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Here are your free Cisco exam training questions for Wednesday, April 30! CCENT Certification: What is the administrative distance of a directly connected route? 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 IP Prec can be used by RED. CCNP Certification / I...

It's Wednesday, April 30, and here are the answers to yesterday's Cisco certification exam training questions! CCENT Certification: When you see an asterisk next to a route in the routing table, what does that indicate? A. An unstable route B. A candidate default route C. A static route D. A directly connected route Answer: B. An asterisk indicates a candidate default route. CCNA Certification: By default, how many paths does RIP use for unequal-cost load-sharing? A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 6 E. 8 F. None of the above. Answer: F. RIP performs no default unequal-cost load-sharing. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: An OSPF-enabled router receives an LSA. The sequence number is lower that the most recent LSA received for that link. What will the receiving router do? A. Accept the update and update its OSPF database. B. Accept the update and take no further action. C. Accept the update, update its database, and flood the changes. D. Ignore the update and take no further action. E. Ignore th...

It's Tuesday, April 29, and here are your free Cisco CCNA, CCNP, and CCENT exam practice questions for today! CCENT Certification: When you see an asterisk next to a route in the routing table, what does that indicate? A. An unstable route B. A candidate default route C. A static route D. A directly connected route CCNA Certification: By default, how many paths does RIP use for unequal-cost load-sharing? A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 6 E. 8 F. None of the above. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: An OSPF-enabled router receives an LSA. The sequence number is lower that the most recent LSA received for that link. What will the receiving router do? A. Accept the update and update its OSPF database. B. Accept the update and take no further action. C. Accept the update, update its database, and flood the changes. D. Ignore the update and take no further action. E. Ignore the update and send an LSU back to the original sender. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Identify the true statements regarding SPA...

Welcome! It's Tuesday, April 29, and here are the answers to yesterday's Cisco certification exam training questions! CCNA And CCENT 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 Exa...

It's Monday, April 28, and here are your free Cisco exam training questions for today! CCNA And CCENT 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 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 faster than 2.048 MBPS. What global configuration com...

Welcome! It's Monday, April 28, and here are the answers to yesterday's Cisco certification exam practice questions! CCENT Certification: Given the MAC address aa-bb-cc-11-22-33, identify the OUI. Answer: The OUI is the first half of the MAC address, aa-bb-cc. CCNA Certification: Short answer: A frame is about to be transmitted over a trunk. What term describes the process of identifying the destination VLAN? Answer: This is known as "tagging" the frame. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Fill in the blank: An IPv6 address consists of ____________ bits. Answer: 128 bits. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Approximately how long does it take a switch running RSTP to detect a down link? A. 20 seconds (the MaxAge value). B. 2 seconds (the Hello Time value). C. 15 seconds (the Forward Delay value). D. None of the above. Answer: D. An RSTP port will detect a down link in about 6 seconds. When a RSTP port misses three BPDUs, the link is considered down. The RSTP Hello Time is 2 ...

It's Sunday, April 27, and here are your free Cisco CCENT, CCNA, and CCNP training questions for today! CCENT Certification: Given the MAC address aa-bb-cc-11-22-33, identify the OUI. CCNA Certification: Short answer: A frame is about to be transmitted over a trunk. What term describes the process of identifying the destination VLAN? CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Fill in the blank: An IPv6 address consists of ____________ bits. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Approximately how long does it take a switch running RSTP to detect a down link? A. 20 seconds (the MaxAge value). B. 2 seconds (the Hello Time value0 C. 15 seconds (the Forward Delay value) D. None of the above. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: (My ISCW Study Package is out in two weeks!) You've just created an IP inspection rule. How should it be applied? A. Globally. B. On a per-protocol basis. C. On a per-interface basis. D. On a per-access list basis. CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Which of the following is NOT a ...

Welcome! It's Sunday, April 27, and here are the answers to yesterday's Cisco certification exam practice questions! CCENT Certification: What term describes a Cisco switch's behavior when it receives a frame whose destination MAC address does not have an entry in the switching table? Answer: The switch will flood the frame - that is, the frame will be forwarded out every port on the switch except the one it came in on. CCNA 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. 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're decided to implement Uplinkfast in your network. What switches should be ...

Here are your free Cisco CCENT, CCNA, and CCNP questions for Saturday, April 26! CCENT Certification: What term describes a Cisco switch's behavior when it receives a frame whose destination MAC address does not have an entry in the switching table? CCNA Certification: In LMI Autosense, how many LMI messages are initially sent by the DTE? How does the DCE respond? 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 Sunday, April 27! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.co...

It's Saturday, April 26, and here are your Cisco certification exam training questions for today! Microsoft Server 2008 and Vista certification questions and tutorials begin on June 10, 2008. CCENT Certification: Short answer: What's the basic purpose of the Address Resolution Protocol? Answer: ARP learns the MAC address of a remote device whose L2 address was previously unknown, but whose L3 address was known. CCNA 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...

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Welcome back! It's Friday, April 25, and here are your free Cisco exam training questions for today! CCENT Certification: Short answer: What's the basic purpose of the Address Resolution Protocol? CCNA 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 ...

It's Friday, April 25, and here are the answers to yesterday's Cisco certification exam practice question! CCENT Certification: Which of the following terms describe TCP? A. guaranteed delivery B. best-effort delivery C. runs at the Transport layer D. runs at the Network layer E. has windowing capabilities F. does not offer windowing Answers: A, C, E. TCP offers guaranteed delivery, it runs at the Transport layer of the OSI model (and the TCP/IP model, for that matter), and TCP also has windowing capabilities. CCNA 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...

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Here are your free CCNA, CCENT, and CCNP questions for Thursday, April 24! CCENT Certification: Which of the following terms describe TCP? A. guaranteed delivery B. best-effort delivery C. runs at the Transport layer D. runs at the Network layer E. has windowing capabilities F. does not offer windowing CCNA 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 detec...

Welcome! Here are the answers to the Cisco certification exam practice questions posted on Wednesday, April 23! CCENT Certification: What's the hex equivalent of the decimal 312? Answer: 138. (1 unit of 256, 3 units of 16, 8 units of 1.) CCNA Exam: Using its default settings, which of the following values does EIGRP not consider when calculating a route's metric? A. bandwidth B. hop count C. delay D. load E. reliability F. MTU Answers: B, D, E, F. By default, EIGRP considers bandwidth and delay when calculating a route metric. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: In the BGP best-path selection process, which value will a non-Cisco router consider first? 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: What single command will change the speed of all por...

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Welcome! Here are your Cisco certification exam training questions for Wednesday, April 23! CCENT Certification: What's the hex equivalent of the decimal 312? CCNA Exam: Using its default settings, which of the following values does EIGRP not consider when calculating a route's metric? A. bandwidth B. hop count C. delay D. load E. reliability F. MTU CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: In the BGP best-path selection process, which value will a non-Cisco router consider first? A. AS_PATH B. origin C. MED D. weight E. LOCAL_PREF F. aggregator CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Short answer: What single command will change the speed of all ports on a Cisco 24-port 2950 switch to 100 MBPS? 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 Thursday! Look for a new CCNP ISCW exam tutorial later today, and you can find several tutorials at the bott...

Welcome back! It's Wednesday, April 23, and here are the answers to yesterday's Cisco certification exam practice questions! CCENT Certification: What command resulted in the following output? R1# Type escape sequence to abort. Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 172.12.123.2, timeout is 2 seconds: !!!!! Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 68/68/72 ms Answer: ping 172.12.123.2 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 co...

Here are your free Cisco certification exam training questions for Tuesday, April 22! CCENT Certification: What command resulted in the following output? R1# Type escape sequence to abort. Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 172.12.123.2, timeout is 2 seconds: !!!!! Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 68/68/72 ms CCNA Certification: In OSPF, what is meant by the term "external route"? CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: By default, how many EIGRP hellos have to be missed for an adjacency to be declared down? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: For what purpose is VMPS used? 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? Answers will be posted on Wednesday, April 23! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here are the answers to the Cisco certification exam practice questions posted here on Monday, April 21! CCNA And CCENT Exam: 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 term describes the default action of the switch? A. flood B. filter C. unicast D. drop E. unicast Answer: A. The frame will be "flooded" - that is, sent out every port except the one it came in on. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Fill in the blank: ISIS assigns redistributed routes a metric of ____________. Answer: ISIS assigns redistributed routes a metric of 0. 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 switch will accept the advertisement. B. The switch will reject the advertisement. C. The switch will increment its revision number. D. The switch will decrement its revisi...

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Here are your Cisco certification exam training questions for Monday, April 21! CCNA And CCENT Exam: 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 term describes the default action of the switch? A. flood B. filter C. unicast D. drop E. unicast CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Fill in the blank: ISIS assigns redistributed routes a metric of ____________. 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 switch will accept the advertisement. B. The switch will reject the advertisement. C. The switch will increment its revision number. D. The switch will decrement its revision number. CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Which of the following queueing methods poses the greatest threat of TCP Global Synchronization? A. CBWFQ B. PQ C. RED D. WRED CCNP Certification / IS...

Here are the answers to the questions posted Sunday, April 20! CCNA And CCENT 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 trusted or untrusted, and only DHCP messages from tr...

Welcome back! It's Monday, April 21, and coming up later today here at The Bryant Advantage.... -- a new CCNP ISCW exam tutorial on AAA configuration -- a new set of questions for you CCNP candidates on a major ISCW exam topic -- the answers to Sunday's Cisco certification exam training questions -- a new set of CCNA, CCNP, and CCENT questions ... and for the many of you asking, yes, my Security+ Certification Study Package is on the horizon - coming this summer! Tutorials and articles on how to earn this vital certification begin in May. See you later today! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here are your free Cisco exam practice questions for Sunday, April 20! CCENT And CCNA Exam: Short answer: In the MAC address aa-bb-cc-11-22-33, what portion is the OUI? Extra credit: What does the rest of the MAC address represent? 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: My Ultimate ONT Study Package comes out August 31! 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 Monday, April 21. Look for a new CCNP ISCW...

Here are the answers to this past Friday's Cisco exam training questions! CCENT Certification: You've just run the show interface ethernet0 command and you see the interface is "administratively down". What causes that? Answer: The interface is shut down. Just run no shutdown on the interface to open it. CCNA Certification: What's the broadcast address for a frame? Answer: The all-Fs MAC address, ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff (or FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF, as there's no difference between upper and lower case in hexadecimal numbering.) CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What port number does BGP use to create and maintain adjacencies? Answer: TCP port 179. Don't block that one with an ACL! :) CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: What's the maximum number of physical channels that can be placed into an Etherchannel? Answer: Eight. CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: What's the full command for doubling the capacity of the default queue when Priority Queuing is in use? Answer: As...

Welcome! It's Sunday, April 20, and there's some great stuff coming up today in the blog... -- the answers to Friday's free Cisco certification practice questions -- another set of CCNA, CCNP, and CCENT questions -- a new ISCW exam tutorial, this one an introduction to AAA ... and more! Meantime, I've got several new ISCW tutorials on the ISCW Study Package page, and over 200 free Cisco, Microsoft, and CompTIA tutorials waiting for you on the main Tutorial page. Start reading, 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 training questions for Friday, April 18! No multiple choice today, all questions are "short answer". Enjoy! CCENT Certification: You've just run the show interface ethernet0 command and you see the interface is "adminstratively down". What causes that? CCNA Certification: What's the broadcast address for a frame? CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What port number does BGP use to create and maintain adjacencies? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: What's the maximum number of physical channels that can be placed into an Etherchannel? CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: What's the full command for doubling the capacity of the default queue when Priority Queuing is in use? Answers will be posted Saturday, April 19, along with at least one new ISCW tutorial! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Time to catch up a bit, so here are the answers to Thursday's questions! CCENT Certification: What command will create a default static route with a next-hop IP address of 30.1.1.1? Answer: ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 30.1.1.1 We could also specify the local exit interface at the end of that command. CCNA Certification: In a Cisco ACL, what can be replaced with the word "any"? A. A subnet mask of 255.255.255.255. B. A subnet mask of 0.0.0.0. C. A wildcard mask of 255.255.255.255. D. A wildcard mask of 0.0.0.0. Answer: C. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: The command summary-address is designed for use on what OSPF router type(s)? A. ASBRs B. ABRs C. Backbone routers D. Total stub routers E. Stub routers Answer: A. The command "summary-address" is designed for use only on an ASBR. This command is used to summarize routes that are being redistributed into OSPF. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: A Cisco switchport is configured with Root Guard. A superior BPDU is receive...

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Here are your free Cisco certification exam training questions for Thursday, April 17! CCENT Certification: What command will create a default static route with a next-hop IP address of 30.1.1.1? CCNA Certification: In a Cisco ACL, what can be replaced with the word "any"? A. A subnet mask of 255.255.255.255. B. A subnet mask of 0.0.0.0. C. A wildcard mask of 255.255.255.255. D. A wildcard mask of 0.0.0.0. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: The command summary-address is designed for use on what OSPF router type(s)? A. ASBRs B. ABRs C. Backbone routers D. Total stub routers E. Stub routers CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: A Cisco switchport is configured with Root Guard. A superior BPDU is received on that port. What will happen? A. Nothing. B. The port goes into root-inconsistent state. C. The port goes into err-disabled state. D. The port goes into blocking state. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Short answer: What IP protocol number does ESP use? CCNP Certification / ONT Exam...

Here are the answers to the free Cisco training questions posted here on Wednesday, April 16! CCENT and CCNA Certification: You've just configured a password for users that will use Telnet to connect to your router. A few questions... 1. In the running configurations, where will the passwords appear? 2. At which layer of the OSI model does Telnet run? 3. Is the password encrypted by default? 4. If not, how can you perform that encryption? Answers: 1. Under the VTY lines, where you configured them. 2. Telnet runs at Layer 7 of the OSI model, the Application layer. 3. The VTY password is not encrypted by default. 4. You can encrypt that password and the other unencrypted passwords in the config with the global service password-encryption command. CCNA Certification AND CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam Question: You have summarized the routes below. What is the resulting summary? 100.1.1.0 /16 100.2.1.0 /16 100.3.1.0 /16 100.4.1.0 /16 100.5.1.0 /16 100.6.1.0 /16 100.7.1.0 /16 Answe...

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Here are your Cisco certification exam training questions for Wednesday, April 16! CCENT and CCNA Certification: You've just configured a password for users that will use Telnet to connect to your router. A few questions... 1. In the running configurations, where will the passwords appear? 2. At which layer of the OSI model does Telnet run? 3. Is the password encrypted by default? 4. If not, how can you perform that encryption? CCNA Certification AND CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam Question: You have summarized the routes below. What is the resulting summary? 100.1.1.0 /16 100.2.1.0 /16 100.3.1.0 /16 100.4.1.0 /16 100.5.1.0 /16 100.6.1.0 /16 100.7.1.0 /16 CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: When dynamic VLANs are in use, what value decides a switch port's VLAN membership? CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: What protocol number does AH use? CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: "campus backbone", "management", and "server farm" are three portions of the Ente...

Here are the answers to the free Cisco certification training questions posted Tuesday, April 15! CCENT Certification: Identify the OSI layer at which the following devices can be found: hub, router, switch, repeater, bridge, crossover cable Answers: Crossover cables, hubs, and repeaters all run at the Physical layer. Switches and bridges run at the Data Link layer. Routers run at the Network layer. CCNA Certification: Short answer: What's the hex equivalent of the binary value 00111101? Answer: The decimal equivalent is 61; in hex, that's 3d. 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. All routes, as required by BGP. B. Default routes only. C. Default routes and some more specific-routes as needed. D. BGP routes only. Answer: B. When your AS is multihoming, the router that is communicat...

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Welcome back! Here are your free Cisco certification exam questions for Tuesday, April 15! CCENT Certification: Identify the OSI layer at which the following devices can be found: hub, router, switch, repeater, bridge, crossover cable CCNA Certification: Short answer: What's the hex equivalent of the binary value 00111101? 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. All routes, as required by BGP. B. Default routes only. C. Default routes and some more specific-routes as needed. D. BGP routes only. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Short answer: Forward Delay determines the length of how many separate STP port states? CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Short answer: Name and briefly describe the three major sections of the Intelligent Information Network (IIN). CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Whi...

Here are the answers to Monday's Cisco CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA Certification: What mode of switching gives the most protection against damaged frames? A. store-and-forward B. expedited C. fragment-free D. cut-through E. Cisco Accelerated Switching (CAS) Answer: A. Store-and-forward switching temporarily stores a packet and checks it against the Cyclical Redundancy Check (CRC) field. The entire frame is stored before transmission begins. The amount of latency with store-and-forward switching is dependent upon the length of the frame; the larger the frame, the greater the latency. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: The administrative distance of ISIS is ____________. Answer: 115. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: R3's port fast 0/10 is configured with Root Guard. An inferior BPDU is received on that port. What will happen? A. Nothing. B. The port will go into root-inconsistent state. C. The port will go into err-disabled state. D. The port will go into blocking state. ...

Welcome! It's Tuesday, April 15, and here's what's coming up later today .. -- a new CCNP ISCW tutorial -- the answers to yesterday's free Cisco questions -- a new set of Cisco exam practice questions .. plus, I'm pleased to announce a new series of CCNA and CCENT tutorials and articles will be coming out soon! So whether you're working on your CCENT , CCNA , or CCNP , there's something new for you here every day at The Bryant Advantage - and soon, you can add Security+ and Server 2008 certifications to the list! See you later today! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here are your free Cisco training questions for Monday, April 14! CCNA Certification: What mode of switching gives the most protection against damaged frames? A. store-and-forward B. expedited C. fragment-free D. cut-through E. Cisco Accelerated Switching (CAS) CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: The administrative distance of ISIS is ____________. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: R3's port fast 0/10 is configured with Root Guard. An inferior BPDU is received on that port. What will happen? A. Nothing. B. The port will go into root-inconsistent state. C. The port will go into err-disabled state. D. The port will go into blocking state. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: When you're running an IPSec VPN, what happens to "uninteresting traffic"? A. It is not sent across the VPN. B. It is not sent across the VPN and a syslog message is generated. C. The traffic is transmitted, but it is not protected by IPSec. D. The traffic is transmitted and protected by IPSec. CCNP Certifica...

Here are the answers to Saturday's questions! CCENT Certification: What command creates a default static route that uses the local router's serial0 interface as the exit interface? Answer: ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 serial0 CCNA Certification: Which of the following wildcard masks or words would be used in an ACL line that should match one and only one IP address? A. any B. host C. 0.0.0.0 D. 255.255.255.255 Answer: B, C. A wildcard mask of 0.0.0.0 has the same effect as the word "host". Any line with either one of those values will match only the particular IP address named in the line. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: By default, what percentage of an interface's bandwidth can EIGRP use? Answer: By default, EIGRP can use up to 50% of an interface's bandwidth. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Short answer: At what layer of the Cisco three-layer model should a network's root bridges be found? Answer: The Core layer. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exa...

I just realized that Sunday's questions don't seem to be showing up in the blog. Sorry about that! I'll have some new CCNA, CCENT, and CCNP questions for you later today, and keep scrolling down to check out my latest CCNP exam tutorial! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Welcome! Here's a new CCNP ISCW exam tutorial for you... this one's an introduction to Easy VPN Server and Client. CCNP ISCW Exam Tutorial: Easy VPN Server And Client There are more free CCNP ISCW tutorials waiting for you on this page ... check near the bottom of the page! The CCNP ISCW Exam Study Package The ISCW Study Package is out in 24 days, so check out the deal on that page and let's get you started on the road to CCNP success ! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

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Hey, there's a lot of great stuff coming in the weeks and months ahead - plus some extra free study material is available now! Here's the schedule for the next few months for our new Study Packages, Video Boot Camps, and tutorials: April - My CCNP ISCW exam tutorial series continues as part of my CCNP Study Package Bundle release on May 8. May - My ISCW Study Package will be issued, and I'll start my ONT tutorial series at that time, as well as some special Security+ exam tutorials (the Security+ page is bare bones right now, bear with us!) Also in early May, my new ISCW Video Boot Camp will be released, which means my CCNP Video Boot Camp Bundle will be available as well - all four of my CCNP Video Boot Camps for one low price! Also, in late May / early June, my ONT Study Package will be released, and my CCNP Study Package Bundle students will be the first to get it! And if that's not enough - my long-awaited Security+ exam package will be released this July! I...

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Welcome! Here are your free Cisco questions for Saturday, April 12! CCENT Certification: What command creates a default static route that uses the local router's serial0 interface as the exit interface? CCNA Certification: Which of the following wildcard masks or words would be used in an ACL line that should match one and only one IP address? A. any B. host C. 0.0.0.0 D. 255.255.255.255 CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: By default, what percentage of an interface's bandwidth can EIGRP use? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Short answer: At what layer of the Cisco three-layer model should a network's root bridges be found? CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Short answer: What is the minimum length of a Cisco router password? CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Which of the following are best to use when optimizing video tranmission flows? A. LLQ B. TCP Header Compression C. WFQ D. RTP Header Compression Answers will be posted Sunday, April 13! To your success, Chris Bry...

Here are the answers to Friday's Cisco certification training questions! CCNA Certification: Short answer: What's the binary equivalent of the hex value c9? Answer: We've got 12 ("c") units of 16 and 9 units of 1: 192 + 9 = 201. The binary equivalent of 201 is 11001001. CCNA Certification / BSCI Exam: Of the following, traffic for which ports is translated from a broadcast to a unicast when the ip helper-address command has been configured? A. TIME B. TACACS C. WHO D. SNMP E. TALK F. DNS Answers: A, B, F. These are the ports that are translated from broadcast to unicast with the ip helper-address command: TIME, port 37; TACACS, port 49; DNS, port 53; BOOTP/DHCP Server, port 67; BOOTP/DHCP Client, port 68; TFTP, port 69; NetBIOS name service, port 137;NetBIOS datagram service, port 138. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: The full command to disable a switch port's ability to transmit DTP frames is ____________. Answer: switchport nonegotiate. CCNP Certification /...

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Here are your free CCNA, CCENT, and CCNP questions for Friday, April 11! CCNA And CCENT Certification: Short answer: What's the binary equivalent of the hex value c9? CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Of the following, traffic for which ports is translated from a broadcast to a unicast when the ip helper-address command has been configured? A. TIME B. TACACS C. WHO D. SNMP E. TALK F. DNS CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: The full command to disable a switch port's ability to transmit DTP frames is ____________. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Briefly describe a "DDoS" attack. CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: A router is configured for DiffServ. Which of the following values can the router consider when performing QoS? A. IP Prec B. CoS marking C. incoming interface D. DSCP Answers will be posted Saturday! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here are the answers to Thursday's Cisco training questions! Cisco CCENT 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 Answers: A. Routing occurs at the Network layer. B. IP addresses are used at the Network layer. C. Physical addresses, also known as MAC addresses, are used at the Data Link layer. D. TCP runs at the Transport layer. E. UDP also runs at the Transport layer. 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. Answer: B. Extended ACLs use both the source and destination IP address for matching by default. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: The default OSPF cost for a serial interface connected to a T1 line is ____________. Answer: 64. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam: Short ans...

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It's Thursday, April 11, and here are your free Cisco certification exam questions for today! Cisco CCENT 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 (PQ) B. Weighted Fair Q...

Here are the answers to Wednesday's free Cisco certification training questions! CCENT 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 network at the Access layer of ...

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Here are your free Cisco CCNA, CCENT, and CCNP questions for Wednesday, April 9! Security+ questions return on May 10, and look for Server 2008 and Microsoft Vista questions to begin shortly after that! 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 ...

Here are the answers to your free Cisco questions from Tuesday, April 9! CCNA 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 Answer: C. The contents of NVRAM will be ignored during the boot process, but not erased. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: Name three methods of migrating from IPv4 to IPv6. Answer: Three such methods are 6to4 tunneling, NAT-PT, and Dual Stack. 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 revisi...

Here are your free Cisco certification exam training questions for Tuesday, April 8! 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 generally...