Addressing, Routing & Switching

Question 1

How does RIP route payloads?

Answer 1

By advertising a connected table to all neighbors every 30 seconds.

Question 1

Which of the following is responsible for the switch’s long-term memory?

Answer 1

ROM

Question 2

If a company with a very low budget needs to lease a public IP address to access the Internet what would you advise and why?

Answer 2

Port Address Translation would be their best option as they can pay for a single public IP address and share among the nodes within the network

Question 3

In dotted decimal, which network numbering segment is reserved for loopback?

Answer 3

127.x.x.x

Question 4

IPv4 represents a _____-bit integer and IPv6 represents a _____-bit alphanumeric string.

Answer 4

32, 128

Question 5

Which of the following statements is true?

Answer 5

MAC and IP addresses need to work in parallel for effective communication.

Question 6

Given the following IP address, which numbers represent the network?

227.21.6.173

Answer 6

227.21

Question 7

Which of the following refers to the path a data packet travels through to reach each router?

Answer 7

Hops

Question 8

What is the maximum number of IP addresses that can be assigned through means of IPv4?

Answer 8

4.3 billion

Question 9

The range of address that can be used in the first octet of Class C address are _____.

Answer 9

192-223

Question 10

The Subnet is a _____ of a computer network.

Answer 10

portion

Question 11

IGPs use _____, _____, and _____ criteria to determine data packet routes.

Answer 11

network speed, delays, and packet sizes

Question 12

A subnet mask _____

Answer 12

indicates the network address within the IP address

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT a component of a router?

Answer 13

Graphics card

Question 14

What protocol do computer systems (hosts) use when communicating with each other on a network?

Answer 14

IP Adress

Question 15

A(n) _____ is a network that is closed off from the Internet and only accessible from within a company.

Answer 15

intranet

Question 16

A class C has how many bits on in its subnet?

Answer 16

24

Question 17

Which two components enable a switch fabric to operate?

Answer 17

Controller and Buffers

Question 18

NAT serves which two main purposes?

Answer 18

Protecting the private network from the public domain and conserving the availability of public IP addresses.

Question 19

A class A network has how many network bits set to on?

Answer 19

8

Question 20

The three distance protocols that route information to other nodes that aren’t on the same subnet are?

Answer 20

RIP, OSPF, EIGRP

Question 21

IP Addresses operate within the _____ layer of the TCP/IP protocol.

Answer 21

Network Layer

Question 22

How could a non-routable device send or receive messages on the Internet?

Answer 22

Use network address translation

Question 23

Which of the following best defines the Routing Information Protocol?

Answer 23

It is a standard used by routers that dictates how data should be shared between a group of individual networks.

Question 24

How many bits does an IPv6 address contain before it gets translated into a hexadecimal code for use in a network?

Answer 24

128

Question 25

An IP address is written in the form of _____ notation.

Answer 25

Dotted Decimal

Question 26

Where is the subnet address contained?

Answer 26

in the IP Address and is extracted via the Subnet Mask

Question 27

What are the two main routing classifications?

Answer 27

Interior and Exterior Gateway Protocols

Question 28

An IP address consists of the following two parts:

Answer 28

Network address and node address

Question 29

Which of the following best describes what a router is?

Answer 29

It is a networking device that allows separate individual networks of computers to connect with one another.