DANTE LEVEL 2 ACTUAL FINAL PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS MARKED A+
✔✔What is the ideal means for clocking? - ✔✔Use an external clock and distribute that
to all devices
✔✔Video / Word Clock vs Time Code - ✔✔Video / Word Clock is like the pendulum of a
clock, giving the pace for processing frames or sample
Time Code is like the face of a clock, giving you a position on a timeline
✔✔Does Dante generate Video / Word Clock or Time Code? - ✔✔Dante only generates
Video / Word Clock
Dante does not generate Time Code because it is not a recorder, it is just a transport to
get information to your recorder
✔✔How does Automatic Clock Election work? - ✔✔Best Master Clock Algorithm
(BMCA) is used to assign a network clock master
Devices chasing an external clock are prioritized in the election process
The user can designate a device as a preferred leader to elevate it in the election
process
✔✔Are redundant networks set to separate subnets or the same subnet? - ✔✔Separate
subnets
A broadcast message from one network should not reach the other network
✔✔What is the most common issue when trying to set up a redundant network? - ✔✔A
device is left in switched / daisy chain mode
✔✔Best practice for setting up redundant networks - ✔✔Set up one network, then the
other
✔✔How are presets saved? (file type) - ✔✔Presets are saved as XML text files
✔✔Dante Domain Manager (DDM) - ✔✔A toolbox for enhancing the Dante domain
network
Allows devices to be organized into separate domains
Enables ability to limit some users from some functions in the network
, ✔✔Dante multicast can be managed with IGMP Snooping v2 or v3:
- TRUE
- FALSE - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔Suppose a switch has eight (8) QoS queues on it. Which queue number would
typically have the highest priority?
-1
-5
-8
- 64 - ✔✔8
✔✔Match the distribution method with its definition. (Drag the descriptions at right onto
the appropriate method at left.)
- Multicast
- Broadcast
- Unicast
- From one to many (with IGMP)
- From one to all
- From one to one - ✔✔Multicast --> From one to many (with IGMP)
Broadcast --> From one to all
Unicast --> From one to one
✔✔If a switch has ten (10) 1Gbps ports, how much switching capacity would a switch
need to be considered "non-blocking"?
- 5Gbps
- 10Gbps
- 20Gbps
- 40Gbps - ✔✔20Gbps
✔✔When configuring IGMP Snooping, how many switches should be set as an IGMP
Querier?
SOLUTIONS MARKED A+
✔✔What is the ideal means for clocking? - ✔✔Use an external clock and distribute that
to all devices
✔✔Video / Word Clock vs Time Code - ✔✔Video / Word Clock is like the pendulum of a
clock, giving the pace for processing frames or sample
Time Code is like the face of a clock, giving you a position on a timeline
✔✔Does Dante generate Video / Word Clock or Time Code? - ✔✔Dante only generates
Video / Word Clock
Dante does not generate Time Code because it is not a recorder, it is just a transport to
get information to your recorder
✔✔How does Automatic Clock Election work? - ✔✔Best Master Clock Algorithm
(BMCA) is used to assign a network clock master
Devices chasing an external clock are prioritized in the election process
The user can designate a device as a preferred leader to elevate it in the election
process
✔✔Are redundant networks set to separate subnets or the same subnet? - ✔✔Separate
subnets
A broadcast message from one network should not reach the other network
✔✔What is the most common issue when trying to set up a redundant network? - ✔✔A
device is left in switched / daisy chain mode
✔✔Best practice for setting up redundant networks - ✔✔Set up one network, then the
other
✔✔How are presets saved? (file type) - ✔✔Presets are saved as XML text files
✔✔Dante Domain Manager (DDM) - ✔✔A toolbox for enhancing the Dante domain
network
Allows devices to be organized into separate domains
Enables ability to limit some users from some functions in the network
, ✔✔Dante multicast can be managed with IGMP Snooping v2 or v3:
- TRUE
- FALSE - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔Suppose a switch has eight (8) QoS queues on it. Which queue number would
typically have the highest priority?
-1
-5
-8
- 64 - ✔✔8
✔✔Match the distribution method with its definition. (Drag the descriptions at right onto
the appropriate method at left.)
- Multicast
- Broadcast
- Unicast
- From one to many (with IGMP)
- From one to all
- From one to one - ✔✔Multicast --> From one to many (with IGMP)
Broadcast --> From one to all
Unicast --> From one to one
✔✔If a switch has ten (10) 1Gbps ports, how much switching capacity would a switch
need to be considered "non-blocking"?
- 5Gbps
- 10Gbps
- 20Gbps
- 40Gbps - ✔✔20Gbps
✔✔When configuring IGMP Snooping, how many switches should be set as an IGMP
Querier?
