Networking Devices and Initial Configuration Quiz

1. What characteristic of a network enables it to quickly grow to support new users and applications without impacting the performance of the service being delivered to existing users?

• reliability
• scalability
• quality of service
• accessibility

2. A student is streaming a movie to his computer but the movie keeps stopping. What service would give streaming traffic higher priority and avoid the movie stopping?

• HTTPS
• quality of service (QoS)
• fault tolerance
• security

3. Which term is associated with Cloud computing?

• teleworkers
• wireless
• tall servers
• virtualization

4. Which term describes the type of cloud computing service that provides applications over the web?

• IaaS
• SaaS
• ITaaS
• PaaS

5. Given the binary address of 11101100 00010001 00001100 00001010, which address does this represent in dotted decimal format?

• 234.16.12.10
• 236.17.12.6
• 234.17.10.9
• 236.17.12.10

6. Which is a valid hexadecimal number?

• f
• g
• h
• j

7. What type of address is physically assigned to the NIC of a workstation?

• IP address
• host address
• MAC address
• network address

8. Which term describes the state of a network when the demand on the network resources exceeds the available capacity?

• convergence
• congestion
• optimization
• synchronization

9. What is the length restriction of the data field in an Ethernet frame?

• between 0 to 1500 bytes
• between 46 to 1500 bytes
• between 46 to 1518 bytes
• between 46 to 1522 bytes

10. What important information is examined in the Ethernet frame header by a Layer 2 device in order to forward the data onward?

• source MAC address
• destination MAC address
• source IP address
• destination IP address