Chapter 11

Question 1

What is a unmanaged switch

Answer 1

You dont have control over how the switch works beyond what devices to plug in and which ports to use

Question 2

What is a managed switch

Answer 2

let users adjust each port on the switch to any setting, enabling them to manage, configure and monitor the network in many ways

Question 3

What is in-band management

Answer 3

When you configure a switch over the network

Question 4

What is a out-of-band management

Answer 4

Configuring a switch that is outside of your network

Question 5

what is a jumbo frame

Answer 5

a frame larger than 1500 bytes

Question 6

What is trunking

Answer 6

The process of transferring VLAN traffic between two or more switches

Question 7

What is a trunk port

Answer 7

A port on a switch configured to carry all traffic, regardless of VLAN number

Question 8

What is the 802.1Q standard

Answer 8

The trunk standard, enables you to connect switches from different manufacturers

Question 9

What is VLAN assignment

Answer 9

The process of assigning ports to a VLAN

Question 10

What is a static VLANs

Answer 10

VLANs based on ports

Question 11

What are dynamic VLANs

Answer 11

VLANs based on MAC addresses

Question 12

What is a 802.1Q tag

Answer 12

a field tacked onto a frames ethernet header enabling the next switch to associate it with the correct VLAN

Question 13

What is VTP and what does it do

Answer 13

VLAN Trunking Protocol and it allows switches to exchange info to other switches

Question 14

What happens when you set a VLAN switch to transparent

Answer 14

The switch will not update and will retain the manual settings

Question 15

What are the only two devices that allow the exchange of data from one VLAN to another

Answer 15

A router or a layer 3 switch- multilayer switch

Question 16

What is inter-VLAN routing

Answer 16

the process of passing traffic between two VLANs

Question 17

What does the show config command do

Answer 17

Displays the running configuration

Question 18

What does the show interface command show

Answer 18

displays the interface for all the ports

Question 19

What are runts

Answer 19

Packets that are smaller than the required ethernet standard

Question 20

What are giants

Answer 20

packets that are larger than the required ethernet standard

Question 21

What does the show route command show

Answer 21

displays the routing table

Question 22

What is port bonding/ port aggregation

Answer 22

Using two ports on a switch to boost the amount of data that can be transferred

Question 23

What is port mirroring

Answer 23

When you have a switch send traffic that is happening on a different port to your computer

Question 24

What is a intrusion detection system (IDS)

Answer 24

detects and reports possible attacks to the admin

Question 25

What is a intrusion prevention system (IPS)

Answer 25

runs inline with the network and acts to stop detected attacks

Question 26

What is a firewall

Answer 26

Filters incoming and outgoing traffic

Question 27

What do forward proxy servers do

Answer 27

Hide the clients from the server by forwarding the message to the server

Question 28

What does a reverse proxy server do

Answer 28

Hides the server, and can provide load balancing and caching for high activity pages

Question 29

What can forward proxy servers be configured for

Answer 29

caching, content filtering, and firewall capability

Question 30

What is load balancing

Answer 30

When a lot of servers distribute the load of traffic in an even way

Question 31

What are DMZ (Demilitarized Zones) used for

Answer 31

To protect public-facing servers by creating an isolated area for those devices