Networking Essentials Test Three (1.20.00)

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1 A company hires you to build a network to support 20 PCs and an IBM mainframe computer. The office is already wired with shielded twisted-pair cabling that matches IBM Type 3 specifications.

Required result:
The network must accommodate all computers.

Optional desired results:
The network should support transmission speeds up to 100 Mbps.
The network must be easy to configure.

Proposed solution:
Implement an Ethernet network using the Type 3 cable already in place.

Which results does the proposed solution produce?
The proposed solution produces the required result and produces both of the optional desired results
The proposed solution produces the required result and produces only one of the optional desired results
The proposed solution produces the required result but does not produce any of the optional desired results
The proposed solution does not produce the required result

2 Which of the following network protocols enables communication with an IBM mainframe computer?
FTP
RIP
DLC
MRP

3 Which of the following connector types is most commonly used to connect Thinnet to a network interface card (NIC)?
BNC barrel
BNC T
AUI
RJ-45

4 Which RAID level creates a stripe set, but with no data redundancy?
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 2
RAID 3

5 What occurs when the number of network broadcast messages exceeds the amount of network bandwidth available?
crosstalk
attenuation
broadcast storm
beaconing

6 A newly installed computer on an IPX/SPX Thinnet Ethernet network appears to work fine, but is unable to access the network, even though all other machines are able to use the network's services. What is the most likely cause of this problem?
protocol mismatch
incorrect IPX frame type
upper memory area conflict
faulty repeater

7 Which of the following devices can be used to reduce traffic bottlenecks on a network that uses the NetBEUI protocol?
router
multiplexer
bridge
gateway

8 Which operating systems permit you only to assign separate passwords for each shared resource?
Windows 95
Windows NT Server
Windows NT Workstation
Windows For Workgroups

9 A Windows NT Server on the network runs extremely slowly. You suspect that it doesn't have enough RAM installed. Which counter would you check in Performance Monitor to determine if your suspicions are correct?
Page Faults/sec
Disk Reads/sec
% Processor Time
Network reads/sec

10 Of the following Microsoft operating systems, which support long file names (LFNs)?
DOS 6.22
Windows 3.1
Windows 98
Windows NT 4.0

11 Which of the following tools permits you to determine which devices may be causing network problems without requiring that these devices be turned off?
a protocol analyzer
a time domain reflectometer
a transceiver
a volt-ohm meter (VOM)

12 Which of the following items should you check if your network is unable to resolve a Unix host name into a corresponding IP address?
DHCP
LMHOSTS
DNS
WINS

13 Which of the following devices is used to examine frame counts, collisions, and beaconing information?
oscilloscope
volt-ohm meter
time domain reflectometer
advanced cable tester

14 Of the following cable types, which is the most susceptible to crosstalk?
STP
CAT5 UTP
Coaxial
Fiber optic

15 Which of the following is the most likely culprit when a computer's operating system is unable to detect a network card? [Choose the best answer]
Wrong frame type is set on the network card
Wrong IRQ is set on the network card
Wrong IRQ is set on the IDE controller card
Wrong protocol is bound to the network adapter

16 Which of the following items are normally associated with user-level security?
Each user is assigned a unique username and password
Windows 95
Windows NT
Users are allowed access to resources based on their username and password

17 Which of the following can gather performance information from a router's MIB?
SNMP
a protocol analyzer
Network Monitor
time domain reflectometer

18 A company is installing an Internet Web server and is concerned with how quickly data images can be read from the server and sent to potential clients. What disk subsystem delivers maximum performance? You are not as concerned with losing data as the speed with which data is retrieved.
RAID level 2
RAID level 5
Disk mirroring
Disk striping without parity

19 You are installing a network card in a computer that has several devices configured. There is a printer on LPT1, a mouse on COM1, a modem on COM2, and a SCSI host adapter on IRQ10. The computer also has a sound card using IRQ 5. If your network card supports IRQs 3 through 5 and 9 through 11, which of the following IRQs could you use in this computer for the NIC?
IRQ 3
IRQ 4
IRQ 10
IRQ 11

20 You run an Ethernet network that has three segments, each separated by a repeater. The trunk ends are terminated by 50-ohm terminators, six in all. How many terminators should be grounded?
two
three
six
none

21 What is the maximum throughput on a V.35 combined circuit link with four 28.8 modems?
1.44 Mbps
28.8 Kbps
115.2 Kbps
144 Kbps

22 By itself, which of the following actions would most effectively reduce the number of network reads and writes?
using TCP/IP instead of NetBEUI
using Token Ring instead of Ethernet
increasing the network packet size
reducing the TCP window size

23 Which of the following is required to implement user-level security on a network that includes Windows 95 machines?
DNS server
WINS server
Windows NT Server
master browser

24 Which of the following Ethernet cable types can span distances greater than 100 meters, but no more than 185 meters?
10Base2
10Base5
10BaseT
fiber optic

25 Which of the following terms describes the process of communicating to the computers on a Token Ring network that token passing has been interrupted by a network error of some kind?
Jitter
Crosstalk
Attenuation
Beaconing