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Here are Tuesday's CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA Certification: Which of the following values must two routers running EIGRP agree upon to become neighbors? A. The AS number. B. The process number. C. The metric weights. D. The version number. E. The DUAL version. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: You see an ISIS route marked as "L2" in a routing table. What do you know to be true about this route? A. The route was learned via redistribution. B. The route is a static route. C. The route is a default route. D. The route's destination is in another area. E. The route's destination is in the local area. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: You've decided to introduce Backbonefast to your network. On what switches should this service be enabled? A. All switches in the network. B. Access-layer switches. C. Distribution-layer switches. D. Core-layer switches. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Short answer: Name three authentication methods that a Ci

Here are the answers to Monday's Cisco training questions! CCNA Certification: A switch receives a frame with a unicast destination MAC, but the switch does not have an entry for that MAC in its bridging table. What is the default action of the switch? Answer: The switch will flood the frame - in other words, the switch will send the frame out every single interface except the one it came in on. 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: A switch's priority is at its default setting, and it has a MAC address of aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aa. What is this switch's BID in the root bridge election? Answer: 32768:aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aa. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Name and briefly describe the three layers of SONA. Answers: The network infrastructure includes all of the device

Here are Monday's Cisco certification training questions! Just to get your brain clicking here on Monday, all questions are short answer rather than multiple choice! CCNA Certification: A switch receives a frame with a unicast destination MAC, but the switch does not have an entry for that MAC in its bridging table. What is the default action of the switch? 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: A switch's priority is at is default setting, and it has a MAC address of aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aa. What is this switch's BID in the root bridge election? CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Name and briefly describe the three layers of SONA. CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: What term refers to the point in the network where a given packet is marked? Answers will be posted Tuesday! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

CCNA Certification: A switch receives a frame with a unicast destination MAC, but the switch does not have an entry for that MAC in its bridging table. What is the default action of the switch? 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: A switch's priority is at is default setting, and it has a MAC address of aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aa. What is this switch's BID in the root bridge election? CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Name and briefly describe the three layers of SONA. CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: What term refers to the point in the network where a given packet is marked?

Welcome back! Here are the answers to Friday's Cisco CCNA and CCNP training questions! CCNA Certification: What OSPF router type is defined as "a router with at least one interface in Area 0"? A. ABR B. Backbone C. ASBR D. Internal Answer: B. This term defines a backbone router. All ABRs are backbone routers, but not all backbone routers are ABRs. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What is the most efficient (and legal) manner in which to express the following IPv6 address? 1234:0000:0000:0000:0000:0012:0374:1234 Answer: Using zero compression and leading zero compression, the answer is 1234::12:374:1234. CCNP Certification / BCMSN *and* ONT Question: You want to use QoS policing on your switch. What command will create the policy itself? Answer: The police statement will be used, but the policy itself is created with policy-map . Create the ACL first to identify traffic to be policed, then the class-map, then the policy-map, then apply the policy to the inter

Here are Friday's CCNA and CCNP training questions! CCNA Certification: What OSPF router type is defined as "a router with at least one interface in Area 0"? A. ABR B. Backbone C. ASBR D. Internal CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What is the most efficient (and legal) manner in which to express the following IPv 6 address? 1234:0000:0000:0000:0000:0012:0374:1234 CCNP Certification / BCMSN *and* ONT Question: You want to use QoS policing on your switch. What command will create the policy itself? CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Which of the following is NOT an example of an "access attack"? A. password cracking B. trust exploitation C. ping sweeps D. man-in-the-middle attack Answers will be posted Saturday, along with a new CCNP ONT training tutorial! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here are the answers to Thursday's Cisco exam training questions! CCNA Certification: You want to have your router connect to a remote router located at 172.12.123.1. What can you do to avoid typing that entire address, and instead just type the letters "LA"? A. Build an ARP lookup table. B. Disable the default name-lookup behavior. C. Build an IP Host table. D. Build a RARP lookup table. Answer: C. Build an IP Host table mapping 172.12.123.1 to "LA". CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Which of the following statements is NOT one of the activities at the Distribution layer of the Cisco Three-Layer Hierarchical Model? A. traffic filtering B. policy routing C. end user interaction D. internet access Answer: C. Users interact with the network at the Access layer. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: You're configuring dot1x port-based authentication. 802.1x must be running on which devices? A. The PC only. B. The PC and the switch. C. The switch only.

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New CCNP ONT Exam Tutorial, CCNA Exam FAQ, Plus Easier-To-Find Tutorials! My Ultimate ONT Study Package will be released on in August, and to get you started on the path to CCNP exam success now, I'll be releasing ONT exam tutorials over the next few weeks. Here's the first one, on the theory behind Priority Queuing - and just a word to the wise, if you're working on another Cisco exam right now, this PQ tutorial is still a good one to read! CCNP ONT Exam Training: Priority Queuing Theory Here's a brand-new tutorial on configuring Priority Queuing. CCNP ONT Exam Training: Configuring Priority Queuing For the latest and greatest information on the November CCNA exam cutover, check out my newest FAQ: CCNA Certification Exam FAQ I've also broken up the Tutorials page of the site to make it much easier to use. There are over 200 tutorials on the website, so get over there and start reading! Here's the main Tutorials page: CCNA, CCNP, Server 2008 Certification Tutori

Here are Thursday's Cisco certification exam training questions! CCNA Certification: You want to have your router connect to a remote router located at 172.12.123.1. What can you do to avoid typing that entire address, and instead just type the letters "LA"? A. Build an ARP lookup table. B. Disable the default name-lookup behavior. C. Build an IP Host table. D. Build a RARP lookup table. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Which of the following statements is NOT one of the activities at the distribution layer of the Cisco Three-Layer Hierarchical Model? A. traffic filtering B. policy routing C. end user interaction D. internet access CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: You're configuring dot1x port-based authentication. 802.1x must be running on which devices? A. The PC only. B. The PC and the switch. C. The switch only. D. The authentication server only. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Which of the following Ethertypes is assigned to a unicast labeled IP pack

Here are the answers to Wednesday's Cisco routing and switching training questions! CCNA Certification: You have a hub-and-spoke network, and you plan to use the same DLCI number on all the spokes to reach the hub. Cisco's official name for this addressing scheme is ____________ . Answer: global addressing. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: OSPF DRs and BDRs listen for network topology change notifications at the IP address ____________, and then send updates related to these changes at the IP address ____________. Answers: 224.0.0.6, 224.0.0.5. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: You've just configured Uplinkfast on a switch. What is the priority of the switch? Answer: Uplinkfast takes steps to ensure this switch will not become the root, and one of those steps is to raise the switch priority to 49,152. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: What protocol numbers do AH and ESP use? Answers: Authentication Header (AH) uses IP protocol number 51, while Encapsulating Security Paylo

My CCNP ONT Study Package will be released August 5, and to help you get started on your ONT studies, I've got two brand-new tutorials for you on Priority Queuing. The first covers the theory of PQ, the second shows you how to configure and verify PQ. Enjoy! Cisco CCNP ONT Training: Priority Queuing Theory Cisco CCNP ONT Training: Priority Queuing Configuration And Verification To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here are Wednesday's CCNA and CCNP exam training questions! CCNA Certification: You have a hub-and-spoke network, and you plan to use the same DLCI number on all the spokes to reach the hub. Cisco's official name for this addressing scheme is ____________ . CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: OSPF DRs and BDRs listen for network topology change notifications at the IP address ____________, and then send updates related to these changes at the IP address ____________. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: You've just configured Uplinkfast on a switch. What is the priority of the switch? CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: What protocol numbers do AH and ESP use? CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Examine the following configuration. Assuming all packets being transmitted are 1400 bytes in size, how many packets will Queue 1 transmit before it's Queue 2's turn to send? R1(config)#queue-list 1 queue 1 byte-count 3000 R1(config)#queue-list 1 queue 2 byte-count 2000 R1(config)#queue-l

Welcome back! Here are the answers to Tuesday's Cisco certification exam training questions! CCNA Certification: Short answer: What command will show you only the routes that have been learned by a router via RIP? Answer: show ip route rip CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What is true of the following pair of IPv6 addresses? 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 and ::1 A. They represent the same address. B. They represent different addresses. C. At least one is a loopback address. D. At least one is an anycast address. E. At least one is a broadcast address. Answers: A, C. They both represent the same address, and that address is an IPv6 loopback address. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Short answer: What is the main purpose of IEEE 802.3ac? Answer: The IEEE 802.3ac standard allows the maximum frame length to be extended to 1522 bytes, which means the dot1q 4-byte header doesn't cause problems in transmission. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Which of the following operate on

Here are Tuesday's Cisco CCNA and CCNP certification exam practice questions! CCNA Certification: Short answer: What command will show you only the routes that have been learned by a router via RIP? CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What is true of the following pair of IPv 6 addresses? 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 and ::1 A. They represent the same address. B. They represent different addresses. C. At least one is a loopback address. D. At least one is an anycast address. E. At least one is a broadcast address. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Short answer: What is the main purpose of IEEE 802.3ac? CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Which of the following operate on the Control Plane? A. routing table B. FIB C. label distribution protocol D. label information base E. LFIB F. routing protocol CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Short answer: Name the queues used by Priority Queuing, and give the default capacity of each queue. Answers will be posted Wednesday! To your success, Chris Bryant

Here are the answers to Monday's Cisco training questions! CCNA Certification: The destination address of EIGRP Hello packets is ____________ . A. 224.0.0.5 B. 224.0.0.9 C. 224.0.0.6 D. 224.0.0.10 E. 255.255.255.255 Answer: D. EIGRP Hello packets are multicast to 224.0.0.10. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Which of the following values does not have to be agreed upon between potential OSPF neighbors in order for an adjacency to be created? A. The process number. B. The area number. C. The hello timer. D. The dead timer. E. The stub flag setting. Answer: A. The OSPF process numbers do not have to match in order for two routers to form an adjacency. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: The phrases "guaranteed rate" and "reserved path" describe what QoS model? A. DiffServ B. IntServ C. FIFO D. BestServ Answer: B. The term "reserved path" in particular tips you off that we're talking about Integrated Services. CCNP Certification / ONT Ex

My Ultimate ONT Study Package will be released two weeks from today, and to get you started on the path to CCNP exam success now, I'll be releasing ONT exam tutorials over the next few weeks. Here's the first one, on Priority Queuing - and just a word to the wise, if you're working on another Cisco exam right now, this PQ tutorial is still a good one to read! CCNP Certification Training : Priority Queuing Enjoy! Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here are Monday's Cisco CCNA and CCNP certification training questions! CCNA Certification: The destination address of EIGRP Hello packets is ____________ . A. 224.0.0.5 B. 224.0.0.9 C. 224.0.0.6 D. 224.0.0.10 E. 255.255.255.255 CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Which of the following values does not have to be agreed upon between potential OSPF neighbors in order for an adjacency to be created? A. The process number. B. The area number. C. The hello timer. D. The dead timer. E. The stub flag setting. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: The phrases "guaranteed rate" and "reserved path" describe what QoS model? A. DiffServ B. IntServ C. FIFO D. BestServ CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Using Transport Mode IPSec adds approximately how many bytes to the packet? A. 10 bytes B. 20 bytes C. 100 bytes D. 0 bytes CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: What term is used to describe the amount of time a packet needs to move from the input interface of a router to the

Welcome back! Here are the answers to Friday's Cisco certification exam practice questions! All of Friday's questions were short answer. CCNA Certification: The default behavior of a distance vector protocol that does not allow a router to send a route advertisement out the same interface upon it was originally learned about is ____________ . Answer: That's split horizon. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What is OSPF's seed metric for routes redistributed into an OSPF domain? Answer: OSPF's default seed metric is 20. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: If you're implementing Uplinkfast in your network, at what layer(s) of the Cisco three-layer switch model should you be enabling Uplinkfast ? Answer: Uplinkfast is primarily a wiring-closet feature, which means you will generally configure it only on access-layer switches. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: You've created a Cisco firewall inspection rule called WINGET . What command would then app

Here are today's CCNA and CCNP practice questions! All of today's questions are short answer. CCNA Certification: The default behavior of a distance vector protocol that does not allow a router to send a route advertisement out the same interface upon it was originally learned about is ____________ . CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What is OSPF's seed metric for routes redistributed into an OSPF domain? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: If you're implementing Uplinkfast in your network, at what layer(s) of the Cisco three-layer switch model should you be enabling Uplinkfast? CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: You've created a Cisco firewall inspection rule called WINGET. What command would then apply this to an interface and have it applied inbound? CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Considering the different queueing and compression methods available today on Cisco routers, what's the best choice for optimizing transmission of Voice packets? Answers will be posted Sa

Here are the answers to Thursday's Cisco exam practice questions! CCNA Certification: What value(s) does a Cisco switch use to dynamically build its bridging table? A. Source MAC address B. Destination MAC address C. Source IP address D. Destination IP address Answer: A. One reason switches examine the source MAC address of a frame first is to use that information to build and refresh its bridging table (MAC address table). CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: What LSA type describes links external to the OSPF domain? Answer: Type 5 LSAs describe links external to the OSPF domain. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: RADIUS uses which of the following? A. TCP B. UDP C. DECNET D. SNA E. IP Answer: B. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: What form of packet switching is considered the fastest? A. Process switching B. CEF switching C. Fast switching D. CDP switching Answer: B. CEF switching is faster than fast switching, which in turn is faster than process switchi

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Here are Thursday's Cisco certification exam practice questions! CCNA Certification: What value(s) does a Cisco switch use to dynamically build its bridging table? A. Source MAC address B. Destination MAC address C. Source IP address D. Destination IP address CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: What LSA type describes links external to the OSPF domain? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: RADIUS uses which of the following? A. TCP B. UDP C. DECNET D. SNA E. IP CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: What form of packet switching is considered the fastest? A. Process switching B. CEF switching C. Fast switching D. CDP switching CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Short answer: What is VAD, and what is its basic purpose? Hint: The "V" stands for Voice. Answers will be posted Friday! Look for a new CCNP ONT exam tutorial later today! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here are the answers to Wednesday's Cisco exam practice questions! CCNA Exam: By default, what traffic resets the dialer idle-timeout value? A. All traffic. B. No traffic. C. All interesting traffic. D. All non-interesting traffic. E. All IP traffic. F. All traffic defined by the "dialer-list" command. Answers: C, F. Interesting traffic resets the dialer idle-timer, and interesting traffic is that traffic defined by the "dialer-list" command. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: You've put multihoming into effect in your BGP AS. The router that is communicating with your ISPs is low on memory and CPU. What type of routes would it benefit your router to receive from the ISP? A. Default routes only. B. Default routes and some more-specific routes. C. All normal, specific routes. D. BGP routes only. Answer: A. When your AS is multihoming, the router that is communicating with your ISP should have as much memory and CPU as possible. If that router ha

Here are Wednesday's Cisco certification exam practice questions! CCNA Exam: By default, what traffic resets the dialer idle-timeout value? A. All traffic. B. No traffic. C. All interesting traffic. D. All non-interesting traffic. E. All IP traffic. F. All traffic defined by the "dialer-list" command. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: You've put multihoming into effect in your BGP AS. The router that is communicating with your ISPs is low on memory and CPU. What type of routes would it benefit your router to receive from the ISP? A. Default routes only. B. Default routes and some more-specific routes. C. All normal, specific routes. D. BGP routes only. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Which two of the following port types cannot be configured for a dynamic VLAN assignment? A. Ports running port security. B. Trunking-enabled ports C. Access ports D. Fast Ethernet ports CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Short answer: What two numerical ranges are used by sta

Here are the answers to Tuesday's Cisco certification exam practice questions! CCNA : Identify the true statements. A. The startup config is kept in NVRAM and loads when the router boots up. B. The startup config is the active config at all times. C. The running config is kept in NVRAM and loads when the router boots up. D. The running config is the active config at all times. Answers: A, D. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: A route in your routing table is marked with the code "D EX". What is the administrative distance of this path? A. 5 B. 90 C. 170 D. None of the above. Answer: C - that's an EIGRP External route. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: New Cisco switches assign a 10,000 MBPS port a speed of ____________. A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 19 E. 100 F. 255 Answer: C. Originally assigned a cost of 1, ports running at 10,000 MBPS - also expressed as 10 GBPS - are assigned a port cost of 2. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Using IPSec Tu

Here are Tuesday's CCNA and CCNP exam practice questions! CCNA : Identify the true statements. A. The startup config is kept in NVRAM and loads when the router boots up. B. The startup config is the active config at all times. C. The running config is kept in NVRAM and loads when the router boots up. D. The running config is the active config at all times. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: A route in your routing table is marked with the code "D EX". What is the administrative distance of this path? A. 5 B. 90 C. 170 D. None of the above. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: New Cisco switches assign a 10,000 MBPS port a speed of ____________. A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 19 E. 100 F. 255 CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Using IPSec Tunnel Mode adds approximately how many bytes to a packet? A. None. B. 10 bytes C. 20 bytes D. 100 bytes E. 200 bytes CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: What is the default packet limit for the Medium queue when running Prio

Here are the answers to yesterday's Cisco certification practice questions! CCNA Exam: The protocol TFTP uses the port number ____________ . Answer: TFTP uses port number 69. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: If a router receives a BGP update and sees its own AS in the update, what action is taken? Answer: If a BGP speaker sees its own AS in a BGP update packet, the update is discarded to avoid routing loops. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: If a port is administratively shut down, what STP state is it in? Answer: Officially, it's in Disabled state. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Label Switch Routers ( LSRs ) work at two different levels. What are they? Answer: LSRs operate at both the data plane and the control plane. CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: What are RED's three drop modes? Answer: No Drop, Random Drop, and Full Drop. New questions posted later today! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here are Monday's Cisco certification practice questions! All of today's questions are short answer. CCNA Exam: The protocol TFTP uses the port number ____________ . CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: If a route receives a BGP update and sees its own AS in the update, what action is taken? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: If a port is administratively shut down, what STP state is it in? CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Label Switch Routers (LSRs) work at two different levels. What are they? CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: What are RED's three drop modes? Answers will be posted Tuesday! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here are the answers to Sunday's Cisco Certification exam practice questions! CCNA Certification: You want to configure your router to use the DNS server at 10.1.1.5, and no broadcasts should be sent. The router is currently set at the default behavior for DNS server location. The full command to do this is ____________ . Answer: ip name-server 10.1.1.5 . Since the default behavior of the router is to broadcast for a DNS server to perform name resolution, this simply needs to be changed to the following command: R1(config)#ip name-server 10.1.1.5 R1#jdukeTranslating "jduke"...domain server (10.1.1.5) Note that a domain server is still being referred to, but it is no longer a broadcast. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What combination of hex characters at the beginning of an IPV6 address indicates a broadcast? Answer: None - IPv6 doesn't use broadcasts. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: In what VTP modes can VLANs be created? Answer: Server and Transparent. CCNP Cer

Here are Sunday's Cisco certification exam practice questions! All of today's questions are short answer. CCNA Certification: You want to configure your router to use the DNS server at 10.1.1.5, and no broadcasts should be sent. The router is currently set at the default behavior for DNS server location. The full command to do this is ____________ . CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What combination of hex characters at the beginning of an IPV6 address indicates a broadcast? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: In what VTP modes can VLANs be created? CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: What single command would create a username/password in the local router's database with a username of larry and an encrypted password of winget? CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: My ONT Study Package comes out in 20 days! Explain the term "war driving" as it relates to wireless security. Answers will be posted Monday! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.co

Here are the answers to Saturday's Cisco certification exam practice questions! CCNA Exam: Short answer: The binary string 11010101, converted to hex, equals ____________ . Answer: The bits set to 1 are 128, 64, 16, 4, and 1 -- add 'em up and they equal 213. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: The default OSPF cost of an ethernet interface is ____________. Answer: The formula OSPF uses to calculate an interface's cost is 100,000,000 / bw in bits, which comes out to 10 for an ethernet interface. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam And ONT Exam: Identify the true statements regarding RED. A. Packets are dropped before the queue fills completely. B. Packets are dropped only when the queue fills completely. C. CoS and IP Precedence identify the packets to be dropped. D. CoS and IP Precedence cannot be used with RED. E. RED is effective with TCP-based traffic. F. RED is effective with UDP-based traffic. Answers: A, D, E. Random Early Detection (RED) does drop p

Here are Saturday's Cisco CCNA and CCNP certification practice questions! CCNA Exam: Short answer: The binary string 11010101, converted to hex, equals ____________ . CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: The default OSPF cost of an ethernet interface is ____________. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam And ONT Exam: My ONT Study Package comes out in 21 days! Identify the true statements regarding RED. A. Packets are dropped before the queue fills completely. B. Packets are dropped only when the queue fills completely. C. CoS and IP Precedence identify the packets to be dropped. D. CoS and IP Precedence cannot be used with RED. E. RED is effective with TCP -based traffic. F. RED is effective with UDP -based traffic. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Which of the following best describes the characters available to use as "delimiting characters" in a login banner? A. You can only use the "%" sign. B. You can use any character. C. Yo

Here are the answers to Friday's Cisco questions! CCNA Certification: The default priority of an interface connected to an OSPF segment is ____________. Answer: 1. Don't get priority confused with cost - the cost of an OSPF -enabled interface will vary according to that port's speed, but the default priority does not depend on speed. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What does an IPv 6 address beginning with 2002 and carrying a /48 prefix indicate? Answer: 6to4 tunnel edge routers (the IPv 6 routers that are communicating with each other through the IPv 4 cloud) carry an IPv 6 address beginning with 2002, followed by their IPv 4 address expressed in hex, and carry a /48 prefix. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: What VTP advertisement is sent by the VTP server only upon a change in the VLAN database? Answer: Subset advertisements are sent by the VTP server only when there's a change in the VLAN database. This ad will contain the new name of the VLAN , the n

Here are Friday's Cisco certification exam practice questions! All of today's questions are short answer. CCNA Certification: The default priority of an interface connected to an OSPF segment is ____________. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What does an IPv 6 address beginning with 2002 and carrying a /48 prefix indicate? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: What VTP advertisement is sent by the VTP server only upon a change in the VLAN database? CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: What's the basic difference between a symmetric key and an asymmetric key? (The answer "one letter" is not acceptable. Nice try, though!) CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: What does RSVP do? RSVP is used by which QoS model(s)? Answers will be posted Saturday - and I've got quite a few new articles and tutorials for you over the weekend as well! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here are the answers to Thursday's Cisco certification exam practice questions! CCNA Exam: Consider the configuration below and identify the true statement. R3( config )#router rip R3( config -router)#network 172.12.0.0 A. The router will send RIPv 1 updates and accept v1 and v2 updates. B. The router will accept and send updates for both RIPv 1 and v2. C. The router will accept and send updates for RIPv 1 only. D. The router will accept and send updates for RIPv 2 only. Answer: A. Since the version command isn't seen in the config , the RIP default of sending V1 updates and accepting both V1 and V2 updates is in effect. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What LSA type is generated by an ABR and describe inter-area links? A. Type 1 B. Type 2 C. Type 3 D. Type 4 E. Type 5 F. Type 6 G. Type 7 Answer: C. Type 3 LSAs are generated by ABRs and describe inter-area routes. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: What command puts a VTP device into Secure mode? A. vtp

Here are Thursday's Cisco certification exam practice questions! CCNA Exam: Consider the configuration below and identify the true statement. R3( config )#router rip R3( config -router)#network 172.12.0.0 A. The router will send RIPv 1 updates and accept v1 and v2 updates. B. The router will accept and send updates for both RIPv 1 and v2. C. The router will accept and send updates for RIPv 1 only. D. The router will accept and send updates for RIPv 2 only. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What LSA type is generated by an ABR and describe inter-area links? A. Type 1 B. Type 2 C. Type 3 D. Type 4 E. Type 5 F. Type 6 G. Type 7 CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: What command puts a VTP device into Secure mode? A. vtp password B. vtp secure C. vtp encrypt D. vtp endorse CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Briefly describe the purpose and operation of "NAT Traversal". CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: My ONT Study Package comes out in 21 days! Which of the

Here are the answers to Wednesday's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA Exam: Which of the following is a method of limiting broadcast propagation? A. STP B. BPDUs C. Root Bridges D. VLANs Answer: D. Virtual LANs (VLANs) are an effective method of limiting broadcasts, since broadcasts will not be forwarded between VLANs. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: In ISIS terminology, what is a "intermediate system"? A. A logical group of routers. B. A single router. C. An end device. D. A combination of routers and switches, logically grouped. Answer: B. In ISIS land, an Intermediate System is a single router. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: In a typical Enterprise Edge block, what switch layers are present? A. Access, Distribution B. Access, Core C. Core, Distribution D. Core, Distribution, Access Answer: A. Along with the devices needed to get users out to the Internet and WANs, both Access and Distribution switches are found here. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Identif

New CCNA Exam FAQ, Plus Easier-To-Use Tutorials! I'm literally getting hundreds of emails a day on the upcoming CCNA exam changes. Don't get me wrong, I love hearing from you, but for the latest and greatest information, check out my newest FAQ: Cisco CCNA Exam FAQ On 640-801 And 640-802 I've also broken up the Tutorials page of the site to make it much easier to use. There are over 200 tutorials on the website, so get over there and start reading! Here's the main page: CCNA , CCNP , And Microsoft Tutorials CCNA Routing tutorials are now found here: CCNA Exam Routing Tutorials Here are my CCNA Switching tutorials: CCNA Switch Tutorials And some tutorials to help you create a study plan for CCNA exam success! Planning For CCNA Exam Success And just in case you missed it, here's my first article on the November CCNA exam phaseout. CCNA Exam Changes - How You Can Benefit From Them! All links go to a page on the main site. Enjoy! To your success, Chris Bryan

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Here are Wednesday's Cisco exam practice questions! CCNA Exam: Which of the following is a method of limiting broadcast propagation? A. STP B. BPDUs C. Root Bridges D. VLANs CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: In ISIS terminology, what is a "intermediate system"? A. A logical group of routers. B. A single router. C. An end device. D. A combination of routers and switches, logically grouped. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: In a typical Enterprise Edge block, what switch layers are present? A. Access, Distribution B. Access, Core C. Core, Distribution D. Core, Distribution, Access CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Identify the true statements regarding Cisco router passwords. A. Leading spaces are ignored. B. Leading spaces are not ignored. C. Trailing spaces are ignored. C. Trailing spaces are not ignored. CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Which of the following includes native intrusion detection? A. WEP B. WEP2 C. WPA D. WPA2 Answers will be posted Thursday!

Here are the answers to Tuesday's Cisco certification exam practice questions! CCNA Exam: What summary route can be used to advertise the following four routes? 10.4.0.0 /16 10.5.0.0 /16 10.6.0.0 /16 10.7.0.0 /16 Answer: 10.4.0.0 255.252.0.0, or 10.4.0.0 /14 in prefix notation. To manually summarize routes, break them down into binary. Then, working from left to right, note where the routes no longer have a bit in common. The value to the left of that point is your summary, and the number of bits in common is your subnet mask. 10.4.0.0 00001010 00000100 00000000 00000000 10.5.0.0 00001010 00000101 00000000 00000000 10.6.0.0 00001010 00000110 00000000 00000000 10.7.0.0 00001010 00000111 00000000 00000000 Working from left to right, these are the common bits: 00001010 000001 That gives us 10.4.0.0, and the subnet mask will have the first 14 bits set to 1. That results in a decimal value of 255.252.0.0. CCNP Cert

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Here are the answers to Monday's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! Cisco CCNA Exam: Short answer: In the MAC address aa - bb -cc-11-22-33, what portion is the OUI ? Answer: aa - bb -cc. The first half of the MAC address is the Organizationally Unique Identifier. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Identify the optional transitive BGP attributes. A. origin B. next-hop C. LOCAL_PREF D. AS_PATH E. aggregator F. atomic aggregate G. community H. MED Answer: E, G. Community and aggregator are the two transitive optional BGP attributes, "transitive" meaning that their values will be carried from one AS to another. MED is the only optional non-transitive attribute. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Short answer: Briefly describe the purpose and operation of DHCP Snooping. Answer: DHCP Snooping is a method of detecting rogue DHCP servers and minimizing or eliminating their impact on the network. DHCP Snooping determines whether a DHCP device is tr

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Here are Monday's CCNA and CCNP certification exam practice questions! Cisco CCNA Exam: Short answer: In the MAC address aa-bb-cc-11-22-33, what portion is the OUI? CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Identify the optional transitive BGP attributes. A. origin B. next-hop C. LOCAL_PREF D. AS_PATH E. aggregator F. atomic aggregate G. community H. MED CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Short answer: Briefly describe the purpose and operation of DHCP Snooping. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Short answer: What term is used to describe a router with some interfaces in a "normal" IP network, and other interfaces in a Multiprotocol Label Switching network? CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Only 21 more days until my ONT Study Package is released! Short answer: What is the default DSCP setting? Extra credit: Of the 8 bits in the ToS field, which bits comprise the DSCP? Answers will be posted Tuesday! To your exam success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/