Midterm NetTechPro PT2

When using IPv6, two or more nodes on the same link are said to be neighbors.

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

What part of a MAC address serves as the extension identifier, or device ID?

How can you determine the manufacturer of a NIC card based on the MAC address?

You are troubleshooting a DNS issue on a Linux system, and need to test the resolution of your domain mycompany.com MX record using Google's DNS server with the IP address of 8.8.8.8. What dig command will accomplish this?

What type of IPv6 address is fe80::8cf1:2c42:ffde:da1c?

UDP port 123 is utilized by the Network Time Protocol service.

Which of the following IP addresses would be a loopback IP address?

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

What utility is used to verify that TCP/IP installed, bound to the NIC, configured correctly, and communicating with the network?

What command can be used to check a domain computer's time source from a Command Prompt window?

Encrypted control of remote computers using the RDP protocol is accomplished using what port number?

What text editor can be used on Linux to view and edit the contents of a configuration file?

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?

Which of the following protocols is used as a signaling protocol for the initial connection between hosts, but does not participate in data transfer during the session?

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?

DNS follows a centralized database model, allowing for easier management of DNS records.

In the DNS hierarchy, where is information about how to find the top-level domain servers held?

What statement regarding the Server Message Block protocol is accurate?

How do routers create a broadcast domain boundary?

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

What is the ARPA domain suffix utilized for?

At the Transport layer of the OSI, what is used to find and communicate with a particular application running on a host?

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

The 1024 - 65535 range of ports is also known as the "well-known" range.

ICANN is responsible for restrictions on use of the .com, .org, and .net TLDs.

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

Each organization that provides host services on the public Internet is responsible for providing and maintaining DNS authoritative servers for public access.

An IPv6 address consists of 128 bits that are written as 10 blocks of hexadecimal numbers separated by colons.

The FTP protocol utilizes UDP, while TFTP uses TCP for data transmission.

You are troubleshooting a network issue on a client computer and discover that the network card has an IP address of 169.254.196.200. What does this mean?

In a DNS zone, what type of record holds the name-to-address mapping for IPv6 addresses?

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

Which of the following IPv6 addresses represents a global unicast address?

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

What command can you utilize to display TCP/IP configuration information for each network adapter installed?

On a Linux-based system, what command can be used to display TCP/IP information associated with every interface on the system?

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

With a FQDN of ftp1.dallas.mycompany.com, what part is the domain name?

You are setting up a DNS zone and have been asked to create SPF and DKIM records. What type of DNS record will hold this information?

What occurs when a collision happens on a network?

Which of the following is not a task handled by a router?

What happens when a router receives a packet with a TTL of 0?

In general, a Layer 3 or Layer 4 switch is still optimized for fast Layer 2 data handling.

What tcpdump command can be used to filter out all traffic except SSH traffic?

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

In the event of a duplicate MAC address shared by two hosts on a switched network, what statement is accurate?

IP is an unreliable, connectionless protocol, as it does not establish a session to send its packets.

Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is an interior gateway protocol that uses a link-state algorithm.

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?

TCP uses a four-step process called a four-way handshake to establish a TCP connection.

Which statement does NOT accurately describe characteristics of the OSPF protocol?

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

Originally codified by ISO, what does the "intermediate system" in IS-IS (Intermediate System to Intermediate System) stand for?

What field in an IPv4 packet informs routers the level of precedence they should apply when processing an incoming packet?

The Border Gateway Protocol is considered to be a hybrid routing protocol.

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

What IPv6 field is similar to the TTL field in IPv4 packets?

The pathping utility sends 10 pings per hop by default.

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

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

You are connected to your network's Cisco router, and need to verify the route table. What command should you enter?

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?

UDP provides error checking, but not sequencing.

In a TCP segment, what field indicates how many bytes the sender can issue to a receiver before acknowledgment is received?

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?

You have been tasked with maintaining a network that is jumbo frame enabled. What does this mean?

What is routing protocol convergence time defined as?

IPv4 and IPv6 use the same packet format.

What is NOT one of the three characteristics of TCP in its role as a reliable delivery protocol?

What statement regarding the differences between the Windows tracert utility and the Linux/UNIX/macOS traceroute utility is accurate?

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

The IP connectionless protocol relies on what other protocol to guarantee delivery of data?

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

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

Which routing protocol started as a Cisco proprietary protocol and combines some of the features of a link-state protocol with that of distance-vector protocols?

The CTRL + S key combination can be used to stop an actively running command.

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

What is the purpose of the checksum TCP field?

What command will list only current connections, including IP addresses and port numbers?