Section 3.1

Question 1

What is Jitter?

Answer 1

the average variance in delay between data packets

Question 2

What is an SNMP trap?

Answer 2

an event or condition that triggers a notification to the SNMP system

Question 3

What is an OID?

Answer 3

a series of numbers and dots that identify device information and statistics in an SNMP network

Question 4

MIB

Answer 4

Management Information Base

Question 5

What is a MIB?

Answer 5

an organized central database of all SNMP connected devices

Question 6

OIDs

Answer 6

Object Identifiers

Question 7

What are 5 things that traffic logs track?

Answer 7

IP
ports
protocols
bandwidth
patterns

Question 8

What do audit logs track?

Answer 8

User actions

Question 9

What is syslog?

Answer 9

a protocol for centralized log management

Question 10

What are severity levels?

Answer 10

Syslogs’ prioritization on a scale of 0 to 7, where 0 is most important

Question 11

CRCs

Answer 11

Cyclic Redundancy Checks

Question 12

What are CRCs?

Answer 12

a code that checks ethernet frames for errors upon receipt

Question 13

What does a CRC error indicate?

Answer 13

a bad cable or interface

Question 14

What causes encapsulation errors?

Answer 14

switch configuration mismatches

Question 15

What are Runts?

Answer 15

ethernet frames less than 64 bytes

Question 16

What are Giants?

Answer 16

ethernet frames greater than 1,518 bytes

Question 17

What is a Baseline?

Answer 17

normal or expected behavior

Question 18

What metric is used to define Uptime and Downtime?

Answer 18

Uptime: percentage
Downtime: time/month

Question 19

Where are SNMP traps sent?

Answer 19

to the SNMP manager (not MIB)