(10/20) MTA 98-366 Networking Fundamentals

A ________ is the guaranteed certain amount of information provided by a circuit or line.

Committed Information Route

What speed does a T1 run at?

1.544 Mbps

How fast is a DS0 circuit?

The basic data transfer rate of the T-carrier system is 64 Kbps, which is known as DS0, which is the digital signaling scheme.

The ____________ is the largest WAN in the world.

Internet

What type of network can you set up that is another companys internal network?

extranet

What technology can you use temporarily to connect networks from two different companies?

VPN

Which VPN technology is the most common and the easiest to set up?

PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol)

What port does L2TP use?

1701

What acts as a middleman that translates between internal and external addresses and that caches previously
accessed web pages so that it can provide those more quickly in the future?

proxy server

What type of device is used to detect malicious network activities and reports only those issues to the administrator?

NIDS (network intrusion detection system)

What type of device is designed to inspect traffic,detect malicious activities, and take steps to mitigate the
malicious activity?

NIPS

Which DMZ configuration uses one firewall with three interfaces?

three-leg perimeter configuration

What stage is the World Wide Web in?

2.0

What type of firewall works on the Session layer that creates a connection and allows packets to flow between
the two hosts without further checking?

circuit-level gateway

What type of firewall do you use to block access tocertain websites or instant messengers?

Internet content filter

An _________ is the internal network for an organization.

intranet

What port does PPTP use?

1723

What device is used to protect one network from another by using filtering packets?

Firewall

What type of configuration creates a DMZ between two firewalls?

Perimeter Network, DMZ

You work as a network technician at ABC.com. ABC.com has a wireless network configured in the
Sales department.
You have received an instruction to configure a wireless network for ABC.coms Sales department. You need to make sure that workstations of the

You should consider configuring encryption, and a Service Set Identifier (SSID) on the
workstations in the Sales department.

You work as a network technician at ABC.com.
You have received instructions to configure a Peer-to-Peer network for ABC.com.
What are advantages of this type of network? (2)

-Shared resources of peer computers are directly accessible.
-The sharing of content and resources can be done from both the center and the edge of the
network.

You work as a technician at ABC.com. ABC.com provides networking services to external customers.
You are configuring a standard LAN for a ABC.com customer, named Andy Reid. You want to make use of a cable that provides performance at 100 Mhz.
Which cable

Cat 5 cable

You work as an administrator at ABC.com. The ABC.com network consists of a single domain named ABC.com. All servers on the ABC.com network have Windows Server 2003 installed and
all workstations have Windows XP Professional installed.
You have been instru

You should consider installing a DNS server on ABC.com's network.

You work as a technician at ABC.com. ABC.com provides networking services to external clients.
One of ABC.coms clients has requested an ISDN configuration. What are characteristics of ISDN?

-it can be used over the client's existing telephone network.
-it is capable of communicating at speeds of up to 128 Kbps.

You are employed as a network administrator at ABC.com. The ABC.com network is TCP/IPbased.
You have been instructed to configure Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) on
ABC.coms network. What are characteristics of DHCP?

DHCP provides reliable IP address configuration, while reducing network administration.

You are employed as a senior administrator at ABC.com.
You are responsible for running training exercises for trainee administrators. You are currently
covering the layers of the Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) model.
You are explaining the session layer.

The session layer allows for two application processes on different workstations to establish,
use and terminate a connection.

You are employed as a network designer at ABC.com.
You are in the process of designing a Synchronous Optical Networking (SONET) fiber optic
solution. You have been informed that the solution should allow for a maximum transmission data
rate of 155.52 Mbps

You should consider making use of an OC-3 network line.

You are employed as a senior network technician at ABC.com.
You are hosting a training exercise for new trainees. You are discussing what the purpose of
CSMA/CD is in Ethernet standard networks.
What is it?

CSMA/CD forces computers to listen to the Ethernet before sending in order to make sure that
no other host on the wire is sending.

You are employed as a network administrator at ABC.com. The ABC.com network is TCP/IP based.
The ABC.com network contains a DNS server, named ABC-SR13. When the ABC-SR13 fails, you are asked to resolve the issue as soon as possible.
What is true in relati

ABC.com users will not be able to connect to resources via their host names.
ABC.com users will still be able to ping resources using IP addresses.

You work as a technician at ABC.com. ABC.com provides networking services to external customers.
You are configuring a wireless home network for a ABC.com customer, named Mia Hamm.
Subsequent to manually configuring the wireless clients with the correct S

To prevent wireless users in Mia Hamm's surrounding area from discovering her wireless
network.

You work as a network designer at ABC.com.
ABC.coms network is designed to have a combination of Bus, Star and ring network topologies.
What describes this type of network topology?

Hybrid network topology.

You are employed as a network technician at ABC.com.
You are connecting a new workstation to the network. The workstation includes a network adapter
card that has a RJ-45 input.
What kind of cable should you consider?

You should consider making use of twisted-pair cable with a RJ-45 connector.

You are employed as an administrator at ABC.com. ABC.coms network is TCP/IP-based.
You have executed the NETSTAT command without parameters from the command-line on your
workstation.
What might be the reason for executing this command?

For the purpose of viewing all active TCP connections.

You are employed as an administrator at ABC.com. ABC.coms network is TCP/IP-based.
ABC.com makes use of DNS for name resolution. You are hosting a training exercise for junior
administrators. You are discussing AAAA DNS resource records.
What do AAAA reso

AAAA resource records return a 128-bit IPv6 address.

You are employed as a senior administrator at ABC.com.
You are responsible for running training exercises for trainee administrators. You are currently
covering the layers of the Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) model.
You are explaining the network layer.

The network layer controls the operation of the subnet.

You are employed as a senior administrator at ABC.com.
You are responsible for running training exercises for trainee administrators. You are currently
covering the layers of the Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) model.
You are explaining the presentation l

The presentation layer translate s data from a format used by the application layer into a
common format at the sending station, then translate the common format to a format known to the
application layer at the receiving station.

Which of following options best describe the construction of Fiber-optic cables?
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You are employed as a network technician at ABC.com.
ABC.com is planning to replace their existing netw

Fiber-optic cable consists of a very thin cylinder of glass, called the core, which encircled by a
concentric layer of glass, known as the cladding.

You are employed as a network technician at ABC.com.
ABC.com is planning to replace their existing network cabling. ABC.com has requested that the
cabling be replaced with Fiber-optic cable.
What are benefits of using Fiber-optic cable? (2)

It provides a higher resistance to crosstalk.
It can transmit signals at very high speeds.

You are employed as a network administrator at ABC.com.
ABC.com has its headquarters in Dallas, and a new branch office Miami. The networks in both of
these offices are connected to the internet.
You have been instructed to devise a solution to allow the

You should consider configuring a virtual private network (VPN) between the Dallas and Miami
offices.

You are employed as a technician at ABC.com.
An ABC.com network user, named Mia Hamm, has reported that she is experiencing network
issues from her Windows NT workstation.
You want to view the workstations existing TCP/IP configuration.
What actions shoul

You should consider running the Ipconfig command line utility.