use the appropriate statistics and sensors to ensure network availability.
A sysadmin recently upgraded the network connection of the corporate office from 10Mbps download and 1Mbps upload to 500Mbps download and 50Mbps upload. What did the sysadmin increase to improve access to the web?
Bandwidth
What describes the calculation of a checksum based on the contents of a frame used to detect errors?
CRC
Users are reporting that their phone calls are really garbled and of poor quality. What should the sysadmin investigate?
Jitter
A sysadmin noticed that there were changes to the hardware firewall not properly documented. The sysadmin does not know who made the change. What type of log should the sysadmin investigate that may shed light on who made the change in the firewall?
Audit
Employees are complaining that when browsing the company's web-based Content Relationship Management system, the company has 500 employees that use this system, and the contracted internet speed is 10Mbps download and 1Mbps upload. What should the sysadmin increase in order to improve access to the cloud system?
Bandwidth
A network engineer recently received brand new network equipment for the corporate office and wants to run a check of the systems to ensure they know what to expect from the equipment. What kind of report should the sysadmin run?
Baseline
After adding additional resources by filling in the remaining available sockets, users who remote into the terminal server are reporting that their Excel spreadsheet calculations are running much faster than before. What did the sysadmin most likely add to the server to improve performance?
Central processing unit
Users at a company are complaining that while connected to the terminal server, Excel spreadsheet calculations are taking too long. The sysadmin researched the issue and found that the server has maxed out some of its resources. The server has a vacant open socket to expand available resources for users. What would the sysadmin most likely add to the server to improve performance?
Central processing unit
A sysadmin is monitoring a server to see what is causing performance issues. The sysadmin sees high processor and memory utilization. What should the sysadmin monitor to see what is causing it?
Disk I/O
A network engineer is trying to get approval to replace aging networking equipment. The justification for the purchase was that the office lost connectivity due to the devices becoming overloaded and overheated. What was the engineer using as justification?
Downtime/Uptime
A network operations engineer is investigating alerts that the data center keeps switching to battery backup. What environmental factor should the engineer investigate?
Electrical
A sysadmin is researching a connectivity issue. The sysadmin sees the physical link listed as up, but the line protocol listed as down. What may be causing the issue that the sysadmin should investigate?
Encapsulation errors
A sysadmin is researching a connectivity issue. The sysadmin sees the physical link listed as up, but the line protocol listed as down. What should the sysadmin investigate to resolve the issue?
Encapsulation errors
A sysadmin is running into the issue that traffic is getting dropped by the network equipment. After researching the issue, the sysadmin found that the individual packets were too large. What should the sysadmin configure to remove?
Giants
A sysadmin improved the bandwidth for the office, improving the quality of phone calls. What did the sysadmin improve?
Jitter
A sysadmin is investigating an issue between two geographically distant offices. Users at these locations report that accessing the shared drive at the corporate office is taking too long, even though all three locations have gigabit-speed internet. What indicator could help direct the sysadmin to the issue?
Latency
After hooking up a computer to the network with an ethernet cable and connecting the corresponding patch panel port to the switch, the port did not light up, showing it is live. What does the sysadmin need to configure on the switch to fix the connectivity issue?
Link State
A sysadmin is setting up a new office for an employee. After hooking the computer up to the network with an ethernet cable, the sysadmin noticed the computer was not getting a connection. The sysadmin previously hooked up the corresponding patch panel port to the switch but is not seeing any lights on the port. What does the sysadmin need to configure on the switch to fix the connectivity issue?
Link state
If a syslog states that there is a critical, emergency, or informational issue, the syslog is referring to what? (Select all that apply.)
Logging levels Severity levels
A server running an SQL database is running out of capacity. The sysadmin noticed the disk space is not maxed out, and the processor is running at 25% capacity as well. What is another component of the server that the sysadmin should look at to restore the database's functionality?
Memory
What kind of tool can a network administrator run to measure the network statistics of a building's network equipment?
NetFlow
A sysadmin noticed a large amount of traffic connecting to a server, causing high processor and memory utilization. What was the sysadmin monitoring?
Packet count
A desktop engineer is responding to a support request stating that a brand-new machine with 16GB's memory and an m.2 SSD is still running too slow. What component did an administrator poorly choose when ordering the device?
Processor
A sysadmin is running into the issue that traffic is getting dropped by the network equipment. After researching the issue, the sysadmin found that the individual packets were too small. What should the sysadmin configure to remove?
Runts
A sysadmin is looking to monitor the network devices by pulling data off of them remotely. What kind of network equipment functionality can the sysadmin use to accomplish this?
SNMP trap
What describes the function of a switch that gathers and sends out device statistics and issues alerts?
SNMP trap
A new switch has a better ability to handle data transfer than a previous switch to prevent it from being overloaded. An overloaded router can cause a problem with what process?
Sending or receiving traffic
An overloaded router can cause a problem with what component?
Sending or receiving traffic
A sysadmin was monitoring the logs of the network equipment in the corporate office and noticed there were a lot of packet collisions. After digging around the individual network boxes, the sysadmin found that there was a misconfigured switch. What setting most likely contributed to packet collisions?
Speed/Duplex
After a sysadmin fixed the configurations of one of the switches, the number of packet collisions dropped to near zero. What setting was most likely contributing to the packet collisions?
Speed/Duplex
A sysadmin is trying to understand what is causing the company's virtual private network connections to fail. What kind of log would help the sysadmin track down the issue?
Syslog
A Heat/Ventilation/Air Conditioning contractor fixed the HVAC unit in the server room. The sysadmin stopped receiving alerts about servers having issues. What alerts did the sysadmin receive regarding the servers?
Temperature
The sysadmin is receiving alerts that the servers are having issues. A Heat/Ventilation/Air Conditioning system failed in the server room. What alerts did the sysadmin receive regarding the servers?
Temperature
A sysadmin is investigating an issue on a switch after receiving reports that connecting to any network resource, local or on the web, is much slower than normal. What kind of log should the sysadmin investigate to determine what may be causing the issue?
Traffic