Practice–Cisco Switches and Routers

The following activities provide practice with the topics introduced in this chapter.

Packet Tracer Activities

Packet Tracer—Compare In-Band and Out-of-Band Management Access (17.5.1)

Check Your Understanding Questions

Complete all the review questions listed here to test your understanding of the topics and concepts in this chapter. Appendix A, “Answers to the ‘Check Your Understanding‛ Questions,” lists the answers.

1. A technician is setting up a network in a new room. What is the best device to connect the PCs to each other and to the rest of the LAN?

1. Router
2. Switch
3. Gateway
4. Firewall

2. During normal operation, from which location do most Cisco switches run the IOS?

1. Disk drive
2. Flash
3. NVRAM
4. RAM

3. When a router is powered on, where does the router first search for a valid IOS image to load by default?

1. RAM
2. Flash memory
3. NVRAM
4. ROM

4. Which protocols can be used to access a Cisco switch for in-band management? (Choose two.)

1. DHCP
2. FTP
3. Telnet
4. SSH
5. SMTP

5. During troubleshooting procedures, from which location do most Cisco routers load a limited IOS?

1. NVRAM
2. Flash
3. ROM
4. RAM

6. Which networking devices are used in enterprise networks for providing network connectivity to end devices? (Choose two.)

1. Firewall
2. LAN switch
3. Web server
4. Router
5. Wireless access point

7. What is required for a network administrator to perform out-of-band management tasks on a Cisco device?

1. An active network connection available to the device
2. A computer directly connected to the console port of the device
3. A valid IP address configured on VLAN 1
4. SSH enabled and functional on the device

8. What is the first action in the boot sequence when a switch is powered on?

1. Load boot loader software
2. Perform low-level CPU initialization
3. Load the default Cisco IOS software
4. Load a power-on self-test program

9. What are functions of NVRAM? (Choose two.)

1. To store the startup configuration file
2. To store the ARP table
3. To store the routing table
4. To retain content when power is removed
5. To contain the running configuration file

10. Which ports can be used for the initial configuration of a Cisco router? (Choose two.)

1. Flash slot
2. AUX
3. WAN interface
4. Console
5. LAN interface

11. Which files are loaded into the RAM of a Cisco switch when it is booted? (Choose two.)

1. File that contains customer settings
2. Startup configuration file
3. IOS image file
4. Routing table
5. The contents of the saved configuration file in NVRAM

12. Which information does the show startup-config command display?

1. The bootstrap program in ROM
2. The contents of the current running configuration file in RAM
3. The IOS image copied into RAM
4. The contents of the saved configuration file in NVRAM