NEW QUESTION 1
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. using a bottom-to-top approach.
• B. establishing a plan of action.
• C. documenting a finding.
• D. questioning the obvious.

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 2
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?

• A. Standard operating procedures
• B. Configuration baseline documents
• C. Work instructions
• D. Change management documentation

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 3
A technician is installing a new fiber connection toa 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. TX/RX is reversed
• B. An incorrect cable was used
• C. The device failed during installation
• D. Attenuation is occurring

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 4
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?

• A. The link is improperly terminated
• B. One of the devices is misconfigured
• C. The cable length is excessive
• D. One of the devices has a hardware issue

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 5
Which of the following is a system that is installed directly on a server's hardware and abstracts the hardware from any guest machines?

• A. Storage array
• B. Type 1 hypervisor
• C. Virtual machine
• D. Guest QS

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 6
Which of the following BEST describes a network appliance that warns of unapproved devices that are accessing the network?

• A. Firewall
• B. AP
• C. Proxyserver
• D. IDS

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 7
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.

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 8
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?

• A. Ensure an implicit permit rule is enabled
• B. Configure the log settings on the firewalls to the central syslog server
• C. Update the firewalls with current firmware and software
• D. Use the same complex passwords on all firewalls

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 9
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?

• A. 255.255.128.0
• B. 255.255.192.0
• C. 255.255.240.0
• D. 255.255.248.0

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 10
Which of the following provides redundancy ona file server to ensure the server is still connected to a LAN even in the event of a port failure on a switch?

• A. NIC teaming
• B. Load balancer
• C. RAID array
• D. PDUs

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 11
Which of the following is the LARGEST MTU for a standard Ethernet frame?

• A. 1452
• B. 1492
• C. 1500
• D. 2304

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 12
A network engineer performs the following tasks to increaseserver 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. Load balancing
• B. Multipathing
• C. NIC teaming
• D. Clustering

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 13
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. The data is flooded out of every por
• B. including the one on which it came in.
• C. The data is flooded out of every port but only in the VLAN where it is located.
• D. The data is flooded out of every port, except the one on which it came in
• E. The data is flooded out of every port, excluding the VLAN where it is located

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 14
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. ipconfig
• B. nslookup
• C. arp
• D. route

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 15
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?

• A. A network tap
• B. A proxy server
• C. A UTM appliance
• D. A content filter

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 16
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. CSMA/CD
• B. LACP
• C. PoE+
• D. MDIX

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 17
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. Virtual network computing
• B. Secure Socket Shell
• C. In-band connection
• D. Site-to-site VPN

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 18
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?

• A. Layer 1
• B. Layer 2
• C. Layer 3
• D. Layer 4
• E. Layer 5
• F. Layer 6
• G. Layer 7

Answer: B

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