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Question 1

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?

Accepted Answer

Confirm the patch's MD5 hash prior to the upgrade

Answer

Schedule the switches to reboot after an appropriate amount of time.

Answer

Download each switch's current configuration before the upgrade

Answer

Utilize FTP rather than TFTP to upload the patch

Question 2

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?

Accepted Answer

Hot site

Answer

Full backups

Answer

Load balancing

Answer

Snapshots

Question 3

Which of the following services can provide data storage, hardware options, and scalability to a third-party
company that cannot afford new devices?

Accepted Answer

IaaS

Answer

SaaS

Answer

PaaS

Answer

DaaS

Question 4

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?

Accepted Answer

Default gateway

Answer

Static IP

Answer

DNS entries

Answer

Local host file

Question 5

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?

Accepted Answer

Implicit deny

Answer

Secure SNMP

Answer

Port security

Answer

DHCP snooping

Question 6

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?

Accepted Answer

1000BaseSX

Answer

10GBaseT

Answer

1000BaseT

Answer

1000BaseLX

Question 7

Which of the following would be used to expedite MX record updates to authoritative NSs?

Accepted Answer

Time to live

Answer

UDP forwarding

Answer

DNS caching

Answer

Recursive lookup

Question 8

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?

Accepted Answer

Syslog

Answer

Session Initiation Protocol

Answer

Secure File Transfer Protocol

Answer

Server Message Block

Question 9

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?

Accepted Answer

172.19.0.2

Answer

FE80::1

Answer

100.64.0.1

Answer

169.254.1.2

Answer

224.0.0.12

Question 10

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'

Accepted Answer

Role separation

Answer

Privileged user accounts

Answer

Container administration

Answer

Job rotation

Question 11

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?

Accepted Answer

A UTM appliance

Answer

A network tap

Answer

A proxy server

Answer

A content filter

Question 12

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?

Accepted Answer

An omnidirectional antenna was used instead of a unidirectional antenna

Answer

The wireless signal is being refracted by the warehouse's windows

Answer

The antenna's power level was set too high and is overlapping

Answer

The wireless access points are using channels from the 5GHz spectrum

Question 13

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?

Accepted Answer

Antenna type

Answer

Power levels

Answer

Frequency

Answer

Encryption type

Question 14

Which of the following is a system that is installed directly on a server's hardware and abstracts the hardware
from any guest machines?

Accepted Answer

Type 1 hypervisor

Answer

Storage array

Answer

Virtual machine

Answer

Guest QS

Question 15

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?

Accepted Answer

A report from the SIEM tool

Answer

A port scan printout

Answer

A consolidated report of various network devices

Answer

A report from a vulnerability scan done yesterday

Question 16

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?

Accepted Answer

Damaged cable

Answer

Transceiver mismatch

Answer

VLAN mismatch

Answer

Port security

Answer

Duplex mismatch

Question 17

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?

Accepted Answer

netstat -a

Answer

nslookup

Answer

ipconfig /a

Answer

arp -a

Question 18

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?

Accepted Answer

Port tagging

Answer

MDIX

Answer

Jumbo frames

Answer

Flow control

Question 19

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?

Accepted Answer

Warm site

Answer

Cold site

Answer

Hot site

Answer

Cloud site

Question 20

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?

Accepted Answer

show interface

Answer

nslookup

Answer

show config

Answer

netstat

Answer

show counters

Question 21

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?

Accepted Answer

VLAN mismatch

Answer

Transceiver mismatch

Answer

Latency

Answer

DHCP exhaustion

Question 22

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?

Accepted Answer

Jitter

Answer

Attenuation

Answer

Latency

Answer

VLAN mismatch

Question 23

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?

Accepted Answer

The network gateway is configured to send router advertisements.

Answer

A DHCP server is present on the same broadcast domain as the clients.

Answer

The devices support dual stack on the network layer

Answer

The local gateway supports anycast routing.

Question 24

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?

Accepted Answer

The data is flooded out of every port, except the one on which it came in

Answer

The data is flooded out of every port. including the one on which it came in.

Answer

The data is flooded out of every port but only in the VLAN where it is located.

Answer

The data is flooded out of every port, excluding the VLAN where it is located

Question 25

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?

Accepted Answer

Configuring SNMP traps on the network

Answer

Enabling RADIUS on the network

Answer

Implementing LDAP on the network

Answer

Establishing NTP on the network

Question 26

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?

Accepted Answer

Use an out-of-band access method

Answer

Enable a management access list

Answer

Disable access to unnecessary services

Answer

Configure a stronger password for access

Answer

Disable access to remote management

Question 27

Which of the following attacks encrypts user data and requires a proper backup implementation to recover?

Accepted Answer

Ransomware

Answer

DDoS

Answer

Phishing

Answer

MAC spoofing

Question 28

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?

Accepted Answer

2.4GHz

Answer

5GHz

Answer

850MHz

Answer

900MHZ

Question 29

Which of the following is MOST commonly used to address CVEs on network equipment and/or operating
systems?

Accepted Answer

Firmware update

Answer

Vulnerability assessment

Answer

Factory reset

Answer

Screened subnet

Question 30

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?

Accepted Answer

10

Answer

5

Answer

7

Answer

15

Question 31

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?

Accepted Answer

The lab environment is located in the DM2, and traffic to the LAN zone is denied by default. The technician can move the computer to another zone or request an exception from the administrator.

Answer

The lab environment's IDS is blocking the network traffic 1 he technician can whitelist the new application in the IDS

Answer

The lab environment has lost connectivity to the company router, and the switch needs to be rebooted. The technician can get the key to the wiring closet and manually restart the switch

Answer

The lab environment is currently set up with hubs instead of switches, and the requests are getting bounced back The technician can submit a request for upgraded equipment to management.

Question 32

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?

Accepted Answer

EAP-TLS

Answer

TWP-RC4

Answer

CCMP-AES

Answer

WPA2

Question 33

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?

Accepted Answer

Site-to-site VPNs between the two city locations and client-to-site software on the employee's laptop tor all other remote access

Answer

Client-to-site VPNs between the travel locations and site-to-site software on the employee's laptop for all other remote access

Answer

Client-to-site VPNs between the two city locations and site-to-site software on the employee's laptop for all other remote access

Answer

Site-to-site VPNs between the home and city locations and site-to-site software on the employee's laptop for all other remote access

Question 34

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?

Accepted Answer

Heat map

Answer

Physical diagram

Answer

Asset list

Answer

Device map

Question 35

A network technician is reviewing an upcoming project's requirements to implement laaS. Which of the
following should the technician consider?

Accepted Answer

Server hardware requirements

Answer

Software installation processes

Answer

Type of database to be installed

Answer

Operating system maintenance

Question 36

Which of the following technologies allows traffic to be sent through two different ISPs to increase
performance?

Accepted Answer

Load balancing

Answer

Fault tolerance

Answer

Quality of service

Answer

Port aggregation

Question 37

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?

Accepted Answer

Omni

Answer

Directional

Answer

Yagi

Answer

Parabolic

Question 38

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'

Accepted Answer

The default credentials should have been changed

Answer

The device firmware should have been kept current

Answer

Unsecure protocols should have been disabled.

Answer

Parental controls should have been enabled

Question 39

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?

Accepted Answer

RJ11

Answer

DB9

Answer

RJ45

Answer

DB25

Question 40

Which of the following protocol types describes secure communication on port 443?

Accepted Answer

TCP

Answer

ICMP

Answer

UDP

Answer

IP

Question 41

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?

Accepted Answer

Role-based access

Answer

Mandatory access control

Answer

User-based permissions

Answer

Least privilege

Question 42

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?

Accepted Answer

Virtual switches

Answer

OSPF routing

Answer

Load balancers

Answer

NIC teaming

Answer

Fibre Channel

Question 43

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?

Accepted Answer

NDA

Answer

BYOD policy

Answer

SLA

Answer

MOU

Question 44

A network technician needs to correlate security events to analyze a suspected intrusion. Which of the
following should the technician use?

Accepted Answer

SIEM

Answer

SNMP

Answer

Log review

Answer

Vulnerability scanning

Question 45

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?

Accepted Answer

Set up a reservation for each device

Answer

Configure a static IP on each device

Answer

Implement private VLANs for each device

Answer

Use DHCP exclusions to address each device

Question 46

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?

Accepted Answer

Change management documentation

Answer

Standard operating procedures

Answer

Configuration baseline documents

Answer

Work instructions

Question 47

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?

Accepted Answer

PAT

Answer

NAT

Answer

STP

Answer

SNAT

Answer

ARP

Question 48

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?

Accepted Answer

CNAME

Answer

SOA

Answer

NS

Answer

TXT

Question 49

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?

Accepted Answer

A wireless controller

Answer

A VPN concentrator

Answer

A load balancer

Answer

A RADIUS server

Question 50

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?

Accepted Answer

Clustering

Answer

Port aggregation

Answer

NIC teaming

Answer

Snapshots

Question 51

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?

Accepted Answer

RG-6

Answer

Multimode

Answer

Cat 5e

Answer

Cat 6

Answer

100BASE-T

Question 52

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?

Accepted Answer

The power level is too high for the AP on the far side.

Answer

The nearest APs are configured for 802.11g.

Answer

An incorrect channel assignment is on the nearest APs.

Answer

Interference exists around the AP on the far side.

Question 53

Which of the following policies is MOST commonly used for guest captive portals?

Accepted Answer

AUP

Answer

DLP

Answer

BYOD

Answer

NDA

Question 54

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?

Accepted Answer

A honeypot

Answer

Network segmentation

Answer

Antivirus

Answer

A screened subnet

Question 55

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?

Accepted Answer

Wireless client isolation

Answer

Port security

Answer

Device geofencing

Answer

DHCP snooping

Question 56

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?

Accepted Answer

DNS poisoning

Answer

Rogue DHCP server

Answer

Misconfigured HSRP

Answer

Exhausted IP scope

Question 57

Which of the following attacks is this MOST likely an example of?

Accepted Answer

ARP poisoning

Answer

VLAN hopping

Answer

Rogue access point

Answer

Amplified DoS

Question 58

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?

Accepted Answer

Giants

Answer

CRC errors

Answer

Runts

Answer

Flooding

Question 59

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?

Accepted Answer

Replace the cable connecting the modem and the workstation.

Answer

Identify the switching loops between the modem and the workstation

Answer

Check for asymmetrical routing on the modem.

Answer

Look for a rogue DHCP server on the network

Question 60

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?

Accepted Answer

RADIUS

Answer

MS-CHAP

Answer

LDAPS

Answer

RSTP

Question 61

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?

Accepted Answer

VPN

Answer

SSH

Answer

Telnet

Answer

SSL

Question 62

A user is having difficulty with video conferencing and is looking for assistance. Which of the following
would BEST improve performance?

Accepted Answer

Quality of service

Answer

Packet shaping

Answer

Port mirroring

Answer

Load balancing

Question 63

Which of the following is used to provide networking capability for VMs at Layer 2 of the OSI model?

Accepted Answer

vSwitch

Answer

VPN

Answer

VRRP

Answer

VIP

Question 64

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?

Accepted Answer

TACACS+

Answer

Port security

Answer

Local authentication

Answer

Access control list

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