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1. A network technician has salvaged several Ethernet cables from a datacenter. The technician attempts to use the cables to connect desktops to the network without success.

Which of the following is MOST likely the issue?

2. A network administrator has had difficulty keeping track of IP address assignments on networking devices and clients recently.

Which of the following is the BEST technology to aid in this scenario?

3. Users in a school lab are reporting slow connections to the servers and the Internet. Other users in the school have no issues. The lab has 25 computers and is connected with a single 1Gb Ethernet connection on Cat 5e wiring to an unmanaged switch. There are also three spare Cat 5e cable runs, which are not in use. The school wants to double the connection speed between the lab and the servers without running new cables.

Which of the following would be the BEST solution?

4. A technician is downloading an ISO from a vendor’s website. To ensure the integrity of the download, which of the following should be verified?

5. A network administrator is assigned to run and connect a Cat 6e Ethernet cable between two nodes in a datacenter.

Which of the following connector types should the network administrator use to terminate this

cable?

6. A network technician is planning to update the firmware on a router on the network. The technician has downloaded the file from the vendor’s website. Before installing the firmware update, which of the following steps should the technician perform to ensure file integrity?

7. A network technician performs a wireless site survey at a company building and identifies that the cafeteria is not covered by a wireless signal. The cafeteria is located in a medium-size, square-shaped room.

Which of the following types of WAP antenna should the technician install in the center of the cafeteria to provide the BEST coverage?

8. An entire enterprise cannot access a specific website. The network technician knows the website was accessible last week. The technician can also ping the website.

Which of the following is the technician MOST likely to find upon investigation?

9. At which of the following OSI model layers would a router operate?

10. Which of the following are characteristics of jumbo frames? (Choose two.)

11. A network administrator gets a call regarding intermittent network outages across the country.

Which of the following should be used to connect to the network so the administrator can troubleshoot this issue from

home? (Choose two.)

12. A technician is troubleshooting network connectivity issues with a remote host.

Which of the following tools would BEST inform the technician of nodes between the client and the remote host? (Choose two.)

13. A technician is setting up VoIP phones on a wireless network. Users report that calls are choppy and

sometimes dropped. The technician has measured two characteristics using simple command-line tools that verify the problem.

Which of the following characteristics did the technician measure? (Choose two.)

14. A network administrator is going to be performing a major upgrade to the network.

Which of the following should the administrator use in case of a failure?

15. A technician is configuring a printer for a client. The technician connects the printer to the network, but is unsure how to determine its switchport.

Which of the following should the technician do FIRST to locate the switchport?

16. A critical vulnerability is discovered on a network device. The vendor states it has already patched this vulnerability in its current release.

Which of the following actions should an administrator take?

17. A disgruntled employee decides to leak critical information about a company’s new product. The employee places keyloggers on the department’s computers, allowing the information to be sent out to the Internet.

Which of the following attacks is occurring?

18. A network technician needs to set up an access method for Ann, a manager, to work from home. Ann needs to locally mapped corporate resources to perform her job.

Which of the following would provide secure access to the corporate resources?

19. Which of the following DNS record types is an alias?

20. A network technician is working on a new switch implementation to expand the network.

Which of the following is the BEST option to ensure the implementation goes according to business requirements?

21. A technician is utilizing SNMPv3 to monitor network statistics.

Which of the following actions would occur immediately of a server’s utilization spikes above the prescribed value?

22. In which of the following scenarios should a technician use a cross-over cable to provide connectivity?

23. 802.11n clients currently have no way to connect to the network.

Which of the following devices should be implemented to let the clients connect?

24. A network technician is setting up a new router. Since it is exposed to the public, which of the following are the BEST steps the technician should take when setting up this device? (Choose two.)

25. A switch has detected duplicate broadcast messages sourced from a second port. The broadcasts continue to be transmitted and duplicated until the amount of traffic causes severe performance issues.

Which of the following should be configured to prevent this behavior?

26. A Chief Information Officer (CIO) is concentrated about an attacker gaining administrative access to the company’s network devices.

Which of the following is the MOST secure way to prevent this?

27. The Chief Executive Officer’s (CEO’s) tablet cannot connect to the wireless network from the corner office. A network technician verified the tablet can connect to the wireless network in other areas of the building. The distance between the office and the 802.11ac WAP is 150ft (46m), and there are a few cubicles in between.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the tablet not connecting?

28. A company has two geographically separate locations that need to connect using a VPN.

Which of the following devices must be specifically configured to allow VPN traffic into the network?

29. A technician is working on a new machine that has been procured for testing and development. The machine will run a hypervisor and host several operating systems of various types so the development team can test the company’s applications in a variety of environments. The technician wants the virtual machines to be available to communicate with each other without leaving the hypervisor.

Which of the following is the BEST solution to the problem?

30. A network technician is repurposing a switch that has been in storage for some time. The device has been wiped to factory defaults.

Which of the following should be done FIRST to ensure the device has been hardened before configuration?

31. A technician is setting up a wireless access point in a coffee shop. The shop is not concerned with security but only wants to allow customers to have access.

Which of the following configurations should the technician deploy?

32. Which of the following should be performed to verify that unnecessary services are disabled on all switches in an environment?

33. A technician is assigned to secure a basic wireless network.

Which of the following authentication protocol should the technician use to performed this task (select TWO).

34. A technician is sent to a remote office to set up a device to connect to the internet. The company Standard document requires stateful inspection.

Which of the following should the technician install?

35. A system administrator receives report from users of odd behavior in regard to recently installed server. While reviewing the server network configuration, the systems administrator does both a forward and a reverse DNS lookup on the host, along with the network adapter configuration.

Which of the following is the problem identified in the output above?

36. A technician is investigating the cause of a network outage.

Which of the following documents should be checked to rule out configuration issues?

37. A junior network technician receives a help desk ticket from an end user who is having trouble accessing a web application that was working the previous day. After talking with the end user and gathering information about issue, which of the following would be the most likely course of action for the technician to perform next?

38. Which of the following storage network technologies inherently leverages block-level storage?

39. A network administrator wants to employ a username and password authentication system for guest WiFi.

Which of the following is the BEST option to provide this type of authentication?

40. Multiple users are reporting that they are unable to access the network. The ENTIRE network is shown in the diagram. PCs are not statically assigned IP addresses. The following devices will display settings.

• WorkstationA

• WorkstationB

• WofkstationC

• WorkstationD

• WokstationE

• WorkstalionF

• WorkstalionG

• Laptop1

• Laptop2

• DHCP server1

• DHCP serverr2

Review the settings and select the box in the diagram that identifies the device causing the issue. Only one device can be selected at a time.

After checking the device that is causing the issue, select the second tab in the lower left hand corner. Identify the reason as to why some users are unable to access the network.

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Identify the reason as to why some users are unable to access the network.

41. A UTM is deployed on the external edge of the main corporate office. The office connects to the WAN port of the edge router. The edge router at the main office connects to the remote offices using GRE IPSec tunnels. A network administrator notices that a worm that was not detected by the UTM has spread from the remote sites into the corporate network. The UTM currently has traffic rules applied that should block the port used by the worm.

Which of the following steps would MOST likely correct this issue?

42. A technician has racked a new access switch and has run multimode fiber to a new location. After installing an extended-range 10Gb SFP in the core switch, the technician installed a 10Gb SFP in the access switch and connected the port to the new extension with a fiber jumper.

However, the link does not display, and the technician cannot see light emitting from the core switch.

Which of the following solutions is MOST likely to resolve the problem?

43. A network technician has implemented ACLs to limit access to cloud-based file storage.

Which of the following security mechanisms has the technician enforced?

44. A network technician receives a call from a user in the accounting department stating that Internet connectivity has been lost after receiving a new workstation. No other users in accounting are reporting similar issues. The network technician is able to ping the machine from the accounting department’s router, but is not able to ping the machine from the IT network.

Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?

45. A firewall administrator is implementing a rule that directs HTTP traffic to an internal server listening on a non-standard socket.

Which of the following types of rules is the administrator implementing?

46. A technician is installing a new wireless badging system on a hospital network. The requirements of the badging system are for it to have its own SSID and low power levels. The badging system has to cover 99.9% of the hospital.

Which of the following is the BEST action to take to meet the system requirements?

47. A technician attempts to replace a switch with a new one of similar model from the same vendor. When the technician moves the fiber and SFP plug, the switch does not completely boot up. Considering that the config files are the same, which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the failure?

48. A company has hundreds of nodes on a single subnet and has decided to implement VLANs.

Which of the following BEST describes the benefit of this approach?

49. A company has completed construction of a new datacenter, and the IT staff is now planning to relocate all server and network equipment from the old site to the new site.

Which of the following should the IT staff reference to determine the location of the equipment being moved?

50. Which of the following would allow a device to maintain the same IP address lease based on the physical address of the network card?

51. A technician wants to prevent an unauthorized host from connecting to the network via Ethernet.

Which of the following is a Layer 2 access control the technician should implement?

52. A network engineer is configuring wireless access for guests at an organization. Access to other areas in the organization should not be accessible to guests.

Which of the following represents the MOST secure method to configure guest access to the wireless network?

53. The server team has just installed an application across three different servers. They are asking that all requests to the application are spread evenly across the three servers.

Which of the following should the network team implement to fulfil the request?

54. A network technician is deploying mobile phones for a company’s sales staff. Salespeople frequently travel nationally and internationally to meet with clients, and often have to roam or switch cellular providers.

Which of the following standards is the BEST option to fit the requirements?

55. A network administrator has been given a network of 172.16.85.0/21 and wants to know the usable range of IP addresses on that subnet.

Which of the following indicates the correct IP address range?

56. A network technician is troubleshooting wireless network issues in a crowded office complex and suspects there is interference from nearby wireless networks.

Which of the following should the technician perform to discover possible interference?

57. A network technician is troubleshooting an issue and has established a theory of probable cause.

Which of the following steps should the network technician take NEXT?

58. A network technician has discovered a rogue access point under an empty cubicle desk.

Which of the following should the technician perform to ensure another cannot be placed on the network?

59. Which of the following provides the ability to deploy consistent access point configurations from a central location?

60. A network technician is configuring a wireless network at a branch office. Users at this office work with large files and must be able to access their files on the server quickly.

Which of the following 802.11 standards provides the MOST bandwidth?

61. A network administrator configures a router with the following IP address information:

Gigabit Ethernet 1 Interface: 10.10.0.1/24

Serial 0 Interface: 10.10.0.253/30

Clients are connected to a switch on the gigabit Ethernet interface; the ISP is connected to the Serial 0 interface. When the router configuration is complete and client devices are reconfigured, all clients report that they are unable to connect to the Internet.

Which of the following is the MOST likely reason?

62. A penetration tester has been tasked with reconnaissance to determine which ports are open on the network.

Which of the following tasks should be done FIRST? (Choose two.)

63. Users are reporting Internet connectivity issues. The network administrator wants to determine if the issues are internal to the company network or if there is an issue with the ISP.

Which of the following tools should be used to BEST determine where the outage is occurring?

64. Which of the following security mechanisms dynamically assigns a Layer 2 address and restricts traffic only to that Layer 2 address?

65. Which of the following is a vulnerable system designed to detect and log unauthorized access?

66. According to the OSI model, at which of the following layers is data encapsulated into a packet?

67. Which of the following WAN technologies is MOST preferred when developing a VoIP system with 23 concurrent channels?

68. A junior network technician is setting up a new email server on the company network.

Which of the following default ports should the technician ensure is open on the firewall so the new email server can relay email?

69. Which of the following policies would Joe, a user, have to agree to when he brings in his personal tablet to connect to the company’s guest wireless Internet?

70. In a service provider network, a company has an existing IP address scheme. Company A’s network currently uses the following scheme:

Company b uses the following scheme:

Subnet 1: 192.168.1.50/28

The network administrator cannot force the customer to update its IP scheme. Considering this, which of the following is the BEST way for the company to connect these networks?

71. A network engineer is designing a new network for a remote site. The remote site consists of ten desktop computers, ten VoIP phones, and two network printers. In addition, two of the desktop computers at the remote site will be used by managers who should be on a separate network from the other eight computers.

Which of the following represents the BEST configuration for the remote site?

72. A network technician is troubleshooting an end-user connectivity problem. The network technician goes to the appropriate IDF but is unable to identify the appropriate cable due to poor labeling.

Which of the following should the network technician use to help identify the appropriate cable?

73. A network technician notices the site-to-site VPN and Internet connection have not come back up at a branch office after a recent power outage.

Which of the following is an out-of-band method the technician would MOST likely utilize to check the branch office’s router status?

74. A network technician is considering opening ports on the firewall for an upcoming VoIP PBX implementation.

Which of the following protocols is the technician MOST likely to consider? (Choose three.)

75. A device operating at Layer 3 of the OSI model uses which of the following protocols to determine the path to a different network?

76. A network administrator is setting up a web-based application that needs to be continually accessible to the end users.

Which of the following concepts would BEST ensure this requirement?

77. Which of the following devices should a network administrator configure on the outermost part of the network?

78. A company finds that many desktops are being reported as missing or lost.

Which of the following would BEST assist in recovering these devices?

79. A technician is connecting a router directly to a PC using the G1/0/1 interface. Without the use of auto-sensing ports, which of the following cables should be used?

80. A technician is diagnosing an issue with a new T1 connection. The router is configured, the cable is connected, but the T1 is down. To verify the configuration of the router, which of the following tools should the technician use?

81. A network technician receives a call from a use who is experiencing network connectivity issues. The network technician questions the user and learns the user brought in a personal wired router to use multiple computers and connect to the network.

Which of the following has the user MOST likely introduced to the network?

82. A technician is setting up a direct connection between two older PCs so they can communicate but not be on the corporate network. The technician does not have access to a spare switch but does have spare Cat 6 cables, RJ-45 plugs, and a crimping tool. The technician cuts off one end of the cable.

Which of the following should the technician do to make a crossover cable before crimping the new plug?

83. Which of the following is the number of broadcast domain that are created when using an unmanaged 12-port switch?

84. A network engineer wants to a segment the network into multiple broadcast domains.

Which of the following devices would allow for communication between the segments?

85. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) has noticed the corporate wireless signal is available in the parking lot. Management requests that the wireless network be changed so it is no longer accessible in public areas, without affecting the availability inside the building.

Which of the following should be changed on the network?

86. A network technician is assisting the security team with some traffic captures. The security team wants to capture all traffic on a single subnet between the router and the core switch. To do so, the team must ensure there is only a single collision and broadcast domain between the router and the switch from which they will collect traffic.

Which of the following should the technician install to BEST meet the goal?

87. Based on networks 10.8.16.0/22 and 10.8.31.0/21, which of the following is the BEST summarized CIDR notation?

88. A technician discovers that multiple switches require a major update.

Which of the following policies should be followed?

89. A technician is troubleshooting a point-to-point fiber-optic connection. The technician is at a remote site and has no connectivity to the main site. The technician confirms the switch and the send-and-receive light levels are within acceptable range. Both fiber SFPs are confirmed as working.

Which of the following should the technician use to reveal the location of the fault?

90. A Chief Information Officer (CIO) wants to move some IT services to a cloud service offering.

However, the network administrator still wants to be able to control some parts of the cloud service’s networking components.

Which of the following should be leveraged to complete this task?

91. Client PCs are unable to receive addressing information from a newly configured interface on a router.

Which of the following should be added to allow the clients to connect?

92. When enabling jumbo frames on a network device, which of the following parameters is being adjusted?

93. A technician logs onto a system using Telnet because SSH is unavailable. SSH is enabled on the target device, and access is allowed from all subnets. The technician discovers a critical step was missed.

Which of the following would allow SSH to function properly?

94. A network administrator wants to ensure sensitive data is not exfiltrated from the system electronically.

Which of the following should be implemented?

95. An office network consists of one two-port router connected to a 12-port switch. A four-port hub is also connected to the switch. On this particular network, which of the following is the number of collision domain that exist?

96. A network technician wants to remotely and securely access the desktop of a Linux workstation. The desktop is running remote control software without encryption.

Which of the following should the technician use to secure the connection?

97. Which of the following should current network performance be compared against to determine network anomalies?

98. A network administrator configures an email server to use secure protocols. When the upgrade is completed, which of the following ports on the firewall should be configured to allow for connectivity? (Choose three.)

99. After a server outage, a technician discovers that a physically damaged fiber cable appears to be the problem. After replacing the cable, the server will still not connect to the network. Upon inspecting the cable at the server end, the technician discovers light can be seen through one of the two fiber strands.

Which of the following should the technician do FIRST to reconnect the server to the network?

100. The backups server connects to a NAS device using block-level storage over Ethernet. The performance is very slow, however, and the network technician suspects the performance issues are network related.

Which of the following should the technician do to improve performance?