IS 3120 CHAPTER 12

Question 1

A technique that involves taking action to determine if everything is working properly.

Answer 1

Active fault detection

Question 2

A protocol that defines an implementation for communicating between management applications and their agents.

Answer 2

Common Management Information Protocol (CMIP)

Question 3

Any malfunction of a network hardware or software component.

Answer 3

Fault

Question 4

The collection of procedures, devices, software programs, and actions that enable network administrators to detect and respond to faults.

Answer 4

Fault management

Question 5

A model that focuses on five primary areas of network management: fault management, configuration management, accounting management, performance management and security management.

Answer 5

FCAPS

Question 6

A small database of characteristics for a specific type of device.

Answer 6

Management information base (MIB).

Question 7

All variables that describe a single device.

Answer 7

MIB module

Question 8

An individual setting in an MIB that stores the value of a single device characteristic.

Answer 8

MIB variable.

Question 9

One or more central locations used to monitor and control networks.

Answer 9

Network operations center (NOC)

Question 10

A unique identifier that refers to a specific MIB module.

Answer 10

Object ID (OID).

Question 11

A technique that involves waiting for some indication that a fault has occurred.

Answer 11

Passive fault detection

Question 12

A protocol used to collect and process information about network devices.

Answer 12

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

Question 13

A standard for logging messages from programs and devices..

Answer 13

Syslog

Question 14

A protocol lodel for managing open systems in a communication network.

Answer 14

Telecommunications Management Network (TMN)

Question 15

1. A fault is any malfunction of a network hardware or software component.
   TRUE OR FALSE

Answer 15

TRUE

Question 16

2. Which type of fault management is generally ineffective?
3. FCAPS
4. Outsourced
5. Reactive
6. Planned

Answer 16

Outsourced

Question 17

3. Which of the following best describes an alarm?
4. A network fault
5. A message generated when a fault occurs
6. An event that causes a fault
7. The programmed response to clear a fault

Answer 17

A message generated when a fault occurs

Question 18

4. Which term describes scanning log files for indications of faults?
5. Passive fault detection
6. Alarm detection
7. Active fault detection
8. Detective analysis

Answer 18

Passive fault detection

Question 19

5. Which of the following methods include polling devices?
6. Passive fault detection
7. Alarm detection
8. Active fault detection
9. Detective analysis

Answer 19

Active fault detection

Question 20

6. ___ is a common protocol used to collect and process information about network devices.

Answer 20

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

Question 21

7. Which of the following management areas are included in FCAPS? (Select 2)
8. Proactive management
9. Configuration management
10. Security management
11. Provenance management

Answer 21

Configuration management

Question 22

8. What is a SNMP notification called?
9. Trap
10. Notification
11. Agent message
12. Agent response

Answer 22

Trap

Question 23

9. What is a database of characteristics for a specific type of device called?
10. Trap
11. Module
12. Variable
13. MIB

Answer 23

MIB

Question 24

10. An ___ uniquely identifies each MIB module.

Answer 24

Object ID (OID)

Question 25

11. Which of the following is a standard for logging messages from programs and devices?
12. SNMP
13. Syslog
14. CMIP
15. Snort

Answer 25

Syslog

Question 26

12. Which SNMP is the only operation that the agent initiates?
13. Get
14. Getnext
15. Set
16. Trap

Answer 26

Trap