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 ports on a Cisco 24-port 2950 switch to 100 MBPS?

Answer: Use the interface range command to configure multiple ports at one time.
In this case, the command is:

SW1(config)#interface range fast 0/1 - 24
SW1(config-if-range)#speed 100

Notice that the prompt changes to interface range configuration mode.


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

Answer: E. That's what Weighted Fair Queueing (WFQ) does!


A new set of practice questions will be posted here later today - Thursday, April 24!

To your success,

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