6 - Configuring Basic Switch Management

Question 1

AAA

Answer 1

AAA
Authentication, authorization, and accounting. Authentication confirms the identity of the user or device. Authorization determines what the user or device is allowed to do. Accounting records information about access attempts, including inappropriate requests.

Question 2

AAA server

Answer 2

AAA server
A server that holds security information and provides services related to user login, particularly authentication (is the user who he says he is?), authorization (once authenticated, what do we allow the user to do?), and accounting (tracking the user).

Question 3

history buffer

Answer 3

history buffer
In a Cisco router or switch, the function by which IOS keeps a list of commands that the user has used in this login session, both in EXEC mode and configuration mode. The user can then recall these commands for easier repeating or making small edits and issuing similar commands.

Question 4

local username

Answer 4

local username
A username (with matching password), configured on a router or switch. It is considered local because it exists on the router or switch, and not on a remote server.

Question 5

name resolution

Answer 5

name resolution
The process by which an IP host discovers the IP address associated with a hostname, often involving sending a DNS request to a DNS server, with the server supplying the IP address used by a host with the listed hostname.

Question 6

VLAN interface

Answer 6

VLAN interface
A configuration concept inside Cisco switches, used as an interface between IOS running on the switch and a VLAN supported inside the switch, so that the switch can assign an IP address and send IP packets into that VLAN.