1. When using DiffServ, what type of forwarding utilizes a minimum departure rate from a given node, which is then assigned to each data stream?
a. assured forwarding
b. prioritized forwarding
c. scaled forwarding
d. expedited forwarding
expedited forwarding
2. Packets that are smaller than a medium's minimum packet size are known by what term below?
a. jabbers
b. giants
c. ghosts
d. runts
runts
3. In planning for disaster recovery, what is the ultimate goal?
a. The preservation of critical data.
b. The continuation of business.
c. The management of damage.
d. The protection of infrastructure.
The continuation of business.
4. How does a line conditioning UPS protect network equipment?
a. It protects against electrical surges.
b. It shields equipment from lightning damage.
c. It reduces fluctuations in incoming voltage.
d. It filters line noise from incoming power.
It filters line noise from incoming power.
5. A snapshot is most similar to which type of backup scheme?
a. incremental backup
b. differential backup
c. full backup
d. versioned backup
incremental backup
6. A network TAP serves what purpose on a network?
a. It provides a mirrored port for monitoring traffic between other ports.
b. It provides wireless monitoring capabilities, as well as spectrum analysis.
c. It monitors network throughput at a specific po
It provides a mirrored port for monitoring traffic between other ports.
7. When viewing a syslog message, what does a level of 0 indicate?
a. The message is an error condition on the system.
b. The message is a warning condition on the system.
c. The message is an emergency situation on the system.
d. The message represents d
The message is an emergency situation on the system.
8. What does the Common Address Redundancy Protocol do?
a. It allows a pool of computers or interfaces to share the same MAC address.
b. It allows a pool of computers or interfaces to share the same IP address.
c. It allows multiple devices to share the s
It allows a pool of computers or interfaces to share the same IP address.
9. What happens when an NMS uses the SNMP walk command?
a. The NMS sends a request for data to the agent on a managed device.
b. The NMS uses get requests to move through sequential rows in the MIB database.
c. The NMS requests a list of all active SNMP t
The NMS uses get requests to move through sequential rows in the MIB database.
10. When a device handles electrical signals improperly, usually resulting from a bad NIC, it is referred to by what term below?
a. ghost
b. jabber
c. talker
d. blabber
jabber
11. Each managed object on a managed device using SNMP is assigned which of the following?
a. object identifier (OID)
b. TCP/UDP port
c. process ID
d. inode number
object identifier (OID)
12. What is distributed switching?
a. It is when multiple physical switches are configured to act as a single switch.
b. It is multiple switches that provide redundancy switching for all switches in the group.
c. It is a single physical switch that is par
It is a single distributed vSwitch that can service VMs across multiple hosts.
13. If you wish to maintain a "4 nines" availability rating, what is the maximum amount of down time you can have per day?
a. .4 seconds
b. 8 seconds
c. 1 minute, 26 seconds
d. 14 minutes, 23 seconds
8 seconds
14. What term is used to describe the average amount of time that will pass for a device before a failure is expected to occur?
a. estimated time to failure (ETTF)
b. product cycle lifetime (PCL)
c. maximum time available (MTA)
d. mean time between failur
mean time between failures (MTBF)
15. The grouping of multiple servers so that they appear as a single device to the rest of the network is known as which term?
a. load balancing
b. clustering
c. link aggregating
d. server overloading
clustering
16. The Link Aggregation Control Protocol was initially defined by what IEEE standard?
a. IEEE 802.3af
b. IEEE 802.1cd
c. IEEE 802.3ad
d. IEEE 802.3bd
IEEE 802.3ad
17. Once a device has failed, what metric measures the average amount of time to repair?
a. mean time to repair (MTTR)
b. mean time to restore (MTTR)
c. mean field replacement time (MFRT)
d. mean restoration time (MRT)
mean time to repair (MTTR)
18. Which of the following statements describes a RAID 0 configuration?
a. In a RAID 0, data is striped across multiple disks to improve performance.
b. In a RAID 0, data is mirrored on multiple disks to provide fault tolerance.
c. In a RAID 0, data is st
In a RAID 0, data is striped across multiple disks to improve performance.
19. You are attempting to determine how available your Linux systems are, and need to find the current system uptime. What command should you use?
a. uptime
b. show runtime
c. lastboot
d. display stats
uptime
20. At what point is a packet considered to be a giant?
a. It becomes a giant when it exceeds the medium's maximum packet size.
b. It becomes a giant when it exceeds 1500 bytes.
c. It becomes a giant only when fragmented pieces are reassembled and the pac
It becomes a giant when it exceeds the medium's maximum packet size.
21. What 3-bit field in a 802.1Q tag is modified to set a frame's Class of Service (CoS)?
a. EtherType
b. CRC checksum
c. Tag Protocol Identifier (TPID)
d. Priority Code Point (PCP)
Priority Code Point (PCP)
22. A highly available server is available what percentage of the time?
a. 90%
b. 99%
c. 99.99%
d. 99.999%
99.999%
23. A differential backup covers what data on a system?
a. It includes all data every time it is performed.
b. It includes only data that has changed since the last backup.
c. It includes data that has changed since the last full backup.
d. It includes da
It includes data that has changed since the last full backup.
24. When using SNMP with TLS, what port do agents receive requests on?
a. 161
b. 162
c. 10161
d. 10162
10161
25. Which type of uninterruptible power supply uses AC power to continuously charge its battery, while also providing power to devices through the battery?
a. standby UPS
b. online UPS
c. line conditioning UPS
d. surge UPS
online UPS