Ch. 7 Installing And Operating Cisco LAN Switches Flashcards
CLI
Command line interface
_____ Is a textbased interface in which the user typically a network engineer enters a text command and presses enter
CLI (command line interface)
Cisco refers to switch’s physical connectors is either ______ or ports
Interfaces
Switch hardware does include several ____ to provide some status in troubleshooting information
LEDs
Switches have a mode button that when pressed cycle support LEDs through three modes:
Stat
Duplx
Speed
The mode button changes the meaning of the ports ____
LEDs
IOS
Internetwork operating system
The Cisco ____ CLI allows the user to use a terminal emulation program which accepts text entered by the user
IOS (internetwork operating system)
The switch CLI can be accessed through three popular methods
The console, telnet and secure shell
SSH
Secure Shell
A _____ cable roles the pins 1 to 8, 2 to 7, 3 to 6 and so on
Rollover
USB
Universal serial bus
When using the ____ option you typically also need to install software driver so that your PCs operating system knows that the device on the other end of the connection is the console of a cisco
USB
After the PC is physically connected to the console port a terminal _____ software package must be installed and configured on the PC
Emulator
The ____ must be configured to use the PCs serial port to match the settings on the switches console’s port settings
Emulator
9600 Bits/second, no hardware control flow, 8-bit ASCII, no parity bits, 1 stop bit: these are all part of the _____ Console port settings
Default
_____ uses an IP network to send and receive the data rather than a specialized cable and a physical port on the device
Telnet
The telnet application protocols call the terminal emulator a
Telnet client
To overcome serious security problems with telnet many engineers use _____ instead
SSH (secure shell)
_____ _____ mode allows the user to look around and not break
User exec mode
Cisco iOS supports more powerful exec mode called _____ mode
Enable
The command prompt list the host name followed by a > the user is in _____ mode
User
At the command prompt is the host name followed by a # then the user is in ______ mode
Enable
The most popular Cisco iOS command is the ______ command
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