Networking 7

Routing table entries are entered manually on static routers and do not change.

By convention, what is the name given to Area ID 0 (zero) of an Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) network?

Which value represents the core or backbone area of an OSPF network?

What is the name of the proprietary cable designed by Cisco for connecting to their routers?

Which protocol is used on the Internet for communication between Autonomous Systems?

RIP converges dramatically faster and is much more efficient than OSPF.

Which column in a routing table tells the router which of its ports to use?

With distance vector routing protocols, the simplest total cost sums the hops (the hop count) between a router and a network.

Which protocol is a distance vector routing protocol?

What is the name of Cisco?s proprietary operating system?

Every brand of router tends to use the same default user name and password.

The Border Gateway Protocol is used between routers inside a single Autonomous System.

Which tool can be used to access a Cisco router remotely from a Windows 7 system?

Your company has a single server on the private LAN that it wants to make accessible from the Internet. Which of the following would give the server the protection of NAT, while allowing access to that server from the Internet?

__________ maps a single routable (that is, not private) IP address to a single machine, enabling you to access that machine from outside the network.

Network Address Translation (NAT) extended the useful life of IPv4 addresses on the Internet for many years.

What protocol was adopted in 1994, and is now considered obsolete except for small, private WANs?

Which routing metric determines the largest frame a particular technology can handle?

The protocol used by Autonomous Systems to communicate with each other is generically called a(n) __________.

NAT is essentially the same process as routing.

Which routing protocol is the choice in most large enterprise networks?

Which routing protocol does not support Variable-Length Subnet Masking (VLSM)?

Which term refers to the passage of a packet through a router?

What is the maximum number of hops allowed by RIP?

What tasks should be performed as soon as an administrator finishes configuring a router?

Which of the following could be a valid Autonomous System Number (ASN)?

Which tool is used by an administrator to manage many routers and obtain an overall view of all the routers?

Secure Shell (SSH) is a terminal emulation program that uses the network to connect routers.

Which NAT technology uses port numbers to map traffic from specific machines on the network?

The first thing you should do with a new router is to plug it into an existing network.

On a TCP/IP network, a router determines where an incoming packet should go by looking at the packet?s

Routers work with the source IP address of each packet.

Which tool records the route between any two hosts on a network and can be used to troubleshoot routing problems?

Which protocol is a path vector routing protocol?

Which routing metric refers to the ability of a connection to handle more data than others?

Every node on a network has a routing table.

Which protocol is Cisco?s proprietary protocol?

Which form of NAT typically handles the one-to-many connections?

What is another name for dynamic NAT?

When a router has more than one route to the same network, the responsibility for assigning a different metric for each route lies with the __________.

At which layer of the OSI model do routers work?

Which protocol is a link state dynamic routing protocol?

With NAT, the router replaces the destination IP address of a computer with its outside interface address on outgoing packets.

Every operating system always looks first in the hosts file before anything else when attempting to resolve a name.

A Windows domain is the same as a DNS domain.

Which item is part of a fully qualified domain name (FQDN)?

Which zone files are the most important part of any DNS server?

Which statement is true about DNS roots?

Which command is used to force a DNS server to update its records?

On an authoritative DNS server, which storage areas hold the IP addresses and FQDNs for the computers in a domain?

A single DNS domain may have a single authoritative DNS server and only one other DNS server, known as a name server (NS).

What term best describes the way the DNS name space is organized?

What entry is made at the command prompt in UNIX/Linux to display DNS server information?

Which protocol enables DNS servers to get automatic updates of IP addresses of computers in their forward lookup zones, mainly by talking to the local DHCP server?

Within the DNS hierarchy, which term refers to the DNS servers just below the DNS root?

How many powerful DNS server clusters, scattered all over the world, does the DNS root contain?

Which zone is created on other DNS servers to act as backups to the primary zone?

A zone is a container for multiple DNS domains.

Lots of operating systems come with built-in DNS server software, including Windows Server.

Which DNS server is used to talk to other DNS servers to resolve IP addresses for DNS clients?

A single DNS server can act as the authoritative DNS server for only one domain.

Every forward lookup zone requires a Start of Authority (SOA) record.

The top level of a domain name registered for Internet use is the name of the individual entity registering the domain name.

DNS domains that are not on the Internet should use the top-level name __________.

Which term is an original top-level domain name?

In the DNS naming convention, what character(s) separate(s) a domain name from its subdomains?

How is the address 127.0.0.1 listed in the hosts file?

Which type of domain allows all of the domain controllers to be equal partners, such that any domain controller can take over if one domain controller fails?

Which record type points to the authoritative name server?

Including the separating periods, what is the maximum number of characters allowed by the DNS naming convention?

On a private TCP/IP network, the DNS naming convention does not require top-level domain names such as .com or .org.

Every Web server must include ?www? as part of its name.

How does NetBIOS identify a computer system on the network?

As the Internet has grown, hosts files have replaced DNS.

Which of the following is true of the names in a flat name space?

What UDP port do DNS servers primarily use?

Which tool is the best choice for testing DNS?

In comparing the DNS name space to a computer?s file system, a domain is like __________.

If a primary DNS server goes down, the secondary servers can resolve FQDNs and add new records.

If you want to be a purist when labeling the connections on patch panels, there is an official, and rather confusing, TIA/EIA labeling methodology called TIA/EIA 606.

What are you trying to discover when you test a cable for continuity?

The network status icon in the Notification Area in Windows 7 will display a little red ? when a NIC is disconnected.

What is the size of a U, the equipment rack unit of measure, used for specifying height?

Which condition specifically applies to UTP cabling?

What type of tool is manufactured by Tripplet Corporation and is called a ?Fox and Hound??

Which attribute applies to the OSPF routing method?

Every node on a network has a routing table.

What enables a system to determine an FQDN by knowing the IP address?

Which of the following would confirm that you have a DNS problem?

Cache-only DNS servers are often the authoritative server for a domain.

Most switches enable you to use multiple NICs for a single machine, a process called __________ or link aggregation.

If a routing table has two or more valid routes for a particular IP address destination, it always chooses the route with the highest value.

Which organization has the authority to create new top-level domain names?

A DNS server must be a member of a domain to be a name server for that domain.

Which protocol enables DNS servers to get automatic updates of IP addresses of computers in their forward lookup zones, mainly by talking to the local DHCP server?

Microsoft used DNS names with the __________ protocol to provide folder and printer sharing in small TCP/IP networks.