Week 2 Quizzes

Question 1

What is the command to bring up the interface on a router?

Answer 1

no shutdown

Question 2

What is the proper subnet mask for an IP address of 192.168.1.1/24?

Answer 2

255.255.255.0

Question 3

What is the name of the static route that routes all packets destined for networks that are not specifically included in the routing table?

Answer 3

Default route

Question 4

What does the command “show IP route” do when executed on a router?

Answer 4

Shows the routing table information

Question 5

If a network is unknown, what is the name of the special address used to communicate with it?

Answer 5

Default gateway

Question 6

Interconnects locations scattered throughout a metropolitan area

Answer 6

Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)

Question 7

Interconnects network components within a limited region

Answer 7

Local Area Network (LAN)

Question 8

Network with a scale even smaller than a LAN. May use wireless or USB

Answer 8

Personal Area Network (PAN)

Question 9

Interconnects network components that are geographically dispersed

Answer 9

Wide Area Network (WAN)

Question 10

What is the name of the unit in the Physical Layer of the OSI model?

Answer 10

Bits

Question 11

What command is used to test communications with another machine on the network?

Answer 11

Ping

Question 12

What is the name of a Layer 2 connection that supports transporting multiple VLANs on the same link between devices?

Answer 12

Trunk Port

Question 13

When configuring a floating static route, what must you do first?

Answer 13

Determine the alternate path

Question 14

This provides resources to a network

Answer 14

Server

Question 15

It might be a workstation, laptop, smartphone, or a variety of other end-user terminal devices

Answer 15

Client

Question 16

Technology that interconnects networks

Answer 16

WAN Link

Question 17

This device can be copper or fiber optic cable

Answer 17

Media

Question 18

An older technology that interconnects network components. It has a variable number of available ports

Answer 18

Hub

Question 19

It interconnects network components, and it has a variety of port densities. It does not simply take traffic and blast it out all other ports. Rather, it learns which devices reside off of which ports.

Answer 19

Switch

Question 20

It is a device that makes its forwarding decisions based on logical network addresses

Answer 20

Router

Question 21

SVI

Answer 21

Switch Virtual Interface
Represents a logical Layer 3 interface on a switch

Question 22

What is the value of the Native VLAN?

Answer 22

1

Question 23

A more efficient design that involves the logical separation of a switch ports into different broadcast domains is known as a ___

Answer 23

VLAN

Question 24

If the bridge priorities are the same, how is a switch elected as a root bridge for a spanning tree?

Answer 24

The switch with the lowest MAC address will become the root bridge

Question 25

What is the name of a VLAN that is transported over a trunk port without an 802.1q tag?

Answer 25

Native VLAN

Question 26

VTP

Answer 26

VLAN Trunk Protocol
Used to distribute and synchronize identifying information about VLANs configured throughout a switched network
Configurations made to a single VTP server are propagated across trunk links to all connected switches in the network

Question 27

What is a synonym for routed port?

Answer 27

Layer 3 Port

Question 28

What standard is used to prevent switching loops? (The IEEE number)

Answer 28

IEEE 802.1D

Question 29

Layer 2 connection that supports transporting multiple VLANs on the same link between devices

Answer 29

Trunk Port

Question 30

The four states of STP

Answer 30

Blocking, listening, learning, forwarding