Question 31
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. Last cleared
B. Number of packets output
C. CRCs
D. Giants
E. Multicasts
Question 32
Which of the following is the physical topology for an Ethernet LAN?
A. Bus
B. Ring
C. Mesh
D. Star
Question 33
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. A warm site
B. Data mirroring
C. Multipathing
D. Load balancing
E. A hot site
Question 34
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. An incident response plan
B. A business continuity plan
C. A change management policy
D. An acceptable use policy
Question 35
Which of the following is MOST likely to generate significant East-West traffic in a datacenter?
A. A backup of a large video presentation to cloud storage for archival purposes
B. A duplication of a hosted virtual server to another physical server for redundancy
C. A download of navigation data to a portable device for offline access
D. A query from an IoT device to a cloud-hosted server for a firmware update
Question 36
A technician is troubleshooting a network switch that seems to stop responding to requests intermittently whenever the logging level is set for debugging. Which of the following metrics should the technician check to begin troubleshooting the issue?
A. Audit logs
B. CPU utilization
C. CRC errors
D. Jitter
Question 37
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. Extended service set
B. Basic service set
C. Unified service set
D. Independent basic service set
Question 38
A user tries to ping 192.168.1.100 from the command prompt on the 192.168.2.101 network but gets the following response: U.U.U.U. Which of the following needs to be configured for these networks to reach each other?
A. Network address translation
B. Default gateway
C. Loopback
D. Routing protocol
Question 39
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?
A. The incorrect subnet mask was configured
B. The incorrect gateway was configured
C. The incorrect IP address was configured
D. The incorrect interface was configured
Question 40
Within the realm of network security, Zero Trust:
A. prevents attackers from moving laterally through a system.
B. allows a server to communicate with outside networks without a firewall.
C. block malicious software that is too new to be found in virus definitions.
D. stops infected files from being downloaded via websites.
