Net+ 8

Convergence state in routing refers to a situation where:

All routers have finished updating their routing tables

Which of the answers listed below refers to the process of the automated update of a routing table?

Dynamic routing

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) provides what kind of resolution?

IP to MAC

Which of the following solutions alleviates the problem of the depleting IPv4 address space by allowing multiple hosts on the same private LAN to share a single public IP address?

NAT

Which of the following solutions hides the internal IP addresses by modifying IP address information in IP packet headers while in transit across a traffic routing device?

NAT

Which of the following answers refers to a Network Address Translation (NAT) method that binds a combination of private IP address and port number with a corresponding public IP address and port information?

PAT

A field in an IP datagram that specifies how many more hops a packet can travel before being discarded is called:

TTL

Which of the following transmission types would be used to reach a networked host with unknown address?

broadcast

Which of the answers listed below refers to a network protocol providing means for controlling access to a transmission medium?

csma

Which of the following allows for controlling the shared medium in order to minimize collisions in 802.11 networks?

csma/cd

Which of the following solutions allows for verifying the absence of other traffic on a shared medium before transmitting in order to prevent collisions and loss of data in 802.3 networks?

csma/cd

Which of the following answer(s) refer(s) to the characteristic features of a MAC address?

hard coded into a NIC, 48 bit hexadecimal number, physical address

Which of the following commands would be used to display MAC address in Linux?

ifconfig

Which of the following answers lists a command-line command used to display MAC address in MS Windows?

ipconfig /all

Which of the following mechanisms can be used to prevent routing loops?

maximum hop count, TTL

A type of network traffic intended for a particular group of hosts is known as:

multicast

Which of the following command-line commands in MS Windows are used to display the contents of a routing table?

route print, netstat -r

Which of the devices listed below is used for separating broadcast domains?

router

A set of rules stored on a Layer 3 switch or a networked host that allows to determine the topology of the surrounding network is commonly referred to as:

routing

Which of the following network attack types exploits broadcast traffic?

smurf attack

A manually-configured routing entry is known as:

static route

A loopback interface on a router provides the means for basic testing whether the router is on and operational. t/f

t

In computer networking, a situation in which two or more demands are made simultaneously on equipment that can handle only one at any given moment is commonly referred to as collision. t/f

t

Network Address Translation (NAT) provides an IP proxy between a private LAN and a public network such as the Internet. t/f

t

A type of network traffic intended for a single host identified by a unique IP address is commonly referred to as:

unicast