Top o' the morning! Or afternoon or evening, depending on where you are! Here are the answers to yesterday's Cisco practice exam questions:

CCNA:

In OSPF, what is meant by the term "external route"?

A. A route to a destination in another OSPF area.

B. A route injected into the OSPF domain by the ABR.

C. A route injected into the OSPF domain by the ASBR.

D. A route injected into the OSPF domain by the router at the remote end of the virtual link.

Answer: C. Autonomous System Border Routers (ASBRs) inject external routes from other protocols into an OSPF domain.


CCNP / BSCI:

Which of the following protocols are designed to expedite network cutover to a working router when the primary router goes down?

A. SNMP

B. IRDP

C. HSRP

D. DNS

E. ARP

Answer: B, C. Both ICMP Router Discovery Protocol (IRDP) and Hot Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP) handle this task.


CCNP / BCMSN:

Short answer: New Cisco switches calculate a 1000 MBPS port as having a cost of ____________.

Originally assigned a port cost of 1, a 1000 MBPS (1 GBPS) port will be assigned a cost of 4.



CCNP / BCRAN:

Short answer: How can you clear a NAT router's dynamically created mappings?

Answer: With the clear ip nat trans * command.


CCNP / CIT:

Identify the connection-oriented protocols.

A. IP

B. IPX

C. UDP

D. TCP

Answer: D. The only connection-oriented protocol listed there is TCP.


See you later today with another set of Cisco training questions, new articles and tutorials, and more!

To your Cisco certification exam success,

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