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Welcome back! Here are the answers to yesterday's Cisco exam practice questions! CCNA Certification: Convert the binary string 10101010 into a hex value. Answer: In decimal, that string equals 170; that's AA (or aa, case does not matter). CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: In the BGP best-path selection process, what is the first attribute a Cisco router examines? Answer: The Cisco -proprietary attribute weight is the first attribute considered. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: On a Cisco L3 switch, what command converts a routing port to a switching port? Answer: The command is switchport . To change a port from switching to routing, run no switchport . CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Basically, what is a "demilitarized zone"? Answer: A DMZ is the area between a company's private network ("inside network") and the outside world. Packets going from the inside network to the DMZ and from the DMZ to external networks are generally examined by secu...

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Welcome back! Here are the answers to yesterday's Cisco certification practice questions! CCNA Certification: A trunk port is considered a member of what VLANs , if any? A. The native VLAN only. B. None of them. C. All of them. D. The VLANs configured with the " vlan member" command. Answer: C. By default, a trunk port is considered a member of all VLANs . CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: What is the prefix length of the mask used with Class B private addresses? Answer: /12 or 255.240.0.0. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: How often are VTP Summary Advertisements sent? A. Every 5 minutes. B. Every 5 minutes or upon a change in the VTP database. C. Only upon a change in the VTP database. D. There is no fixed time period, and Summary Advertisements are not sent when the VTP database changes. Answer: B. Summary Advertisements are generated by VTP servers every 5 minutes, or when there is a change in the VTP database. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exa...

Thought For The Day: Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. - Booker T. Washington Here are today's Cisco certification exam practice questions! CCNA Certification: A trunk port is considered a member of what VLANs, if any? A. The native VLAN only. B. None of them. C. All of them. D. The VLANs configured with the "vlan member" command. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: What is the prefix length of the mask used with Class B private addresses? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: How often are VTP Summary Advertisements sent? A. Every 5 minutes. B. Every 5 minutes or upon a change in the VTP database. C. Only upon a change in the VTP database. D. There is no fixed time period, and Summary Advertisements are not sent when the VTP database changes. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Which of the following are parts of the Intelligent Information Network? A. Int...

Welcome back ! And for those of you here in the States that are getting back from a long holiday weekend - hang in there! :) Here are the answers to Monday's Cisco certification practice questions. All of Monday's questions were short answer. CCNA Certification: What are the frame relay LMI types? Answer: Cisco , ansi , and q933a. Cisco is the default. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What port number does BGP use to create neighbor adjacencies ? Answer: That's TCP port 179. Make sure to leave that one unblocked by ACLs ! CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Classification and marking of data should be done at what layer of the Cisco switching model? Answer: That should take place as close to the origination point of the data as possible, which means the Access layer. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: You notice that TCP keepalives are enabled on a router, and you want to disable this feature. What global configuration command will you need to use? Ans...

Thought For The Day : The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations get into the shell... And when he cannot get rid of them, he uses the irritations to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has the chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. - Harry Emerson Fosdick Take A CCNA Or BSCI Boot Camp At Home! Want to take a CCNA Boot Camp without the travel and other costs? Check out the finest CCNA CBT available today, the CCNA Video Boot Camp , created and taught by yours truly and only available at Trainsignal! For those of you working on your CCNP, my exclusive BSCI Video Boot Camp is here, too - and my BCMSN Video Boot Camp will be issued in about two weeks! Here are Monday's CCNA and CCNP practice questions! All questions today are short answer! CCNA Certification: What are the frame relay LMI types? CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What port number does BGP use to create neighbor adjacencie...

Welcome back! Here are the answers to Saturday's Cisco certification exam practice questions! CCNA Certification: Identify the true statements. A. Full routing tables are exchanged when distance vector protocols are used. B. When distance vector protocols are in use, only changes to the network are advertised. C. Full routing tables are exchanged when link state protocols are used. D. When link state protocols are in use, only changes to the network are advertised. Answers: A, D. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: At what point(s) do BGP peers exchange full updates? A. Every 30 seconds. B. Every 90 minutes. C. Immediately after the adjacency is formed. D. Upon a change in the network topology. Answer: C. After that point, only changes themselves are advertised. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: You want to apply port security to a switch port. No other configuration has been added. The switch is a 2950. What do you first have to do? A. Make the port an access po...

Here are Saturday's Cisco certification practice questions! CCNA Certification: Identify the true statements. A. Full routing tables are exchanged when distance vector protocols are used. B. When distance vector protocols are in use, only changes to the network are advertised. C. Full routing tables are exchanged when link state protocols are used. D. When link state protocols are in use, only changes to the network are advertised. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: At what point(s) do BGP peers exchange full updates? A. Every 30 seconds. B. Every 90 minutes. C. Immediately after the adjacency is formed. D. Upon a change in the network topology. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: You want to apply port security to a switch port. No other configuration has been added. The switch is a 2950. What do you first have to do? A. Make the port an access port. B. Nothing. C. Make the port trunk unconditionally. D. Enable dot1x on both the port and the host. CCNP Certificatio...

Here are the answers to Friday's Cisco exam practice questions! CCNA Certification Exam: Identify the frame relay encapsulation options. A. Cisco (default) B. IETF (default) C. ANSI (default) D. Cisco E. IETF F. ANSI Answer: A, E. The encapsulation options are cisco and ietf , and cisco is the default. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: What LSA type indicates the location of the ASBR ? Answer: Type 4 LSAs indicate the route to the ASBR . CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Which of the following is true of the "collapsed core" design? A. There is no dedicated core switch. B. There is no dedicated distribution-layer switch. C. There is no dedicated access-layer switch. D. A single switch will handle the tasks of all three of these layers. Answers: A, B. The term "collapsed core" refers to the middle two layers of the Cisco three-layer switching model - core and distribution - running on the same physical switches. CCNP C...

Thought For The Day: Victory belongs to the most persevering. - Napoleon Here are Friday's CCNA and CCNP practice questions: CCNA Certification Exam: Identify the frame relay encapsulation options. A. Cisco (default) B. IETF (default) C. ANSI (default) D. Cisco E. IETF F. ANSI CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: What LSA type indicates the location of the ASBR ? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Which of the following is true of the "collapsed core" design? A. There is no dedicated core switch. B. There is no dedicated distribution-layer switch. C. There is no dedicated access-layer switch. D. A single switch will handle the tasks of all three of these layers. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Short answer: What term is given to the network attack that occurs when an intruder gathers information in preparation for a larger attack in the future? CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Short answer: WRED uses one of what two values in order to...

Welcome back! Here are the answers to yesterday's Cisco certification practice questions.... CCNA Certification: Arrange the following route types in order of believability, from best to worst: static route, directly connected network, OSPF route, RIPv 1 route, RIPv 2 route, IGRP , EIGRP route. Answer: The administrative distance is the measure of believability ; the lower the AD, the more trustworthy the route. From lowest to highest: Directly connected (0) Static route (1, *possibly* 0, depending on configuration) EIGRP (90) IGRP (100) OSPF (110) RIP v1 and v2 (120) CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: 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? Answer: show ip ospf database. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: What two blocks of the Enterprise Composite Network Model work together to bring WAN connectivity and Internet a...

I've had quite a few emails asking me when my CCNP Study Packages for the ISCW and ONT exams will be ready, as well as the schedule for my upcoming Video Boot Camp releases. Here's the tentative schedule: BCMSN Video Boot Camp: Approximately June 7, possibly earlier. ISCW Study Package: June 30 - July 7 (I'm moving during that time, so I'm giving myself a one-week window to fight with my ISP ;) ) ONT Study Package: Mid-August. And beginning in September - you can earn your Cisco Certified Security Professional ( CCSP ) certification with The Bryant Advantage! I also have an important announcement for any of you who are even *thinking* about taking a CCNA boot camp - and wherever you are in the world, you're going to be able to attend my exclusive CCNA Mastermind course in the comfort of your home. I have packed this custom course with everything you need to pass the CCNA and be prepared for real-world success. To learn more about this exclusive CCN...

Thought For The Day: Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility. - Michael Korda Here are Thursday's CCNA and CCNP questions! Today, all questions are short answer. CCNA Certification: Arrange the following route types in order of believability, from best to worst: static route, directly connected network, OSPF route, RIPv1 route, RIPv2 route, IGRP, EIGRP route. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: 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? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: What two blocks of the Enterprise Composite Network Model work together to bring WAN connectivity and Internet access to users? CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: You want to display a message to users who connect to your rout...

Welcome back! Here are the answers to Wednesday's Cisco certification practice questions! CCNA Certification: Short answer: The binary string 11010101, converted to hex, equals ____________ . Answer: That string converts to the decimal 213, which converts to the hex value D5, or d5. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: What LSA type is generated by an ABR and describe inter-area links? Answer: Type 3 LSAs are generated by ABRs and describe inter-area routes. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: While visiting a client's network, you notice that VLAN 25 is configured as the native VLAN . No hosts are actually in VLAN 25, though. What kind of network attack does this guard against? Answer: This is one method of preventing VLAN hopping, specifically a double tagging attack. CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Which of the following QoS models uses PHB ? A. Integrated Services B. Differentiated Services C. Distributed Services D. Best Effort Delivery Answer: B. ...

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You CCNP candidates will be happy to know that I've added ISCW and ONT questions to the daily free CCNP questions, and I'll be posting release dates for my ISCW and ONT Ultimate Study Packages later this week! I've also got quite a few free tutorials for CCNA and CCNP candidates, and my Microsoft Vista tutorial series will pick back up this weekend as well. I also have an important announcement for any of you who are even *thinking* about taking a CCNA boot camp - and wherever you are in the world, you're going to be able to attend my exclusive CCNA Mastermind course in the comfort of your home. I have packed this custom course with everything you need to pass the CCNA and be prepared for real-world success. To learn more about this exclusive CCNA training opportunity, just click this link: Take me to the CCNA Mastermind Course! I limit each course to five students - so only 15 students will be able to attend in 2007. Don't be left out! I've already had quit...

Happy Wednesday! Here are the answers to Tuesday's Cisco certification practice questions. CCNA Certification: An EIGRP router has one Successor route to a remote destination, and no Feasible Successor. The Successor route goes down. What happens now? A. The router holds a DUAL election to choose a new route. B. DUAL will generate a default route. C. The router sends a DUAL query to all its EIGRP neighbors. D. The null route in the Topology table becomes the default route. Answer: C. A DUAL query is generated and sent to the router's EIGRP neighbors. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Of the following, which of the following UDP ports have traffic translated from broadcasts to unicasts when the ip helper-address command is in effect? A. Port 69 B. Port 21 C. Port 9 D. Port 137 E. Port 138 Answers: A, D, E. The ports whose traffic is translated from broadcast to unicast by ip helper-address: TIME, port 37; TACACS, port 49; DNS, port 53: BOOTP/DHCP Server, port 67; B...

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Thought For The Day: Yesterday is a cancelled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely. - Kim Lyons Here are Tuesday's CCNA and CCNP questions! CCNA Certification: An EIGRP router has one Successor route to a remote destination, and no Feasible Successor. The Successor route goes down. What happens now? A. The router holds a DUAL election to choose a new route. B. DUAL will generate a default route. C. The router sends a DUAL query to all its EIGRP neighbors. D. The null route in the Topology table becomes the default route. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Of the following, which of the following UDP ports have traffic translated from broadcasts to unicasts when the ip helper-address command is in effect? A. Port 69 B. Port 21 C. Port 9 D. Port 137 E. Port 138 CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Short answer: You just booted a brand-new L3 switch. What command(s) must you run in order to make the ports on the switch L2 ports...

Welcome! Here are the answers to Monday's CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA Certification: 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. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: On a high-speed link, how often are EIGRP hellos sent? Answer: Every 5 seconds. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: What command defines a SPAN session? Answer: The command "monitor session" is used to define a SPAN session. Lots of great stuff coming up, including a new CCNA tutorial, ONT and ISCW questions being added to the daily free questions (and you can get those delivered to your mailbox daily by signing up for the newsletter over on the main site), and more! I've also got some exclusive articles based on a recent Business 2.0 series of articles on the bright future of IT workers and jobs. No field rewards individual drive like IT - and The Bryant Advantage is...

Thought For The Day: Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison Here are Monday's CCNA and CCNP questions! I'll be adding ISCW and ONT questions starting tomorrow! Just to make things a little tougher, all questions today are short answer - no choices given! CCNA Certification: 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 Certification / BSCI Exam: On a high-speed link, how often are EIGRP hellos sent? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: What command defines a SPAN session? To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com

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Welcome! Blogger had a bit of a headache yesterday, so no questions were posted yesterday. Here are the answers to Saturday's Cisco certification exam practice questions.... CCNA Certification: R1 and R3 are directly connected via a DTE / DCE cable, both routers using interface serial1. What additional command is needed to make the line protocol come up? A. On the DTE , configure " clockrate 56000". B. On the DCE , configure " clockrate 56000". C. On the DTE , configure " clockrate 56". D. On the DCE , configure " clockrate 56". Answer: B. On the DCE's serial interface, configure clockrate 56000, not clockrate 56. Use the show controller serial x command to find out which interface is the DCE . CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: After route summarization is configured, the router on which summarization is configured will have an extra route. To what interface or destination does this new route point? A...

Thought For The Day: Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. - Plato Here are Saturday's CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA Certification: R1 and R3 are directly connected via a DTE / DCE cable, both routers using interface serial1. What additional command is needed to make the line protocol come up? A. On the DTE , configure " clockrate 56000". B. On the DCE , configure " clockrate 56000". C. On the DTE , configure " clockrate 56". D. On the DCE , configure " clockrate 56". CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: After route summarization is configured, the router on which summarization is configured will have an extra route. To what interface or destination does this new route point? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: How many bytes are added to a frame as a result of ISL encapsulation? A. 15 bytes B. 25 bytes C. 30 bytes D. 35 bytes E. 40 bytes ISCW...

Here are the answers to Friday's Cisco certification practice questions! CCNA Certification: The destination address of EIGRP Hello packets is ____________ . Answer: 224.0.0.10. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: You have a rather large RIP network, and your core router is going to have to advertise 105 routes. How many routing update packets will this require? Answer: Five, because the maximum number of RIP updates a packet can contain is 25. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: In a typical Enterprise Edge block, what switch layers are present? Answer: Along with the devices needed to get users out to the Internet and WANs , both Access and Distribution switches are found here. New questions posted later today! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com

Take A CCNA Or BSCI Boot Camp - At Home! Want to take a CCNA Boot Camp without the travel and other costs? Check out the finest CCNA CBT available today, the CCNA Video Boot Camp , created and taught by yours truly and only available at Trainsignal! For those of you working on your CCNP, my exclusive BSCI Video Boot Camp is here, too - and my BCMSN Video Boot Camp will be issued in about two weeks! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com

Thought For The Day: To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy. - Thomas A. Buckner Here are today's CCNA and CCNP practice questions! All questions today are short answer. ISCW and ONT questions return next week! CCNA Certification: The destination address of EIGRP Hello packets is ____________ . CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: You have a rather large RIP network, and your core router is going to have to advertise 105 routes. How many routing update packets will this require? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: In a typical Enterprise Edge block, what switch layers are present? Answers will be posted Saturday! To your certification exam success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com

Welcome back! Here are the answers to Thursday's Cisco exam practice questions! CCNA Certification: What type of OSPF router is defined as "at least one interface in Area 0, and connecting other areas to Area 0"? A. ASBR B. ABR C. Internal D. Backbone E. External Answer: B. That's the textbook definition of an Area Border Router (ABR). CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What term is used for the number "2" shown in the below commands? R2(config)#router rip R2(config-router)#redistribute ospf 1 metric 2 A. distance B. administrative distance C. distance D. variance E. seed metric F. process number Answer: E. The "2" is the seed metric. The "1" in the redistribute statement is the OSPF process number whose routes are being redistributed into RIP. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: In a typical Network Management block, what switch layers are represented? A. Access B. Distribution C. Core Answers: A, B. In addition to network management devices, ...

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Thought For The Day: The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. -Vince Lombardi Here are today's CCNA and CCNP questions! CCNA Certification: What type of OSPF router is defined as "at least one interface in Area 0, and connecting other areas to Area 0"? A. ASBR B. ABR C. Internal D. Backbone E. External CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What term is used for the number "2" shown in the below commands? R2( config )#router rip R2( config -router)#redistribute ospf 1 metric 2 A. distance B. administrative distance C. distance D. variance E. seed metric F. process number CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: In a typical Network Management block, what switch layers are represented? A. Access B. Distribution C. Core Answers will be posted on Friday! To your certification exam success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com

Welcome! Here are the answers to yesterday's Cisco certification practice questions! CCNA Exam: Fill in the blank: The hex value a9, converted to binary, equals ____________ . Answer: That value gives us 10 ("a") units of 16 and 9 units of 1; that equals 169. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Which of the following topologies is best suited for ODR ? A. hub-and-spoke B. broadcast C. point-to-point D. point-to- multipoint Answer: A. A hub-and-spoke network is actually the only one of those topologies that will support On-Demand Routing ( ODR ). 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 automatically enabled. B. A port configured with a voice VLAN cannot run Portfast . C. Removing a voice VLAN from a port does not automatically disable Portfast . D. A port configured with a voice VLAN can run Portfast only in aggressive mode. Answer: A, C...

Thought For The Day: Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor. -- Oliver Wendall Holmes Take A CCNA Boot Camp - At Home! Want to take a CCNA Boot Camp without the travel and other costs? Check out the finest CCNA CBT available today, the CCNA Video Boot Camp , created and taught by yours truly and only available at Trainsignal ! Here are Wednesday's CCNA and CCNP certification practice questions! CCNA Exam: Fill in the blank: The hex value a9, converted to binary, equals ____________ . CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Which of the following topologies is best suited for ODR ? A. hub-and-spoke B. broadcast C. point-to-point D. point-to- multipoint 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 automatically enab...

Here are the answers to Tuesday's Cisco certification practice questions! CCNA Certification: Short answer: You have three VLANs on your switch; VLANs 10, 20, and 30. A host in VLAN 30 sends a broadcast. What devices will receive this broadcast? Answer: Only the other hosts in VLAN 30. Broadcasts do not cross VLANs by default. (No other traffic crosses VLANs by default, either!) CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Which of the following is NOT an IPV 6 header field? A. version number B. header length C. flow label D. payload length E. next header F. fragment offset Answer: B, F. The following fields have been removed in IPv 6 packets: Header Length, Identification, Flags, Fragment Offset, Header Checksum . CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Short answer: R3's port fast 0/10 is configured with Root Guard. An inferior BPDU is received on that port. What will happen? Answer; Nothing. If a superior BPDU were received on that port, though, the port would sh...

Thought For The Day: Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Take A CCNA Boot Camp - At Home! Want to take a CCNA Boot Camp without the travel and other costs? Check out the finest CCNA CBT available today, the CCNA Video Boot Camp , created and taught by yours truly and only available at Trainsignal! Here are Tuesday's Cisco certification exam practice questions! CCNA Certification: Short answer: You have three VLANs on your switch; VLANs 10, 20, and 30. A host in VLAN 30 sends a broadcast. What devices will receive this broadcast? CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Which of the following is NOT an IPV6 header field? A. version number B. header length C. flow label D. payload length E. next header F. fragment offset CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Short answer: R3's port fast 0/10 is configured with Root Guard. An inferior BPDU is received on that port. What will happen? ISCW exam questions re...

Welcome! Here are the answers to yesterday's Cisco practice exam questions! CCNA Certification: What effect does the following configuration have ? R2# conf t R2( config )#int s0 R2( config -if)#bandwidth 512 A. The IGRP route calculations will be changed from the default. B. The RIP route calculations will be changed from the default. C. The EIGRP route calculations will be changed from the default. D. Static routing metrics will be changed from the default. Answers: A, C. Both IGRP and EIGRP route calculations use the bandwidth (and delay) values by default, so changing either will affect the metrics for both of those protocols. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: A routing table has three routes to a remote destination. The router codes for the three routes are "I", "D", and "D EX". According to their administrative distance, what is the order of trustworthiness of these routes, from best to worst? Answer: From best to worst - an...

Thought For The Day: Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T.S. Eliot Here are Monday's CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA Certification: What effect does the following configuration have ? R2#conf t R2(config)#int s0 R2(config-if)#bandwidth 512 A. The IGRP route calculations will be changed from the default. B. The RIP route calculations will be changed from the default. C. The EIGRP route calculations will be changed from the default. D. Static routing metrics will be changed from the default. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: A routing table has three routes to a remote destination. The router codes for the three routes are "I", "D", and "D EX". According to their administrative distance, what is the order of trustworthiness of these routes, from best to worst? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Short answer: A VTP Client has lost some or all of the contents of its VTP database....

Welcome! Here are the answers to Saturday's Cisco certification exam practice questions! CCNA Exam: By default, what values are considered by IGRP when computing a path's metric? A. bandwidth B. hop count C. delay D. load E. reliability F. MTU Answer: A, C. Bandwidth and delay are both used by default in calculating IGRP and EIGRP metrics. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: A non- Cisco router will consider what value first during the BGP best path selection process? A. AS_PATH B. origin C. MED D. weight E. LOCAL_PREF F. aggregator Answer: E. On a Cisco router, weight is the first consideration. However, weight is a Cisco -proprietary BGP attribute. A non- Cisco router will consider LOCAL_PREF first. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Short answer: How can you change the speed and duplex of multiple ports with one command? Answer: Use the interface range command to configure multiple ports at one time. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Which of the following queueing s...

Thought For The Day: Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. ~ Joe Paterno Here are Saturday's Cisco certification practice questions! CCNA Exam: By default, what values are considered by IGRP when computing a path's metric? A. bandwidth B. hop count C. delay D. load E. reliability F. MTU CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: A non- Cisco router will consider what value first during the BGP best path selection process? A. AS_PATH B. origin C. MED D. weight E. LOCAL_PREF F. aggregator CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Short answer: How can you change the speed and duplex of multiple ports with one command? CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Which of the following queueing strategies gives priority to interactive, low-bandwidth communications? A. FIFO B. PQ C. CQ D. DQ E. WFQ Answers will be posted on Sunday! To your certification exam success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantag...

Thanks for stopping by! Here are the answers to Friday's Cisco certification exam practice questions! All of yesterday's questions were short answer. CCNA Certification: In OSPF , what is meant by the term "external route"? Answer: An OSPF external route is one learned by the OSPF domain via redistribution. The default code for an OSPF external route is "O E2". CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: By default, how many EIGRP hellos have to be missed for an adjacency to be declared down? Answer: Three. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: For what purpose is VMPS used? Answer: The VLAN Membership Policy Server is used to assign users to VLANs dynamically. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: You've just completed a CBWFQ configuration - almost. You want to apply the policy map CCNP to traffic leaving interface serial0. What command on S0 will do this? Answer: We need to use the service output command, followed by the policy map name. "serv...