CCNA / CCENT Certification Practice Exam

More Configuration And Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting is part of a network admin's daily life, and it's a big part of our CCNA and CCENT study as well!

To help sharpen your troubleshooting skills, here's another 10-question Cisco certification practice exam on basic and not-so-basic troubleshooting.

All answers are at the bottom of the page along with a brief explanation.

When you're done here, visit our CCNA Practice Exam page for more, and enjoy this practice exam!

Chris Bryant

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"The Computer Certification Bulldog"

chris@thebryantadvantage.com

Question 1:

Which of the following issues could result in a port being placed into err-disabled state?

A. loose cable

B. encapsulation mismatch

C. missing clockrate

D. missing running-configuration

E. port security violation

Question 2:

What route type is considered to be the most believable?

A. connected

B. static

C. RIP

D. floating

E. EIGRP summary

F. Not enough information given to answer the question

 

Question 3:

Speaking of floating routes, what is the lowest AD you could assign to a static route to make it "float"?

A. 121

B. 1

C. 255

D. 111

E. Not enough information given to answer the question.

 

 

Question 4:

You note that a serial interface is up, but its line protocol is down. Which of the following is most likely to cause this problem?

A. administratively shut down interface

B. encapsulation mismatch

C. missing clockrate on DTE

D. missing clockrate on DCE

E. loose cable

F. Not enough information given to answer the question

Question 5:

You note that a serial interface's physical state is "down". Using the choices given in the previous questions, which of those conditions is most likely to cause this?

Question 6:

Exactly what keystroke terminates a ping on a Cisco router?

Question 7:

What command terminates a PC's DHCP-assigned lease?

Question 8:

When we use the Cisco Discovery Protocol, exactly what are we discovering?

Question 9:

What command disabled CDP on a global basis?

A. no cdp enable

B. no cdp run

C. no cdp

D. None of the above

 

Question 10:

You want to send an extended ping. After typing the word "ping" at the user exec prompt, what should you do?

A. Hit the enter key

B. Enter the IP address of the destination of the ping

C. Nothing - you can't send an extended ping from user exec

D. Type "extended-only" and hit the enter key

Answers at the bottom of the page!

 

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