Management Protocols

Question 1

What is NTP?

Answer 1

Network Time Protocol

Question 2

Is NTP configured by default in Cisco devices?

Answer 2

No

Question 3

What is a stratum and what is the available startum range in NTP protocol?

Answer 3

Stratum is the source of the provided time and date measurment. The lower, the more accurate (at least assumed so). The available range of from 1 to 15.

Question 4

How do configure a Layer 3 device as an NTP server?

Answer 4

with ‘ntp master’ global config command

Question 5

How do you configure a L3 device to get the time and date from a server somewhere on the network?

Answer 5

with ‘ntp server host [ip address]’ command

Question 6

What is a MIB?

Answer 6

It stands for Management Information Base

Question 7

What are two types of Network Management Protocols?

Answer 7

Event-based and Query-based

Question 8

What’s an NMS?

Answer 8

Network Management Station

Question 9

What is an OID?

Answer 9

Object Identifier.

Used by SNMP to tag devices with unique IDs