A network technician receives a report about a performance issue on a client PC that is connected to port 1/3 on a network switch. The technician observes the following configuration output from the switch:
Which of the following is a cause of the issue on port 1/3?
A network administrator is planning to implement device monitoring to enhance network visibility. The security team requires that the solution provides authentication and encryption.
Which of the following meets these requirements?
A corporate client is experiencing global system outages. The IT team has identified multiple potential underlying causes throughout the enterprise Each team member has been assigned an area to trouble shoot. Which of the following approaches is being used?
A network administrator is checking to see if anything has changed. Which of the following steps of the troubleshooting methodology is involved?
Which of the following fouling protocols is generally used by major ISPs for handing large-scale internet traffic?
Which of the following is the MOST cost-effective alternative that provides proper cabling and supports gigabit Ethernet devices?
A network technician receives a support ticket concerning multiple users who are unable access the company's shared drive. The switch interface that the shared drive Is connected to is displaying die following:
Which of the following is MOST likely the Issue?
A company, which is located in a coastal town, retrofitted an office building for a new data center. The underground fiber optics were brought in and connected to the switches in the basement network MDF. A server data center was built on the fifth floor with the two rooms vertically connected by fiber optics. Which of the following types of environmental sensors is MOST needed?
A technician is troubleshooting intermittent connectivity between devices and viewing the following syslog entries from a switch:
Which of the following are these entries indicative of?
A network contains 25 access points. Which of the following devices would be best to change configurations on all the devices remotely?
A network technician crimped a length of IJTP with TIA\ElA-568A on one end and TINE-IA-5688 on the other. Which of the following cable types did the technician create?
A user is having trouble uploading files to a server. However, other users in the department are not experiencing this issue. The network administrator checks the access switch and sees multiple CRC errors on that user's switchport. Which of the following should the network administrator do first?
A network engineer installed a new fiber uplink for an office and wants to make sure that the link meets throughput requirements. Which of the following tools should the engineer use to
verify that the new link is sufficient?
A user calls the help desk to report being unable to reach a file server. The technician logs in to the user's computer and verifies that pings fall to respond back when trying to reach the file server. Which of the following would BEST help the technician verify whether the file server is reachable?
A network technician receives a report from the server team that a server's network connection is not working correctly. The server team confirms the server is operating correctly except for the network connection. The technician checks the switchport connected to the server and reviews the following data;
Which of the following should the network technician perform to correct the issue?
A network administrator is planning a WLAN for a soccer stadium and was advised to use MU-MIMO to improve connection performance in high-density areas. The project requires compatibility with clients connecting using 2.4GHz or 5GHz frequencies. Which of the following would be the BEST wireless standard for this project?
A network technician 13 troubleshooting a specific port on a switch. Which of the following commands should the technician use to see the port configuration?
A network administrator connects two unmanaged switches together with a straight-through Ethernet cable. The administrator reviews the connection and notices that the uplinks are not on. Which of the following options offers the best solution for the issue?
Which of the following is most likely to be implemented to actively mitigate intrusions on a host device?
A user returns to the office after working remotely for an extended period. The user is reporting limited access to the office wireless network and the inability to reach company resources on the network. The user connected to the guest network, ensured all patches were applied, and checked to make sure software was up to date. Which of the following is most likely the cause of the issue?
A server application requires large amounts of data to be sent at a consistent rate. Which of the following should an engineer most likely configure to meet these requirements?
A company's management team wants to implement NAC on the wired and wireless networks. Which of the following is an authentication component that must be used in this solution?
A technician installed an 8-port switch in a user's office. The user needs to add a second computer in the office, so the technician connects both PCs to the switch and connects the switch to the wall jack. However, the new PC cannot connect to network resources. The technician then observes the following:
• The new computer does not get an IP address on the client's VLAN.
• Both computers have a link light on their NICs.
• The new PC appears to be operating normally except for the network issue.
• The existing computer operates normally.
Which of the following should the technician do NEXT to address the situation?
A network administrator is preparing answers for an annual risk assessment that is required for compliance purposes. Which of the following would be an example of an internal threat?
A network administrator needs to connect two routers in a point-to-point configuration and conserve IP space. Which of the following subnets should the administrator use?
Which of the following is the best action to take before sending a network router to be recycled as electronic waste?
A network technician has determined the cause of a network disruption. Which of the following is the NEXT step for the technician to perform?
Which of the following network management methods is able to perform various automated tasks?
Which of the following protocols can be routed?
A local company is planning to upgrade is current wireless network solution to achieve better performance and improve employees' experience. The solution will require a 5GHz radio band to support all current company devices. Which of the following should be considered as an option for the upgrade?
A network administrator notices excessive wireless traffic occurring on an access point after normal business hours. The access point is located on an exterior wall. Which of the following should the administrator do to limit wireless access outside the building?
Which of the following architectures is used for FTP?
Which of the following attacks, if successful, would provide a malicious user who is connected to an isolated guest network access to the corporate network?
A newly installed VoIP phone is not getting the DHCP IP address it needs to connect to the phone system. Which of the following tasks needs to be completed to allow the phone to operate correctly?
Which of the following would be used to enforce and schedule critical updates with supervisory approval and include backup plans in case of failure?
A technician is consolidating a topology with multiple SSlDs into one unique SSID deployment. Which of the following features will be possible after this new configuration?
An administrator is attempting to add a new system to monitoring but is unsuccessful. The administrator notices the system is similar to another one on the network; however, the new one has an updated OS version. Which of the following should the administrator consider updating?
A network administrator is setting up a web-based application for a company. The application needs to be continually accessible to all end users.
Which of the following would best ensure this need is fulfilled?
A senior administrator has been directed to incorporate AAA services within a domain environment for regulatory compliance purposes. Which of the following standards
will enable the use of an AAA server in a domain environment?
A network administrator is preparing new switches that will be deployed to support a network extension project. The lead network engineer has already provided documentation to ensure the switches are set up properly Which of the following did the engineer most likely provide?
A technician is setting up DNS records on local servers for the company's cloud DNS to enable access by hostname. Which of the following records should be used?
An engineer is using a tool to run an ICMP sweep of a network to find devices that are online. When reviewing the results, the engineer notices a number of workstations that are currently verified as being online are not listed in the report.
The tool was configured to scan using the following information:
Network address: 172.28.16.0
CIDR: /22
The engineer collected the following information from the client workstation:
IP address: 172.28.17.206
Subnet mask: 255.255.252.0
Which of the following MOST likely explains why the tool is failing to detect some workstations?
Which of the following is the DNS feature that controls how long a lookup is stored in cache on a server?
A network technician is implementing a solution that will allow end users to gain access to multiple applications after logging on. Which of the following authentication methods would allow this type of access?
Which of the following would MOST likely be used to review disaster recovery information for a system?
An IT technician successfully connects to the corporate wireless network at a hank. While performing some tests, the technician observes that the physical address of the DHCp server has changed even though the network connection has not been lost. Which of the following would BEST explain this change?
A company needs a redundant link to provide a channel to the management network in an incident response scenario. Which of the following remote access methods provides the BEST solution?
A network engineer needs to enable device monitoring using authentication and encryption. Which of the following protocols offers this option?
Which of the following is the MOST effective security control to keep a company's physical perimeter protected against intrusions leveraged by social-engineering techniques?
Which of the following record types would be used to define where SIP is found?
A technician wants to monitor and provide traffic segmentation across the network. The technician would like to assign each department a specific identifier. Which of the following will the technician MOST likely use?
An organization would like to implement a disaster recovery strategy that does not require a facility agreement or idle hardware. Which of the following strategies MOST likely meets the organization's requirements?
Which of the following refers to a weakness in a mechanism or technical process?
A company with multiple routers would like to implement an HA network gateway with the least amount of downtime possible. This solution should not require changes on the gateway setting of the network clients. Which of the following should a technician configure?
Which of the following is the most accurate NTP time source that is capable of being accessed across a network connection?
Which of the following should be used to manage outside cables that need to be routed to various multimode uplinks?
Which of the following layers of the OSI model receives data from the application layer and converts it into syntax that is readable by other devices on the network?
A large metropolitan city is looking to standardize the ability tor police department laptops to connect to the city government's VPN The city would like a wireless solution that provides the largest coverage across the city with a minimal number of transmission towers Latency and overall bandwidth needs are not high priorities. Which of the following would BEST meet the city's needs?
Which of the following best describe the functions of Layer 2 of the OSI model? (Select two).
A network administrator is in the process of installing 35 PoE security cameras. After the administrator installed and tested the new cables, the administrator installed the cameras. However, a small number of the cameras do not work. Which of the following is the most likely reason?
Which of the following can be used to aggregate logs from different devices and would make analysis less difficult?
Which of the following would be the BEST choice to connect branch sites to a main office securely?
Which of the following provides guidance to an employee about restricting non-business access to the company's videoconferencing solution?
A network administrator is trying to add network redundancy for the server farm. Which of the following can the network administrator configure to BEST provide this capability?
Users in a branch can access an ln-house database server, but II is taking too long to fetch records. The analyst does not know whether the Issue is being caused by network latency. Which of the following will the analyst MOST likely use to retrieve the metrics that are needed to resolve this issue?
A user in a branch office reports that access to all files has been lost after receiving a new PC. All other users in the branch can access fileshares. The IT engineer who is troubleshooting this incident is able to ping the workstation from the branch router, but the machine cannot ping the router. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of the incident?
A network technician needs to install security updates on several switches on me company's network. The management team wants this completed as quickly and efficiently as possible. Which of the following should the technician do to perform the updates?
Which of the following combinations of single cables and transceivers will allow a server to have 40GB of network throughput? (Select two).
Which of the following is the primary function of the core layer of the three-tiered model?
During an annual review of policy documents, a company decided to adjust its recovery time frames. The company agreed that critical applications can be down for no more than six hours, and the acceptable amount of data loss is no more than two hours. Which of the following should be documented as the RPO?
A network technician plugged a workstation in to a network device. When the technician turned on the workstation, it was not connected at full duplex. Which of the following devices was the workstation connected to?
Which of the following cloud components can filter inbound and outbound traffic between cloud resources?
A network administrator needs to change where the outside DNS records are hosted. Which of the following records should the administrator change at the
registrar to accomplish this task?
Network users reported that a recent firmware upgrade to a firewall did not resolve the issue that prompted the upgrade. Which of the following should be performed NEXT?
A WAN technician reviews activity and identifies newly installed hardware that is causing outages over an eight-hour period. Which of the following should be considered FIRST?
An engineer needs to restrict the database servers that are in the same subnet from communicating with each other. The database servers will still need to communicate with the application servers in a different subnet. In some cases, the database servers will be clustered, and the servers will need to communicate with other cluster members. Which of the following technologies will be BEST to use to implement this filtering without creating rules?
A new company recently moved into an empty office space Within days, users in the next office began noticing increased latency and packet drops with their Wi-Fi-connected devices. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for this issue?
On a network with redundant switches, a network administrator replaced one of the switches but was unable to get a connection with another switch. Which of the following should the administrator chock after successfully testing the cable that was wired for TIA/EIA-568A on both ends?
You have been tasked with implementing an ACL on the router that will:
1. Permit the most commonly used secure remote access technologies from the management network to all other local network segments
2. Ensure the user subnet cannot use the most commonly used remote access technologies in the Linux and Windows Server segments.
3. Prohibit any traffic that has not been specifically allowed.
INSTRUCTIONS
Use the drop-downs to complete the ACL
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.
A network administrator is trying to create a subnet, which is the most efficient size possible, for 31 laptops. Which of the following network subnets would be best in this situation?
A user is unable to perform a reverse DNS lookup of an IP address to a hostname. Which of the following DNS record types is missing?
Which of the following is an advanced distance vector routing protocol that automates routing tables and also uses some features of link-state routing protocols?
A network technician recently installed 35 additional workstations. After installation, some users are unable to access network resources. Many of the original workstations that are experiencing the network access issue were offline when the new workstations were turned on. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?
A network engineer is investigating reports of poor performance on a videoconferencing application. Upon reviewing the report, the engineer finds that available bandwidth at the WAN connection is low.
Which Of the following is the MOST appropriate mechanism to handle this issue?
A network technician is investigating why a core switch is logging excessive amounts of data to the syslog server. The running configuration of the switch showed the following logging information:
Which of the following changes should the technician make to BEST fix the issue?
A user reports being unable to access network resources after making some changes in the office. Which of the following should a network technician do FIRST?
A technician is installing a new fiber connection to a network device in a datacenter. The connection from the device to the switch also traverses a patch panel connection. The chain of connections is in the following order:
Device
LC/LC patch cable
Patch panel
Cross-connect fiber cable
Patch panel
LC/LC patch cable
Switch
The connection is not working. The technician has changed both patch cables with known working patch cables. The device had been tested and was working properly before being installed. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?
A company hired a technician to find all the devices connected within a network. Which of the following software tools would BEST assist the technician in completing this task?
A branch of a company recently switched to a new ISP. The network engineer was given a new IP range to assign. The ISP assigned 196.26.4.0/26, and the branch gateway router now has the following configurations on the interface that peers to the ISP:
The network engineer observes that all users have lost Internet connectivity. Which of the following describes the issue?
Which of the following can be used to centrally manage credentials for various types of administrative privileges on configured network devices?
Which of the following technologies provides a failover mechanism for the default gateway?
Wireless users are reporting intermittent internet connectivity. Connectivity is restored when the users disconnect and reconnect, utilizing the web authentication process each time. The network administrator can see the devices connected to the APs at all times. Which of the following steps will MOST likely determine the cause of the issue?
Given the following information:
Which of the following command-line tools would generate this output?
Within the realm of network security, Zero Trust:
A technician is troubleshooting a wireless connectivity issue in a small office located in a high-rise building. Several APs are mounted in this office. The users report that the network connections frequently disconnect and reconnect throughout the day. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?
A network engineer performs the following tasks to increase server bandwidth:
Connects two network cables from the server to a switch stack
Configure LACP on the switchports
Verifies the correct configurations on the switch interfaces
Which of the following needs to be configured on the server?
A website administrator is concerned the company’s static website could be defaced by hacktivists or used as a pivot point to attack internal systems. Which of the following should a network security administrator recommend to assist with detecting these activities?
At which of the following OSI model layers would a technician find an IP header?
Which of the following devices would be used to manage a corporate WLAN?
A technician needs to configure a Linux computer for network monitoring. The technician has the following information:
Linux computer details:
Switch mirror port details:
After connecting the Linux computer to the mirror port on the switch, which of the following commands should the technician run on the Linux computer?
A fiber link connecting two campus networks is broken. Which of the following tools should an engineer use to detect the exact break point of the fiber link?
Which of the following is MOST likely to generate significant East-West traffic in a datacenter?
Which of the following DNS records works as an alias to another record?
A network administrator is installing a wireless network at a client’s office. Which of the following IEEE 802.11 standards would be BEST to use for multiple simultaneous client access?
A network device is configured to send critical events to a syslog server; however, the following alerts are not being received:
Severity 5 LINK-UPDOWN: Interface 1/1, changed state to down
Severity 5 LINK-UPDOWN: Interface 1/3, changed state to down
Which of the following describes the reason why the events are not being received?
A network administrator discovers that users in an adjacent building are connecting to the company’s guest wireless network to download inappropriate material. Which of the following can the administrator do to MOST easily mitigate this issue?
A network administrator needs to query the NSs for a remote application. Which of the following commands would BEST help the administrator accomplish this task?
A technician is writing documentation regarding a company’s server farm. The technician needs to confirm the server name for all Linux servers. Which of the following commands should the technician run?
A new cabling certification is being requested every time a network technician rebuilds one end of a Cat 6 (vendor-certified) cable to create a crossover connection that is used to connect switches. Which of the following would address this issue by allowing the use of the original cable?
A network administrator redesigned the positioning of the APs to create adjacent areas of wireless coverage. After project validation, some users still report poor connectivity when their devices maintain an association to a distanced AP. Which of the following should the network administrator check FIRST?
An administrator is writing a script to periodically log the IPv6 and MAC addresses of all the devices on a network segment. Which of the following switch features will MOST likely be used to assist with this task?
Several WIFI users are reporting the inability to connect to the network. WLAN users on the guest network are able to access all network resources without any performance issues. The following table summarizes the findings after a site survey of the area in question:
Which of the following should a wireless technician do NEXT to troubleshoot this issue?
A client recently added 100 users who are using VMs. All users have since reported slow or unresponsive desktops. Reports show minimal network congestion, zero packet loss, and acceptable packet delay. Which of the following metrics will MOST accurately show the underlying performance issues? (Choose two.)
Which of the following is used to prioritize Internet usage per application and per user on the network?
An IT director is setting up new disaster and HA policies for a company. Limited downtime is critical to operations. To meet corporate requirements, the director set up two different datacenters across the country that will stay current on data and applications. In the event of an outage, the company can immediately switch from one datacenter to another. Which of the following does this BEST describe?
A workstation is configured with the following network details:
Software on the workstation needs to send a query to the local subnet broadcast address. To which of the following addresses should the software be configured to send the query?
A technician wants to deploy a new wireless network that comprises 30 WAPs installed throughout a three-story office building. All the APs will broadcast the same SSID for client access. Which of the following BEST describes this deployment?
A technician is installing a high-density wireless network and wants to use an available frequency that supports the maximum number of channels to reduce interference. Which of the following standard 802.11 frequency ranges should the technician look for while reviewing WAP specifications?
Which of the following provides redundancy on a file server to ensure the server is still connected to a LAN even in the event of a port failure on a switch?
A systems administrator needs to improve WiFi performance in a densely populated office tower and use the latest standard. There is a mix of devices that use 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. Which of the following should the systems administrator select to meet this requirement?
A network technician is reviewing the interface counters on a router interface. The technician is attempting to confirm a cable issue. Given the following information:
Which of the following metrics confirms there is a cabling issue?
A network is experiencing a number of CRC errors during normal network communication. At which of the following layers of the OSI model will the administrator MOST likely start to troubleshoot?
Branch users are experiencing issues with videoconferencing. Which of the following will the company MOST likely configure to improve performance for these applications?
Which of the following service models would MOST likely be used to replace on-premises servers with a cloud solution?
Which of the following would need to be configured to ensure a device with a specific MAC address is always assigned the same IP address from DHCP?
Which of the following is the physical topology for an Ethernet LAN?
Which of the following TCP ports is used by the Windows OS for file sharing?
You are tasked with verifying the following requirements are met in order to ensure network security.
Requirements:
Datacenter
Ensure network is subnetted to allow all devices to communicate properly while minimizing address space usage
Provide a dedicated server to resolve IP addresses and hostnames correctly and handle port 53 traffic
Building A
Ensure network is subnetted to allow all devices to communicate properly while minimizing address space usage
Provide devices to support 5 additional different office users
Add an additional mobile user
Replace the Telnet server with a more secure solution
Screened subnet
Ensure network is subnetted to allow all devices to communicate properly while minimizing address space usage
Provide a server to handle external 80/443 traffic
Provide a server to handle port 20/21 traffic
INSTRUCTIONS
Drag and drop objects onto the appropriate locations. Objects can be used multiple times and not all placeholders need to be filled.
Available objects are located in both the Servers and Devices tabs of the Drag & Drop menu.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.
Access to a datacenter should be individually recorded by a card reader even when multiple employees enter the facility at the same time. Which of the following allows the enforcement of this policy?
Which of the following connector types would have the MOST flexibility?
An engineer is configuring redundant network links between switches. Which of the following should the engineer enable to prevent network stability issues?
Which of the following routing protocols is used to exchange route information between public autonomous systems?
According to troubleshooting methodology, which of the following should the technician do NEXT after determining the most likely probable cause of an issue?
The network administrator is informed that a user’s email password is frequently hacked by brute-force programs. Which of the following policies should the network administrator implements to BEST mitigate this issue? (Choose two.)
Which of the following would MOST likely be used to review previous upgrades to a system?
SIMULATION
You have been tasked with setting up a wireless network in an office. The network will consist of 3 Access Points and a single switch. The network must meet the following parameters:
The SSIDs need to be configured as CorpNet with a key of S3cr3t!
The wireless signals should not interfere with each other
The subnet the Access Points and switch are on should only support 30 devices maximum
The Access Points should be configured to only support TKIP clients at a maximum speed
INSTRUCTONS
Click on the wireless devices and review their information and adjust the settings of the access points to meet the given requirements.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.
A technician is installing multiple UPS units in a major retail store. The technician is required to keep track of all changes to new and old equipment. Which of the following will allow the technician to record these changes?
A network administrator is designing a new datacenter in a different region that will need to communicate to the old datacenter with a secure connection. Which of the following access methods would provide the BEST security for this new datacenter?
A technician is configuring a network switch to be used in a publicly accessible location. Which of the following should the technician configure on the switch to prevent unintended connections?
Which of the following BEST describes a network appliance that warns of unapproved devices that are accessing the network?
Which of the following ports is commonly used by VoIP phones?
A store owner would like to have secure wireless access available for both business equipment and patron use. Which of the following features should be configured to allow different wireless access through the same equipment?
A company built a new building at its headquarters location. The new building is connected to the company’s LAN via fiber-optic cable. Multiple users in the new building are unable to access the company’s intranet site via their web browser, but they are able to access internet sites. Which of the following describes how the network administrator can resolve this issue?
A technician is searching for a device that is connected to the network and has the device’s physical network address. Which of the following should the technician review on the switch to locate the device’s network port?
A network engineer is investigating reports of poor network performance. Upon reviewing a report, the engineer finds that jitter at the office is greater than 10ms on the only WAN connection available. Which of the following would be MOST affected by this statistic?
A network engineer is investigating reports of poor network performance. Upon reviewing a device configuration, the engineer finds that duplex settings are mismatched on both ends. Which of the following would be the MOST likely result of this finding?
Which of the following would be BEST to use to detect a MAC spoofing attack?
Which of the following is used to track and document various types of known vulnerabilities?
A technician is deploying a new switch model and would like to add it to the existing network monitoring software. The technician wants to know what metrics can be gathered from a given switch. Which of the following should the technician utilize for the switch?
A network engineer configured new firewalls with the correct configuration to be deployed to each remote branch. Unneeded services were disabled, and all firewall rules were applied successfully. Which of the following should the network engineer perform NEXT to ensure all the firewalls are hardened successfully?
The following configuration is applied to a DHCP server connected to a VPN concentrator:
There are 300 non-concurrent sales representatives who log in for one hour a day to upload reports, and 252 of these representatives are able to connect to the VPN without any Issues. The remaining sales representatives cannot connect to the VPN over the course of the day. Which of the following can be done to resolve the issue without utilizing additional resources?
A network administrator is configuring a load balancer for two systems. Which of the following must the administrator configure to ensure connectivity during a failover?
The management team needs to ensure unnecessary modifications to the corporate network are not permitted and version control is maintained. Which of the following documents would BEST support this?
A network administrator walks into a datacenter and notices an unknown person is following closely. The administrator stops and directs the person to the security desk. Which of the following attacks did the network administrator prevent?
Which of the following is the LARGEST MTU for a standard Ethernet frame?
An engineer notices some late collisions on a half-duplex link. The engineer verifies that the devices on both ends of the connection are configured for half duplex. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?
Which of the following transceiver types can support up to 40Gbps?
A technician receives feedback that some users are experiencing high amounts of jitter while using the wireless network. While troubleshooting the network, the technician uses the ping command with the IP address of the default gateway and verifies large variations in latency. The technician thinks the issue may be interference from other networks and non-802.11 devices. Which of the following tools should the technician use to troubleshoot the issue?
A network technician is installing new software on a Windows-based server in a different geographical location. Which of the following would be BEST for the technician to use to perform this task?
Client devices cannot enter a network, and the network administrator determines the DHCP scope is exhausted. The administrator wants to avoid creating a new DHCP pool. Which of the following can the administrator perform to resolve the issue?
An attacker is attempting to find the password to a network by inputting common words and phrases in plaintext to the password prompt. Which of the following attack types BEST describes this action?
After the A record of a public website was updated, some visitors were unable to access the website. Which of the following should be adjusted to address the issue?
A technician is connecting multiple switches to create a large network for a new office. The switches are unmanaged Layer 2 switches with multiple connections between each pair. The network is experiencing an extreme amount of latency. Which of the following is MOST likely occurring?
A network administrator is implementing OSPF on all of a company’s network devices. Which of the following will MOST likely replace all the company’s hubs?
Which of the following systems would MOST likely be found in a screened subnet?
A network technician needs to ensure outside users are unable to telnet into any of the servers at the datacenter. Which of the following ports should be blocked when checking firewall configuration?
An IT organization needs to optimize speeds for global content distribution and wants to reduce latency in high-density user locations. Which of the following technologies BEST meets the organization’s requirements?
A technician is assisting a user who cannot connect to a network resource. The technician first checks for a link light. According to troubleshooting methodology, this is an example of:
A network technician is manually configuring the network settings for a new device and is told the network block is 192.168.0.0/20. Which of the following subnets should the technician use?
Which of the following types of devices can provide content filtering and threat protection, and manage multiple IPSec site-to-site connections?
A small, family-run business uses a single SOHO router to provide Internet and WiFi to its employees At the start of a new week, employees come in and find their usual WiFi network is no longer available, and there is a new wireless network to which they cannot connect. Given that information, which of the following should have been done to avoid this situation'
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?
Two remote offices need to be connected securely over an untrustworthy MAN. Each office needs to access network shares at the other site. Which of the following will BEST provide this functionality?
A network technician was troubleshooting an issue for a user who was being directed to cloned websites that were stealing credentials. The URLs were correct for the websites but an incorrect IP address was revealed when the technician used ping on the user's PC After checking the is setting, the technician found the DNS server address was incorrect Which of the following describes the issue?
A network technician is configuring a new firewall for a company with the necessary access requirements to be allowed through the firewall. Which of the following would normally be applied as the LAST rule in the firewall?
A technician is troubleshooting a previously encountered issue. Which of the following should the technician reference to find what solution was implemented to resolve the issue?
During the security audit of a financial firm the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) questions why there are three employees who perform very distinct functions on the server. There is an administrator for creating users another for assigning the users lo groups and a third who is the only administrator to perform file rights assignment Which of the following mitigation techniques is being applied'
A network administrator is downloading a large patch that will be uploaded to several enterprise switches simultaneously during the day's upgrade cycle. Which of the following should the administrator do to help ensure the upgrade process will be less likely to cause problems with the switches?
Given the following output:
Which of the following attacks is this MOST likely an example of?
A technician is implementing a new wireless network to serve guests at a local office. The network needs to provide Internet access but disallow associated stations from communicating with each other. Which of the following would BEST accomplish this requirement?
There are two managed legacy switches running that cannot be replaced or upgraded. These switches do not support cryptographic functions, but they are password protected. Which of the following should a network administrator configure to BEST prevent unauthorized access?
A corporation has a critical system that would cause unrecoverable damage to the brand if it was taken offline. Which of the following disaster recovery solutions should the corporation implement?
A network engineer is designing a new secure wireless network. The engineer has been given the following requirements:
1 Must not use plaintext passwords
2 Must be certificate based
3. Must be vendor neutral
Which of the following methods should the engineer select?
A network technician has multimode fiber optic cable available in an existing IDF. Which of the following Ethernet standards should the technician use to connect the network switch to the existing fiber?
A network technician is observing the behavior of an unmanaged switch when a new device is added to the network and transmits data. Which of the following BEST describes how the switch processes this information?
A lab environment hosts Internet-facing web servers and other experimental machines, which technicians use for various tasks A technician installs software on one of the web servers to allow communication to the company's file server, but it is unable to connect to it Other machines in the building are able to retrieve files from the file server. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason the web server cannot retrieve the files, and what should be done to resolve the problem?
A city has hired a new employee who needs to be able to work when traveling at home and at the municipal sourcing of a neighboring city that snares services. The employee is issued a laptop, and a technician needs to train the employee on the appropriate solutions for secure access to the network from all the possible locations On which of the following solutions would the technician MOST likely train the employee?
A network administrator is talking to different vendors about acquiring technology to support a new project for a large company. Which of the following documents will MOST likely need to be signed before information about the project is shared?
A company is being acquired by a large corporation. As part of the acquisition process, the company's address should now redirect clients to the corporate organization page. Which of the following DNS records needs to be created?
A network technician needs to correlate security events to analyze a suspected intrusion. Which of the following should the technician use?
A technician wants to install a WAP in the center of a room that provides service in a radius surrounding a radio. Which of the following antenna types should the AP utilize?
Which of the following protocol types describes secure communication on port 443?
Which of the following security devices would be BEST to use to provide mechanical access control to the MDF/IDF?
A systems administrator is running a VoIP network and is experiencing jitter and high latency. Which of the following would BEST help the administrator determine the cause of these issues?
A SaaS provider has decided to leave an unpatched VM available via a public DMZ port. With which of the following concepts is this technique MOST closely associated?
A network administrator decided to use SLAAC in an extensive IPv6 deployment to alleviate IP address management. The devices were properly connected into the LAN but autoconfiguration of the IP address did not occur as expected. Which of the following should the network administrator verify?
Which of the following uses the destination IP address to forward packets?
Which of the following OSI model layers is where conversations between applications are established, coordinated, and terminated?
A technician is troubleshooting a workstation's network connectivity and wants to confirm which switchport corresponds to the wall jack the PC is using Which of the following concepts would BEST help the technician?
A network technician is installing an analog desk phone for a new receptionist After running a new phone line, the technician now needs to cnmp on a new connector. Which of the following connectors would MOST likely be used in this case?
A company wants to implement a large number of WAPs throughout its building and allow users to be able to move around the building without dropping their connections Which of the following pieces of equipment would be able to handle this requirement?
Which of the following would be used to expedite MX record updates to authoritative NSs?
A network technician is investigating an issue with handheld devices in a warehouse. Devices have not been connecting to the nearest APs, but they have been connecting to an AP on the far side of the warehouse. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?
A network administrator is configuring a database server and would like to ensure the database engine is listening on a certain port. Which of the following commands should the administrator use to accomplish this goal?
A Chief Information Officer (CIO) wants to improve the availability of a company's SQL database Which of the following technologies should be utilized to achieve maximum availability?
A network administrator needs to implement an HDMI over IP solution. Which of the following will the network administrator MOST likely use to ensure smooth video delivery?
A client moving into a new office wants the IP network set up to accommodate 412 network-connected devices that are all on the same subnet. The subnet needs to be as small as possible. Which of the following subnet masks should be used to achieve the required result?
A business is using the local cable company to provide Internet access. Which of the following types of cabling will the cable company MOST likely use from the demarcation point back to the central office?
A technician is deploying a low-density wireless network and is contending with multiple types of building materials. Which of the following wireless frequencies would allow for the LEAST signal attenuation?
An IT technician suspects a break in one of the uplinks that provides connectivity to the core switch. Which of the following command-line tools should the technician use to determine where the incident is occurring?
The following instructions were published about the proper network configuration for a videoconferencing device:
"Configure a valid static RFC1918 address for your network. Check the option to use a connection over NAT."
Which of the following is a valid IP address configuration for the device?
A user recently made changes to a PC that caused it to be unable to access websites by both FQDN and IP Local resources, such as the file server remain accessible. Which of the following settings did the user MOST likely misconfigure?
A customer wants to segregate the traffic between guests on a hypervisor. Which of the following does a technician need to configure to meet the requirement?
An organization with one core and five distribution switches is transitioning from a star to a full-mesh topology Which of the following is the number of additional network connections needed?
A network administrator has been directed to present the network alerts from the past week to the company's executive staff. Which of the following will provide the BEST collection and presentation of this data?
A network technician is investigating an issue with a desktop that is not connecting to the network. The desktop was connecting successfully the previous day, and no changes were made to the environment. The technician locates the switchport where the device is connected and observes the LED status light on the switchport is not lit even though the desktop is turned on Other devices that arc plugged into the switch are connecting to the network successfully Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of the desktop not connecting?
A user is having difficulty with video conferencing and is looking for assistance. Which of the following would BEST improve performance?
A network administrator wants to analyze attacks directed toward the company's network. Which of the following must the network administrator implement to assist in this goal?
A network administrator is setting up several loT devices on a new VLAN and wants to accomplish the following
1. Reduce manual configuration on each system
2. Assign a specific IP address to each system
3. Allow devices to move to different switchports on the same VLAN
Which of the following should the network administrator do to accomplish these requirements?
A network administrator is required to ensure that auditors have read-only access to the system logs, while systems administrators have read and write access to the system logs, and operators have no access to the system logs. The network administrator has configured security groups for each of these functional categories. Which of the following security capabilities will allow the network administrator to maintain these permissions with the LEAST administrative effort?
An IDS was installed behind the edge firewall after a network was breached. The network was then breached again even though the IDS logged the attack. Which of the following should be used in place of these devices to prevent future attacks?
Which of the following technologies allows traffic to be sent through two different ISPs to increase performance?
A wireless network was installed in a warehouse for employees to scan crates with a wireless handheld scanner. The wireless network was placed in the corner of the building near the ceiling for maximum coverage However users in the offices adjacent lo the warehouse have noticed a large amount of signal overlap from the new network Additionally warehouse employees report difficulty connecting to the wireless network from the other side of the building; however they have no issues when Ihey are near the antenna Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?
A company requires a disaster recovery site to have equipment ready to go in the event of a disaster at its main datacenter. The company does not have the budget to mirror all the live data to the disaster recovery site. Which of the following concepts should the company select?
An ARP request is broadcasted and sends the following request.
''Who is 192.168.1.200? Tell 192.168.1.55''
At which of the following layers of the OSI model does this request operate?
Which of the following is a system that is installed directly on a server's hardware and abstracts the hardware from any guest machines?
An organization wants to implement a method of centrally managing logins to network services. Which of the following protocols should the organization use to allow for authentication, authorization and auditing?
A network technician is investigating an IP phone that does not register in the VoIP system Although it received an IP address, it did not receive the necessary DHCP options The information that is needed for the registration is distributes by the OHCP scope All other IP phones are working properly. Which of the following does the technician need to verify?
Which of the following policies is MOST commonly used for guest captive portals?
Which of the following is MOST commonly used to address CVEs on network equipment and/or operating systems?
A network field technician is installing and configuring a secure wireless network. The technician performs a site survey. Which of the following documents would MOST likely be created as a result of the site survey?
A technician is connecting DSL for a new customer. After installing and connecting the on-premises equipment, the technician verifies DSL synchronization. When connecting to a workstation, however, the link LEDs on the workstation and modem do not light up. Which of the following should the technician perform during troubleshooting?
A network requirement calls for segmenting departments into different networks. The campus network is set up with users of each department in multiple buildings. Which of the following should be configured to keep the design simple and efficient?
Which of the following services can provide data storage, hardware options, and scalability to a third-party company that cannot afford new devices?
A company that uses VoIP telephones is experiencing intermittent issues with one-way audio and dropped conversations The manufacturer says the system will work if ping times are less than 50ms. The company has recorded the following ping times:
Which of the following is MOST likely causing the issue?
A network technician is reviewing an upcoming project's requirements to implement laaS. Which of the following should the technician consider?
A network administrator wants to improve the security of the management console on the company's switches and ensure configuration changes made can be correlated to the administrator who conformed them Which of the following should the network administrator implement?
Which of the following is used to provide networking capability for VMs at Layer 2 of the OSI model?
A network administrator is reviewing interface errors on a switch. Which of the following indicates that a switchport is receiving packets in excess of the configured MTU?
Which of the following attacks encrypts user data and requires a proper backup implementation to recover?
A local firm has hired a consulting company to clean up its IT infrastructure. The consulting company notices remote printing is accomplished by port forwarding via publicly accessible IPs through the firm's firewall Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate way to enable secure remote printing?
Which of the following protocols will a security appliance that is correlating network events from multiple devices MOST likely rely on to receive event messages?
A user reports a weak signal when walking 20ft (61 m) away from the WAP in one direction, but a strong signal when walking 20ft in the opposite direction The technician has reviewed the configuration and confirmed the channel type is correct There is no jitter or latency on the connection Which of the following would be the MOST likely cause of the issue?