Best Dumps to Pass CompTIA Network+ N10-007 Exam

1. Must be vendor neutral

Which of the following methods should the engineer select?

2. Which of the following allows for secure access to a directory for authentication services?

3. A company has a DNS record for the following address: products companyXYZ.com. The company would like to add another record, sales.companyXYZ.com, which continually points to the same IP address as products companyXYZ.com.

Which of the following DNS record would BEST accomplish this?

4. A network technician needs to correlate security events to analyze a suspected intrusion

Which of the following should the technician use?

5. The management team has instituted a 48-hour RTO as part of the disaster recovery plan.

Which of the following procedures would meet the policy’s requirements?

6. A user in the finance department can access the department printer and file server yet is unable to print to the marketing department’s printer.

A technician runs ipconfig and sees the following output:

IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.101

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

The technician has verified the user’s PC is in the proper VLAN and sees an UP/UP status on the switchport.

Which of the following is MOST likely causing the issue?

7. A network administrator is unable to identify the root cause of a network incident because insufficient evidence about the threat actor’s actions was logged. The administrator notes that the server receiving and storing the events was not compromised by any attack and is properly communicating with all network devices.

Which of the following can the administrator employ to improve network access accountability?

8. A network technician is reviewing an upcoming project's requirements to implement laaS.

Which of the following should the technician consider?

9. 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?

10. The network team is searching for one device that can perform the routing tote for the LAN and offer a higher number of interfaces for future expansion.

Which of the following devices should be used in this scenario?

11. A network engineer is surveying the existing wireless infrastructure to propose additional changes to increase throughput The SSID is already on an uncongested 5GHz frequency

Which of the following should the engineer configure?

12. A company needs to be able to restore 100% of its data from any single day's backup.

Which of the following backup types should the company use?

13. A new datacenter is being created, and management is trying to control access to that area.

Which of the following are the BEST choices for providing access to the new datacenter? (Choose two.)

14. A technician is troubleshooting a workstation's network connectivity and wants to confirm which switchport corresponds to the wall jack the PC is using

Which of the following concepts would BEST help the technician?

15. 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?

16. A user is reporting poor network performance A network technician starts by looking at port statistics on that user's connected switchport. The technician notices there is a high level of collisions on the port.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

17. A network administrator has implemented file integrity monitoring on all relevant devices.

This will provide the ability to detect whenever the files are:

18. 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?

19. Which of the following security devices would be BEST to use to provide mechanical access control to the MDF/IDF?

20. Joe an ex-employee from accounting, changed the configurations on several network devices on his last day of work.

Which of the following is the MOST likely reason a non-IT employee was able to gain access to network devices?

21. A new employee is unable to access any network resources. All other users are able to access the network at 100Mbps No IP address, subnet mask or default gateway is displayed on the new employee's workstation. The network administrator determinates all connectors using the correct standard Upon further investigation the network administrator also notices the following:

Wire map results from the user patch cable lo the patch cable connecting to the switch:

• Pins 5 and 7 are short

• The distance is 200ft (61m) Additional observations on the switch

• The VLAN is set correctly

• The port is not disabled

• The duplex "speed settings are correct

• Port LEOs are off for that port.

• The port is set to untagged.

Which of the following is the MOST likely reason the new employee is having network issues?

22. A network technician is installing a new SOHO wireless router for a client. After configuring and securing the wireless network, the technician begins hardening the wireless router.

Which of the following should the network technician do FIRST?

23. Which of the following would MOST likely contain information about credential reuse?

24. 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?

25. A network engineer is adding a second router to the company's topology to connect a new wing of the building. The second router will be in the same server room as the first router and does not support auto-MDX.

Which of the following describes how the routers should be connected to each other?

26. A Chief Information Officer (CIO) is reviewing a proposal to provide access security for the IT department’s restricted area.

Which of the following is a preventive measure that should be implemented?

27. The security department is looking to install a new IP-based camera. Plugging the camera into the available Ethernet jack does not power on the camera. Upon further investigation, the cable tests fine, and it does provide power to a VoIP phone.

Which of the following is MOST likely causing the issue?

28. A company's users have been reporting excessive latency when connecting to the Internet. The network administration team submitted a change request to upgrade all the obsolete network equipment from 100Mbps to 1Gbps and It was approved.

Which of the following documentation types will be needed to measure the success or failure of the upgrade project?

29. Which of the following is BEST described as a technology that allows for the segmentation of networks into different broadcast domains throughout the network?

30. A network technician built a wireless network in a ten-story office building but has found it does not perform well.

The technician performed the following steps during the installation:

* Researched and decided that 802.11ac would be the best technology

* Ensured the switch supports PoE+

* Purchased an AP for each floor and spare APs in case of failure

* Put each AP into non-overlapping channels

Which of the following is the MOST likely reason users are experiencing poor performance?

31. A network administrator wants to ensure devices on the network are not susceptible to published exploits.

Which of the following will the administrator MOST likely conduct?

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

33. 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?

34. A company recently implemented a new VoIP solution to replace copper lines that cost too much to maintain. Users have been complaining of the voice quality when they are on phone calls, and management wants the network team to address the concerns.

Which of the following should the network team do to improve the performance and security of the VoIP phones?

35. A network technician is helping an end user who is working on a spreadsheet for a very important client. The client can see the file on the remote share but is not able to open the document to print it.

This issue is associated with which of the following OSI layers?

36. Which of the following are considered physical security detection methods? (Select TWO).

37. A technician needs to connect several computers in close proximity to control manufacturing equipment in a factory. The medium to connect the computers most be cost effective and suitable for short distances

Which of the following mediums should the technician use?

38. A company needs to create a new website for the delivery of secure content to and from specific customers. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) states as a requirement the creation of a secure connection between the client's machine and the website every time the content is accessed. This should be accomplished without requiring the installation of any client software.

Which of the following should be used in this scenario?

39. A network technician receives an update in an RSS feed that a new exploit was released for specific hardware used on the network After verifying the vulnerability with the vendor the network. technician discovers the vulnerability was patched almost two years ago.

Which of the following techniques should be implemented to discover out-of-date firmware in the future?

40. Which of the following represents where the ISP's WAN connection is handed off to the local network?

41. Which of the following storage types allows for the connection of storage devices that are located several miles apart?

42. A network technician installs a new Layer 3 switch in the accounting office.

Which of the following should the technician configure on the switch to enhance network security?

43. A website administrator is concerned the company’s static website could be defaced by hacktivists or used as a pivot point to attack internal systems.

Which of the following should a network security administrator recommend to assist with detecting these activities?

44. 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?

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

46. Which of the following is the MOST appropriate use case for the deployment of a clientless VPN?

47. A technician is planning a network wiring installation and must ensure all cabling meets the installation requirements for air-handling spaces in the celling in case of a fire.

Which of the following characteristics does plenum cabling have to meet this requirement?

48. A network technician is investigating a device that has been reported as responding slowly.

Which of the following should the technician check FIRST?

49. A company plans to deploy a web server securely on the network to be accessible from the Internet.

In which of the following locations should the web server be placed?

50. 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?

51. A network administrator is concerned about the management traffic between a machine and the corporate router.

Which of the following protocols should the administrator use to prevent a security breach?

52. A company recently upgraded a legacy firewall to an NGFW

Which of the following can be deployed without extra hardware to restrict access to offending websites?

53. Which of the following BEST explains why a network engineer would use a wireless mesh network when connecting sensors to a sensor gateway?

54. A wireless administrator has configured a secure wireless network that can only be associated to specific domain accounts. This was done to help mitigate any risks associated with the wireless signal propagating outside of the facility.

Which of the following has the administrator implemented?

55. A network administrator needs to keep track of the locations of installed network equipment.

Which of the following would be the BEST method to accomplish this task?

56. A network technician is configuring a new web server at the company office. The network manager has instructed the technician to implement it in such a way so it is isolated from the local network and still able to be reached from an external network.

Which of the following BEST describes where the technician should set up the new server?

57. While troubleshooting a connectivity issue, a network technician successfully pinged the loopback address and external DNS server tut was unable to ping the website's URL

Which of the following tools should the technician use to determine where the network issue is located?

58. 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'

59. A host has an IP address of 172.28.57.144 and is on the 172.28.57.128 subnet.

Which of the following is a correct subnet mask of the host?

60. An administrator needs to connect to a server to install security patches. The administrator requests that port 3389 be allowed through the firewall.

Which of the following access methods is the administrator looking to use?

61. A network technician is attempting to resolve an issue for two users. The users unplugged and moved their laptops to a different cubicle to work together. The NIC LED Is lit on both laptops, but the users are not able to access the network resources.

Which of the following is MOST likely preventing access?

62. To increase security and usability of the wireless network, a back-end RADIUS server is used to authenticate users.

Which of the following encryptions methods should be used to accomplish this?

63. A company has a DNS a record for the following address: products.companyXYZ. The company wuld to like to add another record,sales.companyXYZ.com, which continually points to the same IP address as product.companyXYZ.com.

Which of the following DNS record types would BEST accomplish this?

64. 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?

65. Ann, a user, is attempting to charge her phone using the USB port of her computer. She realizes the port has been disabled.

Which of the following policies would restrict the use of the USB port?

66. 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 should be applied as the LAST rule in the firewall?

67. 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?

68. A technician has completed configuration on a new satellite location. The location has a new firewall and a small internal network. The technician has been asked to perform basic vulnerability testing.

Which of the following tools would BEST assist the technician in verifying the security of the site?

69. A network administrator installed a WAP to extend the network. However, the company wants to contain the signal so it does not extend beyond the company's parking structure.

Which of the following solutions would work BEST?

70. A network administrator is configuring a link-state routing protocol for traffic.

Which of the following routing protocols should be implemented?

71. A coffee shop wants to provide WiFi to Its customers. The shop wishes to support as many devices as possible, so it wants to support all available frequencies.

Which of the following 802.11 standards should the coffee shop utilize to meet this requirement?

72. A technician needs to manage a Linux-based system from the GUI remotely.

Which of the technician should the technician deploy?

73. A SaaS provider has decided to leave an unpatched VM available via a public DMZ port.

With which of the following concepts is this technique MOST closely associated?

74. 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?

75. 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?

76. A network technician is trying to determine which hop between a client and a server is causing extreme latency.

Which of the following commands will allow the technician to find this Information?

77. A technician needs to back up network devices to a central location to prepare for a natural disaster.

Which of the following should the technician use?

78. Which of the following would an organization MOST likely have employees sign before granting access to confidential data?

79. Allow devices to move to different switchports on the same VLAN

Which of the following should the network administrator do to accomplish these requirements?

80. A network engineer is creating a method for customers to access the company’s application in a web browser.

Which of the following cloud models should the customers use to access the application?

81. 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?

82. A new network Technician is responsible for bringing a building onto the corporate network. The technician is not aware of the proper settings for the new switches.

Which of the following should the technician reference to find these settings?

83. Which of the following is a purpose of a syslog server?

84. 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?

85. A network technician receives a call from Joe, a user about slow speeds when he copies large files from the file server Other users can copy the same files in a matter of seconds. Prior to experiencing the slow speeds, Joe moved the computer farther from the network jack and built his own Cat5 cable During troubleshooting the on-site network technician observes Joe is only getting a 10Mbps connection speed while everyone else who is connected to the switch is getting 1000Mbps.

Which of the following should the network technician check NEXT? (Select TWO)

86. Which of the following describes the function of Layer 3 of the OSI model?

87. A Chief Information Officer (CIO) wants to control the category of sites that employees access when using the Internet web browser. This objective must be achieved to be compliant with corporate policy and avoid some security and legal risks.

Which of the following devices would BEST accomplish this task? (Choose two.)

88. Which of the following would MOST likely provide continuous power during a short brownout?

89. A network technician is reviewing the network configuration of a large company. All of the branch routers are connected to each other to allow for redundancy.

Which of the following BEST describes this network topology?

90. A network administrator is creating a new WLAN that should only be used by legacy devices that do not support a secure method c following should be configured to provide connectivity and minimal security to the new network? (Select TWO).

91. A client moving into a new office wants the IP network set up to accommodate 412 network-connected devices that are all on the same subnet. The subnet needs to be as small as possible.

Which of the following subnet masks should be used to achieve the required result?

92. Some similar devices are experiencing system crashes on the same day of every month.

Which of the following is the MOST efficient approach to detect the probable cause of the recurring incidents?

93. A network technician is installing a wireless network for a small medical office. The doctors need to download high resolution x-rays quickly with minimal latency.

Which of the following technologies should be utilized?

94. Ann a customer was using a coffee shop's public WiFi and had her connection briefly interrupted, but It reconnected again Unbeknownst to Ann. the disconnection was intentional and was connected to a malicious user's device.

Which of the following attacks did Ann experience? (Select TWO).

95. A customer has asked a technician to upgrade the wireless router to the fastest speed possible. The technician performs a site survey and notices several older devices will not be able to connect to router that operates In the 5GHz range.

Which of the following options should the technician suggest to the customer?

96. Management asks a network technician to install a new connection between two main locations. Management requests that the connection be the fastest possible for data replication.

Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate type?

97. 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?

98. Which of the following BEST describes a VLAN hopping attack?

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

100. Which of the following properties should be configured to extend logical network separation on an uplink interface to a second switch?

101. A user's computer is having trouble reaching a certain website Other branch locations do not have any issues reaching this website, and the user can reach all other websites. A technician suspects there is a failure at an upstream router under The ISPs control.

Which of the following commands should the technician run to confirm this suspicion''

102. 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'

103. A security manager asks the network administrator to block VoIP protocols using the default ports on the corporate firewall.

Which of the following ports should be blocked to prevent this type of traffic from going outside the company’s network? (Choose three.)

104. 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?

105. The lack of which of the following components might make a virtual router less efficient than a physical router?

106. 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?

107. A network team has reopened multiple outages caused by unauthorized access to the IDF.

Which of the following would BEST prevent this issue from reoccurring?

108. 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?

109. A network technician is utilizing DHCP. The technician has set a six-day lease time for all hosts.

After which of the following time intervals should the hosts attempt to FIRST renew their address?

110. A network technician is troubleshooting a connection issue and determines the domain name resolution is not getting out past the firewall.

Which of the following ports should the technician check to see if it is being blocked by the ACLs?

111. A help desk technician is assisting a user who is experiencing issues with video conferencing when a laptop is undocked During meetings, the audio becomes garbled, and the video sometimes pauses for brief periods.

Which of the following is the MOST probable cause of these issues?

112. A server administrator is building an email server.

To protect the corporate/internal network from external users, the email server should be placed:

113. A network engineer needs to connect two network switches with a gigabit link. The proposed route to run the 164ft (50m) cable is directly underneath a large electrical generator.

Which of the following cable types would BEST fit the needs of the network engineer?

114. A technician is wiring a new digital subscriber line in the corporate MDF.

Which of the following marks the termination point?

115. A workstation is configured with the following network details:





Software on the workstation needs to send a query to the local subnet broadcast address.

To which of the following addresses should the software be configured to send the query?

116. A consultant is designing a new network for a company that will be hosting its own email and web servers. The company wants to ensure there are separate devices to protect the internal network from the DMZ and the DMZ from the Internet.

Which of the following would provide this protection?

117. A network technician is installing a new fiber-optic connection between two buildings on a campus network. When the network technician connects the fiber at the second location, the interface link light does not light up.

Which of the following should the technician do NEXT?

118. 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?

119. A network technician is installing a new lab network for systems engineers to test patches and updates in a simulated production environment. The engineers have requested that the lab network have unrestricted access to the Internet, but they want to limit connectivity from the LAN to the systems engineers only.

Which of the following will the technician MOST likely implement to meet these requirements?

120. A network engineer is provisioning a new Linux server in a public cloud.

Which of the following types of cloud service should be utilized?

121. A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has learned of a zero-day exploit that is being used against a vendor product that is currently deployed within the organization. The network team needs to provide a list of potentially vulnerable assets for the network security team to scan.

Which of the following will the network learn MOST likely use?

122. Given the following output:





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

123. A company has decided to move its datacenter to an laaS provider. The company stakeholders are concerned about their ISP being a single point of failure.

Which of the following will the network administrator MOST likely recommend to mitigate this nsk?

124. A network technician is asked to perform an unfamiliar task.

Which of the following would the technician MOST likely reference?

125. A network technician needs to visit a datacenter. To be admitted, the security officer requests to see a driver's license, and then directs the technician to a fingerprint scanner.

Which of the following authentication factors is the facility requiring for admittance? (Select TWO).

126. A network administrator migrated the data tor the corporate email service from one provider to another. All DNS records were successfully changed and verified however, many hours later, users are still receiving new emails on the old provider's server.

Which of the following should the administrator perform NEXT to troubleshoot the Issue?

127. A company is implementing a new firewall. The firewall is configured to allow only TCP ports 80 and 443 to exit the network and allow the same traffic back into the network using inbound stateful packet filtering. Users are not able to access URLs of common websites they visit.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

128. Several open conference rooms have active wired network connections. To discourage unauthorized users a network technician wants to require users in the conference rooms to authenticate to the network before gaining access.

Which of the following would be the BEST network technology to use?

129. You have been tasked with implementing an ACL on the router that will:

1. Permit appropriate, secure remote-access technologies from the management network to all other local network segments. Explicitly deny all other traffic from the management network
2. Ensure the user subnet cannot remotely menage devices in the Linux and Windows Server segments
3. Prohibit any traffic that has not been specifically allowed.

130. A network technician is capturing packets on the network and notices a UDP packet stream from a phone to the PBX system. The payload of the packet shows the phone downloaded the file cm7910-sccp-load- 2995.xml.

Which of the following protocols was MOST likely used to download this file?

131. 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?

132. A network device compares a computed value of its major software components against a stored value. While the network device is loading, the device halts and alerts the administrator that the values are different.

Which of the following is the name of the value in use, and what does this process provide? (Choose two.)

133. A network technician has discovered malicious traffic exiting the network on a specific port. The technician is working with the security team to modify the ACL on the company's firewall.

Which of the following should be updated immediately?

134. A network administrator plans to install network connectivity at a new remote office location. The administrator is concerned about how to troubleshoot network connectivity issues and reconfigure the remote router.

The technician should use:

135. 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?

136. A network technician recently installed a new Layer 2 switch. After scanning the device, the network administrator mentions there is traffic on port 23.

Which of the following should the network technician have done during the installation?

137. Which of the following factors should be considered when evaluating a firewall to protect a datacenter's east-west traffic?

138. A technician is installing a cable modem In a SOHO.

Which of the following cable types will the technician MOST likely use to connect a modem to the ISP?

139. A network technician is connecting medical monitoring devices on a personal area network for patients' phones.

Which of the following technologies should be used?

140. Which of the following DNS record types assists with the routing of email?

141. At which of the following layers of the OSI model does compression occur?

142. A WAP has been dropping off the network sporadically and reconnecting shortly thereafter. The Cat5 wire connecting the access point is a long run of 265ft (81m) and goes through the business area and the mechanical room.

Which of the following should the technician do to fix the AP connectivity issue?

143. A department is reporting network Issues. Users can ping each other and the switch, but not the default gateway. When looking at a wiring diagram and a physical blueprint, a technician notices the 1000BaseLX SFP connects to a distribution switch via a cable that runs behind a large Industrial refrigerator. The technician also notices both switches have been worked on recently.

Which of the following Is MOST likely the issue?

144. A network technician receives the following command output from a Linux-based machine:





Which of the following commands did the network technician run?

145. A network engineer created a guest wireless network named "Visitor" for clients to use when they are on site. After a couple of months, visiting clients state they cannot access the Internet after connecting to the "Visitor" wireless network, even though configuration changes have not been made.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

146. A network technician is installing a new wireless network for a client. The client has experienced issues with other building tenants connecting to the wireless network and utilizing the bandwidth. The client wants to prevent this from happening by using certificate-based authentication.

Which of the following technologies should the network administrator implement?

147. A network technician is assisting a user who has relocated to a newly constructed office space. The user has no network connectivity. A cable tester was used on the port and is reporting that the pairs are open.

Which of the following should be used to remedy this problem?

148. A SAN serves out storage to a company’s virtual environment and provides low-level disk access. The company wants to use its existing IP network and equipment to access the virtual disks.

Which of the following network connection types would BEST accomplish this task?

149. While testing an ACL on the default gateway router to allow only web browsing, ports TCP 80 and TCP 443 were the only ports open. When tested, no websites were accessible via their URLs inside the network.

Which of the following configurations should be added to the ACL?

150. A network technician is installing and configuring a new router for the sales department.

Once the task is complete, which of the following needs to be done to record the change the technician is masking to the company network?

151. A network administrator installed a multilayer switch In a shared closet. The network team will manage the switch remotely via SSH.

Which of the following should the network administrator do to harden the switch in this scenario? (Select TWO).

152. Due to regulatory requirements, a college bookstore prohibits customers from accessing the wireless network in the building.

Which of the following would be the BEST method to prevent customers from accessing the wireless network while in the bookstore?

153. A company runs Linux servers In its own datacenter and also on a popular public cloud service provider. The servers hosted by the cloud provider can only be accessed with proper authorization and are only accessed by the company’s datacenter.

Which of the following BEST describes the type of cloud architecture being used? (Select TWO).

154. A network technician is performing a firmware upgrade on a switch. The firmware needs to be downloaded to the device.

Which of the following methods should the technician use to retrieve the updated firmware?

155. A network manager is concerned about visitors taking advantage of open cubicles at a company's facilities.

Which of the following would mitigate this issue?

156. A network technician has finished configuring a new DHCP for a network.

To ensure proper functionality, which of the following ports should be allowed on the server’s local firewall? (Select TWO).

157. A network technician is troubleshooting a connectivity issue and determines the cause is related to the VLAN assignment on one of the access switches in the network. After resolving the issue, the network technician decides to update the documentation to refer to the correct VLAN.

Which of the following should the technician update?

158. A technician is configuring a new email server and needs to modify DNS records.

Which of the following records should the technician update to ensure email functions as expected?

159. A network technician is designing a network cable upgrade in a newly acquired office space. The IT manager wants to install a standardized twisted pair cable solution that supports speeds up to 1 Gbps and terminates with a standard RJ45 connector.

Which of the following cable types should the technician suggest?

160. A company wishes to allow employees with company-owned mobile devices to connect automatically to the corporate wireless network upon entering the facility.

Which of the following would BEST accomplish this objective?

161. A network technician is performing an initial configuration of a new network switch. Per company policy, the only authorized manner for remotely administering the switch is through a command line.

Which of the following protocols should the technician disable to adhere to the company policy?

162. The process of searching for open or weakly secured wireless networks in a geographic area is known as:

163. A technician is installing two new servers that collect logs. After installing the servers, the technician reviews the logical output from various commands.

Which of the following should be included in a logical network diagram?

164. To achieve a more efficient and secure work environment, a company needs a way to control what is being accessed on the Internet using corporate resources.

Which of the following devices should be used to accomplish this task? (Choose two.)

165. A network technician has been asked to install an additional switch in an IDF, but all of the single-mode fiber is in use between the IDF and MDF. The technician has deployed new transceivers that allow for the use of a single fiber stand, providing the additional fiber needed for the new switch.

Which of the following has the technician deployed?

166. An on-site systems administrator is attempting to log in to several workstations remotely to apply patches. One of the systems on the network is refusing the connection. The administrator is able to log in locally and apply patches.

Which of the following should the administrator perform to allow for remote administration?

167. A network technician is setting up the wireless network for a company's new branch office. After doing a site survey, the technician discovers there is a lot of interference from 2.4GHz devices at the location on channel 11.

Which of the following would be the BEST channel on which to set up the WAPs?

168. A network administrator wants to reduce the amount of time each user takes to log In to different systems in the network.

Which of the following would reduce the time spent authenticating?

169. A network support specialist is setting up wireless networks for several small companies that are leasing adjacent spaces in an office building. The network support specialist has already configured an access point for each office with WPA2-AES encryption and minimized any overlap of the wireless channels. Several of the companies have expressed concerns about performance and security issues due to the high volume of wireless networks being installed in close proximity.

Which of the following actions will BEST mitigate the companies’ concerns?

170. A network administrator is reviewing the following output from a switch.





Which of the following attacks has occurred on the switch?

171. A technician has replaced a customer’s desktop with a known-good model from storage. However, the replacement desktop will not connect to network resources. The technician suspects the desktop has not been kept up to date with security patches.

Which of the following is MOST likely in place?

172. Which of the following physical security devices is used to prevent unauthorized access into a datacenter?

173. A corporate manager says wireless phones do not work properly inside the main building. After a troubleshooting process, the network administrator detects that the voice packets are arriving on the wireless phones with different delay times.

Which of the following performance issues is the company facing?

174. Which of the following protocols is used by Active Directory for authentication?

175. A technician is sent to troubleshoot a faulty network connection. The technician tests the cable, and data passes through successfully. No changes were made in the environment, however, when a network device is connected to the switch using the cable, the switchport will not light up.

Which of the following should the technician attempt NEXT?

176. A customer has submitted a request for a new wireless connection In the main office so visitors can reach the Internet to check their email. The customer is concerned about security and does not want visitors to be able to access the internal finance server.

Which of the following BEST describes the correct configuration?

177. A technician has been asked to diagnose problems with DHCP addressing on a VLAN. The DHCP server responds to pings from the technician's machine.

Which of the following should the technician use to help diagnose the problem?

178. A technician is moving a company to a cloud email service. Several external recipients are reporting that email sent from the company is going to their junk folders because the sender's identity cannot be verified.

Which of the following DNS record types should the technician modify to minimize this problem?

179. The help desk is receiving erase the hard drive to eliminate to a server. A help desk technician suspects the server Is unable to establish a three-way handshake due to a DoS attack.

Which of the following commands should a network administrator use to confirm the help desk technician's claim?

180. During a weekend event, several people reported they were unable to get onto the wireless network. On Monday, the technician could not find a problem.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

181. A network technician is setting up a WiFi network in a multi-tenant building.

When trying to determine the best channel, which of the following is the BEST tool to use?

182. A wireless access point that was working in a large warehouse last week is now offline. The technician observes there is no power to the device. The technician verifies PoE is working on the switchport, and then confirms the wireless access point is still not powering up.

Which of the following is the MOST likely issue?

183. A network technician is troubleshooting a connectivity issue with Joe, a user. Joe has reported that when he attempts to RDP to machine1 (192.168.21.21) by name, he is connected to machine3 (192.168.21.23). When the network technician runs the command nslookup machine1, it returns the IP address 192.168.21.23; but when the ping Ca 192.168.21.23 command is run, the results return the hostname machine3.

Which of the following DNS records should be updated to allow RDP connections to machine1 by hostname?

184. Joe, a technician, is attempting to resolve an issue with an off-site router remotely. Joe needs to reset the WAN connection settings and wants to ensure he will have access to the router at all times to monitor the changes.

Which of the following solutions would BEST meet this goal?

185. At which of the following layers of the OSI model would TCP/UDP operate?

186. Which of the following ports are used for electronic mail protocols? (Choose three.)

187. A network technician is assisting a user who is having problems accessing a particular website. Other users are reporting that the website is accessible outside of the office. The technician suspects the problem is with the company's firewall.

Which of the following should the technician use to troubleshoot?

188. Two buildings used to be connected by a wireless bridge, but they are upgrading to fiber.

Which of the following new devices would be required at the demarcation points?

189. An attacker has flooded the hardware tables of a switch to forward traffic to the attacker’s IP address rather than the default router. The traffic received is copied in real time, and then forwarded to the default router transparently from the end-user perspective.

Which of the following attacks are occurring in this scenario? (Select TWO).

190. A network topology requires a switch to be placed in an unsecured location.

Which of the following techniques should be used to prevent unauthorized access? (Choose two.)

191. According to the troubleshooting methodology, which of the following steps will help a technician gather information about a network problem? (Select TWO).

192. A technician is preparing to dispose of old network devices.

Which of the following policies and best practices would outline procedures for removing sensitive information and configurations from surplus equipment?

193. Which of the following is used to define the duration during which a client can use an IP address?

194. A technician wants to set an IP address to a specific MAC address on a host machine.

Which of the following commands should the technician use?

195. Which of the following protocols is used to transport outgoing mail across networks?

196. A human resources manager notifies the IT manager the night before an employee will be terminated so the employee's access rights can be removed.

Which of the following policies is being exercised?

197. A request is made to open an additional port on a firewall. The request is approved, and the port is opened.

Which of the following BEST describes this process?

198. A network technician has deployed a new 802.11ac network and discovers some of the legacy POS equipment only supports WPA and 802.11a.

Which of the following is the MOST secure method of connecting all devices while avoiding a performance impact to modern wireless devices?

199. A zero-day vulnerability is discovered that affects a specific network device. This vulnerability only affects services on port 21. This network device is restricted to use only secure protocols and services.

Which of the following explains why this device is secure?

200. A new technician is connecting an access switch to a distribution switch uplink in a datacenter using fiber cables.

Which of the following are transceivers the technician should use to perform this job? (Select TWO).

201. Which of the following is the physical location where the customer-premise equipment comes together with the ISP or third-party telecommunications equipment?

202. Which of the following MUST be installed on an employee’s computer if the remote access VPN implements an SSL VPN with PKI authentication?

203. A remote user is required to upload weekly reports to a server at the main office. Both the remote user and the server are using a Windows-based OS.

Which of the following represents the BEST method for the remote user to connect to the server?

204. Management is concerned there is excessive traffic on the network. A network technician wants to run a quick port scan to see any systems that have open ports.

Which of the following tools should be used to do this?

205. A user in the marketing department reports the email server is down. The user has not received email for more than 24 hours.

Which of the following should the network technician do to investigate this issue?

206. A technician needs to connect two routers using copper cables.

Which of the following cables would utilize both the TIA/EIA 568a and TIA/EIA 568b standards?

207. Which of the following is BEST for providing real-time equipment theft alerts to the security staff?

208. The engineering department wants to bring a legacy computer online to test a failed component. When patching the device into the switch, there are no link lights or connectivity. The legacy computer can ping its loopback address successfully. Another device can connect to that same port without issues.

Which of the following should the network technician check NEXT? (Choose two.)

209. A network technician needs to configure a device with an embedded OS so it can be connected to a wireless handheld scanner.

Which of the following technologies should be configured on the OS to create the wireless connection?

210. A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has decided to implement a secure and user-friendly way to connect to the corporate wireless network Each workstation will be authenticated individually using a unique certificate that will be deployed to the workstation by the organization's certificate authority.

Which of the following authentication methods would meet this requirement?

211. A network technician works in a large environment with several thousand users. Due to the needs of the organization, the network manager has asked the technician to design a solution that accommodates the data needs of all the users, while keeping all data on site.

Which of the following solutions should the technician Implement?

212. A technician discovered a company computer had a virus but was unable to remove it. The technician decided to erase the hard drive to eliminate the threat.

Which of the following policies did the technician violate'?

213. A user believes a work email account has been compromised. A technician discovers that an email seeming to be from the user's bank shares the same origin IP address as the last login to the email account.

Which of the following types of attack is described in this scenario?

214. A network technician arrives at a remote office and is unable to connect a laptop to corporate resources using the wireless network. After checking the IP address, the network technician notices the assigned IP address does not belong to the corporate network IP scheme.

Which of the following has the network technician discovered?

215. A network technician has installed multiple new lightweight access points across the network.

Which of the following devices should the technician use to manage the new access points?

216. When speaking with a client, an employee realizes a proposed solution may contain a specific cryptographic technology that is prohibited for non-domestic use.

Which of the following documents or regulations should be consulted for confirmation?

217. A technician wants to configure a SOHO network to use a specific public DNS server.

Which of the following network components should the technician configure to point all clients on a network to a new DNS server?

218. To increase speed and availability, a high-traffic web application was split into three servers recently and moved behind a load balancer.

Which of the following should be configured on the load balancer to allow for a single destination?

219. A network administrator Is configuring the 172.16.40.0/22 network for a new building.

Which of the following is the number of hosts that will be supported on this network?

220. A network technician has provisioned a new Linux instance in public cloud provider’s IaaS environment. The technician did not install a graphical user interface. The technician wants to connect to the server’s public IP address securely to start a console session.

Which of the following remote access methods should the technician use?

221. A network technician notices a router that repeatedly reboots. When contacting technical support, the technician discovers this is a known problem in which an attacker can craft packets and send them to the router through an obsolete protocol port, causing the router to reboot.

Which of the following did the network technician fail to do? (Select TWO).

222. Which of the following policies prohibits a network administrator from using spare servers in the datacenter to mine bitcoins?

223. Which of the following OSI layers do TCP and UDP operate within?

224. A network technician receives reports indicating some users are unable to gain access to any network resources. During troubleshooting, the technician discovers the workstations have an IP address of 169.254.x.x.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

225. A technician has received a report that details the need for a patch and a complete list of the affected systems.

Which of the following activities MOST likely generated the report?

226. A technician has been assigned to capture packets on a specific switchport.

Which of the following switch feature MUST be used to accomplish this?

227. A network technician installed a new host on the network. The host is not connecting to the company’s cloud servers. The technician attemtps to ping a server using the AP address with no success.

Checking the IP address using ipconfing displays:





Which of the following should the technician perform NEXT to determine where the issue is located?

228. After deployment of a second network link to load balance the network traffic, the quality of voice calls degrades. The network administrator discovers the voice packets are arriving at uneven intervals that cannot be handled by the voice application buffer.

Which of the following actions will improve the quality of the voice calls?

229. A technician wants to have the ability to transfer files from home to the company’s network on a regular basis.

Which of the following is a remote access protocol the technician can utilize to bypass interactive user authentication by using a list of known host public keys?

230. A few weeks after starting a new position, Joe, a junior network administrator, receives a call from an internal number asking for his username and password to update some records. Joe realizes this may be a type of attack on the network, since he has full access to network resources.

Which of the following attacks is described?

231. A company wants to implement a wireless infrastructure on its campus to meet the needs of its BYOD initiative. The company has users with legacy devices and wants to accommodate them while delivering speed to other users who have modern systems.

Which of the following standards BEST fits these requirements?

232. Which of the following network topologies is primarily used to connect servers to large network disk arrays?

233. A network technician is reviewing switch ACLs to determine if they are causing communication issues with one PC. The PC’s IP address is 192.168.12.66.

Which of the following is the network range found in the ACL that could have affected this PC?

234. Users report that the network is slow. Upon investigation, the technician notices all users are on one large subnet.

Which of the following devices should be used to break up broadcast domains?

235. Before upgrading the firmware on several routers, a technician must verify the firmware file received is the same one the vendor provided.

Which of the following should the technician use?

236. A small company is requesting a quote to refresh its wireless network. The company currently runs 60 autonomous APs and has plans to increase wireless density by 50% in the near future. The requirements state that the chosen solution should significantly decrease the management overhead of the current wireless network.

Which of the following should the vendors recommend in response to the quote request?

237. Which of the following technologies is used when multiple Ethernet adapters work to increase speed and fault tolerance?

238. An employee, who Is using a laptop connected to the wireless network. Is able to connect to the Internet but not to internal company resources.

A systems administrator reviews the following information from the laptop:





The administrator was expecting to see a network address within 10.100.0.0/23. which is consistent with the company's wireless network. The network administrator verifies the company's wireless network is configured and working properly.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

239. Which of the following would a network technician MOST likely connect to power wireless access points in drop ceilings?

240. Users have been experiencing connection timeout issues when using a web-based program. The network technician determines the problem happened due to a TTL setting that was set too low on the firewall.

Which of the following BEST enabled the network technician to reach this conclusion?