned to a host if every bit of the host portion of the address is set to 1.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
8.

What class is the following IP address?11100100.00001100.00000000.00000010
- A.
  
  Class A
- B.
  
  Class B
- C.
  
  Class C
- D.
  
  Class D
- E.
  
  Class E
9.

Please look at the following configuration and pick the option which describes it's function:ip route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 172.16.1.2 10ip route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 172.16.5.5 20
- A.
  
  The router will send traffic to the next hop 172.16.5.5 due to the higher priority. If reachability to this neighbor is lost, packets will be sent to 172.16.1.2
- B.
  
  The router will send packets to the address of 172.16.1.2 due to the lower administrative distance, if reachability to this neighbor is lost, packets will be sent to 172.16.5.5
10.

Which of the following statements regarding VLANs are correct?
- A.
  
  A VLAN can be used to group ports on a switch into different broadcast domains
- B.
  
  Hosts attached to ports in the same VLAN will be in the same IP network
- C.
  
  Hosts attached to ports in the same VLAN can be in different IP networks
- D.
  
  Hosts attached to ports in different broadcast domains will need to communicate via a router
- E.
  
  VLANs can be used to segment traffic according to the organisational structure (e.g. which department users are from).
- F.
  
  Hosts attached to ports in different broadcast domains do not need to communicate via a router