It's Saturday, September 13, and here are the answers to yesterday's Cisco practice exam questions!

CCNA Certification And CCENT Certification:

Which of the following is a major difference between OSPF and EIGRP?

A. EIGRP is strictly a link state protocol, OSPF is not.

B. EIGRP is strictly a distance vector protocol, OSPF is not.

C. EIGRP is Cisco-proprietary, OSPF is not.

D. None of these statements is accurate.

Answer: C. EIGRP is a Cisco-proprietary protocol, but OSPF is not.



CCNA Security Certification / CCNP ISCW Exam:

5. What command resulted in the following output?

R2#
Clock is synchronized, stratum 10, reference is 172.12.23.3
nominal freq is 250.0000 Hz, actual freq is 250.0000 Hz, precision is 2**19
reference time is CBB9CEC8.17FBD1B8 (15:05:44.093 UTC Wed Apr 23 2008)

Answer: show ntp status, an excellent starting point for NTP verification and troubleshooting.

CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam:

Short answer: In multicasting, what command configures a router as a C-RP?

Another short answer: What the heck is a C-RP, anyway?

Answers: A C-RP is a Candidate Rendezvous Point, and you configured a router as a C-RP as follows:

R2(config)# ip pim rp-candidate

CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam:

Short answer: To enable BPDU Filtering or BPDU Guard, what other port-level service must first be running?

Answer: Portfast must be running on the interface.


CCNP / ONT Exam:

Short answer: What is the default username for the Location Appliance?

Another short answer: What's the default password for the Location Appliance?

Answers: They're both "admin". I recommend you change those. :)

I'll have more practice questions for you later today!

To your success,

Chris Bryant
CCIE #12933
http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/