Question: At which layer of the OSI model is RSTP used to prevent loops?

A. physical
B. data link
C. network
D. transport

Correct answer: B

Your answer: -

Explanation: http://www.learncisco.net/courses/icnd-2/vlans-and-spanning-tree/redundant-
topologies.html

Question: What value does an IPv6 link-local address begin with?

A. ::
B. FC00::/7
C. FE80::/10
D. ::1

Correct answer: C

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: You have been asked to come up with a subnet mask that will allow all three
web servers to be on the same network while providing the maximum number of subnets.
Which network address and subnet mask meet this requirement?

A. 192.168.252.0 255.255.255.252
B. 192.168.252.8 255.255.255.248
C. 192.168.252.8 255.255.255.252
D. 192.168.252.16 255.255.255.240
E. 192.168.252.16 255.255.255.252

Correct answer: B
Your answer: -

Explanation: http://www.learncisco.net/courses/ccna/part-2-ip-addressing-and-subnetting-
nat/variable-length-subnet-mask.html

Question: Which command is used to ensure that R2 advertises 203.0.113.0/29 to R1

instead of 203.0.113.0/24 to R1?

A. network
B. maximum-paths
C. version 2
D. auto-summary
E. no auto-summary

Correct answer: E

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: You are subnetting the 172.16.0.0/16 network so that you have 100 subnets.
How many bits do you need to borrow, what is the new subnet mask, and how many hosts
will be in each subnet?

A. There will be 254 possible hosts in each subnet

B. There will be 510 possible hosts in each subnet
C. /23 is the new subnet mask
D. 7 bits will be borrowed
E. 8 bits will be borrowed
F. /24 is the new subnet mask

Correct answer: B C D

Your answer: -

Explanation:
Question: You are configuring your Cisco IOS switch. You have issued the command
"enable secret my_secure_password".
What are the results of executing the command?

A. The password "my_secure_password" will be required to access the console port

B. The password "my_secure_password" will be hashed in the running configuration
C. The password "my_secure_password" will be required to access the vty lines
D. The password "my_secure_password" will be encrypted in the running configuration
E. The password "my_secure_password" will be required to access privilege EXEC mode
F. The password "my_secure_password" will be in plain text in the running configuration

Correct answer: B E

Your answer: -

Explanation: What are the results of executing the command?">

Question: What can you verify on a Cisco IOS ISR with the "show ip interface"
command?

A. The number of packets input and output on the interface

B. The IP address and subnet mask of the interface
C. The name or number of an ACL that is applied to the interface
D. Whether the router is a DHCP relay agent
E. The MAC address of the interface
F. The method used to assign the IP address to the interface
G. The status and protocol status of the interface

Correct answer: B C D G

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: Which address and wildcard mask combination will match all IPv4 addresses in
the networks 192.168.0.0/24 through 192.168.63.0/24?

A. 192.168.0.0 0.0.31.255
B. 192.168.0.0 0.0.3.255
C. 192.168.0.0 0.0.15.255
D. 192.168.0.0 0.0.7.255
E. 192.168.0.0 0.0.127.255
F. 192.168.0.0 0.0.1.255
G. 192.168.0.0 0.0.63.255

Correct answer: G

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: Which of the following technologies allows you to combine multiple PPP
sessions together?

A. ARPA
B. Multi-link PPP
C. SSL
D. TLS

Correct answer: B

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: While determining the best route and any backup routes to a destination, what
parameter does EIGRP use to determine the metric for a neighbor to reach a particular
network?

A. Feasible successor distance

B. Administrative distance
C. Reported distance
D. Feasible distance

Correct answer: C

Your answer: -

Explanation:
Question: How does the static default route appear in the routing table for IPv6?

A. ::/0
B. ::
C. 0:0
D. 0/::
E. 0.0.0.0/0

Correct answer: A

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: Which statements correctly define unique local unicast addresses?

A. They are not routable

B. They are identified by the prefix FE80::/10
C. They are identified by the prefix 2000::/3
D. They are identified by the prefix FC00::/7
E. They are routable in your private network
F. They are globally routable

Correct answer: D E

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: What information is returned from the "show spanning-tree vlan vlan_id"
command?

A. Interface, role, and cost information

B. Root ID information
C. Number of switches on the network
D. Bridge ID information
E. Routing protocol
Correct answer: A B D

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: What options should be checked when troubleshooting end-to-end connectivity?

A. The physical connection

B. The default gateway
C. The domain name resolution address
D. The computer name
E. The routing protocol

Correct answer: A B C

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: Refer to the exhibit. What two results would occur if the hub were to be replaced
with a switch that is configured with one Ethernet VLAN?

A. The number of collision domains would remain the same.

B. The number of collision domains would decrease.
C. The number of collision domains would increase.
D. The number of broadcast domains would remain the same.
E. The number of broadcast domains would decrease.
F. The number of broadcast domains would increase.

Correct answer: C D

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: What is the function of the command switchport trunk native vlan 999 on a
Cisco Catalyst switch?

A. It creates a VLAN 999 interface.

B. It designates VLAN 999 for untagged traffic.
C. It blocks VLAN 999 traffic from passing on the trunk.
D. It designates VLAN 999 as the default for all unknown tagged traffic.

Correct answer: B

Your answer: -

Explanation: http://www.learncisco.net/courses/icnd-1/medium-size-switched-network-
construction/vlans-and-trunk.html

Question: How does the "traceroute" command allow you to verify if you have
connectivity?

A. It generates a list of IPv6 hops that successfully reached along the path
B. It tests the transport layer connectivity for any TCP port
C. It allows observation of the path between two hosts
D. It does the same as ARP in IPv4

Correct answer: A C

Your answer: -

Explanation:
Question: You have a Class A network with a /27 subnet mask.
How many hosts can be addressed in that network?

A. 62
B. 6
C. 2
D. 30
E. 14
F. 126

Correct answer: D

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: What is the difference between a CSU/DSU and a modem?

A. A CSU/DSU converts analog signals from a router to a leased line; a modem converts
analog signals from a router to a leased line.
B. A CSU/DSU converts analog signals from a router to a phone line; a modem converts
digital signals from a router to a leased line.
C. A CSU/DSU converts digital signals from a router to a phone line; a modem converts
analog signals from a router to a phone line.
D. A CSU/DSU converts digital signals from a router to a leased line; a modem converts
digital signals from a router to a phone line.

Correct answer: D

Your answer: -

Explanation: http://www.learncisco.net/courses/icnd-2/wan-technologies/wan-connections-
overview.html

Question: When a subnet mask is presented in binary, what do the binary 1s represent?

A. The network portion of an associated address

B. The host portion of the subnet mask
C. The number of wildcard bits in the subnet mask
D. The number of wildcard bits in the address
E. The network portion of the subnet mask
F. The host portion of an associated address

Correct answer: A

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: How is Telnet used to verify connectivity?

A. It shows you the path required to reach the end device

B. To determine if you have access to a particular service on a device
C. It uses ICMP Echo requests to test connectivity
D. To verify basic connectivity to a device

Correct answer: B D

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: What guidelines must be followed to successfully form an EtherChannel

bundle?

A. The same duplex setting must be used

B. A mixture of access ports and trunk ports can be used
C. Every link that's going to bundled together must be using the exact same speed
D. The native VLAN can differ for every port that is being placed into that bundle

Correct answer: A C

Your answer: -

Explanation:
Question: You have a network that uses HRSP.
What is the simple way to determine that HSRP is being used from the PC?

A. View the route table and look at the MAC address

B. View the ARP table and look at the IP address
C. View the route table and look at the IP address
D. View the ARP table and look at the MAC address

Correct answer: D

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: Why doesn't increasing the number of uplinks solve congestion issues from
multiple links aggregating on a switch?

A. All traffic must pass through one physical link

B. Multiple links require extra overhead
C. All uplinks must be running at the same speed
D. STP disables ports to prevent loops

Correct answer: D

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: Which command is used on a Cisco IOS router to enable the DHCP Relay Agent
feature on an interface?

A. ip dhcp helper
B. ip dhcp relay
C. ip helper-address
D. ip dhcp relay-agent
E. ip dhcp transmit
F. ip dhcp helper-address

Correct answer: C
Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: Refer to the exhibit. How should the FastEthernet0/1 ports on the 2950 model
switches that are shown in the exhibit be configured to allow connectivity between all
devices?

A. The ports only need to be connected by a crossover cable.

B. SwitchX(config)# interface fastethernet 0/1
SwitchX(config-if)# switchport mode trunk
C. SwitchX(config)# interface fastethernet 0/1
SwitchX(config-if)# switchport mode access
SwitchX(config-if)# switchport access vlan 1
D. SwitchX(config)# interface fastethernet 0/1
SwitchX(config-if)# switchport mode trunk
SwitchX(config-if)# switchport trunk vlan 1
SwitchX(config-if)# switchport trunk vlan 10
SwitchX(config-if)# switchport trunk vlan 20

Correct answer: B

Your answer: -

Explanation:
Question: If you take the network 192.168.1.0/24 and create four subnets from it, what are
the new subnet IDs?

A. 192.168.1.128
B. 192.168.1.32
C. 192.168.1.96
D. 192.168.1.64
E. 192.168.1.192
F. 192.168.1.0

Correct answer: A D E F

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: At which phase of the DHCP process will a DHCP server provide the client with
an IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway?

A. Request
B. Acknowledge
C. Discover
D. Offer

Correct answer: D

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: What will the following IPv4 ACL accomplish when applied inbound on
interface FastEthernet0/0 of your Cisco ISR?

access-list 147 deny tcp 10.1.1.0 0.0.0.255 10.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 eq 23

A. Prevent any device with an IP address from 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255 from

establishing a telnet connection to any device with an IP address from 10.1.1.0 to
10.1.1.255
B. Allow any device with an IP address from 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255 from establishing
a telnet connection to any device with an IP address from 10.1.1.0 to 10.1.1.255
C. Allow any device with an IP address from 10.1.1.0 to 10.1.1.255 from establishing a
telnet connection to any device with an IP address from 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255
D. Allow any device with an IP address from 10.1.1.0 to 10.1.1.255 from establishing an
ssh connection to any device with an IP address from 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255
E. Prevent any device with an IP address from 10.1.1.0 to 10.1.1.255 from establishing a
telnet connection to any device with an IP address from 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255
F. Prevent any device with an IP address from 10.1.1.0 to 10.1.1.255 from establishing a
telnet connection to the local router

Correct answer: E

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: Which component is used to hold the critical electronic components of a router?

A. Motherboard
B. Memory
C. Interface
D. PSU
E. CPU

Correct answer: A

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: Which command will assign a static global IPv6 address to an interface?

A. ipv6 address 2001::12:1

B. ipv6 address fe80::12:1
C. ipv6 address 2001::12:1/64 global
D. ipv6 address fe80::12:1 global
E. ipv6 address fe80::12:1/64
F. ipv6 address 2001::12:1/64
Correct answer: F

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: You are configuring your edge routers interface with a public IP address for
Internet connectivity. The router needs to obtain the IP address from the service provider
dynamically. Which command is needed on interface FastEthernet 0/0 to accomplish this?

A. ip default-gateway
B. ip route
C. ip default-network
D. ip address dhcp
E. ip address dynamic

Correct answer: D

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: Which of the following outputs can the "show ip eigrp neigbors" command
provide?

A. The number of EIGRP packets that the software is waiting to send

B. The address of the neighboring device
C. The order you have learned neighborships in
D. The length of time EIGRP will wait to hear from the peer before declaring it down
E. The internal and external distances
F. The maximum path, hop count, and metric variance

Correct answer: A B C D

Your answer: -

Explanation:
Question: You want to create an access list on R2 to permit traffic from VLAN 10 to
access the Internet using HTTP. VLAN 10 has been configured to use the 10.1.1.0/26
subnet. Which commands can you use?

A. ip access-list WEB_TRAFFIC
B. permit tcp 10.1.1.0 0.0.0.63 any eq 80
C. access-group WEB_TRAFFIC out
D. permit tcp 10.1.1.64 0.0.0.63 any eq 80
E. permit tcp 10.1.1.0 0.0.0.31 any eq 80

Correct answer: A B C

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: Which of the following are benefits of using the PPP protocol?

A. ARP
B. NCP
C. LCP
D. AAA

Correct answer: B C

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: Which of the following dynamic routing protocol uses an autonomous system
hop count for making decisions?

A. EIGRP
B. IS-IS
C. BGP
D. OSPF

Correct answer: C
Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: Which command can be used to prevent syslog messages from interrupting the
commands that you are currently typing in?

A. no login
B. enable secret
C. no exec
D. transport input telnet
E. service password-encryption
F. logging synchronous
G. exec-timeout

Correct answer: F

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: What is the default mode of STP running on a Cisco Catalyst switch?

A. PVST+
B. STP
C. Rapid PVST+
D. MSTP
E. RSTP

Correct answer: A

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: Your current Cisco IOS 2900 series router has a configuration register value set
to 0x2102 and no boot system command has been configured.
Which IOS image will be booted?
A. The last image that is found in flash
B. No IOS image will be loaded and the router will enter ROM MON mode
C. An IOS image will be loaded automatically from a TFTP server
D. The first image that is found in flash
E. The default boot system command will be used to boot the IOS image

Correct answer: D

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: Which microcode is used to test the basic functionality of router hardware and
determine which components are present?

A. bootstrap
B. ROM monitor
C. ROM
D. POST
E. RAM
F. NVRAM

Correct answer: D

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: Where does routing occur within the DoD TCP/IP reference model?

A. application
B. internet
C. network
D. transport

Correct answer: B

Your answer: -
Explanation: http://www.learncisco.net/courses/icnd-1/building-a-network/host-to-host-
communications.html

Question: Assuming the default switch configuration, which VLAN range can be added,
modified, and removed on a Cisco switch?

A. 1 through 1001
B. 2 through 1001
C. 1 through 1002
D. 2 through 1005

Correct answer: B

Your answer: -

Explanation: http://www.learncisco.net/courses/icnd-1/ethernet-lans/starting-a-switch.html

Question: What should be checked when troubleshooting IPv6 end-to-end connectivity?

A. Incorrect default gateways

B. Physical location of devices
C. Physical connection issues
D. Blocked traffic from ACLs

Correct answer: A C D

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: Which STP standards cannot be used when you have a mixed topology with
Cisco and non-Cisco devices?

A. Rapid PVST+
B. MSTP
C. RSTP
D. PVST+
E. STP
Correct answer: A B D

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: Your router has learned about the network 172.17.8.0/24 from EIGRP and
OSPF.
What information will the router populate the routing table with?

A. Both the EIGRP and OSPF information; and load balancing will occur
B. The OSPF information because it has the lower administrative distance
C. The EIGRP information because it has the lower administrative distance
D. The EIGRP information because it has the lower metric
E. The OSPF information because it has the lower metric

Correct answer: C

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: Refer to the exhibit. Switch-1 needs to send data to a host with a MAC address
of 00b0.d056.efa4. What will Switch-1 do with this data?
A. Switch-1 will drop the data because it does not have an entry for that MAC address.
B. Switch-1 will flood the data out all of its ports except the port from which the data
originated.
C. Switch-1 will send an ARP request out all its ports except the port from which the data
originated.
D. Switch-1 will forward the data to its default gateway.

Correct answer: B

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: Where is the Cisco IOS stored on a Cisco IOS ISR Router?

A. CPU
B. Flash
C. RAM
D. NVRAM
E. ROM

Correct answer: B

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: What are three features of the IPv6 protocol?

A. optional IPsec
B. autoconfiguration
C. no broadcasts
D. complicated header
E. plug-and-play
F. checksums

Correct answer: B C E

Your answer: -
Explanation: http://www.learncisco.net/courses/ccna/part-8-internet-protocol-version-
6/addressing.html

Question: How does EIGRP determine the bandwidth and delay used in calculating its
metric?

A. It uses the worst reliability between the source and destination

B. It uses the lowest bandwidth between the source and destination
C. It uses the amount of time it takes to move information from the source to the
destination
D. It uses the cumulative bandwidth between the source and destination

Correct answer: B C

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: You are configuring static NAT on a Cisco IOS router that is connected to your
ISP. You goal is to have the private IP of 10.1.1.10 translated to 203.0.113.5. Which
command must be issued on the interface connected to the service provider?

A. ip nat pool NAT_POOL 203.0.113.5

B. ip nat inside
C. ip nat outside
D. ip nat inside source static 10.1.1.10 203.0.113.5

Correct answer: C

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: Which multi-cast address is used as the destination address of the EIGRP hello
packets?

A. FF02::1
B. FF02::2
C. FF02::A
D. FF02::1:FF00:1

Correct answer: C

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: Which port state is introduced by Rapid-PVST?

A. learning
B. listening
C. discarding
D. forwarding

Correct answer: C

Your answer: -

Explanation: http://www.learncisco.net/courses/icnd-2/vlans-and-spanning-tree/stp-
protocol-types.html

Question: Which of the following describes the roles of devices in a WAN network?

A. A CSU/DSU terminates a digital local loop.

B. A modem terminates a digital local loop.
C. A CSU/DSU terminates an analog local loop.
D. A modem terminates an analog local loop.
E. A router is commonly considered a DTE device.
F. A router is commonly considered a DCE device.

Correct answer: A D E

Your answer: -

Explanation: http://www.learncisco.net/courses/ccna/part-9-poit-to-point-lines/wan-
basics.html
Question: Which statement is true about the subnet masks /12, /20, and /28?

A. They all have the same number of network bits

B. They all have the same block size of 16
C. They all create only 16 subnets
D. They all have the same number of host bits

Correct answer: B

Your answer: -

Explanation:

Question: Which of the following should be considered when implementing VLANs?

A. VLAN 1 is the default VLAN

B. The Native VLAN should also be VLAN 1
C. The maximum number of VLANs is switch dependent
D. Management traffic must always be in VLAN 1
E. The default VLAN needs to be identified during initial VLAN deployment
F. The maximum number of VLANs on all switches if 4094
G. The Native VLAN should be changed

Correct answer: A C G

Your answer: -

Explanation: