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Here are Monday night's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: You want a line of your ACL to match the network 172.10.20.0 /27. What is the appropriate mask to use? Short answer, no choices given! CCNP / BSCI: You suspect that your network's OSPF routing tables have become unstable. What command will show you how many times the OSPF algorithm has run? A. show ip ospf database B. show ip ospf dijkstra C. show ip ospf D. show ip ospf spf-database CCNP / BCRAN: Which of the following is a valid IP Host table entry? A. ip host MODEM 100.1.1.1 9 B. ip host MODEM 100.1.1.1 2009 C. ip host MODEM 100.1.1.1 1009 D. ip host MODEM 100.1.1.1 line 0 CCNP / BCMSN: Identify the true statements regarding SPAN. A. There can be multiple source ports for one session. B. There can be only one source port for one session. C. There can be multiple destination ports for one session. D. There can be only one destination port for one session. CCNP / CIT: Which of the following is NOT associated

Here are the answers to Sunday's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: You have no IP connectivity to a downstream router. What tool will allow you to determine which downstream router has a problem? A. ping B. traceroute C. find D. extended ping Answer: B. ping shows you that you've got a problem; traceroute helps you determine which downstream router is causing the problem. CCNP / BSCI: What does the "IA" mean in the following route table ? R1#show ip route ospf 2.0.0.0/32 is subnetted, 1 subnets O IA 2.2.2.2 [110/65] via 172.12.123.2, 00:00:00, Serial0 A. The network is in the same area as R1. B. The network is in another area. C. The network was learned via route redistribution from RIP. D. The network was learned via route redistribution from EIGRP. E. The network will be reached via a default route. Answer: B. The"IA" stands for Interarea Route. CCNP / BCMSN: What protocol does VMPS use to listen to client requests? A. TCP B. UDP C. SNMP D. IP

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Here are Monday morning's Cisco CCNA and CCNP certification exam practice questions! CCNA: Express the IP address 218.14.190.9 in binary. Short answer, no choices given. CCNP / BSCI: A route in your routing table is marked with the code "D EX". What is the administrative distance of this path? A. 1 B. 90 C. 100 D. 110 E. 120 F. 170 G. Whatever distance the ip route command contains. CCNP / BCMSN: RED and WRED are most effective under what conditions? A. When the traffic is TCP-based. B. When the traffic is UDP-based. C. When the traffic is either TCP- or UDP-based. D. When the traffic is neither TCP- or UDP-based. CCNP / BCRAN: In the command aaa authentication login default group radius group tacacs none , what effect does the word none have? A. No authentication is needed for the AAA administrator level. B. No authentication is needed if the first two methods time out or return errors. C. No authentication is needed if the user fails the first two methods. D. No login

Here are Sunday's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! On Monday, we're back to two sets per day! CCNA: You have no IP connectivity to a downstream router. What tool will allow you to determine which downstream router has a problem? A. ping B. traceroute C. find D. extended ping CCNP / BSCI: What does the "IA" mean in the following route table ? R1#show ip route ospf 2.0.0.0/32 is subnetted, 1 subnets O IA 2.2.2.2 [110/65] via 172.12.123.2, 00:00:00, Serial0 A. The network is in the same area as R1. B. The network is in another area. C. The network was learned via route redistribution from RIP. D. The network was learned via route redistribution from EIGRP. E. The network will be reached via a default route. CCNP / BCMSN: What protocol does VMPS use to listen to client requests? A. TCP B. UDP C. SNMP D. IP E. IPX CCNP / BCRAN: In the cable modem startup process, what will the DHCP request from the CMTS NOT contain? A. An IP address for the cable modem. B. An IP add

July 30, 2006

Here are the answers to Saturday's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: What summary route can be used to advertise the following four routes? 10.4.0.0 /16 10.5.0.0 /16 10.6.0.0 /16 10.7.0.0 /16 To manually summarize routes, break them down into binary. Then, working from left to right, note where the routes no longer have a bit in common. The value to the left of that point is your summary, and the number of bits in common is your subnet mask. 10.4.0.0 00001010 00000100 00000000 00000000 10.5.0.0 00001010 00000101 00000000 00000000 10.6.0.0 00001010 00000110 00000000 00000000 10.7.0.0 00001010 00000111 00000000 00000000 Working from left to right, these are the common bits: 00001010 000001 The value is 10.4.0.0. There are 14 bits here, so the mask is /14 in prefix notation, or 255.252.0.0 in dotted decimal. (Watch that on exam day - they're the same mask, just different formats.) CCNP / BSCI: What is the default OSPF network type for a serial subinterface configured a

July 30, 2006

I seem to have had some posts disappear, so once again, here are the answers to Friday's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: What are the default criteria used to permit or deny traffic in an extended ACL? Answer: In an extended ACL, both the source and destination IP addresses will be considered. CCNP / BSCI: What BGP attribute is specifically designed to prevent routing loops? Answer: The AS_PATH attribute; if a router receives a BGP packet and sees its own AS number in the AS_PATH, that router knows a routing loop has occurred. CCNP / BCMSN: What interface-level command would place a port into a mode where it could send or receive data, but not do so simultaneously? Answer: This describes half-duplex Ethernet, so the correct command will be duplex half. CCNP / BCRAN: What form of load balancing uses NAT as its primary mechanism? Answer: TCP Load Distribution uses NAT. CCNP / CIT: What command output contains the following TCP and UDP statistics? UDP statistics: Rcvd: 0

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Face front, true believer... it's time for more Cisco CCNA and CCNP certification practice questions! CCNA: What summary route can be used to advertise the following four routes? 10.4.0.0 /16 10.5.0.0 /16 10.6.0.0 /16 10.7.0.0 /16 No choices given; express the mask in both dotted decimal and prefix notation. CCNP / BSCI: What is the default OSPF network type for a serial subinterface configured as point-to-point? A. point-to-point B. point-to-multipoint C. broadcast D. non-broadcast CCNP / BCRAN: What command will immediately tell you whether the SPIDs and ISDN switch type have been successfully configured? A. show dialer B. show isdn status C. show isdn spids D. show switchtype E. show isdn statistics CCNP / BCMSN: When Uplinkfast is enabled, how long will it take the new root port to go from blocking to forwarding? A. About 50 seconds. B. About 1 - 3 seconds. C. About 30 seconds. D. About 20 seconds. CCNP / CIT: You want to view only the local Windows host's ARP cache. Which

Here are the answers to Thursday night's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! The CCNA and CCNP CIT question comes first - because they're the same question! CCNA / CCNP CIT: Examine the following router-on-a-stick configuration and identify the true statements. interface fast 1/0 no ip address interface fast 1/0.20 ip address 100.1.1.1 255.255.255.0 encapsulation dot1q 10 interface fast 1/0.10 ip address 200.1.1.1 255.255.255.0 encapsulation dot1q 20 A. The trunking protocol in use is the industry standard. B. The trunking protocol in use is Cisco-proprietary. C. Hosts in VLAN 20 should use 200.1.1.1 as their default gateway. D. Hosts in VLAN 20 should use 100.1.1.1 as their default gateway. E. The switch between the hosts and this router can be a 2950. F. The switch between the hosts and this router cannot be a 2950. Answer: A, C, F. Dot1q is the industry standard trunking protocol, while ISL is Cisco-proprietary. The statement encapsulation dot1q 20 under the subinterfa

Here are the answers to Thursday morning's Cisco CCNA and CCNP certification questions! CCNA: What traffic is denied in the following ACL? R1(config)#access-list 105 deny tcp any any eq 23 R1(config)#access-list 105 deny tcp any any eq 80 A. Telnet and FTP traffic, regardless of source or destination. B. Telnet traffic, regardless of source or destination. C. FTP traffic, regardless of source or destination. D. All traffic, regardless of source or destination. E. No traffic. Answer: D. The implicit deny will deny all traffic that isn't denied by the two explicit denies. CCNP / BSCI: Which of the following attributes will be seen in every BGP update message? A. AS_PATH B. LOCAL_PREF C. atomic aggregate D. origin E. next-hop F. aggregate Answer: A, D, C. These are the well-known mandatory BGP attributes , and will be seen in every BGP update message. CCNP / BCMSN: Port security is running on port 0/5, and all defaults are in place. The port has learned one secure MAC address. Fra

July 28, 2006

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July 28, 2006

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's.... Friday's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! All Friday questions are short answer! CCNA: What are the default criteria used to permit or deny traffic in an extended ACL? CCNP / BSCI: What BGP attribute is specifically designed to prevent routing loops? CCNP / BCMSN: What interface-level command would place a port into a mode where it could send or receive data, but not do so simultaneously? CCNP / BCRAN: What form of load balancing uses NAT as its primary mechanism? CCNP / CIT: What command output contains the following TCP and UDP statistics? UDP statistics: Rcvd: 0 total, 0 checksum errors, 0 no port Sent: 2 total, 0 forwarded broadcasts TCP statistics: Rcvd: 0 total, 0 checksum errors, 0 no port Sent: 0 total See you later today with even more Cisco CCNA and CCNP certification exam practice questions! To your Cisco certification success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 www.thebryantadvantage.com

Here are tonight's 100% organic Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! The CCNA and CCNP CIT question comes first - because they're the same question. :) CCNA / CCNP CIT: Examine the following router-on-a-stick configuration and identify the true statements. interface fast 1/0 no ip address interface fast 1/0.20 ip address 100.1.1.1 255.255.255.0 encapsulation dot1q 10 interface fast 1/0.10 ip address 200.1.1.1 255.255.255.0 encapsulation dot1q 20 A. The trunking protocol in use is the industry standard. B. The trunking protocol in use is Cisco-proprietary. C. Hosts in VLAN 20 should use 200.1.1.1 as their default gateway. D. Hosts in VLAN 20 should use 100.1.1.1 as their default gateway. E. The switch between the hosts and this router can be a 2950. F. The switch between the hosts and this router cannot be a 2950. CCNP / BSCI: Identify the metrics for Cisco's version of ISIS. A. cost B. delay C. expense D. error E. default CCNP / BCRAN: You're in privileged exec mode.

Here are the answers to Wednesday evening's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: You have just reloaded a router to begin the process of recovering from a lost console password. You have ____________ seconds to send a BREAK to the router. A. 15 B. 30 C. 45 D. 60 E. 75 F. 90 Answer: D. You've got 60 seconds to send that break sequence, which can be the hardest part of the entire process! CCNP / BSCI: In how many EIGRP tables can a successor route be seen? A. zero B. one C. two D. three E. four F. all of them Answer: C. EIGRP successor routes appear in two tables - the route and topology tables. The successor does not appear in the neighbor table. CCNP / BCMSN: Approximately how long does it take a switch running RSTP to detect a down link? A. The MaxAge value. B. The Hello Time value. C. The Forward Delay value. D. None of these. Answer: D. A Rapid Spanning Tree (RSTP) port will detect a down link in about 6 seconds. When a RSTP port misses three BPDUs, the link is cons

Here are the answers to Wednesday morning's CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: Regarding access control lists, what is true of the term implicit deny ? A. If traffic isn't expressly permitted, it is implicitly denied. B. Only standard ACLs end with an implicit deny. C. ACLs containing only deny statements will not have an implicit deny. D. All ACLs end with an implicit deny. Answer: A, D. For traffic to be permitted, it must match a permit statement in the ACL, or the implicit deny will deny it. CCNP / BSCI: After the initial exchange of LSAs, an OSPF router sends LSAs after detecting or being informed of a change in the network topology. Is there another time an OSPF-enabled router will send LSAs? A. No. B. Yes, every 30 minutes. C. Yes. Depending on the network type, an OSPF router will send LSAs along with its Hello. D. Yes, every 90 seconds. Answer: B. OSPF-enabled routers send updates at three different times. First, upon first creating an adjacency with a new neighbo

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Goooooooooooood morning everybody! Here are Thursday morning's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: What traffic is denied in the following ACL? R1(config)#access-list 105 deny tcp any any eq 23 R1(config)#access-list 105 deny tcp any any eq 80 A. Telnet and FTP traffic, regardless of source or destination. B. Telnet traffic, regardless of source or destination. C. FTP traffic, regardless of source or destination. D. All traffic, regardless of source or destination. E. No traffic. CCNP / BSCI: Which of the following attributes will be seen in every BGP update message? A. AS_PATH B. LOCAL_PREF C. atomic aggregate D. origin E. next-hop F. aggregate CCNP / BCMSN: Port security is running on port 0/5, and all defaults are in place. The port has learned one secure MAC address. Frames are coming in with a different source MAC address. What will happen? A. The port will simply drop the frames. B. The port will drop the frames and send a syslog message. C. The port will go into er

Let the pigeons loose! Here's Wednesday's second set of CCNA and CCNP certification exam practice questions! CCNA: You have just reloaded a router to begin the process of recovering from a lost console password. You have ____________ seconds to send a BREAK to the router. A. 15 B. 30 C. 45 D. 60 E. 75 F. 90 CCNP / BSCI: In how many EIGRP tables can a successor route be seen? A. zero B. one C. two D. three E. four F. all of them CCNP / BCMSN: Approximately how long does it take a switch running RSTP to detect a down link? A. The MaxAge value. B. The Hello Time value. C. The Forward Delay value. D. None of these. CCNP / BCRAN: Identify the true statements. A. DES uses a 56-bit key. B. DES uses multiple 56-bit keys. C. 3DES is more easily broken than DES. D. DES is more easily broken than 3DES. CCNP / CIT: Examine the following output and identify the most likely cause. R1#show interface serial0 Serial0 is down, line protocol is down A. The cable is loose. B. The serial interface

Here are the answers to Tuesday's second set of Cisco CCNA and CCNP certification practice questions! CCNA: You're considering which routing protocol to run on your network. It is a multivendor environment, and your subnetting scheme demands VLSM support. Which protocol(s) is/are appropriate for this task? A. RIPv1 B. RIPv2 C. IGRP D. EIGRP E. OSPF Answer: B, E. Both RIPv2 and OSPF are suitable for multivendor environments and can support VLSM. RIPv1 doesn't support VLSM and both IGRP and EIGRP are Cisco-proprietary protocols. CCNP / BSCI: Identify BGP's well-known attributes. A. AS_PATH B. LOCAL_PREF C. origin D. next-hop E. aggregate F. atomic aggregate Answer: A, B, C, D, F. AS_PATH, next-hop, and next-hop are well-known mandatory attributes; LOCAL_PREF and atomic aggregate are well-known discretionary attributes. CCNP / BCMSN: Short answer: What command, placed on the VTY lines, allows a user connecting to a switch via Telnet directly info privileged exec mode? Ans

Here are the answers to yesterday's first set of Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: What command resulted in the following output? 172.12.0.0/16 is variably subnetted, 4 subnets, 3 masks R 172.12.13.0/30 [120/1] via 172.12.12.1, 00:00:20, BRI0 R 172.12.123.0/24 [120/1] via 172.12.12.1, 00:00:20, BRI0 A. show ip route B. show ip route rip C. debug ip rip D. debug ip packet Answer: B. If this were the output of show ip route, we'd see some connected routes. To see only RIP-discovered routes, run show ip route rip. CCNP / BSCI: R2(config)#router eigrp 100 R2(config-router)#redistribute ospf 1 metric 1544 100 1 255 1500 What value does the "1544" represent? A. delay B. MTU C. bandwidth D. load E. reliability Answer: C. That was the easy one. :) Make sure you know all of these values and the order, illustrated here with IOS Help. R1(config)#router eigrp 100 R1(config-router)#redistribute ospf 1 metric ? <1-4294967295> Bandwidth metric in Kbits per second

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A happy Wednesday to all! Here's today's first set of Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions: CCNA: Regarding access control lists, what is true of the term implicit deny ? A. If traffic isn't expressly permitted, it is implicitly denied. B. Only standard ACLs end with an implicit deny. C. ACLs containing only deny statements will not have an implicit deny. D. All ACLs end with an implicit deny. CCNP / BSCI: After the initial exchange of LSAs, an OSPF router sends LSAs after detecting or being informed of a change in the network topology. Is there another time an OSPF-enabled router will send LSAs? A. No. B. Yes, every 30 minutes. C. Yes. Depending on the network type, an OSPF router will send LSAs along with its Hello. D. Yes, every 90 seconds. CCNP / BCMSN: Identify the true statements regarding CoS. A. CoS is a L2 QoS value. B. CoS is an L3 QoS value. C. CoS can be assigned as data is switched from one port to another on the same switch. D. CoS can be assigned as frames

Here is Tuesday's second set of Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: You're considering which routing protocol to run on your network. It is a multivendor environment, and your subnetting scheme demands VLSM support. Which protocol(s) is/are appropriate for this task? A. RIPv1 B. RIPv2 C. IGRP D. EIGRP E. OSPF CCNP / BSCI: Identify BGP's well-known attributes. A. AS_PATH B. LOCAL_PREF C. origin D. next-hop E. aggregate F. atomic aggregate CCNP / BCMSN: Short answer: What command, placed on the VTY lines, allows a user connecting to a switch via Telnet directly info privileged exec mode? CCNP / BCRAN: What term refers to the process of tracking a user's network activities, possibly for billing purposes? A. Authentication B. Authorization C. Accounting D. Accountability CCNP / CIT: A frame relay hub-and-spoke network consists of a single hub (R1) and two spokes (R2 and R3). There is IP connectivity between the three. They're each advertising a loopback networ

Here are the answers to Monday night's Cisco CCNA and CCNP certification practice questions! CCNA: A client calls you in an absolute panic. The client made some changes to the running config, saved them with "copy run start", and reloaded the router. The client tells you that the router is asking him something about a "configuration dialogue" instead of totally reloading. What is most likely the problem? A. The flash memory is corrupt. B. The NVRAM is corrupt. C. The configuration was saved incorrectly. D. The configuration register value is set incorrectly. E. The RAM is corrupt. Answer: D. Most likely, someone changed the configuration register value to ignore the NVRAM, probably for password recovery. The configuration register just needs to be set back to its default setting so the startup configuration can be read upon a reboot. CCNP / BSCI: Short answer: What's the AD of ISIS? Answer: 115, right between OSPF's 110 and RIP's 120. CCNP / BCMSN: Y

Here are the answers to Monday morning's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: Convert the decimal value 399 into hex. Answer: There is 1 unit of 256, 8 units of 16, and 15 units of 1. In hex, that's 18F. CCNP / BSCI: By default, what percentage of an interface's bandwidth can EIGRP use? A. 100 % B. 75% C. 50% D. 25% E. There is no preset percentage for EIGRP, only routing protocols as a whole, and that value is 75%. Answer: C. By default, EIGRP can use up to 50% of an interface's bandwidth. CCNP / BCMSN: A unicast frame enters a switch port. The destination is unknown to the switch. What term describes the action taken by the switch regarding this frame's transmission? A. unicast B. multicast C. filtered D. flooded Answer: D. Such a frame will be flooded - sent out every switch port except the one it came in on. CCNP / BCRAN: Low Latency Queueing (LLQ) creates a strict priority queue. What traffic should use this queue? A. Network control traffic B. Routin

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I was reading The Big Moo: Stop Trying To Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable this morning, and I’d recommend a copy of this to anyone who wants to improve their career and their future. And that’s all of us, right? : ) There was one particular line that really stood out to me: Betting on change is always the safest bet available. That describes life perfectly, but it also describes a career in Information Technology perfectly as well. There is no field in the world that has the constant and never-ending changes that IT does. And every single one of us can look at this as a massive opportunity for personal and professional growth. Is that how you’re looking at it? I remember when I passed my first certification exam, the Novell 3.1x CNA, back in 1997. Man, I thought I knew it all then. : ) But I quickly learned that you’ve got to keep learning in IT. I also learned that if you’re willing to put in the work and make the sacrifices, there’s no other field with the limitless

Good morning, afternoon, or evening, depending on where you are! :) Here's the first set of Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions for Tuesday. CCNA: What command resulted in the following output? 172.12.0.0/16 is variably subnetted, 4 subnets, 3 masks R 172.12.13.0/30 [120/1] via 172.12.12.1, 00:00:20, BRI0 R 172.12.123.0/24 [120/1] via 172.12.12.1, 00:00:20, BRI0 A. show ip route B. show ip route rip C. debug ip rip D. debug ip packet CCNP / BSCI: R2(config)#router eigrp 100 R2(config-router)#redistribute ospf 1 metric 1544 100 1 255 1500 What value does the "1544" represent? A. delay B. MTU C. bandwidth D. load E. reliability CCNP / BCMSN: Video and voice traffic are usually assigned what Class Selector value? A. 001 B. 010 C. 011 D. 100 E. 101 F. 110 G. 111 H. 000 CCNP / BCRAN: Which of the following does Kerberos NOT support? A. authorization B. accounting C. authentication D. AAA CCNP / CIT: Examine the following command output. Which values have been changed from t

Here are Monday night's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: A client calls you in an absolute panic. The client made some changes to the running config, saved them with "copy run start", and reloaded the router. The client tells you that the router is asking him something about a "configuration dialogue" instead of totally reloading. What is most likely the problem? A. The flash memory is corrupt. B. The NVRAM is corrupt. C. The configuration was saved incorrectly. D. The configuration register value is set incorrectly. E. The RAM is corrupt. CCNP / BSCI: Short answer: What's the AD of ISIS? CCNP / BCMSN: You've just configured Uplinkfast on a switch. What is that switch's default priority? A. 49,152 B. 4096 C. 32,768 D. Low enough to become the root bridge. E. Configuring Uplinkfast doesn't change a switch's priority. CCNP / BCRAN: What output of show isdn status indicates that L2 is up and running? A. TEI_ASSIGNED B. DYNAMIC_TEI_A

Here are the answers to Sunday night's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: Which of the following serves as a keepalive for frame relay circuits? A. ANSI B. Cisco C. DLCI D. LMI E. CIR F. PVC Answer: A. The Local Management Interface (LMI) serves as a frame relay keepalive. CCNP / BSCI: What command shows you how many hellos, acks, queries, replies, and updates have been sent and received by an EIGRP-enabled router? A. show ip eigrp B. show ip eigrp topology C. show ip eigrp traffic D. show ip eigrp neighbor E. show ip route eigrp Answer: C. CCNP / BCMSN: On which of the following port types can a Voice VLAN not be configured? A. A port running CDP B. A Portfast-enabled port C. A trunk port D. An access port E. An L2 port on a multilayer switch F. An L3 port on a multilayer switch G. Any port on a multilayer switch Answer: C, F. Voice VLANs cannot be configured on a multilayer switch port configured as a routing port, and a Voice VLAN cannot be configured on a trunk port.

Here are the answers to Sunday morning's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: A trunk port is considered a member of what VLANs, if any? A. The native VLAN only. B. None of them. C. All of them. D. Only the VLANs configured with switchport trunk vlan member . Answer: C. A trunk port belongs to all VLANs. CCNP / BSCI: An ISIS L1 router needs to send packets to another area. How will it do so? A. By using the default route advertised by the area's L2 router. B. By sending the data to an L1/L2 router. C. By sending the data to the L1 Designated Router. D. By sending the data to the ASBR. Answer: B. The packet will be sent to an L1/L2 router. CCNP / BCMSN: Which of the following is supported by both VTP versions 1 and 2? A. Token Ring VLANs B. Consistency checks C. Token Ring switching D. VTP Portfast Answer: D. VTP version 1 doesn't support A, B, or C. CCNP / BCRAN: Which of the following queueing strategies poses the greatest threat of TCP Global Synchronization? A.

Here are Monday morning's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: Convert the decimal value 399 into hex. CCNP / BSCI: By default, what percentage of an interface's bandwidth can EIGRP use? A. 100 % B. 75% C. 50% D. 25% E. There is no preset percentage for EIGRP, only routing protocols as a whole, and that value is 75%. CCNP / BCMSN: A unicast frame enters a switch port. The destination is unknown to the switch. What term describes the action taken by the switch regarding this frame's transmission? A. unicast B. multicast C. filtered D. flooded CCNP / BCRAN: Low Latency Queueing (LLQ) creates a strict priority queue. What traffic should use this queue? A. Network control traffic B. Routing protocol traffic C. Voice traffic D. Frame Relay keepalives CCNP / CIT: What service allows a Cisco switch to quickly detect a unidirctional link? (Short answer) There will be another set of Cisco certification exam practice questions posted tonight! To your Cisco certification succ

For those of you with an eye on the CCIE R&S lab exam, you need to know that the Catalyst 3550 is being taken off the lab on November 13, 2006, and replaced with the Catalyst 3560. The upcoming changes to the CCIE Security exams is more drastic. For more details on both exams and their changes: http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/ccie/announcements/#revisesp2006 To your Cisco certification success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 www.thebryantadvantage.com

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Here are Sunday night's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: Which of the following serves as a keepalive for frame relay circuits? A. ANSI B. Cisco C. DLCI D. LMI E. CIR F. PVC CCNP / BSCI: What command shows you how many hellos, acks, queries, replies, and updates have been sent and received by an EIGRP-enabled router? A. show ip eigrp B. show ip eigrp topology C. show ip eigrp traffic D. show ip eigrp neighbor E. show ip route eigrp CCNP / BCMSN: On which of the following port types can a Voice VLAN not be configured? A. A port running CDP B. A Portfast-enabled port C. A trunk port D. An access port E. An L2 port on a multilayer switch F. An L3 port on a multilayer switch G. Any port on a multilayer switch CCNP / BCRAN: What does a FECN bit setting of "1" indicate? A. Congestion encountered in the direction in which the frame was traveling. B. Congestion encountered in the opposite direction in which the frame was traveling. C. No congestion encountered in the

Here are the answers to Saturday night's Cisco CCNA and CCNP exam practice questions! CCNA: The default encapsulation type for a Cisco serial or BRI interface is what? A. PPP B. Frame Relay C. Cisco-proprietary HDLC D. Industry-standard HDLC Answer: C. Cisco has its own version of HDLC, and that's the default for a serial interface. CCNP / BCSI: You've put multihoming into effect in your BGP AS. The router that is communicating with your ISPs is low on memory and CPU. What type of routes would it benefit your router to receive from the ISP? A. Default routes B. Default routes and some more-specific routes C. All the more-specific routes D. BGP routes only Answer: A. When your AS is multihoming, the router that is communicating with your ISP should have as much memory and CPU as possible. If that router happens to be low on these resources, the ISP should besending this router default routes, which have the lowest impact on CPU and memory. If CPU and memory are not really a

Here are the answers to Saturday morning's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: Host A wants to transmit data to Host B. Host A knows Host B's IP address, but not its MAC address. Two routers and a hub separate the hosts. What protocol will allow Host A to successfully transmit data to Host B? A. ARP B. Proxy ARP C. Inverse ARP D. Reverse ARP Answer: B. Host A will send an ARP Request, but since there's a router between the two hosts, Host B will not receive it because routers don't forward broadcasts. The router will instead answer the ARP Request with the MAC address of the ethernet interface that received the ARP request - that's Proxy ARP in operation. CCNP / BSCI:By default, how does an OSPF routing table indicate routes that were learned by the OSPF domain via redistribution? A. O E2 B. O E1 C. O EX D. O EX * E. O IA F. O IA * Answer: A. The route will be marked as OSPF External Type-2, or E2. CCNP / BCMSN: A switch's priority is at is default set

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Here are Sunday morning's Cisco CCNA and CCNP certification exam practice questions! CCNA: A trunk port is considered a member of what VLANs, if any? A. The native VLAN only. B. None of them. C. All of them. D. Only the VLANs configured with switchport trunk vlan member . CCNP / BSCI: An ISIS L1 router needs to send packets to another area. How will it do so? A. By using the default route advertised by the area's L2 router. B. By sending the data to an L1/L2 router. C. By sending the data to the L1 Designated Router. D. By sending the data to the ASBR. CCNP / BCMSN: Which of the following is supported by both VTP versions 1 and 2? A. Token Ring VLANs B. Consistency checks C. Token Ring switching D. VTP Portfast CCNP / BCRAN: Which of the following queueing strategies poses the greatest threat of TCP Global Synchronization? A. PQ B. RED C. WRED D. CBWFQ E. CQ CCNP / CIT: After sending a ping, you see the letter Q in the return field where you were hoping to see exclamation marks

Here are Saturday night's CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: The default encapsulation type for a Cisco serial or BRI interface is what? A. PPP B. Frame Relay C. Cisco-proprietary HDLC D. Industry-standard HDLC CCNP / BCSI: You've put multihoming into effect in your BGP AS. The router that is communicating with your ISPs is low on memory and CPU. What type of routes would it benefit your router to receive from the ISP? A. Default routes B. Default routes and some more-specific routes C. All the more-specific routes D. BGP routes only CCNP / BCMSN: If inter-VLAN traffic is matched against a VLAN ACL, and no match is found, what term(s) best describes the action that will be taken? A. permitted B. filtered C. denied D. broadcast E. multicast F. unicast CCNP / BCRAN: What ISDN reference point is found between an NT1 device and the telco's line-termination equipment? A. R B. S C. T D. S/T E. U F. V CCNP / CIT: What command(s) resulted in the following output? R1# 23:01:33:

Here are the answers to Friday morning's Cisco CCNA and CCNP certification exam practice questions! All Friday questions are short answer. CCNA: What is the binary equivalent of the IP address 218.35.189.18? Answer: 11011010 00100011 10111101 00010010 CCNP / BCSI: You're performing two-way route redistribution between an EIGRP AS and an OSPF domain. On the OSPF routers, what is the default routing table code for the routes learned from EIGRP? Answer: Routes learned by OSPF via distribution will be marked as External Type-2, or O E2. CCNP / BCMSN: What is the maximum number of physical trunks that can be bundled into an Etherchannel? Answer: Maximum is 8, minimum is 2. CCNP / BCRAN: You run show line on a Cisco router and notice that Line 0 is always busy. What is Line 0? Answer: Line 0 is the console line. CCNP / CIT: What two Cisco-proprietary protocols use the multicast address 01-00-0C-CC-CC-CC? Answer: VTP and CDP. The answers to Friday night's questions are coming up!

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Here are Saturday morning's Cisco CCNA and CCNP certification exam practice questions! CCNA: Host A wants to transmit data to Host B. Host A knows Host B's IP address, but not its MAC address. Two routers and a hub separate the hosts. What protocol will allow Host A to successfully transmit data to Host B? A. ARP B. Proxy ARP C. Inverse ARP D. Reverse ARP CCNP / BSCI: By default, how does an OSPF routing table indicate routes that were learned by the OSPF domain via redistribution? A. O E2 B. O E1 C. O EX D. O EX * E. O IA F. O IA * CCNP / BCMSN: A switch's priority is at is default setting, and it has a MAC address of aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aa. What is this switch's BID in the root bridge election? (Short answer) CCNP / BCRAN: Where will such attributes as the Bc and CIR be defined when Frame Relay Traffic Shaping is in use? A. Under the appropriate serial interface. B. Globally. C. Under the appropriate routing protocol. D. In a map class. E. In a distribute-list. F. In a pre

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Here are the answers to Thursday evening's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: At what point in a WAN is CIDR performed? A. At the sending router. B. By the ISP. C. By the receiving router. D. At the CSU / DSU. Answer: B. The ISP performs CIDR (Classless InterDomain Routing). CCNP / BSCI: What is the default OSPF cost of an Ethernet interface? A. 1 B. 10 C. 20 D. 100 Answer: B. CCNP / BCMSN: Short answer: What kind of cable do you need in order to successfully trunk two switches? Answer: A crossover cable. CCNP / BCRAN: Identify the true statements regarding SDSL. A. Upload and download speeds are the same. B. Uploading is faster than downloading. C. Downloading is faster than uploading. D. The phone line can be used while someone's on the Net. E. The phone line cannot be used when someone's on the Net. Answers: A, E. The good news is that the upload and download speeds are the same; the bad news is that SDSL makes it impossible to use the phone while someone'

Here are the answers to Thursday morning's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: As part of a password recovery procedure, the configuration register will be changed to 0x2142. What does this change cause the router to do? A. Ignore the contents of NVRAM. B. Erase the contents of NVRAM. C. Erase the contents of RAM. D. Ignore the contents of RAM. E. Erase the existing enable password. F. Erase both the existing enable and secret passwords. Answer: A. That config register setting tells the router to ignore the NVRAM contents. CCNP / BSCI: Four routers are competing to be the OSPF DR on an Ethernet segment. The highest IP address of each router is listed below. Which router will become the DR? R1: loopback0, 100.1.1.1 /24 R2: loopback0, 200.1.1.1 /24 R3: loopback100 , 3.3.3.3 /24 R4: loopback200, 4.4.4.4 /32 Answer: R2. The router with the highest OSPF RID will be the DR, and the highest IP address on a loopback address will be that router's RID. R2's RID will be the

July 21, 2006

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July 21, 2006

Here are Friday morning's Cisco CCNA and CCNP certification exam practice questions! All Friday questions are short answer. CCNA: What is the binary equivalent of the IP address 218.35.189.18? CCNP / BCSI: You're performing two-way route redistribution between an EIGRP AS and an OSPF domain. On the OSPF routers, what is the default routing table code for the routes learned from EIGRP? CCNP / BCMSN: What is the maximum number of physical trunks that can be bundled into an Etherchannel? CCNP / BCRAN: You run show line on a Cisco router and notice that Line 0 is always busy. What is Line 0? CCNP / CIT: What two Cisco-proprietary protocols use the multicast address 01-00-0C-CC-CC-CC? See you later today with more questions, answers, and tutorials! To your Cisco certification success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 www.thebryantadvantage.com

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Here are Thursday evening's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: At what point in a WAN is CIDR performed? A. At the sending router. B. By the ISP. C. By the receiving router. D. At the CSU / DSU. CCNP / BSCI: What is the default OSPF cost of an Ethernet interface? A. 1 B. 10 C. 20 D. 100 CCNP / BCMSN: Short answer: What kind of cable do you need in order to successfully trunk two switches? CCNP / BCRAN: Identify the true statements regarding SDSL. A. Upload and download speeds are the same. B. Uploading is faster than downloading. C. Downloading is faster than uploading. D. The phone line can be used while someone's on the Net. E. The phone line cannot be used when someone's on the Net. CCNP / CIT: The STP Hello Time default value is based upon an assumption that the network will have a maximum diameter of how many switches? A. 3 B. 7 C. 10 D. 12 E. 255 See you Friday with the answers, and more Cisco CCNA / CCNP certification exam practice questions! To your Cisco

Here are the answers to Wednesday night's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: What statements are true of fragment-free switching? A. There is virtually no error checking. B. There is some error checking. C. The switch looks only at the destination MAC address before beginning to forward the frame. D. The switch looks at the first 64 bytes before beginning to forward the frame. Answer: B, D. The "middle ground" of switching mode, fragment-free switching provides some error checking by verifying the first 64 bytes of the frame, which is where most errors occur. CCNP / BCSI: You enter the following two statements into your router. What is the result? Router(config)#ip route 172.1.1.1 255.255.255.255 fast0 Router(config)#ip route 172.1.1.1 255.255.255.255 210.1.1.1 A. The first ip route statement will be entered into the routing table. B. The second ip route statement will be entered into the routing table. C. Both routes will be entered into the routing table. D.

Here are the answers to Wednesday morning's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA:In the MAC address 11-22-33-44-55-66, what portion of the address is the OUI? A. 11-22-33 B. 44-55-66 C. 11-22 D. 55-66 E. From the information given, it's not possible to determine the OUI. F. None of the above. Answer: A. The first half of a MAC address is the Organizationally Unique Identifier (OUI). CCNP / BSCI: You want one of your IGRP routers to advertise a default route. The use of which of the following commands is the most efficient way of doing so? A. default-information originate B. default-information originate always C. ip default-gateway D. ip default-network Answer: D. With IGRP, there's just one way to propagate a default route, and that's with the ip default-network command. IGRP doesn't accept a route to 0.0.0.0, the default-information originate commands are OSPF commands, and ip default-gateway should be used only when IP routing is off. CCNP / BCMSN: A