Routing and Switching CompTIA Style

You have been hired by a company to upgrade their aging network. The network currently uses static routing for the internal network, but the organization wants to reconfigure it to use a dynamic routing protocol. The new dynamic routing protocol must support IPv4 and VLSM, at a minimum. Based on the requirements provided, which of the following routing protocols should you enable and configure?

A network technician is asked to redesign an Ethernet network before some new monitoring software is added to each workstation on the network. The new software will broadcast statistics from each host to a monitoring server for each of the five departments in the company. The added network traffic is a concern of management that must be addressed. How should the technician design the new network?

A network administrator is configuring a VLAN across multiple switches. The administrator wants to configure the VLAN once and have that configuration propagate to all of the switches in the network. Which of the following should the administrator do?

A technician needs to limit the amount of broadcast traffic on a network and allow different segments to communicate with each other. Which of the following should the technician install to satisfy this requirement?

An administrator’s router with multiple interfaces uses OSPF. When looking at the router’s status, it is discovered that one interface is not passing traffic. Given the information below, what would resolve this issue? Output: Fast Ethernet 0 is up, line protocol is down Int ip address is 10.20.130.5/25 MTU 1500 bytes, BW 10000 kbit, DLY 100 usec Reliability 255/255, Tx load 1/255, Rx load 1/255 Encapsulation ospf, loopback not set Keep alive 10 Full duplex, 100Mb/s, 100 Base Tx/Fx Received 1052993 broadcasts 0 input errors 0 packets output, 0 bytes 0 output errors, 0 collisions, 0 resets

Which of the following describes the ID of a specified native VLAN when traffic passes over a trunk?

You have been asked by your supervisor, Martha, to ensure that you enable 802.3af on a managed switch. Which of the following features does Martha want you to enable?

Lynne is a home user who would like to share music throughout the computers in her house using an external USB hard drive connected to a router that she purchased over a year ago. The manufacturer states that the router is capable of recognizing drives up to 4TB in size, but she cannot get her 3TB drive to show up on the network. What should Lynne do to fix this problem?

Your company has just installed a new web server that will allow inbound connections over port 80 from the internet while not being able to accept any connections from the internal network. You have been asked where to place the web server in the network architecture and how to configure the ACL rule to support the requirements. The current network architecture is segmented using a firewall to create the following three zones: ZONE INTERFACE IP address PUBLIC eth0 66.13.24.16/30 DMZ eth1 172.16.1.1/24 PRIVATE eth2 192.168.1.1/24 Based on the requirements and current network architecture above, what is the BEST recommendation?

Your network has been the victim of data breach. Your company has hired an incident response team to help control the damage of the breach and restore the network to its full functionality. The incident response team wants to connect a packet capture device to the switch that connects your servers to the DMZ. Which of the following should be configured to ensure the packet capture device can receive all the network traffic going to and from the servers?