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A program similar to mtr, _____, is available as a command-line utility in Windows operating systems.
A. nbstat
B. route
C. dig
D. pathping |
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Which netstat parameter displays separate lists of statistics for each protocol?
A. -o
B. -s
C. -n
D. -a |
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What is the default subnet mask for a Class C network?
A. 0.0.0.0
B. 255.255.255.0
C. 255.255.0.0
D. 255.0.0.0 |
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The result from ANDing 11001111 with 10010001 is _____.
A. 10000001
B. 11001111
C. 10010001
D. 00000001 |
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Which of the following ports need to be open in order to be able to retrieve an e-mail from SMTP server? (Select 2)
A. 110
B. 143
C. 22
D. 8080
E. 443 |
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The gateways that make up the Internet backbone are called _____ gateways.
A. default
B. proxy
C. core
D. Internet |
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Which of the following tools provides capabilities similar to nslookup?
A. pathping
B. netstat
C. rsh
D. dig |
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Which of the following tools can display a list of routing points between two nodes? (Select 2)
A. traceroute
B. route
C. netstat
D. mtr
E. ping |
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The standard message format specified by SMTP allows for lines that contain no more than _____ ASCII characters.
A. 10000
B. 100
C. 1000
D. 1000000 |
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Your routing network has been experiencing severe congestion lately. You suspect the oldest 2 routers to be causing the problem. How would you verify this?
A. Use ping
B. Use IPConfig
C. Use network analyzer
D. Use tracert |
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SMTP operates from port _____.
A. 250
B. 110
C. 11
D. 25 |
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Which of the following commands reveals the default gateway addresses for all the hosts to which a router is connected?
A. ifconfig
B. route
C. host
D. ping |
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IMAP4 uses:
A. TCP port 25
B. TCP port 443
C. TCP port 110
D. TCP port 143 |
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The _____ utility allows you to view a host's routing table.
A. pathping
B. nbstat
C. dig
D. route |
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When using classful IPv4 addressing, a network ID always ends with an octet of _____.
A. 0
B. 1
C. 00000000
D. 255 |
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What utility might you use to find out whether your ISP's router is responsible for the poor network performance your organization experiences on a particular afternoon?
A. ipconfig
B. route
C. mtr
D. netstat |
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Because the octets equal to 0 and 255 are _____, only the numbers 1 through 254 can be used for host information in an IPv4 address.
A. reserved
B. unobtainable
C. open for general use
D. out-of-range |
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Within a classful addressing subnet mask, the _____ bits indicate that corresponding bits in an IPv4 address contain network information.
A. 1
B. first eight
C. last eight
D. 0 |
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Which nbstat parameter lists local NetBIOS names?
A. -A
B. -a
C. -n
D. -r |
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Which netstat parameter displays the process ID for each connection?
A. -f
B. -n
C. -a
D. -o |
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As a networking consultant, you've been asked to help expand a client's TCP/IP network. The network administrator tells you that the network ID is subnetted as 185.27.54.0/26. On this network, how many bits of each IP address are devoted to host information?
A. 14
B. 6
C. 4
D. 26 |
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If you worked on a network that could not interpret classless addressing, and your network ID was 145.27.0.0, what is the theoretical maximum number of different subnets you could create on this network?
A. 16
B. 64
C. 254
D. 128 |
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Your company has leased a Class C network whose network ID is 205.61.128.0. You want to create 16 subnets within this network. One of the subnets will have an extended network prefix of 205.61.128.64. What will be the broadcast address for this subnet? (Hint: If you know the number of hosts per subnet, you can easily determine the broadcast address.)
A. 205.61.128.95
B. 205.61.128.143
C. 205.61.128.71
d. 205.61.128.31 |
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The most popular mail server programs are Sendmail and _____.
A. Microsoft Outlook
B. Microsoft Exchange Server
C. AOL mail
D. Eudora |
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| B. Microsoft Exchange Server |
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The _____ gateway that first interprets its outbound requests to other subnets, and then interprets its inbound requests from other subnets.
A. default
B. proxy
C. Internet
D. core |
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When you use the mtr command to assess the path from your office workstation to a server on your company's WAN that's located in Spain, what is the first hop the mtr command will display?
A. Your workstation's IP address
B. The Web server's address
C. Your default gateway's IP address
D. Your ISP's router's IP address |
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| C. Your default gateway's IP address |
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CIDR notation takes the form of the network ID followed by a(n) _____, followed by the number of bits that are used for the extended network prefix.
A. backward slash (\)
B. underscore (_)
C. forward slash (/)
D. dash (-) |
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In _____ addressing, the network information portion of an IPv4 address is limited to the first 8 bits in a Class A address.
A. classful
B. subnet
C. stateful
D. limited |
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In classful addressing, Class C IPv4 address host information is located in the _____.
A. first 16 bits
B. first 8 bits
A. classful
D. last 16 bits |
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Which two of the following are benefits of using IMAP4 relative to POP3?
A. It allows users to review and delete mail without downloading it from the mail server.
B. It allows users to modify mail server settings.
C. It provides better encryption for message attachments.
D. In enables multiple users to easily share a central mailbox.
E. It provides mail delivery guarantees. |
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A. It allows users to review and delete mail without downloading it from the mail server.
D. In enables multiple users to easily share a central mailbox. |
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A node on a network has an IP address of 140.133.28.72 and its subnet mask is 255.248.0.0. What type of subnetting has been used on this network?
A. Classless
B. Supernetting
C. Classful
D. No subnetting has been used |
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Convert the following subnet mask into its dotted decimal equivalent: 11111111 11111111 11111000 00000000.
A. 1.1.224.0
B. 224.224.128.0
C. 255.255.255.0
D. 255.255.248.0 |
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On a network with an IP address of 140.133.28.72 (or 11111111 11111000 00011100 01001000) and a subnet mask of 255.248.0.0 (or 11111111 11111000 00000000 0000000), what is the network ID?
A. 140.128.0.0 (or 10001100 10000000 00000000 00000000)
B. 140.248.0.0 (or 10001100 11111000 00000000 00000000)
C. 140.133.20.0 (or 10001100 10000101 00010100 00000000)
D. 255.248.0.1 (or 11111111 11111000 00000000 00000001) |
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| A. 140.128.0.0 (or 10001100 10000000 00000000 00000000) |
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You have decided to create 254 subnets on your Class B network. What subnet mask will you use to accomplish this?
A. 255.255.0.0
B. 255.254.0.0
C. 255.255.254.0
D. 255.255.255.0 |
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If you subdivide your Class B network into 254 subnets, what is the maximum number of hosts you can assign to any single subnet?
A. 255
B. 212
C. 254
D. 225 |
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Your workstation's IP address is 10.35.88.12, and your supervisor's workstation's IP address is 10.35.91.4. When you send data from your workstation to your supervisor's workstation, what is the most likely IP address of the first default gateway that will accept and interpret your transmission?
A. 10.35.88.12
B. 10.35.1.1
C. 10.35.88.1
D. 10.35.91.1 |
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You have enabled NAT on your small office's router. The router's private network IP address is 192.168.6.1. Which of the following IP addresses is the most likely to be automatically assigned to one of the workstations that uses this router as its default gateway?
A. 192.168.6.1
B. 192.168.6.6
C. 192.168.255.0
D. 192.168.255.255 |
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You have decided to use PAT on your small office network. At minimum, how many IP addresses must you obtain from your ISP in order for all five clients in your office to be able to access servers on the Internet?
A. 1
B. 4
C. 5
D. None, the private IP addresses will work |
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What Network layer protocol does the traceroute utility use to obtain its information about paths between a source and destination?
A. UDP
B. ARP
C. NTP
D. ICMP |
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Which of the following commands allows you to view the routing table on your Linux workstation? (Choose all that apply.)
A. netstat -r
B. traceroute
C. netroute -R
D. route
E. tracepath |
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If you know that your colleague's TCP/IP host name is JSMITH, and you need to find out his IP address, which of the following commands should you type at your shell prompt or command prompt?
A. netstat jsmith
B. nbstat jsmith
C. nslookup jsmith
D. ifconfig jsmith |
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Suppose your office's only DNS server was down, and you wanted to view the DNS address record for your company's domain. Which of the following TCP/IP utilities would allow you to do this?
A. nbstat
B. netstat
C. traceroute
D. dig |
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| A logical process of combining bits. In ANDing, a bit with a value of 1 plus another bit with a value of 1 results in a 1. A bit with a value of 0 plus any other bit results in a 0. |
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| CIDR (Classless Interdomain Routing) |
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| An IP addressing and subnetting method in which network and host information is manipulated without adhering to the limitations imposed by traditional network class distinctions. CIDR is also known as classless routing or supernetting. Older routing protocols, such as RIP, are not capable of interpreting CIDR addressing schemes. |
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| In CIDR notation, the number of bits used for an extended network prefix. For example, the CIDR block for 199.34.89.0/22 is /22. |
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| In CIDR, a method of denoting network IDs and their subnet boundaries. Slash notation takes the form of the network ID followed by a slash (/), followed by the number of bits that are used for the extended network prefix. |
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| An IP addressing convention that adheres to network class distinctions, in which the first 8 bits of a Class A address, the first 16 bits of a Class B address, and the first 24 bits of a Class C address are used for network information. |
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| A gateway that operates on the Internet backbone. |
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| dig (domain information groper) |
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| A TCP/IP utility that queries the DNS database and provides information about a host given its IP address or vice versa. Dig is similar to the nslookup utility, but provides more information, even in its simplest form, than nslookup can. |
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| DNAT (Dynamic Network Address Translation) |
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| A type of address translation in which a limited pool of Internet-valid IP addresses is shared by multiple private network hosts. |
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| The combination of an IP address's network ID and subnet information. By interpreting the address's extended network prefix, a device can determine the subnet to which and address belongs. |
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| A TCP/IP utility that at its simplest returns either the IP address of a host if its host name is specified or its host name if its IP address is specified. |
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| A TCP/IP utility used to show or modify a client's host name. |
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| ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) |
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| A service provided with Windows operating systems that allows one computer, the ICS host, to share its Internet connection with other computers on the same network. |
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| On a network using the Microsoft Internet Connection Sharing service, the computer whose Internet connection other computers share. The ICS host must contain two network interfaces: one that connects to the Internet and one that connects to the LAN. |
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| IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) |
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| A mail retrieval protocol that improves on the shortcomings of POP. The single biggest advantage IMAP4 has relative to POP is that it allows users to store messages on the mail server, rather than always having to download them to the local machine. The most current version of IMAP is version 4 (IMAP4). |
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| IMAP4 (Internet Message Access Protocol, version 4) |
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| The most commonly used form of the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP). |
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| MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) |
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| A standard for encoding and interpreting binary files, images, video, and non-ASCII character sets within an e-mail message. |
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| A route discovery and analysis utility that comes with UNIX and Linux operating systems. Mtr combines the functions of the ping and traceroute commands and delivers an easily readable chart as its output. |
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| NAT (Network Address Translation) |
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| A technique in which IP addresses used on a private network are assigned a public IP address by a gateway when accessing a public network. |
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| A TCP/IP troubleshooting utility that provides information about NetBIOS names and their addresses. If you know the NetBIOS name of a workstation, you can use nbstat to determine its IP address. |
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| A protocol that runs in the Session and Transport layers of the OSI model and associates NetBIOS names with workstations. NetBIOS alone is not routable because it does not contain Network layer information. However, when encapsulated in another protocol such as TCP/IP, it can be routed. |
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| A TCP/IP troubleshooting utility that displays statistics and the state of current TCP/IP connections. It also displays ports, which can signal whether services are using the correct ports. |
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| A TCP/IP utility that allows you to look up the DNS host name of a network node by specifying its IP address, or vice versa. This ability is useful for verifying that a host is configured correctly and for troubleshooting DNS resolution problems. |
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| PAT (Port Address Translation) |
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| A form of address translation that uses TCP port numbers to distinguish each client's transmission, thus allowing multiple clients to share a limited number of Internet-recognized IP addresses. |
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| A command-line utility that combines the functionality of the tracert and ping commands (similar to UNIX's mtr command) and comes with Windows operating systems. |
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| POP (Post Office Protocol) |
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| An Application layer protocol used to retrieve messages from a mail server. When a client retrieves mail via POP, messages previously stored on the mail server are downloaded to the clients's workstation, and then deleted from the mail server. |
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| POP3 (Post Office Protocol, version 3) |
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| The most commonly used form of the Post Office Protocol. |
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| A network whose access is restricted to only clients or machines with proper credentials. |
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| A network that any user can access with no restrictions. The most familiar example of a public network is the Internet. |
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| A utility for viewing or modifying a host's routing table. |
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| The prefix in an IPv6 address that identifies a route. Because route prefixes vary in length, slash notation is used to define them. For example, the route prefix indicated by 2608:FE10::/32 includes all subnets whose prefixes begin with 2608:FE10 and, consequently, all interfaces whose IP addresses begin with 2608:FE10. |
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| SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) |
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| The Application layer TCP/IP subprotocol responsible for moving messages form one e-mail server to another. |
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| SNAT (Static Network Address Translation) |
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| A type of address translation in which each private IP address is correlated with its own Internet-recognized IP address. |
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| The 64-bit prefix in an IPv6 address that identifies a subnet. A single IPv6 subnet is capable of supplying 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 IPv6 addresses. |
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| In IPv4, a type of subnet that is created by moving the subnet boundary to the left and using bits that normally would be reserved for network class information. |
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| A 32-bit number that, when combined with a device's IPv4 address, indicates the kind of supernet to which the device belongs. |
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| A version of the traceroute utility found on some Linux distributions. |
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| A TCP/IP troubleshooting utility that uses ICMP to trace the path from one networked node to another, identifying all intermediate hops between the two nodes. Traceroute is useful for determining router or subnet connectivity problems. On Windows-based systems, the utility is known as tracert. |
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