General

Question 1

What is a router mainly employed to do?

Answer 1

Break up broadcast domains and route traffic

Question 2

What are some advantages for using routers in a network?

Answer 2

They don’t forward broadcasts by default and they can filter the network based on layer 3 (Network layer) information such as an IP address.

Question 3

What are four ways a router functions in a network?

Answer 3

Packet switching. Packet filtering. Internetwork communication. Path selection

Question 4

What is the activity known as Session Multiplexing?

Answer 4

The Transport layer, working in tandem with the Session layer, also separates the data from different applications, an activity known as session multiplexing, and it happens when a client connects to a server with multiple browser sessions open.

Question 5

What type of traffic does ARP use?

Answer 5

Broadcast Traffic. This means that an ARP request will remain in it’s own broadcast domain.

Question 6

Can you disable CDP from running on the interface level?

Answer 6

Yes. Go to the interface and run ‘no cdp enable’