COMPTIA NETWORK+ CERT EXAM 1

When creating network diagrams, what icon description typically represents a network firewall?

What routing metric affects a path's potential performance due to delay?

Routing protocols that enable routers to communicate beyond neighboring routers, allowing each router to independently map the network, are known as which type of protocols?

What layer of the OSI model describes how data between applications is synced and recovered if messages don't arrive intact at the receiving application?

If a host's IPv6 address contains the network adapter's MAC address within the last 64 bits of the IPv6 address, what standard is being used?

In the TCP/IP model, what layer is considered so simple that it is ignored entirely?

What utility is the equivalent to the pathping command on a Linux system?

You have been tasked with the replacement of OSPF with EIGRP throughout your organization, which consists of a mixture of Cisco routers and routers from other vendors. What statement is accurate?

A Windows computer on your network is having issues resolving queries for a specific domain, but not other domains. Other computers on the same network resolve the name just fine. What command can you issue that might fix the problem?

What standard describes uniform, enterprise-wide cabling systems, regardless of who manufactures or sells the various parts used in the system?

The proper handling procedures for substances such as chemical solvents is typically outlined in which of the following options?

If your network consists of all connected devices connecting to one central device, such as a switch, what type of topology is being used?

When using the Routing Information Protocol (RIP), what is the maximum number of hops a message can take between its source and its destination before the destination is considered unreachable?

The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is considered to be a connectionless, or best-effort delivery protocol.

When using DHCP for IPv6 (i.e. DHCPv6), what port do clients receive responses on?

What statement correctly identifies the purpose of a software patch?

What Application layer protocol can be used to monitor and gather information about network traffic and can alert network administrators about adverse conditions that need attention?

In a rack setup, a device called a KVM allows multiple consoles to connect to a single device on the rack.

Which of the following is NOT a range of IP addresses recommended for use in private networks?

What does the MX record do in a forward DNS zone?

In the United States, who is able to activate the Emergency Alert System at the national level?

Servers that have a NOS installed require less memory, processing power, and storage capacity than clients because servers are called on to handle only light processing loads and requests from multiple clients.

What is by far the most popular DNS server software available?

UDP provides error checking, but not sequencing.

What statement regarding the Server Message Block protocol is accurate?

In order to ensure that a cable is not affected by electromagnetic interference, how far away should the cable be from fluorescent lighting?

What component of enterprise level structured cabling serves as the location where an incoming network interface enters a building and connects with the building's backbone cabling?

When dealing with static electricity, what kind of failure caused by static discharge shortens the life of a component, and can cause intermittent errors?

In IPv6, what field is used to indicate what sequence of packets from one source to one or multiple destinations a packet belongs to?

Which traceroute command will perform a trace using ICMP echo requests instead of UDP datagrams to the host srv1.mycompany.com?

The cost of upgrading infrastructure has been a major factor in the slow adoption of IPv6.

By default, what is the MTU size on a typical Ethernet network?

Your supervisor has asked you to configure a new prototype network with a dual stack configuration. What does this mean?

A change coordinator functions as what type of manager?

Which of the following is not one of the disadvantages of peer-to-peer networks?

In the classful addressing scheme, what range of network addresses is considered a Class B?

What occurs when a collision happens on a network?

Which command will produce statistics about each message transmitted by a host, separated according to protocol type?

Which of the following is a document that is sent as a request to vendors to submit a proposal for a product or service that your company wants to purchase?

IPv4 and IPv6 use the same packet format

The frame header at the Data Link layer includes hardware addresses of the source and destination NICs. What is another name for this address?

A hexadecimal number is a number written in the base 16 number system.

Which statement regarding the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is accurate?

The fundamental difference between a switch and a router is that a switch belongs only to its local network and a router belongs to two or more local networks.

If the VLAN tag is present in an Ethernet frame, what is the maximum frame size?

Fiber-optic cable comes in two types: single-mode fiber (SMF) or multimode fiber (MMF).

The Data Link layer attaches a trailer to the end of a packet, and does not include a header.

At the root level of the DNS hierarchical structure, 13 clusters of root servers hold information used to locate TLD servers.

At what layer of the OSI model does a network switch normally operate?

At what layer of the OSI model do the IP, ICMP, and ARP protocols operate?