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I have a new Network+ / CCNA tutorial up on the main site: http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/NetworkPLUSCSMACD.htm And I just want to mention to you CCNA candidates that you should be reading the daily Network+ questions and future Network+ tutorials as well - there's a lot of overlap between the Network+ and Cisco Intro material! :) Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 www.thebryantadvantage.com

Good morning! Here are some CCNA, CCNP, and Network+ questions to get your brain started on this fine Thursday! CCNA: In the MAC address aa-bb-cc-dd-ee-ff, what portion is the OUI ? A. aa-bb B. aa-bb-cc C. dd-ee-ff D. aa E. ff F. ee-ff Network+ Given the IP address 20.17.34.14 and using the default network mask, which portion of the address is the network portion? A. 20 B. 20.17 C. 20.17.34 D. 20.17.34.14 CCNP / BSCI: Consider the following configuration: R2(config)#router eigrp 100 R2(config-router)#redistribute ospf 1 metric 1544 100 1 255 1500 What value does the "255" represent? A. bandwidth B. delay C. load D. reliability E. MTU CCNP / BCMSN: Identify the true statements regarding Voice VLANs and trunking protocols. A. 802.1p carries voice traffic in the native voice VLAN. B. 802.1p carries voice traffic in the VLAN the admin creates for it. C. 802.1q carries voice traffic in the native voice VLAN. D. 802.1q carries voice traffic in the VLAN the admin creates for it. CCN

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An Important Message From The Bryant Advantage I like to keep the blog lighthearted and bring you free CCNA and CCNP practice questions every day, but there's a major change in the Cisco certification program you need to know about - and a special offer I'm making to my blog readers to help you take advantage of the situation. As you may have heard, Cisco is changing their CCNP exams at the end of the year. The new exams are supposed to be ready sometime in October, but you can take the current exams and have them count toward your CCNP through December 31 of this year. The bad news, as those of us who have been taking certification exams for a while can tell you, is that new exams seem notoriously difficult to pass, regardless of vendor. There are a lot of theories as to that, and I'm not going to go into them myself... but if you've been thinking of working on your CCNP, the time for action is now. The good news is that I just issued my CIT Study Package at $77, and t

Here is Wednesday's THIRD set of CCNA, CCNP, and Network+ exam practice questions! Network+: Which of the following devices can be used to create broadcast domains? A. hubs B. repeaters C. switches D. routers CCNA: In how many different EIGRP tables can the Successor be found? A. None of them. B. One of them. C. Two of them. D. Three of them. E. All four of them. CCNP / BSCI: Which of the following modes of injecting IGP routes into BGP should be avoided? A. Redistributing a static route into BGP. B. Redistributing a directly connected route into BGP. C. Using the network command in BGP. D. Redistributing dynamically learned IGP routes into BGP. CCNP / BCMSN: What is one similarity between the trunking protocols ISL and dot1q? A. They both work well in multivendor environments. B. They are both supported by 2950 switches. C. They both make most frames larger. D. They both recognize the concept of the native VLAN. CCNP / BCRAN: What term is described by the following? "Only the

Tear Down This Wall! An Excerpt From "The Big Moo: Stop Trying To Be Perfect And Start Being Remarkable" Suppose I had asked you, in the mid-1980s, what you thought it would take to bring down the Berlin Wall? What would you have said? I can imagine the answer. Perhaps another world war. Perhaps some kind of multilateral, long-term rapprochement between East and West Germany. At the very least, some kind of intervention costing billions of dollars. Certainly that's the kind of scenario that was envisioned by all the world's so-called experts on Eastern Europe. When it came to predicting the life span of the Soviet Bloc, the CIA, State Department, and Pentagon did not think in terms of months or even years. They thought in terms of decades. But what actually happened? In September 1989, a small group of dissidents in Leipzig, East Germany, held a protest rally and - for reasons no one quite understands - the local police did not shut it down. The next day, in the next

Here is Wednesday's second batch of CCNA, CCNP, and Network+ exam practice questions! CCNA: How often does a router send OSPF Hello packets out an OSPF-enabled serial interface? A. Every 10 seconds. B. Every 30 seconds. C. Every 40 seconds. D. Every 120 seconds. CCNP / BSCI: In which of the following OSPF network types are DRs and BDRs not elected? A. broadcast B. non-broadcast C. point-to-point D. point-to-multipoint CCNP / BCMSN: In a dot1q tunneling scheme, what switches must be configured with the "switchport mode dot1q tunnel" command? A. The service provider edge switches. B. All switches in the service provider network. C. The customer network edge switches. D. Both the customer network edge and service provider edge switches. CCNP / BCRAN: The DCE has buffer space available and wants to tell the DTE to send it more data. What pin will it use? A. RTS B. CTS C. Pin 4 D. Pin 5 CCNP / CIT: You're troubleshooting a problem that you've seen before. It's a pr

Here's the first of FOUR sets of Cisco CCNA, CCNP, and CompTIA Network + questions for Wednesday! CCNA: Short answer: What term is given to the data that causes one router to dial another via ISDN? Network +: What do SMTP, MIME, POP, and IMAP all have in common? A. They're all name resolution protocols. B. They're all versions of FTP. C. They're all email protocols and services. D. They're all IP routing protocols. CCNP / BSCI: Which of the following EIGRP packet types are considered "reliable"? A. Update B. Hello C. ACK D. Query E. Successor CCNP / BCMSN: Identify the accurate statements regarding ARAP. A. RADIUS supports ARAP, TACACS+ does not. B. TACACS+ supports ARAP, RADIUS does not. C. Both RADIUS and TACACS+ support ARAP. D. Neither RADIUS nor TACACS+ support ARAP. CCNP / BCRAN: In the cable modem startup process, what will the DHCP response from the CMTS NOT contain? A. An IP address for the cable modem. B. An IP address for the PC attached to the

Can't Blame Blogger On This One Blogger has been giving me a bit of trouble lately, so my new ISP thought they'd join the party yesterday! I'll be posting Tuesday's scheduled questions today as well, so you're getting FOUR sets of CCNA, CCNP, and Network+ questions today! To your certification exam success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 www.thebryantadvantage.com

Here are the answers to Monday evening's CCNA, CCNP, and Network+ questions! Network+: Identify the true statements regarding RTT. A. RTT is usually expressed in seconds. B. RTT is usually expressed in milliseconds. C. RTT measures the time it takes a packet to go from the sender to the receiver. D. RTT measures the time it takes a packet to go from the receiver to the sender. E. RTT measures the time it takes a packet to go from the sender to the receiver, and back from the receiver to the sender. Answers: B, E. RTT stands for Round-Trip Time, and it's measured in milliseconds. One thousand milliseconds equals one second. CCNA: An EIGRP router has one Successor route to a remote destination, and no Feasible Successor. The Successor route goes down. What happens now? A. A routing loop will form. B. DUAL will generate a default route to use until the Successor returns. C. The router sends a DUAL query to all its EIGRP neighbors. D. The router holds a DUAL election to choose a ne

Here are the answers to yesterday morning's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: Short answer: You are configuring your Cisco router to communicate with a non-Cisco router via frame relay. What frame encapsulation type should you configure? Answer: You need to use IETF encapsulation to allow Cisco routers to communicate with non-Cisco routers. CCNP / BSCI: Short answer: What is the default OSPF network type for a serial interface? Answer: A serial interface defaults to the OSPF network type non-broadcast, as shown here: R1#show ip ospf interface serial0 Serial0 is up, line protocol is up Internet Address 172.12.123.1/24, Area 0 Process ID 1, Router ID 1.1.1.1, Network Type NON_BROADCAST, Cost: 64 CCNP / BCMSN: A switch is running Uplinkfast. The original root port has gone down and now come back up. Assuming the switch is running all default settings, how long will it be before this port becomes the root again? A. 1 - 3 seconds B. 35 seconds C. 120 seconds D. This port can

Here are the answers to Sunday's Cisco CCNA and CCNP exam questions! CCNA: Use of which of the following verifies correct operation of all OSI model layers? A. ping B. traceroute C. telnet D. show ip route Answer: C. We don't think of Telnet as a connectivity test, but since it runs at the Application layer, running Telnet successfully indicates that this layer and all the layers running underneath it are functioning correctly. CCNP / BSCI: A BGP route reflector receives a route from a nonclient peer. To whom will the RR send this route? A. All RR clients only. B. All RR clients and nonclients. C. All nonclients only. D. RRs do not reflect routes from nonclient peers. Answer: A. When an RR receives routes from nonclient peers, that route is reflected to the RR's clients only. If the route had been received from a client, that route would be reflected to all clients and nonclients of the RR. CCNP / BCMSN: What protocols must be running on the port between the IP Phone and th

Here are the answers to Saturday's second set of Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice exam questions! CCNA: Identify the true statements regarding Frame Relay LMI. A. The default type is ANSI. B. The default type is Cisco. C. The default type is dot1q. D. The LMI type must be agreed upon by a DTE and DCE. E. The LMI type must be agreed upon by two DTEs. F. LMI Autosense makes the type agreement unnecessary. Answer: B, D. The default LMI type is Cisco, and the router (DTE) must agree on the LMI type with the closest DCE. CCNP / BSCI: Which of the following are methods of cutting over from IPv4 to IPv6? A. 6to4 tunneling B. Zero Compression C. Leading Zero Compression D. Dual Stack E. Next Header F. NAT-PT G. Flow Label Answers: A, D, F. CCNP / BCMSN: Identify the true statements regarding RED. A. Congestion is detected early. B. Congestion is detected only when the queue actually fills. C. CoS and IP Precedence identify the packets to be dropped. D. RED does not consider CoS and IP Preceden

Looks like Blogger dropped a few of my posts this past week! Let's catch up on some questions and answers, starting with Saturday. CCNA: What's the decimal equivalent of the hex value Bf8? Answer: This gives us 11 ("B") units of 256, 15 ("f") units of 16, and eight units of one. That's 2816 + 240 + 8 = 3164. CCNP / BSCI: What ISIS hello type do routers use to maintain adjacencies with other routers? A. ESH B. IIH C. ISH D. ESS Answer: B. Routers are Intermediate Systems and exchange IS-to-IS Hellos (IIH). CCNP / BCRAN: You're created a custom queue list. Which of the following interface-level commands will apply this list to Serial0? A. service policy out 1 B. queueing interface C. policy outbound 1 D. custom-queue-list 1 E. ip access-group 1 out Answer: D. CCNP / BCMSN: The port cost for a 100 MBPS port on a new Cisco switch is what? A. 10 B. 19 C. 1 D. 100 E. 1000 Answer: A. Originally, this cost was 10, but the newest calculations will assign a 1

Here's the second set of Cisco CCNA and CCNP exam practice questions for Monday - and Network+ questions start today as well! Network+: Identify the true statements regarding RTT. A. RTT is usually expressed in seconds. B. RTT is usually expressed in milliseconds. C. RTT measures the time it takes a packet to go from the sender to the receiver. D. RTT measures the time it takes a packet to go from the receiver to the sender. E. RTT measures the time it takes a packet to go from the sender to the receiver, and back from the receiver to the sender. CCNA: An EIGRP router has one Successor route to a remote destination, and no Feasible Successor. The Successor route goes down. What happens now? A. A routing loop will form. B. DUAL will generate a default route to use until the Successor returns. C. The router sends a DUAL query to all its EIGRP neighbors. D. The router holds a DUAL election to choose a new Successor. CCNP / BSCI: Which of the following network topologies is the best ch

Good morning, everyone! Here's the first of two sets of Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions for Monday. Network+ questions begin later today! CCNA: Short answer: You are configuring your Cisco router to communicate with a non-Cisco router via frame relay. What frame encapsulation type should you configure? CCNP / BSCI: Short answer: What is the default OSPF network type for a serial interface? CCNP / BCMSN: A switch is running Uplinkfast. The original root port has gone down and now come back up. Assuming the switch is running all default settings, how long will it be before this port becomes the root again? A. 1 - 3 seconds B. 35 seconds C. 120 seconds D. This port cannot become the root port again - that's a default behavior of Uplinkfast. CCNP / BCRAN: What makes it possible to exchange secret keys over a non-secure connection without compromising the keys? A. Dijkstra algorithm B. Authentication Header C. Diffie-Hellman algorithm D. Encapsulating Security Payload CCNP /

Here are Sunday's CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: Use of which of the following verifies correct operation of all OSI model layers? A. ping B. traceroute C. telnet D. show ip route CCNP / BSCI: A BGP route reflector receives a route from a nonclient peer. To whom will the RR send this route? A. All RR clients only. B. All RR clients and nonclients. C. All nonclients only. D. RRs do not reflect routes from nonclient peers. CCNP / BCMSN: What protocols must be running on the port between the IP Phone and the switch? A. IP B. CDP C. SNA D. LAT E. IPX CCNP / BCRAN: What command will display the following? Dial reason: callback return call A. show dial reason B. show callback status C. show isdn status D. show dialer CCNP / CIT: If you can ping an IP address but not its corresponding hostname, what protocol is most likely the issue? A. DHCP B. IP C. DNS D. WINS E. ICMP See you later tonight with the answers to Saturday's questions - and I'm adding Network+ questions to t

Here's the second set of Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions for Saturday! CCNA: Identify the true statements regarding Frame Relay LMI. A. The default type is ANSI. B. The default type is Cisco. C. The default type is dot1q. D. The LMI type must be agreed upon by a DTE and DCE. E. The LMI type must be agreed upon by two DTEs. F. LMI Autosense makes the type agreement unnecessary. CCNP / BSCI: Which of the following are methods of cutting over from IPv4 to IPv6? A. 6to4 tunneling B. Zero Compression C. Leading Zero Compression D. Dual Stack E. Next Header F. NAT-PT G. Flow Label CCNP / BCMSN: Identify the true statements regarding RED. A. Congestion is detected early. B. Congestion is detected only when the queue actually fills. C. CoS and IP Precedence identify the packets to be dropped. D. RED does not consider CoS and IP Precedence. CCNP / BCRAN: Of the following methods of data transport, which is inherently the least secure? A. RFC 1483 bridging B. PPPoE C. PPPoA CCNP / CIT

Here are the answers to Friday's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: HostA is sending data to HostB. The only device between them is a 2950 switch. Identify the true statements regarding the destination MAC and IP addresses of the data in question. A. The destination MAC will be that of the switch port receiving the data. B. The destination MAC will be that of HostB. C. The destination IP will be that of the switch port receiving the data. D. The destination IP will be that of HostB. Answers: B, D. The destination IP will always be that of the remote host and will not change during transmission. The destination MAC will change during transmission if an L3 device is between the hosts due to Proxy ARP, but in this case only an L2 device (the Cisco 2950 cannot serve as a L3 switch) is between the two, so any ARP Request sent by HostA will be received by HostB. CCNP / BSCI: You are configuring RIP routes to be redistributed into OSPF. Your config is shown below. What is th

Here are the answers to Thursday's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: Convert the following binary value into a hex value: 11001101 In decimal, that is 195; 195 in hex is c3. (12 units of 16, three units of one) CCNP / BSCI: You are configuring an OSPF router to inject a default route into the OSPF domain. The command you've entered under the OSPF process is "default-information originate". What else do you have to do? A. Nothing. B. Make sure this router has a default route in its routing table. C. Make sure this router is an ABR. D. Make sure this router is an ASBR. Answer: B. If you use the always option with this command, a default route would be advertised even if the router in question doesn't have one in its routing table. CCNP / BCMSN: What is the main purpose of IEEE 802.3ac? A. Allows access ports to become trunks B. Allows the switch to forward runt frames C. Allows VTP transparent mode to forward ads from other switches D. Allows maximum fra

Just wanted to repeat this post for those who may have missed it earlier! An Important Message From The Bryant Advantage I like to keep the blog lighthearted and bring you free CCNA and CCNP practice questions every day, but there's a major change in the Cisco certification program you need to know about - and a special offer I'm making to my blog readers to help you take advantage of the situation. As you may have heard, Cisco is changing their CCNP exams at the end of the year. The new exams are supposed to be ready sometime in October, but you can take the current exams and have them count toward your CCNP through December 31 of this year. The bad news, as those of us who have been taking certification exams for a while can tell you, is that new exams seem notoriously difficult to pass, regardless of vendor. There are a lot of theories as to that, and I'm not going to go into them myself... but if you've been thinking of working on your CCNP, the time for action is n

Here's the first of two sets of Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions for Saturday! CCNA: What's the decimal equivalent of the hex value Bf8? CCNP / BSCI: What ISIS hello type do routers use to maintain adjacencies with other routers? A. ESH B. IIH C. ISH D. ESS CCNP / BCRAN: You're created a custom queue list. Which of the following interface-level commands will apply this list to Serial0? A. service policy out 1 B. queueing interface C. policy outbound 1 D. custom-queue-list 1 E. ip access-group 1 out CCNP / BCMSN: The port cost for a 100 MBPS port on a new Cisco switch is what? A. 10 B. 19 C. 1 D. 100 E. 1000 CCNP / CIT: You want to view a Windows PC's ARP table. Which of the following commands should you use? A. arp -g B. arp -a C. arp -d D. arp See you later today with another set of Cisco certification exam practice questions, the answers to all questions posted earlier this week, and more! To your Cisco certification success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 www.thebrya

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Happy Friday, everyone! Here's the first of two sets of Cisco CCNA and CCNP free practice questions for you today! CCNA: HostA is sending data to HostB. The only device between them is a 2950 switch. Identify the true statements regarding the destination MAC and IP addresses of the data in question. A. The destination MAC will be that of the switch port receiving the data. B. The destination MAC will be that of HostB. C. The destination IP will be that of the switch port receiving the data. D. The destination IP will be that of HostB. CCNP / BSCI: You are configuring RIP routes to be redistributed into OSPF. Your config is shown below. What is the result? SABAN(config)#router ospf 1 SABAN(config-router)#redistribute rip A. The default seed metric is 20. B. The default seed metric is 10. C. There is no default seed metric. D. Subnets will not be redistributed. E. Subnets will be redistributed. F. The redistributed routes will be tagged E2. G. The redistributed routes will be tagged

Happy Friday, everyone! Here's the first of two sets of Cisco CCNA and CCNP free practice questions for you today! CCNA: HostA is sending data to HostB. The only device between them is a 2950 switch. Identify the true statements regarding the destination MAC and IP addresses of the data in question. A. The destination MAC will be that of the switch port receiving the data. B. The destination MAC will be that of HostB. C. The destination IP will be that of the switch port receiving the data. D. The destination IP will be that of HostB. CCNP / BSCI: You are configuring RIP routes to be redistributed into OSPF. Your config is shown below. What is the result? SABAN(config)#router ospf 1 SABAN(config-router)#redistribute rip A. The default seed metric is 20. B. The default seed metric is 10. C. There is no default seed metric. D. Subnets will not be redistributed. E. Subnets will be redistributed. F. The redistributed routes will be tagged E2. G. The redistributed routes will be tagged

Good morning! Here are Thursday morning's Cisco CCNA and CCNP exam practice questions! CCNA: Convert the following binary value into a hex value: 11001101 CCNP / BSCI: You are configuring an OSPF router to inject a default route into the OSPF domain. The command you've entered under the OSPF process is "default-information originate". What else do you have to do? A. Nothing. B. Make sure this router has a default route in its routing table. C. Make sure this router is an ABR. D. Make sure this router is an ASBR. CCNP / BCMSN: What is the main purpose of IEEE 802.3ac? A. Allows access ports to become trunks B. Allows the switch to forward runt frames C. Allows VTP transparent mode to forward ads from other switches D. Allows maximum frame length to be extended CCNP / BCRAN: Identify the FALSE statement regarding VDSL. A. Delivers over 52 MBPS over copper wire B. Used by Cisco to build Long Range Ethernet (LRE) C. Maximum distance is 4000 feet D. The "V" stand

More CCNA and CCNP practice questions and answers! CCNA: Short answer: What's the binary equivalent of the hex value F9? Answer: We've got 15 ("f") units of 16 and nine units of one, which equals 249. CCNP / BSCI: You configure OSPF > EIGRP redistribution as shown below. What is the result? WILSON(config)#router eigrp 100 WILSON(config-router)#redistribute ospf 5 A. OSPF classful routes will be redistributed, but not subnets. B. OSPF routes will not be successfully redistributed. C. OSPF routes will be successfully redistributed with a seed metric of 20. D. OSPF routes will be successfully redistributed with a seed metric of 0. Answer: B. OSPF routes are being redistributed into EIGRP, which requires a seed metric to be set with either the default-metric command or specified at the end of the redistribute command. 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

More answers to last week's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: Short answer: What is the dotted decimal equivalent of the following? 01101101 11110001 00010101 10101010 Answer: 109.241.21.170. CCNP / BSCI: Area 34 is a stub area, with R3 as the ABR and R4 and R5 also in the stub. To make the area a total stub area, the command no-summary is needed on how many routers? A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3 Answer: B. You only need the area 34 stub no-summary command on the ABR. The other routers must be configured with area 34 stub . You could put no-summary on R4 and R5 in this case and it wouldn't hurt anything, but it's not necessary. CCNP / BCRAN: Which of the following are optional Frame Relay LMI extensions? A. virtual circuit status message B. simple flow control C. global addressing D. multicasting Answer: B, C, D. CCNP / BCMSN: Short answer: Users are complaining of slow access to network services when they first log in to the network. Some are having problems receiving

The move is complete and I'll have two sets of Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions for you daily again, beginning today - and Network+, A+, and Security+ are on the way - but let's keep catching up on last week's questions! CCNA: Short answer: A switch has a priority of 32768 and a MAC address of cc-cc-cc-cc-cc-cc. What does the switch's BID look like ? Answer: 32768:cc-cc-cc-cc-cc-cc. The MAC address only figures into the root bridge election if the switches have the same priorities. CCNP / BSCI: Short answer: What is the prefix length of the mask used with Class C private addresses? Answer: /16, or 255.255.0.0. CCNP / BCMSN: On which of the following port types can a Voice VLAN not be configured? A. A trunk port B. An L2 port on a multilayer switch C. A port running CDP D. A port running Portfast Answer: A, B. 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. CCNP / BCRA

Even more answers to last week's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: Identify the true statements regarding the use of CHAP. A. The passwords must be the same at each endpoint. B. The passwords may be different at each endpoint. C. CHAP runs on PPP only. D. CHAP runs on HDLC only. E. CHAP runs on both PPP and HDLC. Answer: A, C. CHAP requires the passwords to be the same at both endpoints, and CHAP runs only on PPP. Neither PAP nor CHAP can run on HDLC. CCNP / BSCI: Which of the following are methods of circumventing the rule of BGP Split Horizon? A. route reflectors B. confederations C. disabling synchronization. D. changing the next-hop IP address E. changing the weight attribute Answers: A, B. CCNP / BCMSN: Short answer: What's the valid range of physical channels that can be placed inside an Etherchannel? Answer: You can place 2 - 8 physical trunks into an Etherchannel. CCNP / BCRAN: Identify the main construction steps of a Frame Relay SVC. A. Call setup B. Idle

More answers to last week's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: Identify the true statements: A. Distance vector protocols exchange full routing tables. B. Distance vector protocols exchange only updates to the routing tables. C. Link state protocols regularly exchange full LSA databases. D. Link state protocols send LSA updates upon a change in the network. Answers: A, D. One major difference between distance vector protocols and link state protocols is that DV protocols regularly exchange full routing updates, while LS protocols send information regarding only the changes, and only when a change actually occurs. CCNP / BSCI: The default OSPF cost is 1 for which of the following interface types? A. 100 MBPS Ethernet B. Token Ring C. FDDI D. T1 Serial Link E. ATM Answer: A, C, E. The default OSPF cost is "1" for 100 MBPS Ethernet, ATM, and FDDI. CCNP / BCMSN: In a typical Server Farm block, what level(s) of switches are present, in addition to the servers? A. Ac

Here are the answers to last Tuesday's first set of Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: Short answer: You want a standard ACL to permit traffic sourced from 172.10.20.0 /27, and deny all other traffic. Write an ACL that will do this. Answer: We use wildcard masks for ACLs, so the ACL would look like this: access-list 37 permit 172.10.20.0 0.0.0.31 A second line is unnecessary, since the implicit deny will stop all other traffic. CCNP / BSCI: Short answer: You are running RIPv2 and OSPF on a single router. Your RIP domain is carrying VLSM information in its updates and you want those subnets in your OSPF domain. After entering the command router ospf 1, what should your next command be? Only one command is needed to do this. Answer: The correct configuration is redistribute rip subnets. Leaving the subnets option will mean that only classful networks will be redistributed into OSPF, and OSPF requires no seed metric to be set for redistribution. CCNP / BCMSN: Short answer:

I owe you some answers... so here they come! Here are the answers to last Monday's first set of Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: What is the major advantage of Frame Relay over ISDN? A. Ease of configuration B. Less overhead on the router C. Lower cost D. Complete control over every device in the dedicated path Answer: C. Frame is much cheaper to use than ISDN due to its shared bandwidth. CCNP / BSCI: A BGP route reflector receives a routing update from a client. To whom will the RR "reflect" this route? A. All RR clients only. B. All RR clients and nonclients. C. All nonclients only. D. No one - route reflectors do not reflect routes received from clients. Answer: B. The RR will reflect routes from a client to clients and nonclients alike. CCNP / BCMSN: Identify the true statements. A. Jitter is a problem primarily with voice and video traffic. B. Jitter is a problem primarily with data streams. C. Jitter is caused by delays in the queue. D. Jitter is

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'Press on,' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race - Calvin Coolidge

Here are this morning's Cisco CCNA and CCNP certification exam practice questions! CCNA: A device boots up, and does not have an IP address assigned to it. Which of the following two protocols will assign an IP address to such a device? A. ARP B. Proxy ARP C. DHCP D. RARP E. DNS F. WINS CCNP / BSCI: What is the purpose of the OSPF command default-information originate always ? A. This allows the ASBR to perform automatic route redistribution. B. This allows the ASBR to advertise a default route that it does not actually have. C. This allows the ASBR to generate a static route and advertise it as a default route. D. This allows the ASBR to send a default route to the other routing protocol during redistribution. CCNP / BCMSN: Identify the true statements: A. VTP pruning is off by default. B. VTP pruning is on by default. C. The VTP revision number is lost upon a reboot. D. The VTP revision number is kept upon a reboot. CCNP / BCRAN: Which of the following queueing strategies uses th

Here's Monday morning's set of Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: Short answer: Convert this binary string into dotted decimal format. 00111100 00110111 00011111 00010000 CCNP / BSCI: Identify the true statements regarding route maps. A. The sequence number increments by 10 by default. B. The sequence number increments by 20 by default. C. If you don't specify permit or deny for a route map statement, it's an implicit permit. D. If you don't specify permit or deny for a route map statement, it's an implicit deny. CCNP / BCMSN: Which protocols must be running on the port connecting a Cisco IP phone and a Cisco switch? A. IP B. CDP C. SNA D. LAT CCNP / BCRAN: What form of compression is defined in RFC 1144? A. TCP/IP Header B. Stacker C. MPPC D. Predictor CCNP / CIT: Short answer: You think a junior admin bounced a switch while you were at lunch. How can you view this switch's uptime? See you later today with more CCNA and CCNP practice questions -

Good morning, everyone! I want to thank you for your patience regarding the number of blog posts this past week - I'm currently moving both my home and office locations, so it's been just a little nutty around here lately! Things are about back to "normal" around here, so the free Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions will pick back up later today - I'll catch up on last week's answers as well - and free Network+, Security+, and A+ questions are on their way! To your certification success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 www.thebryantadvantage.com

Here are Saturday's CCNA and CCNP certification exam practice questions! CCNA: Short answer: You have configured frame relay on an interface, and this interface is shut. You have decided to use Cisco's dynamic frame mapping feature. What is the minimum configuration necessary? CCNP / BSCI: You want to view the LSAs on an OSPF-enabled router, along with the amount of time since the last LSA for each link was received. What command will give you this vital troubleshooting information? A. show ip ospf database B. show ip ospf dijkstra C. show ip ospf D. show ip ospf spf-database CCNP / BCMSN: What protocol does VMPS use to listen to client requests? A. TCP B. UDP C. SNMP D. IP CCNP / BCRAN: In which of the following countries does ISDN PRI consist of 31 channels? A. Europe B. United States C. Japan D. Australia CCNP / CIT: You realize that the line protocol is down on a serial interface, and that the clockrate command hasn't been configured. Where should you configure the cloc

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Here are your Friday morning Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: Short answer: What's the binary equivalent of the hex value F9? CCNP / BSCI: You configure OSPF > EIGRP redistribution as shown below. What is the result? WILSON(config)#router eigrp 100 WILSON(config-router)#redistribute ospf 5 A. OSPF classful routes will be redistributed, but not subnets. B. OSPF routes will not be successfully redistributed. C. OSPF routes will be successfully redistributed with a seed metric of 20. D. OSPF routes will be successfully redistributed with a seed metric of 0. 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 drop the frames. B. The port will forward the frames. C. The port will drop the frames and generate a syslog message. D. The port will go into err-disabled state and a syslog message will be generat

An Important Message From The Bryant Advantage I like to keep the blog lighthearted and bring you free CCNA and CCNP practice questions every day, but there's a major change in the Cisco certification program you need to know about - and a special offer I'm making to my blog readers to help you take advantage of the situation. As you may have heard, Cisco is changing their CCNP exams at the end of the year. The new exams are supposed to be ready sometime in October, but you can take the current exams and have them count toward your CCNP through December 31 of this year. The bad news, as those of us who have been taking certification exams for a while can tell you, is that new exams seem notoriously difficult to pass, regardless of vendor. There are a lot of theories as to that, and I'm not going to go into them myself... but if you've been thinking of working on your CCNP, the time for action is now. The good news is that I just issued my CIT Study Package at $77, and

Here are Thursday's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: Short answer: What is the dotted decimal equivalent of the following? 01101101 11110001 00010101 10101010 CCNP / BSCI: Area 34 is a stub area, with R3 as the ABR and R4 and R5 also in the stub. To make the area a total stub area, the command no-summary is needed on how many routers? A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3 CCNP / BCRAN: Which of the following are optional Frame Relay LMI extensions? A. virtual circuit status message B. simple flow control C. global addressing D. multicasting CCNP / BCMSN: Short answer: Users are complaining of slow access to network services when they first log in to the network. Some are having problems receiving their dynamically assigned IP addresses. What Cisco switching feature can help, and where should it be applied? CCNP / CIT: Short answer: What command is used to debug ISDN BRI's D-channel at L3? See you later tonight with the answers to this past week's questions! To your Cisco certifi

Here's Wednesday's third set of Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: Short answer: A switch has a priority of 32768 and a MAC address of cc-cc-cc-cc-cc-cc. What does the switch's BID look like ? CCNP / BSCI: Short answer: What is the prefix length of the mask used with Class C private addresses? CCNP / BCMSN: On which of the following port types can a Voice VLAN not be configured? A. A trunk port B. An L2 port on a multilayer switch C. A port running CDP D. A port running Portfast CCNP / BCRAN: Which of the following commands configures a router to be a callback client? A. ppp callback client B. ppp callback request C. ppp callback accept D. dialer callback-secure CCNP / CIT: You're trying to get L2 running on the BRI interface. Which of the following indicates success? A. ISDN_STATUS_OK B. SHOWTIME C. LAYER_THREE_OPEN D. MULTIPLE_FRAME_ESTABLISHED That's it for today! I'll see you Thursday with the answers to the past few days' questions, and more

An Important Message From The Bryant Advantage I like to keep the blog lighthearted and bring you free CCNA and CCNP practice questions every day, but there's a major change in the Cisco certification program you need to know about - and a special offer I'm making to my blog readers first to help you take advantage of the situation. As you may have heard, Cisco is changing their CCNP exams at the end of the year. The new exams are supposed to be ready sometime in October, but you can take the current exams and have them count toward your CCNP through December 31 of this year. The bad news, as those of us who have been taking certification exams for a while can tell you, is that new exams seem notoriously difficult to pass, regardless of vendor. There are a lot of theories as to that, and I'm not going to go into them myself... but if you've been thinking of working on your CCNP, the time for action is now. The good news is that I just issued my CIT Study Package at $77,

Here's the second of today's THREE sets of Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: Identify the true statements regarding the use of CHAP. A. The passwords must be the same at each endpoint. B. The passwords may be different at each endpoint. C. CHAP runs on PPP only. D. CHAP runs on HDLC only. E. CHAP runs on both PPP and HDLC. CCNP / BSCI: Which of the following are methods of circumventing the rule of BGP Split Horizon? A. route reflectors B. confederations C. disabling synchronization. D. changing the next-hop IP address E. changing the weight attribute CCNP / BCMSN: Short answer: What's the valid range of physical channels that can be placed inside an Etherchannel? CCNP / BCRAN: Identify the main construction steps of a Frame Relay SVC. A. Call setup B. Idle C. DLCI Discovery D. LMI Leasing E. Data Transfer F. Call Termination CCNP / CIT What is true of the traceroute values protocol and destination? A. They're both optional. B. protocol is optional, destinat

Blogger threw me a curve last night, so I was unable to post more questions... so today, you'll get three separate sets of Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice exam questions, and the answers to the last three days' worth! CCNA: Identify the true statements: A. Distance vector protocols exchange full routing tables. B. Distance vector protocols exchange only updates to the routing tables. C. Link state protocols regularly exchange full LSA databases. D. Link state protocols send LSA updates upon a change in the network. CCNP / BSCI: The default OSPF cost is 1 for which of the following interface types? A. 100 MBPS Ethernet B. Token Ring C. FDDI D. T1 Serial Link E. ATM CCNP / BCMSN: In a typical Server Farm block, what level(s) of switches are present, in addition to the servers? A. Access B. Distribution C. Core D. None CCNP / BCRAN: Identify the true statements. A. CAP has three channels. B. CAP has over 200 channels. C. DMT has three channels. D. DMT has over 200 channels. CCNP / CI

An Important Message From The Bryant Advantage I like to keep the blog lighthearted and bring you free CCNA and CCNP practice questions every day, but there's a major change in the Cisco certification program you need to know about - and a special offer I'm making to my blog readers first to help you take advantage of the situation. As you may have heard, Cisco is changing their CCNP exams at the end of the year. The new exams are supposed to be ready sometime in October, but you can take the current exams and have them count toward your CCNP through December 31 of this year. The bad news, as those of us who have been taking certification exams for a while can tell you, is that new exams seem notoriously difficult to pass, regardless of vendor. There are a lot of theories as to that, and I'm not going to go into them myself... but if you've been thinking of working on your CCNP, the time for action is now. The good news is that I just issued my CIT Study Package at $77,

Just wanted to remind you of two brand new Bryant Advantage Cisco exam prep products! My long-awaited CIT Study Package is now available, and for the first 77 hours, it's available for only $77! http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/CITCCNPStudyPackage.htm Also, my BCRAN Video Boot Camp is also now available! Everything you'd want from a BCRAN boot camp, without everything you don't want (travel costs, meal costs, stuffy classrooms, and tuition in the thousands!) http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/BCRANCBTCCNPVideoBootCamp.htm As always, thanks for visiting The Bryant Advantage! To your Cisco certification success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 www.thebryantadvantage.com

Here's the first of THREE sets of Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions for today! CCNA: Short answer: You want a standard ACL to permit traffic sourced from 172.10.20.0 /27, and deny all other traffic. Write an ACL that will do this. CCNP / BSCI: Short answer: You are running RIPv2 and OSPF on a single router. Your RIP domain is carrying VLSM information in its updates and you want those subnets in your OSPF domain. After entering the command router ospf 1, what should your next command be? Only one command is needed to do this. CCNP / BCMSN: Short answer: What global command enables Quality Of Service? CCNP / BCRAN: Short answer: What command will immediately tell you whether the SPIDs and ISDN switch type have been successfully configured? CCNP / CIT: You want to simulate a planned change to your network in order to spot issues in advance. What online Cisco tool will help you do this? A. Connectivity Solver B. Connectivity Planner C. Connectivity Baseliner D. Network Planner Se

I'm proud to announce that my CIT Study Package is now available! http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/CITCCNPStudyPackage.htm You save $20 by ordering in the next 77 hours - so get over there! To celebrate the release of my 4th and final CCNP Study Package, I'll be posting three sets of Cisco CCNA and CCNP certification exam practice questions today! Thanks for reading, and I'll see you soon with the first set! To your Cisco certification success, Chris Bryant CCIE #19233 www.thebryantadvantage.com

Due to a technical issue that is regretfully out of my hands, the CIT Study Package release has been delayed for about 12 hours. It will be available tomorrow by noon EST, hopefully sooner! Thanks for your patience - I appreciate it! :) Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 www.thebryantadvantage.com

To the many of you who have emailed me - yes, my CIT Study Package will be coming out later today! And you will save $20 when you purchase early - "$77 for 77 hours"! http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/CITCCNPStudyPackage.htm To your Cisco certification success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 www.thebryantadvantage.com

Here's the first of two sets of Cisco CCNA and CCNP certification exam practice questions for you on this fine Monday! CCNA: What is the major advantage of Frame Relay over ISDN? A. Ease of configuration B. Less overhead on the router C. Lower cost D. Complete control over every device in the dedicated path CCNP / BSCI: A BGP route reflector receives a routing update from a client. To whom will the RR "reflect" this route? A. All RR clients only. B. All RR clients and nonclients. C. All nonclients only. D. No one - route reflectors do not reflect routes received from clients. CCNP / BCMSN: Identify the true statements. A. Jitter is a problem primarily with voice and video traffic. B. Jitter is a problem primarily with data streams. C. Jitter is caused by delays in the queue. D. Jitter is a reason to configure QoS. E. Jitter is a problem, but configuring QoS is not an appropriate solution. CCNP / BCRAN: Identify the true statements regarding RADIUS. A. Only the password in

To the many of you who have emailed me - yes, my CIT Study Package will be coming out later today! And you will save $20 when you purchase early - " $77 for 77 hours"! http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/CITCCNPStudyPackage.htm To your Cisco certification success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 www.thebryantadvantage.com

Here are the answers to Saturday's CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: By default, how many paths does RIP use for unequal-cost load-sharing? A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3 E. 4 F. 5 G. 6 Answer: A. RIP does not support unequal-cost load sharing by default. CCNP / BSCI: Which of the following protocols will not advertise a redistributed route unless a seed metric is expressly assigned during redistribution? A. RIPv1 B. RIPv2 C. IGRP D. EIGRP F. OSPF G. ISIS Answer: A, B, C, D. Of these six protocols, only OSPF and ISIS do not require a seed metric to be set during redistribution. CCNP / BCMSN: R3's fast 0/10 port is configured with Root Guard. An inferior BPDU is received on that port. As a result, what state will the port be put into? A. err-disabled B. port-inconsistent C. blocking D. No action will be taken. Answer: D. If an inferior BPDU comes in, there's no reason for Root Guard to shut the port down. CCNP / BCRAN: The command random-detect enables which queueing strategy? A

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Good morning! Here are Sunday morning's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA: At which layer of the OSI model does the term three-way handshake come into play? A. Application B. Presentation C. Session D. Transport E. Network F. Data Link G. Physical CCNP / BSCI: A BGP router has three neighbors, and wants to assign a higher weight to routes received from the neighbor at 172.1.1.1. What command can make this happen? A. bgp weight 172.1.1.1 150 B. bgp weight 150 172.1.1.100 C. neighbor 172.1.1.1 weight 150 D. ip bgp route incoming 172.1.1.1 weight 150 CCNP / BCMSN: Which of the following port modes results in the port transmitting DTP frames? A. dynamic desirable B. dynamic auto C. trunk D. access CCNP / BCRAN: The interface-level command compress has three options. Identify them. A. stac B. mppc C. cisco D. predictor E. tcp-header CCNP / CIT: What is the net effect of the following configuration? R2(config)#router ospf 1 R2(config-router)#distance 200 A. The OSPF AD is chan

Here are the answers to Friday night's CCNA and CCNP practice exam questions! All Friday questions are short answer! CCNA: What are EIGRP's three tables? Answer: Route, Topology, and Neighbor. CCNP / BSCI: You have a three-area OSPF deployment, each with three routers. No other protocols are involved. One network is a hub-and-spoke network only; the other two areas are broadcast segments only. How many ASBRs are in the entire OSPF area? Answer: None. The topologies described do not matter - if there's no other protocol involved, there can be no redistribution, and therefore there are no ASBRs. CCNP / BCRAN: A server in a server farm using TCP Load Distribution goes down. What protocol will this feature use to notify the NAT router of this server going down? Answer: None. That's one of the drawbacks to TCP Load Distribution. CCNP / BCMSN: Switch port fast 0/10 is configured with Root Guard. A superior BPDU is received on that port. What will happen? Answer: When a superi

Here are the answers to Friday morning's questions! (You CIT candidates got a break - I left the choices in!) CCNA: What is the AD of an Internal EIGRP route? Answer: Internal EIGRP - 90. External EIGRP - 170. CCNP / BSCI: Route maps contain an implicit deny. What happens to packets that have the implicit deny applied to them? Answer: They're sent to the routing engine for normal processing. CCNP / BCMSN: What is the full command that disables a switch port's ability to transmit DTP frames, but still allows the port to form a trunk? Answer: switchport nonegotiate CCNP / BCRAN: IKE Phase I can run in what two modes? Answer: Normal and Aggressive. CCNP / CIT: What command will set the seed metric for all routes redistributed into a given protocol? A. seed-metric B. default seed C. default-metric D. distance Answer: C. See you later tonight with more CCNA and CCNP practice questions, as well as the answers to Friday night's questions! To your Cisco certification success, C