Chapter 8: Review Practice Quiz

When a switch receives a frame on a port and floods the frame, what does it do with the frame?

• Discards it

• Changes the destination address to FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF

• Forwards it out all other connected ports

• Clears the switching table and adds the frame source address to the table

Which of the following is considered a Layer 2 device?

• Computer

• Switch

• Router

• Hub

Which is the fastest switching method?

• Store-and-forward

• Fragment-free

• Cut-through

• Forward-free

What does it mean if the first 24 bits of a MAC address are 01:00:5E?

• The NIC was manufactured by Intel

• It’s a multicast frame.

• It’s an invalid CRC.

• The frame will be flooded.

What feature should you look for in switches if your network is cabled so that multiple switches are connected together for redundancy?

• VLANs

• Auto-negotiate

• STP

• Auto-MDIX

Which of the following is a Layer 3 device? (Choose all that apply.)

• a. Router

• b. NIC

• c. Switch

• d. Multilayer switch

Which of the following is found in a

routing table? (Choose all that apply.)

• a. Destination MAC address

• b. TCP port number

• c. Metric

• d. Next hop

• e. Domain name

Which of the following accurately

describes a distance-vector routing protocol?

• OSPF is an example.

• It learns from its neighbors.

• It sends the status of its interface links to other routers.

• It converges the fastest.

Which of the following is a characteristic of routing protocols? (Choose all that apply.)

• They populate routing tables

  statically.

• Network changes are reflected in the

  routing table automatically.

• They’re not a good solution with

  redundant routes.

• They add routing table entries

  dynamically.

The process of moving a packet from the incoming interface to the outgoing interface is known as which of the following?  

• metric checking 

   

• frame forwarding 

• packet forwarding

• round-robin