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In general, what level of security should use with your access points? - Answers✔wireless
encryption protocol
A router's final task when handling a packet is to send the packet onto its next and possibly final
destination; this is referred to as packet _____. - Answers✔forwarding
T/F
One type of security for wireless networks involves entering a list of the MAC addresses for the
devices that are allowed to access the network and excluding all others. This is called MAC
filtering. - Answers✔True
T/F
Changing the SSID on the access point and disabling SSID broadcast is sufficient security for
most wireless networks. - Answers✔False
You have four switches, A, B, C, and D. Switch A is connected to Switch C and Switch B is
connected to switch D. Furthermore, Switch A and B are connected and Switch C and D are
connected. One of the connections is in blocking mode. What protocol must be running on the
switches? - Answers✔STP
What command issued from a command prompt will display the routing table in windows? -
Answers✔route print
T/F
Routers can be used to control network access by inspecting the source and destination address
information of packets. - Answers✔True
Which of the following us NOT a true statement regarding the function of a switch?
A) It determines the path used based on the destination IP address
B) it sends broadcast frames out all connected ports except the port where the frame was
received
C) Each port on a switch represents a separate collision domain
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D) Switches have the ability to operate in full-duplex mode - Answers✔It determines the path
used based on the destination IP address
What type of hacker uses a scanning device to find unsecured wireless networks and breaks into
those networks? - Answers✔wardriver
Access control lists can be configured based on what? - Answers✔protocol
TCP port
souces IP address
T/F
All network switches require substantial configuration before they can be put into operation in a
network. - Answers✔False
What combination will you find in a switching table? - Answers✔MAC address/switch port
number
On a router configures to use RIP, the number of routers a packet must travel through before it
reaches its destination is called what? - Answers✔metric
hop count
What is NOT a function that would be found in a managed switch? - Answers✔the ability to
transfer its switching table with neighboring switches
Your colleagues are discussing the operation of a device in which packets are routed between
VLANs on the device rather than having to exit the device to be routed. What type of device are
they most likely descussing? - Answers✔Layer 3 switch
When a router's interface is configured to connect with a switch trunk port to route packets
between VLANs, what is this called? - Answers✔router on a stick
What is the fastest switching mode? - Answers✔cut-through
T/F
When a switch receives a broadcast frame, it floods the frame out all ports. - Answers✔True
Which advanced feature of a NIC allows a computer to download an OS from the network
instead of from a local drive? - Answers✔preboot execution environment
What has occurred when all routers in a network have accurate information after a change in the
network? - Answers✔convergence
T/F
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A bus is used to make connections between the network interface card and the other vital
components of the computer, such as the central processing unit. - Answers✔True
What is the name of the value assigned to a routing protocol to indicate its reliability compared
with other routing protocols that might be in use on the same router? - Answers✔administrative
distance
What category of routing protocol is used to route packets between autonomous systems? -
Answers✔Exterior Gateway Protocol or EGP
What would be found in a router's routing table? - Answers✔timestamp
destination network
next hop
metric
What is a common link-state routing protocol? - Answers✔Open Shortest Path First or OSPF
T/F
A distance vector protocol sends updates to its neighbors that include the contents of its routing
table. - Answers✔True
T/F
More VLANs mean fewer logical networks, so the network is less complex. - Answers✔False
Which switching method reads a minimum of 64-bytes of an Ethernet frame before forwarding
the frame? - Answers✔fragment-free
In which type of routing protocol is a router's routing table copied to neighboring routers to share
internetwork information? - Answers✔distance-vector protocol
T/F
A switch that is configured to use the Spanning Tree Protocol will place a port in blocking mode
of sending traffic to it may cause a switching loop. - Answers✔True
sends entire routing table to all routers at a scheduled time - Answers✔distance-vector protocol
damaged frames do not get forwarded - Answers✔fragment-free switching
frame is sent to the destination port immediately after reading the destination and source MAC
address - Answers✔cut-through switching
entire frame is read before forwarding it to the destination port - Answers✔store-and-forwarding
switching
designed to stop switching loops - Answers✔Spanning Tree Protocol