Cisco Chapter 5 Quiz
Which two functions or operations are performed by the MAC sublayer?
-It is responsible for Media Access Control. -It adds a header and trailer to form an OSI Layer 2 PDU.
Refer to the exhibit. What is the destination MAC address of the Ethernet frame as it leaves the web server if the final destination is PC1?
00-60-2F-3A-07-CC
What type of address is 01-00-5E-0A-00-02?
An address that reaches a specific group of hosts
Which destination address is used in an ARP request frame?
FFFF.FFFF.FFFF
Refer to the graphic. H2 has sent a broadcast message to all of the hosts. If host H1 wants to reply to broadcast message, which statement is true?
H1 sends a unicast message to H2, and the switch forwards it directs to H2.
What is a characteristic of a contention-based access method?
It is nondeterministic method.
Which action is taken by a Layer 2 switch when it receives a Layer 2 broadcast frame?
It sends the frame to all ports except the port on which it received the frame.
The Ethernet ___ sublayer is responsible for communicating directly with the physical layer.
Mac
Refer to the exhibit. PC1 issues an ARP request because it needs to send a packet to PC3. In this scenario, what will happen next?
RT1 will send an ARP reply with its own Fa0/0 MAC address.
A collision fragment, also known as a ___ frame, is a frame of fewer than 64 bytes in length.
RUNT
On Ethernet networks, the hexadecimal address FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF represents the __ MAC address.
broadcast
Which term defines the processing capabilities of a switch by rating how much data can be processed per second?
forwarding rate
Which interface command must be entered in a Layer 3 switch before an IPv4 address can be assigned to that interface?
no switchport
