Practice Test IP Technology

1. The IEEE subdivided the data link layer to provide for environments that need
connectionless or connection-oriented services. What are the two layers called?
A) Physical
B) MAC
C) LLC
D) Session
E) IP

2. Which processes does TCP, but not UDP, use?

A) Windowing
B) Acknowledgements
C) Source Port
D) Destination Port

3. Select which protocols use link state routing?

A) OSPF
B) RIP
C) ISIS
D) PPP

4. What is a disadvantage to using bridges in your network?

A) Filters by MAC address
B) Stops broadcast storms
C) Doesn't stop broadcast storms
D) Can only use up to 4 bridges in any LAN

5. You have the three following IP subnets: 10.208.90.128/25, 10.208.86.0/23 and

10.208.91.240/28 and you want to summarize these three networks to only one.

Which specific classless network address will cover all three subnets?

A) 10.208.86.0/22
B) 10.0.0.0/8
C) 10.208.80.0/20
D) 10.208.0.0/16

6. Which two parameters must be configured for an eBGP neighbor relationship to be

established? (Choose two)
A) the physical MTU of the interface
B) the autonomous system (AS) number of the neighbor
C) the IP address of the neighbor
D) the username/password combination for the session setup

7. Which component guarantees reliable delivery of IP packets?

A) Quality of Service (QoS)

B) Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
C) User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
D) Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

8. Router-1 and Router-2 are OSPF routers connected using a point-to-point serial link.

On which address are hello packets exchanged between the routers?

A) 255.255.255.255
B) 224.0.0.1
C) 224.0.0.5
D) 127.0.0.1

9. Prefix Next Hop

4.30.0.0/16 10.0.0.17

24.1.36.0/24 10.0.0.2

24.1.36.8/29 10.0.0.5

24.1.36.8/30 10.0.0.9

Given the RIB shown above, which next-hop will be used to route a packet destined to
24.1.36.14?

A) 10.0.0.9
B) 10.0.0.17
C) 10.0.0.2
D) 10.0.0.5

10. Which network element will define the broadcast boundaries?

A) A broadcaster

B) A hub

C) A router

D) A Layer 2 switch

11. Segmentation is known as Dividing a Network into smaller Domains

A) True
B) False

12. IP Protocol is used to find the Hardware Address?

A) True
B) False

13. If an Ethernet port on router was assigned an IP address of 172.16.112.1/20, what is

the maximum number of hosts allowed on this subnet?

A. 2046
B. 8190
C. 4094
D. 4096
E. 1024

14. Which one of the following is a reason to use a hardware address?

A) To transmit a packet from one local device to another local device.

B) To transmit a frame from one interface to another interface.

C) To obtain a vendor code/serial number from the user.

D) To transmit data from one local device to remote device across Internet.

E) To contain logical information about a device to use an end-to-end transmission

15. Ethernet networks are broadcast domains and collision domains. How the hosts on an
Ethernet network will know when to resume transmissions after a collision has
occurred? (Choose all that apply)

A) The router on the segment will signal that the collision has cleared.
B) The jam signal indicates that the collision has been cleared.
C) The hosts will attempt to resume transmission after a time delay has expired.
D) The destination host sends a request to the source for retransmission.
E) An electrical pulse indicates that the collision has cleared

16. Host A is communicating with the server. What will be the source MAC address of
the frames received by Host A from the server?
A) The MAC address of Host A.
B) The MAC address of the server network interface.
C) The MAC address of router interface E1.
D) The MAC address of router interface E0.
17. What does the concept route aggregation mean when one talks about using variable
subnet masking?
A) Combining routes to multiple networks into one super net.
B) Deleting unusable addresses through the creation of many subnets.
C) Calculating the available host addresses in the AS.
D) Reclaiming unused space by means of changing the subnet size.

18. What is the maximum number of hops that OSPF allows before marking a network as
unreachable?
A) 15
B) 16
C) 255
D) Unlimited
E) 99

19. Which of the following are benefits of segmenting a network with a router? (Select all
that apply)
A) Broadcasts are not forwarded across the router.
B) All broadcasts are completely eliminated.
C) Adding a router to the network decreases latency.
D) Filtering can occur based on Layer 3 information.
E) Routers are more efficient than switches and will process the data more quickly.
F) None of the above.

20. Which protocol is used to look up an IP address from a known Ethernet address?
A) TCP
B) RARP
C) ARP
D) IP

21. Which two statements are true about TCP? (Choose two.)

A) TCP ensures the arrival date of packets.

B) TCP ensures an encrypted communication.

C) TCP ensures a reliable communication.

D) TCP controls the throughput of a session.

22. Regarding the BGP decision algorithm, which two statements are correct? (Choose
two)

A) A longer AS-path will be favored over a shorter AS-path.

B) The local-preference value is more important than the origin value.

C) A shorter AS-path will be favored over a longer AS-path.

D) The decision algorithm is based on the cost of an interface.

23. Which statement is correct about BGP?

A) BGP operates independently from IP.

B) BGP has automatic neighbor discovery by using hello packets.

C) BGP is generally used as an IGP.

D) A BGP speaker uses unicast TCP sessions to communicate with its peers.

24. From which criteria does OSPF calculate the optimal path for a given remote network?

A) the shortest path based on the cost of the links.

B) the time needed to forward the packet to the destination

C) the money spend to send the traffic

D) the number of routers on the path

25. Which mechanism does BGP use to discover neighbors?

A) multicast hello
B) CLNP ( when IS-IS is used as IGP)
C) Broadcast hello
D) Neighbors must be configured manually

KEY

1. B, C

2. A, B

3. A, C

4. C
5. C

6. B, C

7. B

8. C

9. D

10. C

11. A

12. B

13. C

14. B

15. C

16. D

17. A

18. D

19. A, D

20. B

21. C, D

22. B, C

23. D

24. A

25. D