An administrator notices an unused cable behind a cabinet that is terminated with a DB-9 connector. Which of the following protocols was MOST likely used on this cable?

A network technician has created a network consisting of an external internet connection, a DMZ, an internal private network, and an administrative network. All routers and switches should be configured to accept SSH connections from which of the following network segments?

During a check of the security control measures of the company network assets, a network administrator is explaining the difference between the security controls at the company. Which of the following would be identified as physical security controls? (Select TWO)

A customer is attempting to download a file from a remote FTP server, but receives an error that a connection cannot be opened. Which of the following should be one FIRST to resolve the problem?

While monitoring the network, a technician notices that the network traffic to one of the servers is extremely high. Which of the following should the technician use to verify if this is a concern?

Which of the following integrity security mechanisms ensures that a sent message has been received intact, by the intended receiver?

A device operating at Layer 3 of the OSI model uses which of the following protocols to determine the path to a different network?

A technician needs to install a server to authenticate remote users before they have access to corporate network resources when working from home. Which of the following servers should the technician implement?

A client is concerned about a hacker compromising a network in order to gain access to confidential research data. Which of the following could be implemented to redirect any attackers on the network?

A technician just completed a new external website and setup access rules in the firewall. After some testing, only users outside the internal network can reach the site. The website responds to a ping from the internal network and resolves the proper public address. Which of the following could the technician do to fix this issue while causing internal users to route to the website using an internal address?

Users are reporting extreme slowness across the network every Friday. Which of the following should the network technician review first to narrow down the root cause of the problem?

A company has contracted with an outside vendor to perform a service that will provide hardware, software, and procedures in case of a catastrophic failure of the primary datacenter. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is concerned because this contract does not include a long-term strategy for extended outages. Which of the following should the CIO complete?

The RAID controller on a server failed and was replaced with a different brand. Which of the following will be needed after the server has been rebuilt and joined to the domain?

A network technician is troubleshooting a problem at a remote site. It has been determined that the connection from router A to router B is down. The technician at the remote site re-terminates the CAT5 cable that connects the two routers as a straight through cable. The cable is then tested and is plugged into the correct interface. Which of the following would be the result of this action?

Multiple students within a networking lab are required to simultaneously access a single switch remotely. The administrator checks and confirms that the switch can be accessed using the console, but currently only one student can log in at a time. Which of the following should be done to correct this issue?

Which of the following devices implements CSMA/CA virtually through the RTS/CTS protocols?

A network technician wants to allow HTTP traffic through a stateless firewall. The company uses the 192.168.0.0/24 network. Which of the following ACL should the technician configure?

A technician is troubleshooting a point-to-point fiber-optic connection. The technician is at a remote site and has no connectivity to the main site. The technician confirms the switch and the send-and-receive light levels are within acceptable range. Both fiber SFPs are confirmed as working. Which of the following should the technician use to reveal the location of the fault?

Which of the following ports is used to provide secure sessions over the web by default?

A technician has punched down only the middle two pins (pins 4 and 5) on an ethernet patch panel. The technician has cabled this port to be used with which of the following?

A technician is connecting a NAS device to an Ethernet network. Which of the following technologies will be used to encapsulate the frames?

Peter, a network technician, is setting up a DHCP server on a LAN segment. Which of the following options should Peter configure in the DHCP scope, in order to allow hosts on that LAN segment using dynamic IP addresses, to be able to access the Internet and internal company servers? (Select THREE).

Which of the following PDUs is used by a connectionless protocol?

A contractor is setting up and configuring conference rooms for a convention. The contractor sets up each room in the conference center to allow wired Internet access going to individual tables. The contractor measured the distance between the hotel’s patch panel to the jack, and the distance is within Cat 5e specifications. The contractor is concerned that the room will be out of specification if cables are run in each room from the wall jacks. Which of the following actions should the contractor take to ensure the cable runs meet specifications and the network functions properly?

A technician installs a new piece of hardware and now needs to add the device to the network management tool database. However, when adding the device to the tool using SNMP credentials, the tool cannot successfully interpret the results. Which of the following would need to be added to the network management tool to allow it to interpret the new device and control it using SNMP?

A client reports that half of the office is unable to access a shared resource. Which of the following should be used to troubleshoot the issue?

A network technician is troubleshooting a network connection error, when pinging the default gateway no reply is received. The default gateway is found to be functioning properly but cannot connect to any workstations. At which of the following OSI layers could the problem exist? (Select TWO)

A network engineer is dispatched to an employee office to troubleshoot an issue with the employee’s laptop. The employee is unable to connect to local and remote resources. The network engineer flips the laptop’s wireless switch on to resolve the issue. At which of the following layers of the OSI model was the issue resolved?

Which of the following protocols is used to encapsulate other network layer protocols such as multicast and IPX over WAN connections?

A network technician has received comments from several users that cannot reach a particular website. Which of the following commands would provide the BEST information about the path taken across the network to this website?

A user is unable to connect to a server in another building. A technician is troubleshooting the issue and determines the following:

1) Client PC 1 has an IP address if 192.168.10.25/25

2) PC 1 can successfully ping its gateway of 192.168.10.1/25 which is an interface of router A

3)Server A is named ‘BLDGBFILESRVR01’ and has an IP address of 192.168.10.145/25

4) PC 2 with an IP address of 192.168.10.200/25 can successfully ping server A

However, when PC 1 pings server A, it receives a destination host unreachable responds. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

A technician logs onto a system using Telnet because SSH is unavailable. SSH is enabled on the target device, and access is allowed from all subnets. The technician discovers a critical step was missed. Which of the following would allow SSH to function properly?

A network technician was tasked to install a network printer and share it to a group of five human resource employees. The technician plugged the device into a LAN jack, but was unable to obtain an IP address automatically. Which of the following is the cause of the problem?

Which of the following devices should a network administrator configure on the outermost part of the network?

A company has seen an increase in ransomware across the enterprise. Which of the following should be implemented to reduce the occurrences?

Jane, a network technician, has just installed a fiber switch in a datacenter. To run the fiber cabling, Jane plans the cable route over the top of the rack using the cable trays, down to the switch, coiling up any excess cable. As Jane configures the switch, she notices several messages in the logging buffer stating the receive signal of the SFP is too weak. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of the errors in the logging buffer?

A technician add memory to a router, but that memory is never recognized by the router. The router is then powered down, and the technician relocates all of the memory to different modules. On startup, the router does not boot and displays memory errors. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?

When a client calls and describes a problem with a computer not being able to reach the Internet, in which of the following places of the OSI model would a technician begin troubleshooting?

Jane, a network technician, was asked to remove a virus. Issues were found several levels deep within the directory structure. To ensure the virus has not infected the .mp4 files in the directory, she views one of the files and believes it contains illegal material. Which of the following forensics actions should Jane perform?

A company is selecting a fire suppression system for their new datacenter and wants to minimize the IT system recovery period in the event of a fire. Which of the following is the best choice for the fire suppression system?

A network technician has configured a point-to-point interface on a router, however, once the fiber optic cables have been run, the interface will not come up. The technician has cleaned the fiber connectors and used an optical power meter to confirm that light is passing in both directions without excessive loss. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

After connecting a workstation directly to a small business firewall, a network administrator is trying to manage it via HTTPS without losing its stored configuration. The only two pieces of information that the network administrator knows about the firewall are the management interface MAC address, which is 01:4a:d1:fa:b1:0e, and the administrator’s password. Which of the following will allow the administrator to log onto the firewall via HTTPS if the management’s IP address is unknown and the administrator’s workstation IP address is 192.168.0.10/23?

A network technician must create a wireless link between two buildings in an office park utilizing the 802.11ac standard. The antenna chosen must have a small physical footprint and minimal weight as it will be mounted on the outside of the building. Which of the following antenna types is BEST suited for this solution?

When configuring a new server, a technician requests that an MX record be created in DNS for the new server, but the record was not entered properly. Which of the following was MOST likely installed that required an MX record to function properly?

A technician has finished configuring AAA on a new network device. However, the technician is unable to log into the device with LDAP credentials but is able to do so with a local user account. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for the problem?

A user with an 802.11n WLAN card is connected to a SOHO network and is only able to connect at 11 Mbps with full signal strength. Which of the following standards is implemented on the network?

A technician is attempting to resolve an issue with users on the network not being able to access websites. The technician pings the default gateway and DNS servers successfully. Pinging a website by URL is unsuccessful but using a known IP address is successful. Which of the following will resolve the issue?

Which of the following ports should be allowed to provide access to certain VoIP applications?

A company is deploying a new wireless network and requires 800Mbps network throughput. Which of the following is the MINIMUM configuration that would meet this need?

A company recently upgraded all of its printers to networked multifunction devices. Users can print to the new devices, but they would also like the ability to scan and fax files from their computers. Which of the following should the technician update to allow this functionality?

An administrator has a physical server with a single NIC. The server needs to deploy two virtual machines. Each virtual machine needs two NIC’s, one that connects to the network, and a second that is a server to server heartbeat connection between the two virtual machines. After deploying the virtual machines, which of the following should the administrator do to meet these requirements?

A network topology in which all nodes have point to point connections to all other nodes is known as which of the following?

A company has added several new employees, which has caused the network traffic to increase by 200%. The network traffic increase from the new employees was only expected to be 20% to 30%. The administration suspects that the network may have been compromised. Which of the following should the network administrator have done previously to minimize the possibility of a network breach?

A network administrator has a monitoring system in place that is currently polling hundreds of network devices at regular intervals. The continuous polling is causing high CPU utilization on the server. Which of the following tasks should the administrator perform to resolve the CPU issue while maintaining full monitoring capabilities?

A network engineer wants to a segment the network into multiple broadcast domains. Which of the following devices would allow for communication between the segments?

Channel bonding will improve which of the following wireless characteristics?

A technician is diagnosing an issue with a new T1 connection. The router is configured, the cable is connected, but the T1 is down. To verify the configuration of the router, which of the following tools should the technician use?

The management team wants to set up a wireless network in their office but all of their phones operate at the 2.4 GHz frequency. They need a wireless network that would be able to operate at a higher frequency than their phones. Which of following standards should be used?

A company installs a new mail server. Which of the following DNS records need to be configured to allow the organization to receive email?

A technician has prolonged contact with a thermal compound. Which of the following resources should be consulted?

Which of the following policies would Peter, a user, have to agree to when he brings in his personal tablet to connect to the company’s guest wireless Internet?

Which of the following 802.11g antennas broadcast an RF signal in a specific direction with a narrow path?

A facility would like to verify each individual’s identity prior to allowing access to the datacenter. Additionally,the facility would like to ensure that users do not tailgate behind other users. Which of the following would BEST meet these goals?

A malicious student is blocking mobile devices from connecting to the internet when other students are in the classroom. Which of the following is the malicious student implementing?

Jane, a system administrator, is troubleshooting an issue with a DNS server. She notices that the security logs have filled up and that they need to be cleared from the event viewer. She recalls this being a daily occurrence. Which of the following solutions would BEST resolve this problem?

A single mode fiber is no longer providing network connectivity to a remote site. Which of the following would be used to identify the location of the break?

A company utilizes a patching server to regularly update their PC’s. After the latest round of patching all of the older PCs with non-gigabit Ethernet cards become disconnected from the network and now require a technician to fix the issue locally at each PC. Which of the following should be done to prevent this issue in the future?

A technician needs to limit the amount of broadcast traffic on a network and allow different segments to communicate with each other. Which of the following options would satisfy these requirements?

A technician discovers that multiple switches require a major update. Which of the following policies should be followed?

Two weeks after installation, a network technician is now unable to log onto any of the newly installed company switches. The technician suspects that a malicious user may have changed the switches’ settings before they were installed in secure areas. Which of the following is the MOST likely way in which the malicious user gained access to the switches?

A customer cannot access a company’s secure website. The company’s network security is reviewing the firewall for the server and finds the following output:

Which of the following changes should be made to allow all customers to access the company’s secure website?

A network administrator notices that the border router is having high network capacity loads during non-working hours which is causing web services outages. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

When two or more links need to pass traffic as if they were one physical link, which of the following would be used to satisfy the requirement?

A network engineer is designing a new network for a remote site. The remote site consists of ten desktop computers, ten VoIP phones, and two network printers. In addition, two of the desktop computers at the remote site will be used by managers who should be on a separate network from the other eight computers. Which of the following represents the BEST configuration for the remote site?

A company is experiencing very slow network speeds of 54Mbps. A technician has been hired to perform an assessment on the existing wireless network. The technician has recommended an 802.11n network infrastructure. Which of the following allows 802.11n to reach higher speeds?

A technician is setting up a direct connection between two older PCs so they can communicate but not be on the corporate network. The technician does not have access to a spare switch but does have spare Cat 6 cables, RJ-45 plugs, and a crimping tool. The technician cuts off one end of the cable. Which of the following should the technician do to make a crossover cable before crimping the new plug?

A contractor was hired to troubleshoot congestion issues on the network. After a few of the switches have been reconfigured/upgraded by the contractor, congestion worsens and collisions increase. Which of the following is the BEST action to alleviate the situation?

A network topology that utilizes a central device with point-to-point connections to all other devices is which of the following?

Which of the following physical security controls prevents an attacker from gaining access to a network closet?