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WorksheetsNetworking 11.6-11.9
Total questions: 37
Worksheet time: 1hrs 7mins
A technician receives a notification from a SOHO router manufacturer of a specific vulnerability that allows attackers to exploit SNMP traps to take over routers. The technician verifies the settings outlined in the notification.
Which of the following actions should the technician take NEXT?
Check for and apply firmware updates
Disable DHCP
Enable content filtering
Enable MAC filtering
A SOHO customer finds that their VoIP conversations frequently break up and become unintelligible. This happens most often when one person in the office streams video from the internet.
Which of the following configuration changes on the SOHO router is MOST likely to improve the VoIP performance?
Change DHCP to give the VoIP phone a static IP address.
Create a screened subnet and add the VoIP phone.
Change QoS settings to give VoIP traffic more priority.
Forward UDP ports 5060 - 5065 to the VoIP phone.
A technician is installing a new SOHO wireless router.
Which of the following is the FIRST thing the technician should do to secure the router?
Disable SSID broadcast
Change the router's default password
Adjust radio power levels
press the WPS button
You are an IT technician for your company. Your boss has asked you to set up and configure a wireless network to service all of the conference rooms.
Which of the following features lets you allow or reject client connections by hardware address?
SSID
WEP
MAC address filtering
WPA2
A technician is installing a SOHO router at an after-school community center. The customer would like to keep children from accessing inappropriate content while browsing the web.
Which of the following actions would help accomplish this goal?
Enable content filtering.
Disable SSID broadcast.
Update the firmware.
Disable DHCP.
A technician is installing a network-enabled smart home control system in a SOHO.
Which of the following configurations is MOST likely required on the SOHO router in order to access the system from the internet?
Port forwarding
QoS
NAT
DHCP
A technician is replacing a SOHO router and has configured DHCP to assign private IP addresses to hosts on the local network. These hosts can communicate with each other, but users can't browse the internet.
Which of the following changes to the SOHO router is MOST likely to restore internet connectivity?
Disable DHCP and configure the hosts with static IP addresses.
Remove any QoS settings that give low priority to HTTP traffic.
Update the firmware on the SOHO router.
Configure the SOHO router for NAT.
Which of the following identifies the network name on a wireless network?
WPA2 passphrase
WEP key
SSID
MAC address
Which of the following locations will contribute the greatest amount of interference to a wireless access point? (Select two.)
Near DCHP servers
Near exterior walls
The top floor of a two-story building
Near cordless phones
Near backup generators
Which Windows network location enables network discovery and allows files and printers to be easily shared?
Domain
Work
Public
Private
Currently, your company is in the process of upgrading security in the company headquarters building by installing biometric sensors to limit access to specific rooms.
Your network switches are PoE-enabled, which allows biometric sensors to connect to switches without an external power source.
Which of the following PoE standards is designed for use with biometric sensors?
PoE+
PoE++
Standard PoE
Higher-power PoE
Which of the following hardware devices regenerates a signal out to all connected ports without examining the frame or packet contents?
Bridge
Router
Switch
Gateway
Hub
You are using a patch panel to connect the computers in your building to the appropriate switches, and you need to connect the Ethernet wires from the building network port cables to the patch panel.
Where do you connect the wires on a patch panel?
You connect the incoming wires to the front and the outgoing wires to the back.
You connect the outgoing wires to the front and the incoming wires to the back.
Yon connect the wires to the backside of the panel.
You connect the wires to the frontside of the panel.
You want to connect your internal network to an external network in order to provide internet access to your employees.
Which of the following network components is designed to make this type of connection?
PoE
Router
Switch
Hub
Which of the following is a specialized controller that you can use to remotely manage all your network devices?
PoE
VLAN
SDN
SSH
A technician determines that an older network hub that connects 24 workstations is performing poorly due to excessive network collisions.
Which of the following network devices would be the BEST replacement?
Router
Bridge
Switch
Patch panel
You are currently using a cellular network plan that provides maximum speeds of up to 10 Gbps for your smart phone.
Which of the following cellular network types are you using?
5G
2G
3G
4G
Which of the following are options for connecting a computing device, such as a notebook computer or tablet, to a cellular network? (Select four.)
Use a USB cable to connect the device to the network through a smartphone.
Use an integrated cellular antenna to connect the device directly to the cellular network.
Use the device's Wi-Fi to connect to the network through a cellular Wi-Fi hot spot.
Use the device's Wi-Fi to connect to the cellular network through a cable modem's Wi-Fi antenna.
Use a USB cellular adapter to connect the device directly to the cellular network.
You have subscribed to a satellite radio service that you use in your car to access music and news on long trips through areas where cellular service is not available.
However, when going through long tunnels and heavily forested canyons, you sometimes lose your signal for a short period of time.
Which of the following satellite technologies is your service provider using?
GEO
SDSL
ADSL
LEO
A healthcare organization provides mobile clinics throughout the world and needs to transfer patients' statistical data to a central database via the internet.
Which network technology would be BEST to use to ensure network connectivity for any clinic located anywhere in the world, even remote areas?
DSL
Satelite
Cable modem
ISDN
Dial-up
Which utility can you use to view a computer's current connections, active sessions, and ports?
nslookup
ping
netstat
ipconfig
Examine the following output:
4 22 ms 21 ms 22 ms sttlwa01gr02.bb.ispxy.com [154.11.10.62]
5 39 ms 39 ms 65 ms plalca01gr00.bb.ispxy.com [154.11.12.11]
6 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms Rwest.plalca01gr00.bb.ispxy.com [154.11.3.14]
7 40 ms 39 ms 46 ms svl-core-03.inet.ispxy.net [205.171.205.29]
8 75 ms 117 ms 63 ms dia-core-01.inet.ispxy.net [205.171.142.1]
Which command produced this output?
ping
tracert
nslookup
netstat
A user reports that they cannot browse to a specific website on the internet. From their computer, you find that a ping test to IP address of the web server succeeds. A tracert test shows 17 hops to the destination web server.
What is the most likely cause of the problem?
Incorrect subnet mask value
Incorrect default gateway address
Duplicate IP addresses
Incorrect DNS server address
You are troubleshooting network connectivity issues on a workstation.
Which command would you use to request new IP configuration information from a DHCP server?
ipconfig /renew
net config
ipconfig /all
net use
You work in an office that uses Linux and Windows servers. The network uses the IP protocol. You are sitting at a Windows workstation, and an application you are using is unable to connect to a Windows server named FileSrv2.
Which of the following commands would work BEST to test network connectivity between your workstation and the server? (Select two.)
nslookup
dig
ping
arp
tracert
You are the network administrator of a branch office for your company. The branch office network is part of a WAN that covers most of the United States.
Users have been complaining that they are unable to access resources over the WAN at the main headquarters. You suspect that one of the routers between your office and the main headquarters is not working properly.
Which of the following TCP/IP utilities would be BEST to use to troubleshoot the routers?
netstat
tracert
nbtstat
nslookup
You are troubleshooting network connectivity issues on a Windows workstation. Which command would you use to view the network adapter's MAC address?
netstat
ipconfig
ping
ipconfig /all
nslookup
Several of your employees are experiencing limited connectivity issues when trying to access some websites on the internet from their workstations. However, they can access the local company network without any problems.
You have already tried using the ip and ipconfig commands to determine that the websites can be reached and that the IP information on the workstations is configured properly. You know that the connection to your internet service provider is working properly as well.
What should you do next?
Make sure that the DNS server is functioning properly.
Replace the workstations' network cables.
Verify that the workstations' DNS server information is correct.
Check for port flapping on the network switch.
You manage a network that has multiple internal subnets. You connect a workstation to the 192.168.1.0 subnet using the default subnet mask. This workstation can communicate with some hosts on the private network, but not with other hosts. You run ipconfig /all and see the following:
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : mydomain.local
Description . . . . . . . : Broadcom network adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . : 00-AA-BB-CC-74-EF
DHCP Enabled . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled. . . : Yes
IPv4 Address . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.102(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway. . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1
DNS Servers. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.20
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the problem?
Incorrect default gateway
Incorrect subnet mask
Incorrect DNS server address
Incorrect IP address
Which of the following issues causes variations in the latency of VoIP packets?
Jitter
QoS
Half duplex
Port flapping
You have just installed a wireless network, but the network is experiencing slow speeds, especially when accessing the internet from your workstation.
Which action should you try FIRST to resolve the issue?
Move your workstation closer to the wireless access point.
Move the wireless access point.
Add a network extender.
Reset your wireless router to the factory defaults.
Which of the following is a common cause for high latency issues on a network?
Limited connectivity
Malware
A bad switch or router
Port flapping
You have had several employees call the help desk where you work, complaining that they are not able to reach the www.widgets.com server. To help troubleshoot this issue, you decide to run a variety of commands.
Which of the following commands is MOST likely to return the IP address of the desired server?
You have just connected a new computer to your local network. The network uses static IP addressing. You find that the computer can communicate with hosts on the same subnet, but not with hosts on a different subnet. No other computers are having problems.
Which of the configuration values would you most likely need to change?
DNS server
Default gateway
IP address
Subnet mask
After several new computers are connected to a network device, every computer connected to the device begins to experience slow transfer speeds.
Which of the following is the FIRST step to troubleshoot this problem?
Use a cable tester to determine whether all cables between each computer and the device are good.
Use a loopback plug to determine whether the NIC in each computer is good.
Determine whether the network device is a hub or a switch.
Use a loopback plug to determine whether each port on the network device is good.
You manage a network that has multiple internal subnets. You connect a workstation to the 192.168.1.0 subnet, which uses the default subnet mask. This workstation can communicate with some hosts on the private network, but not with other hosts. You run ipconfig /all and see the following:
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : mydomain.local
Description . . . . . . . : Broadcom network adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . : 00-AA-BB-CC-74-EF
DHCP Enabled . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled. . . : Yes
IPv4 Address . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.102(Preferred)
Subnet Mask. . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.20 192.168.1.27
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the problem?
Incorrect DNS server address
Incorrect subnet mask
Incorrect default gateway
Incorrect IP address
A laptop has a wired connection to a network and is configured with a static IP address. The link light on the NIC is lit, but the laptop cannot communicate with any hosts on the local network.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?
The network settings are configured with the wrong gateway address.
Packet collisions are preventing the laptop from sending or receiving network communications.
The IP address conflicts with another host on the local network.
The laptop is connected to a hub instead of a switch.
