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Welcome back! Here are your free Cisco certification exam questions for Thursday, December 28! Cisco CCENT And CompTIA Network+ Certification : Name the OSI model layer associated with each of the following terms: A. routing B. IP addressing C. physical address D. TCP E. UDP Cisco CCNA Certification : By default, what criteria are used for matching in an extended ACL? A. The source IP address. B. The source and destination IP address. C. The destination IP address. D. Neither the source nor destination IP address. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam : Short answer: The default OSPF cost for a serial interface connected to a T1 line is ____________. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Short answer: What globally configured command would create a username / password combination of gordon / ramsey and grant that user the highest level of privilege upon login? CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Which of the following queueing strategies allow the network admin to define classes? A. Priority Queueing (...

Here are the answers to your free Cisco certification exam questions for Wednesday, December 26! CCENT And Network+ Certification : Short answer: At which layer of the OSI model does data take the form of "frames"? Answer: Frames are found at Layer 2 of the OSI model, the Data Link layer. CCNA Certification : By default, what values are considered by EIGRP when computing a path's metric? A. bandwidth B. cost C. delay D. load E. MTU Answers: A, C. Bandwith and delay are used by default; MTU and load can be used, but are not used by default. Cost is the term used for an OSPF route's metric. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam : Which of the following is NOT one of the activities at the distribution layer of the Cisco Three-Layer Hierarchical Model? A. traffic filtering B. internet access C. policy routing D. inter-VLAN routing E. end user interaction with the network F. route redistribution G. address aggregation & summarization Answer: E. End users interact with the ne...

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Here are your free Cisco CCNA, CCENT, and CCNP questions for Wednesday, December 26! CCENT And Network+ Certification : Short answer: At which layer of the OSI model does data take the form of "frames"? CCNA Certification: By default, what values are considered by EIGRP when computing a path's metric? A. bandwidth B. cost C. delay D. load E. MTU CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Which of the following is NOT one of the activities at the distribution layer of the Cisco Three-Layer Hierarchical Model? A. traffic filtering B. internet access C. policy routing D. inter-VLAN routing E. end user interaction with the network F. route redistribution G. address aggregation & summarization CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam : What term refers to the process of the switch placing data into the proper egress queue? A. marking B. scheduling C. trusting D. classification CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Short answer: You're halfway through Setup mode when you realize that you would...

Welcome back! It's Wednesday, December 26, and coming up later today... All-new CCNA, CCNP, Network+, and CCENT practice questions A new CCNA 640-802 tutorial ... and more! See you later today! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Welcome! It's Monday, December 24, and blog postings will resume on Wednesday, December 26. Lots of new features coming up in 2008, including... All-new CCNA, CCNP, and CCENT practice questions Even more illustrated CCNA, CCENT, and CCNP tutorials ... and more! Enjoy your holiday, and I'll see you back here bright and early Wednesday! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Welcome! It's Saturday, December 22, and coming up later today... The answers to Monday's CCNA, CCNP, and CCENT practice questions A new set of Cisco certification exam practice questions A new CCNA 640-802 tutorial ... and more! See you later today! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

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Here are your free Cisco CCNA, CCENT, and CCNP practice questions for Monday, December 17! CCNA And CCENT Certification: As part of a password recovery procedure on a 2500 router, the configuration register will be changed to 0x2142. What does this change force the router to do? A. Erase NVRAM contents B. Erase the existing enable password C. Ignore the contents of NVRAM D. Erase the existing starting configuration CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: Name three methods of migrating from IPv4 to IPv6. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: A VTP switch has a revision number of 5. This switch receives a VTP advertisement with a revision number of 6. What action(s) will this switch take? A. The advertisement is accepted. B. The advertisement is rejected. C. The receiving switch increments its revision number. D. The receiving switch decrements its revision number. E. The receiving switch does nothing to its revision number. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Which of the following is gen...

Here are the answers to your free Cisco certification exam practice questions for Saturday, December 15! CCNA Certification Exam: Convert the binary string 01010101 into hexadecimal. Answer: That string is 85 in decimal, and 55 in hex (5 units of 16, 5 units of 1). CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: A non-routing node on an ISIS network sends how many different ISIS hello types? Answer: One. This describes an ISIS End System, and End Systems send only ESH (End System Hello) packets. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Used with Integrated Services, what protocol creates a path for priority traffic in advance of the traffic actually needing it? Answer: RSVP creates a path for priority traffic, and the path is created and reserved in advance of traffic actually using it. CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Which of the four delay types refers to the amount of time it takes for the data bits to actually cross the L1 link? Answer: Propagation delay. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: What globally confi...

Welcome! It's Monday, December 17, and coming up later today here on the blog... The return of the daily Cisco CCNA, CCENT, and CCNP questions - and many thanks to all of you for the kind emails during my dental work last week! A new CCNA exam tutorial .. and who knows what else! See you later today! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here are your free Cisco CCNA 640-802, CCENT, and CCNP certification practice questions for Saturday, December 15! CCNA And CCENT Certification Exam: Convert the binary string 01010101 into hexadecimal. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: A non-routing node on an ISIS network sends how many different ISIS hello types? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Used with Integrated Services, what protocol creates a path for priority traffic in advance of the traffic actually needing it? CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Which of the four delay types refers to the amount of time it takes for the data bits to actually cross the L1 link? CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: What globally configured command sets the minimum password length on a Cisco router to 15 characters? Answers will be posted Sunday, December 16! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here are the answers to your free Cisco certification questions from this past Monday, December 10! CCENT Certification Exam: Short answer: What layer of the OSI model is generally referred to as the "managing layer"? Answer: That's the Session layer. CCNA 640-802 Certification Exam: Short answer: EIGRP is considered a hybrid protocol, since it has characteristics of link state and distance vector protocols. Give one distance vector behavior of EIGRP, along with two link state behaviors. Answer: EIGRP does send a full routing table initially, just as the distance vector protocol RIP does. EIGRP's link state behaviors include the ability to place routers into logical groups ("autonomous systems" in EIGRP's case). Another is that upon a change in the network, EIGRP will not send a full routing update, but instead will send an update only reflecting the changes. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What command will show whether a router's neighbors are or a...

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Here are your free CCENT, CCNA, and CCNP practice questions for Monday, December 10! CCENT Certification Exam: Short answer: What layer of the OSI model is generally referred to as the "managing layer"? CCNA 640-802 Certification Exam: Short answer: EIGRP is considered a hybrid protocol, since it has characteristics of link state and distance vector protocols. Give one distance vector behavior of EIGRP, along with two link state behaviors. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What command will show whether a router's neighbors are or are not an ABR or ASBR? A. show ip ospf database B. show ip ospf neighbor C. show ip ospf border-routers D. show ip route ospf CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: What's the default behavior for Voice VLANs and Portfast? A. A port configured with a voice VLAN will have Portfast autoenabled. B. A port configured with a voice VLAN cannot run Portfast. C. Removing a voice VLAN from a port does not disable Portfast. D. A port configured with a voic...

Here are the answers to your Cisco CCNA, CCENT, and CCNP questions for Friday, November 7! CCNA 640-802 And CCENT Certification: Short answer: Describe briefly what is meant by the Frame Relay term "global addressing". Answer: That's the somewhat regrettable term given to using the same DLCI numbers on multiple routers in the same network. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: In what two OSPF network types are DRs and BDRs elected? A. broadcast B. non-broadcast C. point-to-point D. point-to-multipoint Answer: A, B. Both broadcast and non-broadcast networks will elect a DR and BDR. Point-to-point and point-to-multipoint networks do not. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: A switch port has just received a dynamic VLAN membership assignment. What other port feature will be enabled as a result? A. Uplinkfast B. Portfast C. Backbonefast D. dot1x port-based authentication Answer: B. Portfast will be autoenabled in this situation. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Short answer: What is...

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Welcome! Here are your free Cisco certification training questions for Friday, December 7! CCNA And CCENT Certification: Short answer: Describe briefly what is meant by the Frame Relay term "global addressing". CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: In what two OSPF network types are DRs and BDRs elected? A. broadcast B. non-broadcast C. point-to-point D. point-to-multipoint CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: A switch port has just received a dynamic VLAN membership assignment. What other port feature will be enabled as a result? A. Uplinkfast B. Portfast C. Backbonefast D. dot1x port-based authentication CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Short answer: What is the maximum number of characters that can make up a Cisco router password? CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Short answer: What command will show you the size of the hardware queue for your router's Serial1 interface? Answers will be posted Saturday, December 8! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvan...

Here are the answers to your free Cisco certification exam questions for Wednesday, December 5! CCNA And CCENT Certification: Regarding the following frame map statement, identify the true statements below. frame map ip 172.1.1.2 211 A. The IP address belongs to the remote router. B. The IP address belongs to the local router. C. The DLCI belongs to the remote router. D. The DLCI belongs to the local router. E. The DLCI is not shown. Answers: A, D. The IP address will always be that of the remote router, but the DLCI will always be that of the local router. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: A route in your routing table is marked with the code "D EX". Which of the following protocols have a default AD lower than that of this route? A. Internal EIGRP B. External EIGRP C. OSPF D. ISIS E. RIPv2 F. IGRP G. RIPv1 Answers: A, C, D, E, F, G. This is an external EIGRP route, which will have a default AD of 170. The protocols in that list that have lower ADs are Internal EIGRP (90), OSP...

Welcome! It's Friday, December 7 - just three days until the release of my fully updated CCNA 640-802 Exam Study Package ! Reserve your copy NOW and I'll send you download codes for my CCENT Study Package immediately so you can start studying for the CCENT and 640-802 CCNA exam right now! I'll have some free Cisco CCENT, CCNA 640-802, and CCNP questions for you later today! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here are your free Cisco CCENT, CCNA, and CCNP questions for Wednesday, December 5! Answers will be posted Thursday, December 6 - and look for a new CCNA 640-802 And CCENT Exam tutorial later today as well! CCNA 640-802 And CCENT Certification: Regarding the following frame map statement, identify the true statements below. frame map ip 172.1.1.2 211 A. The IP address belongs to the remote router. B. The IP address belongs to the local router. C. The DLCI belongs to the remote router. D. The DLCI belongs to the local router. E. The DLCI is not shown. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: A route in your routing table is marked with the code "D EX". Which of the following protocols have a default AD lower than that of this route? A. Internal EIGRP B. External EIGRP C. OSPF D. ISIS E. RIPv2 F. IGRP G. RIPv1 CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Adjusting which of the following values will decrease BPDU traffic on your network? A. Forward Delay B. Max Age C. Hello Time D. MAC Address Agin...

Here are the answers to the free Cisco certification exam training questions for Tuesday, December 4! CCNA And CCENT Certification: Which of the following allows you test to IP connectivity at Layer 7 of the OSI model? A. ping B. telnet C. tracert D. None of the above Answer: B. Telnet runs at the Application layer of the OSI model (Layer 7). CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: What is the range of private AS numbers for BGP? Answer: 64512 - 65535. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: What's the basic purpose of VMPS? A. dynamic VTP server assignments B. enables the switch to dynamically locate TFTP servers C. dynamic discovery of non-trunking switches D. enabling use of dynamic VLANs Answer: D. A VLAN Management Policy Server (VMPS) is used when dynamic VLAN assignment is in place. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Which of the following is true regarding fast switching? A. A route table lookup must be performed for each and every packet. B. A route table lookup must be perfor...

Welcome! It's Wednesday, December 5 - just five days until the release of my fully updated CCNA 640-802 Exam Study Package ! Reserve your copy NOW and I'll send you download codes for my CCENT Study Package immediately so you can start studying for the CCENT and 640-802 CCNA exam right now! Later today, I'll have a new set of Cisco certficiation exam practice questions, the latest in my series of CCNA tutorials on "router on a stick", and more! Get started on your CCENT and CCNA studies right now , and I'll see you later today! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here are your Cisco CCNA 640-802, CCNP, and CCENT practice questions for Tuesday, December 4! CCNA Certification: Which of the following allows you test to IP connectivity at Layer 7 of the OSI model? A. ping B. telnet C. tracert D. None of the above CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: What is the range of private AS numbers for BGP? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: What's the basic purpose of VMPS? A. dynamic VTP server assignments B. enables the switch to dynamically locate TFTP servers C. dynamic discovery of non-trunking switches D. enabling use of dynamic VLANs CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Which of the following is true regarding fast switching? A. A route table lookup must be performed for each and every packet. B. A route table lookup must be performed for only the first packet in a flow. C. A route table lookup is performed for every 10th packet in the flow. D. Fast switching does not utilize route table lookups. CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Short answer: Nam...

Here are the answers to your free Cisco exam training questions for Monday, December 3! CCNA And CCENT Certification Exam: Identify the three Layer 2 encapsulation options. A. PPP B. POP C. HDLC D. Token Ring E. Ethernet F. Frame Relay Answers: A, C, F. PPP, HDLC, and Frame Relay are our L2 encap options. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: The default OSPF cost for a 56kbps serial link is ____________. Answer: 1785. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: RED and WRED are most effective under what conditions? A. When the traffic is UDP-based. B. When the traffic is TCP-based. C. When the traffic is ICMP-based. D. When the traffic is either UDP- or TCP-based. E. When the traffic is neither UDP- nor TCP-based. Answer: B. RED and WRED are only effective when the traffic is TCP-based. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Identify the asymmetric keys. A. AES B. Diffie-Hellman C. RSA D. DES E. 3DES Answer: B, C. Both Diffie-Hellman and RSA are asymmetric keys. CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: W...

Here are your free Cisco CCNA 640-802, CCENT, and CCNP practice questions for Monday, December 3! CCNA And CCENT Certification Exam: Identify the three Layer 2 encapsulation options. A. PPP B. POP C. HDLC D. Token Ring E. Ethernet F. Frame Relay CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: The default OSPF cost for a 56kbps serial link is ____________. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: RED and WRED are most effective under what conditions? A. When the traffic is UDP-based. B. When the traffic is TCP-based. C. When the traffic is ICMP-based. D. When the traffic is either UDP- or TCP-based. E. When the traffic is neither UDP- nor TCP-based. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Identify the asymmetric keys. A. AES B. Diffie-Hellman C. RSA D. DES E. 3DES CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Which of the following does NOT describe WPA2 authentication? A. static keys B. offers intrusion detection C. mutual authentication is used D. generally considered more secure than WEP Answers will be posted Tuesd...

Here are the answers to your Cisco certification exam practice questions for Sunday, December 2! CCNA And CCENT Certification Exam: Host A wants to send data to Host B. Host A knows Host B's IP address, but not its MAC address. There are two switches and a hub between the two hosts. What protocol will allow Host A to transmit data successfully to Host B? A. ARP B. Inverse ARP C. RARP D. Proxy ARP Answer: A. ARP can work successfully in this situation, since there are no routers in the path between Host A and Host B. ARP broadcasts will successfully be forwarded by the switches. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Given the following routing table excerpt, what local interface will traffic destined for 234.4.4.4 use to exit the router? R 234.4.4.0 /24 [120/2] via ethernet0 I 234.4.4.0 /23 [100/4253] via ethernet1 R 234.4.4.0 /24 [120/2] via serial0 O 234.4.4.0 /23 [110/20]via serial1 Answer: The load will be shared over the two RIP paths. They have the longest prefix for the route (/24)...

Here are your free questions for Cisco exam preparation for Sunday, December 2 - I've got CCNA 640-802, CCENT, and CCNP training questions for you! CCNA and CCENT Certification Exam: Host A wants to send data to Host B. Host A knows Host B's IP address, but not its MAC address. There are two switches and a hub between the two hosts. What protocol will allow Host A to transmit data successfully to Host B? A. ARP B. Inverse ARP C. RARP D. Proxy ARP CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Given the following routing table excerpt, what local interface will traffic destined for 234.4.4.4 use to exit the router? R 234.4.4.0 /24 [120/2] via ethernet0 I 234.4.4.0 /23 [100/4253] via ethernet1 R 234.4.4.0 /24 [120/2] via serial0 O 234.4.4.0 /23 [110/20]via serial1 CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Short answer: You want to connect a router's AUI port to a switch port. What kind of cable will you need? CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Short answer: Packet filtering can use information from wha...

Here are the answers to your free Cisco certification exam practice questions for Thursday, November 29! CCENT Certification: Short answer: At which layer of the OSI model does data take the form of segments? Answer: Data is in segments at the Transport layer of the OSI model. CCNA Certification: In the configuration shown below, what does the number "1" refer to? R3#conf t Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. R3(config)#router ospf 1 Answer: That's the OSPF process number. (Not the Autonomous System number - OSPF doesn't use those, IGRP and EIGRP do.) CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Cisco OSPF design guidelines state that a router should be in no more than how many areas? Answer: Cisco OSPF design guidelines suggest a router have interfaces in no more than three areas. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Identify the true statements regarding RED. A. Congestion is detected early. B. Congestion is detected only when the queue is actually filled t...

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Welcome! It's Sunday, December 2, and here's what's coming up later today... .. the announcement of my February and March CCNA Mastermind Webinars .. the answers to Thursday's Cisco certification exam practice questions .. a new set of CCNA 640-802, CCENT, and CCNP practice questions .. a new CCNA / CCENT exam tutorial , the next installment of my CCNA exam training on router-on-a-stick series .... and more! See you later, and enjoy those tutorials! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here are your free CCNA 640-802, CCENT, and CCNP certification exam questions for Thursday, November 29! CCENT Certification: Short answer: At which layer of the OSI model does data take the form of segments ? CCNA Certification: In the configuration shown below, what does the number "1" refer to? R3#conf t Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. R3(config)#router ospf 1 CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Cisco OSPF design guidelines state that a router should be in no more than how many areas? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Identify the true statements regarding RED. A. Congestion is detected early. B. Congestion is detected only when the queue is actually filled to capacity. C. CoS and IP Prec values can be used to identify the data that should be dropped first. D. CoS can be used to identify the data that should be dropped first, but not IP Prec. E. IP Prec can be used to identify the data that should be dropped first, but not CoS. F. Neither CoS nor I...

Here are the answers to your free CCNA, CCNP, and CCENT certification exam questions for Wednesday, November 28! CCNA Exam: A frame enters a switchport. Which of the following does the switch examine first? A. Source IP address B. Destination IP address C. Source MAC address D. Destination MAC address Answer: C. The switch will check the source MAC address first, and then decide whether that particular address and corresponding port number need to be added to the switch's MAC address table. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: In the following EIGRP configuration, what does the first "100" represent? And while you're at it, tell me what the second "100" represents, too! R2(config)#router eigrp 100 R2(config-router)#redistribute ospf 1 metric 1544 100 1 255 1500 Answer: The first "100" is the EIGRP AS number. The second "100" is the delay metric for the OSPF routes redistributed into EIGRP. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: What single command c...

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Here are your free CCNA 640-802, CCENT, and CCNP certification exam training questions! CCNA 640-802 and CCENT Exam: Here's a classic, but you gotta know it! A frame enters a switchport. Which of the following does the switch examine first? A. Source IP address B. Destination IP address C. Source MAC address D. Destination MAC address CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: In the following EIGRP configuration, what does the first "100" represent? And while you're at it, tell me what the second "100" represents, too! R2(config)#router eigrp 100 R2(config-router)#redistribute ospf 1 metric 1544 100 1 255 1500 CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: What single command can be used to change the speed and/or duplex setting of multiple ports simultaneously? CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Briefly describe the "principle of minimum trust". Not too briefly, though! ;) CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: You want to run Weighted Fair Queueing on a link that's running fa...

Welcome! Here are the answers to your free Cisco certification practice questions for Tuesday, November 27! CCNA 640-802 Certification: In LMI Autosense, how many LMI messages are initially sent by the DTE? How does the DCE respond? Answer: The DTE sends three LMI messages, one of each type. The DCE then responds a single LMI message. CCENT Certification: How does the creation of a VLAN impact the default broadcast domain on a switch? Answer: As you create VLANs, you're creating multiple broadcast domains, which in turn help to limit the scope of those broadcasts. When a host in a VLAN sends a broadcast, only hosts in that same VLAN will receive it. By default, all ports on a switch belong to the native VLAN, VLAN 1. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Name the tables in which the EIGRP successor route can be seen. Answer: The route and topology tables both hold the EIGRP successor. The feasible successor is found only in the topology table. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: You...

Welcome back! It's Wednesday, November 28, and here's what I've got coming up for you later today... A new CCNA 640-802 Certification Exam tutorial introducing you to "Router On A Stick" - click that link to see the CCNA 640-802 and CCENT exam tutorials I already have waiting for you! And of course, I've got over 200 Cisco, CompTIA, and Microsoft certification exam tutorials for you on the main Tutorials page! I'll also have a new set of CCNA, CCENT, and CCNP training questions for you, and the answers to yesterday's questions .... plus it's only 13 days until the release of my fully revised CCNA 640-802 Study Package ! Reserve your copy today and I'll send you the CCENT Study Package immediately so you can start preparing for exam success immediately! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here are your free CCNA 640-802, CCENT, and CCNP practice questions for Tuesday, November 26! CCNA 640-802 Certification: In LMI Autosense, how many LMI messages are initially sent by the DTE? How does the DCE respond? CCENT Certification: How does the creation of a VLAN impact the default broadcast domain on a switch? CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Name the tables in which the EIGRP successor route can be seen. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: You're decided to implement Uplinkfast in your network. What switches should be configured with Uplinkfast, and which ones should not? CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Describe the basic purpose of a Cisco IOS Authentication Proxy. CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: At which level(s) of the Cisco switching model should traffic classification and marking be avoided whenever possible? Answers will be posted Wednesday, November 28! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Welcome back! Here are the answers to your free Cisco certification exam training questions for Monday, November 26! CCNA 640-802 And CCENT Certification Exam: Identify the true statements regarding CHAP. A. CHAP requires the password to be the same for both parties. B. CHAP allows two routers to use different passwords for authentication. C. CHAP works only with HDLC. D. CHAP works only with PPP. E. CHAP works with both HDLC and PPP. F. CHAP works with neither HDLC nor PPP. Answers: A, D. The Challenge Authentication Protocol (CHAP) requires both devices to use the same password, and CHAP runs on PPP but not HDLC. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: In the output of "show ip bgp summary", you see a peer state listed as "Idle". Identify the most accurate statement. What's the most likely reason? A. The peer relationship is up, but it's not in use at the moment. B. The local router has no idea how to reach the remote router's IP address. C. The local router...

Welcome back! Here are your free Cisco certification exam training questions for Monday, November 26! CCNA 640-802 And CCENT Exam: Identify the true statements regarding CHAP. A. CHAP requires the password to be the same for both parties. B. CHAP allows two routers to use different passwords for authentication. C. CHAP works only with HDLC. D. CHAP works only with PPP. E. CHAP works with both HDLC and PPP. F. CHAP works with neither HDLC nor PPP. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: In the output of "show ip bgp summary", you see a peer state listed as "Idle". Identify the most accurate statement. What's the most likely reason? A. The peer relationship is up, but it's not in use at the moment. B. The local router has no idea how to reach the remote router's IP address. C. The local router has sent an Open packet to the potential neighbor, but has received no response. D. The peer relationship has been terminated by the remote router. CCNP Certification / BCMS...

Welcome back! Here are the answers to your free Cisco certification exam training questions for Saturday, November 24! Cisco CCNA 640-802 / CCENT Certification: Which of the following is NOT true regarding a Cisco router's default settings? A. HDLC is the encapsulation type on Serial interfaces. B. Password encryption is enabled. C. Router interfaces will be closed. D. IP addresses are not assigned to the router's interfaces. Answer: B. By default, password encryption is disabled. You can enable it with the global command service password-encryption. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: By default, how does an OSPF routing table indicate routes that were learned by the OSPF domain via redistribution? Answer: By default, those routes are marked "E2". CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: A switch has two paths to the root bridge. One is direct, the other goes through another switch. You want to lessen the delay that will occur if the current root port goes down. What Cisco fe...

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Welcome! It's Sunday, November 25, and here's what I've got lined up for you today... 1. A new CCNA 640-802 / CCENT tutorial . Click that link to see the ones already posted, and don't forget I've got well over 200 free CCNA, CCENT, and CCNP tutorials on the main site! 2. A new batch of CCENT, CCNA, and CCNP practice questions 3. The answers to Saturday's questions ... and that's not all! Enjoy your day, and I'll see you later! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here are your free Cisco certification training questions for Saturday, November 24! CCNA & CCENT Certification: Which of the following is NOT true regarding a Cisco router's default settings? A. HDLC is the encapsulation type on Serial interfaces. B. Password encryption is enabled. C. Router interfaces will be closed. D. IP addresses are not assigned to the router's interfaces. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: By default, how does an OSPF routing table indicate routes that were learned by the OSPF domain via redistribution? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: A switch has two paths to the root bridge. One is direct, the other goes through another switch. You want to lessen the delay that will occur if the current root port goes down. What Cisco feature can help? CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Users who telnet successfully into your router should be placed directly into privileged exec mode. What command will accomplish this? CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: You're worki...

Here are the answers to your free Cisco certification training questions for Friday, November 23! CCNA 640-802 & CCENT Certification: Convert the hex value c7 into a binary string. Answer: c7 converts into the decimal value 199 (12 units of 16, seven units of 1); the decimal 199 converts to 11000111 in binary. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: In ISIS, what is the most efficient point of a network at which to perform route summarization? Answer: L1/L2 routers are area boundary routers in ISIS, the most efficient point at which to configure route summarization. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Used with Integrated Services, what protocol creates a path for priority traffic in advance of the traffic actually needing it? Answer: RSVP, the Resource Reservation Protocol. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: When a routing table lookup is performed for every packet in a transmission, what kind of switching is being performed? Answer: Process switching. And from that description, it's easy t...

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Welcome! It's Saturday, November 24, and here's what I have coming up for you later today! A new CCNA 640-802 / CCENT certification exam tutorial - click that link to see the ones I already have for you! A new batch of CCNA, CCENT, and CCNP training questions The answers to Friday's questions .. and more! Enjoy your day, and I'll see you later! And don't forget - it's only 16 days until my fully updated CCNA 640-802 Ultimate Study Package is released! Purchase yours today and you'll get my Ultimate CCENT Certification Study Package download immediately so you can start studying right away for CCENT and CCENT exam success! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Welcome! Here are your free CCNA 640-802, CCENT, and CCNP certification exam training questions for Friday, November 23! CCNA 640-802 And CCENT Certification: Convert the hex value c7 into a binary string. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: In ISIS, what is the most efficient point of a network at which to perform route summarization? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Used with Integrated Services, what protocol creates a path for priority traffic in advance of the traffic actually needing it? CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: When a routing table lookup is performed for every packet in a transmission, what kind of switching is being performed? CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Name the three feature sets supported by the Wireless Control System. Answers will be posted Saturday, November 24! And look for a new CCNA / CCENT certification exam tutorial later today as well - and just click on that link to see the many free tutorials I already have up for those exams! To your success, Chris Bry...

Here are the answers to your free Cisco certification questions for Tuesday, November 20! CCNA 640-802 And CCENT Certification: According to the Cisco routing code table, which of the following indicates a static default route? A. S B. S* C. D D. D* Answer: B. A static route is indicated by the letter "S"; a default route will have an asterisk next to it, so "S*" is the complete correct answer. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Which two protocols are designed to expedite network cutover to a working router when the primary router goes down? A. SNMP B. SMTP C. IRDP D. HSRP E. HARP Answers: C, D. Both the ICMP Router Discovery Protocol (IRDP) and Hot Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP) perform this, although in different ways! CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Which statements are true regarding a Cisco multilayer switch? A. IP is enabled by default. B. IP is not enabled by default. C. All ports are in L2 mode by default. D. All ports are in L3 mode by default. E. The switc...

Welcome! It's Thursday, November 22, and here's what I have coming up for you later today! A new CCNA 640-802 / CCENT certification exam tutorial - click that link to see the ones I already have for you! A new batch of CCNA, CCENT, and CCNP training questions The answers to Wednesday's questions .. and more! Enjoy your day, and I'll see you later! And don't forget - it's only 17 days until my fully updated CCNA 640-802 Ultimate Study Package is released! Purchase yours today and you'll get my Ultimate CCENT Certification Study Package download immediately so you can start studying right away for CCENT and CCENT exam success! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

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Here are your free Cisco exam practice questions for Tuesday, November 20! CCNA 640-802 And CCENT Certification: According to the Cisco routing code table, which of the following indicates a static default route? A. S B. S* C. D D. D* CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Which two protocols are designed to expedite network cutover to a working router when the primary router goes down? A. SNMP B. SMTP C. IRDP D. HSRP E. HARP CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Which statements are true regarding a Cisco multilayer switch? A. IP is enabled by default. B IP is not enabled by default. C. All ports are in L2 mode by default. D. All ports are in L3 mode by default. E. The switch ports are in neither L2 nor L3 mode by default. F. The switch ports are in both L2 and L3 mode by default. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Identify the true statements regarding IPSec modes. A. Transport mode retains the original IP header. B. Transport mode does not retain the original IP header. C. Tunnel mode retains the ...

Here are the answers to your free Cisco certification exam for Monday, November 19! CCNA & CCENT Certification: Fill in the blanks: You want to change the frame LMI type on a serial interface from the default of ____________ to ansi. The command to do so is ____________ . Answer: The default LMI type is cisco; the command to change that to ansi is the interface-level command frame-relay lmi-type ansi. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What combination of hex characters at the beginning of an IPV6 address indicates a broadcast? A. DD B. EE C. FF D. 00110011 E. None of the above. Answer: E. None of those - IPv6 doesn't use broadcasts. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Identify the RSTP port states. A. listening B. learning C. forwarding D. discarding E. querying Answers: B, C, D. The RSTP port state transition order: discarding, learning, forwarding CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Short answer: You're defining inspection rules on a Cisco firewall. What command are you using? Ans...

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Here are your CCENT, CCNA, and CCNP questions for Monday, November 19! CCNA 640-802 and CCENT Certification: Fill in the blanks: You want to change the frame LMI type on a serial interface from the default of ____________ to ansi. The command to do so is ____________ . CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What combination of hex characters at the beginning of an IPV6 address indicates a broadcast? A. DD B. EE C. FF D. 00110011 F. None of the above. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Identify the RSTP port states. A. listening B. learning C. forwarding D. discarding E. querying CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Short answer: You're defining inspection rules on a Cisco firewall. What command are you using? CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Which of the following offers intrusion detection? A. WEP B. WPA C. WEP2 D. WPA2 Answers will be posted Tuesday, November 20! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/ Free CCNA 640-802 Exam Tutorials!

Here are the answers to your free Cisco certification exam questions for Sunday, November 18! CCENT And CCNA 640-802 Certification: What is the default administrative distance of a route created with the ip route command? Answer: That's a static route, and static routes have an AD of 1. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: If a router receives a BGP update and sees its own AS in the update, what action is taken? Answer: That particular route update is ignored. This is a loop prevention feature. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: What is the default root path cost of a Fast Ethernet port? Answer: 19. The cost is dependent on the speed of the port. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: What protocol number does the Authentication Header use? Answer: The AH header uses protocol number 51. CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Name three Frame Relay marking values and briefly describe them. Answer: Actually, these go back to your CCNA studies! BECN - Backward Explicit Congestion Notification - indicates ...

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It's Monday, November 19, and I know a lot of folks here in the States will be on the road this weekend and over the next week - please drive carefully! :) Coming up later today... At least one new CCNA 640-802 / CCENT Certification Exam Tutorial . Click that link to read the ones I've already got up and waiting for you! The answers to Sunday's free Cisco training questions A new set of CCNA, CCENT, and CCNP questions ... and more! Take care, and I'll see you later today! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

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Here are your free Cisco certification exam questions for Sunday, November 18! All of today's questions are short answer, no choices given! CCENT And CCNA 640-802 Certification: What is the default administrative distance of a route created with the ip route command? CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: If a router receives a BGP update and sees its own AS in the update, what action is taken? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: What is the default root path cost of a Fast Ethernet port? CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: What protocol number does Authentication Header use? CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Name three Frame Relay marking values and briefly describe them.

Here are the answers to this past Thursday's questions! Beginning today, we're back on a daily schedule - I promise! :) CCENT Certification: What value does a Cisco switch use to build a MAC address table in a dynamic fashion? Answer: The source MAC address of incoming frames. CCNA Certification: Convert the hex value c7 into a binary string. Answer: c7 converts into the decimal value 199 (12 units of 16, seven units of 1); the decimal 199 converts to 11000111 in binary. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: In ISIS, what is the most efficient point of a network at which to perform route summarization? Answer: L1/L2 routers are area boundary routers in ISIS, the most efficient point at which to configure route summarization. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Used with Integrated Services, what protocol creates a path for priority traffic in advance of the traffic actually needing it? Answer: RSVP, the Resource Reservation Protocol. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: When a routing tabl...

It's Saturday, November 17, and I know a lot of folks here in the States will be on the road this weekend and over the next week - please drive carefully! :) Coming up later today... At least one new CCNA 640-802 / CCENT Certification Exam Tutorial . Click that link to read the ones I've already got up and waiting for you! The answers to Thursday's free Cisco training questions A new set of CCNA, CCENT, and CCNP questions ... and more! Take care, and I'll see you later today! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

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Here are your free Cisco certification questions for Thursday, November 16! CCENT Certification: What value does a Cisco switch use to build a MAC address table in a dynamic fashion? CCNA Certification: Convert the hex value c7 into a binary string. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: In ISIS, what is the most efficient point of a network at which to perform route summarization? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Used with Integrated Services, what protocol creates a path for priority traffic in advance of the traffic actually needing it? CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: When a routing table lookup is performed for every packet in a transmission, what kind of switching is being performed? CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Name the three feature sets supported by the Wireless Control System. Answers will be posted Friday, November 16! New CCNA 640-802 and CCENT tutorials will be posted on Friday and over the weekend as well, so visit early and often! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 htt...