CCNA-2 Chapter 2 Study Guide Questions – Student Version

Static Networking
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1. What are the primary responsibilities of Determining the best path to send packets
the router? Forwarding packets toward their destination
2. What is the first serial connector DB-60
described called at the router end?
3. What are the five standards supported EIA/TIA-232, EIA/TIA-449, V.35, X.21, and EIA/TIA-
by serial connections? 530 standards
4. When will static routes and dynamic After the exit interfaces are configured
routes be added to the routing table?
5. What command will show the status Show interfaces
and gives a detailed description for all
interfaces on the router?
6. What does the administratively down That the interface is turned off
out put mean?
7. What does the line down output mean? That no carrier signal is being received
8. What does the show ip interfaces brief a portion of the interface information in a condensed
command list? format
9. Why is show ip interfaces brief to quickly verify that interfaces are up and up
command better than show running (administratively up and line protocol is up)
config to see if the state of the
interfaces?
10. What is the default state of router Shut down
interfaces?
11. What are the commands and prompt to R1(config)#interface fastethernet 0/0
enable an interface? R1(config-if)#ip address 172.16.3.1 255.255.255.0
R1(config-if)#no shutdown
12. Even after configuring an interface, Carrier signal
what must be received by the interface
to change the state to up?
13. What command will stop the messages logging synchronous
returned by IOS not to interfere with
your typing?
14. What does a C mean in the output of Directly connected network
show ip route?
15. What types of addresses are seen in Network addresses
the routing table?

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16. What must be true for the network of The subnet must be different
each interface on a router?
17. What is the default gateway for a The router interface
LAN?
18. What does a device send if it does ARP request
not have the ip address in its ARP
table?
19. What are the commands to R1(config)#interface serial 0/0/0
configure a serial interface? R1(config-if)#ip address 172.16.2.1 255.255.255.0
R1(config-if)#no shutdown
20. Why may a serial interface still be The other end of the connection may not be
down after it has been configured? configured
21. After the other end of the connection The clock rate has not been set
is configured, why is the line
protocol down?
22. What end of a serial connection is DCE
the service provider?
23. What end of the serial connection is DTE
the router by default?
24. What device is used to convert the CSU/DSU
data from the router (DTE device)
into a form acceptable to the WAN
service provider?
25. What do serial interfaces require to Clock signal
control the timing of
communication?
26. What two things must be done to 1. Connect the DCE end of the cable to the serial
configure a serial interface as a interface.
DCE? 2. Configure the clock signal on the serial interface
using the clock rate command.
27. What are the two types of serial A DTE/DCE crossover cable on which one end is
cables used in the lab? DTE and the other end is DCE
A DTE cable connected to a DCE cable
28. What command will tell you which Show controllers
type of cable is connected to the
interface?
29. What command will show the status Show interface
of the interfaces? Show ip interface brief
30. What is the second test to see if the Ping
interface is operational?
31. What command will show if the Show ip route
router knows how to get to the
network?
32. What command will show you all the Show running-config
commands that have been
configured on the router?
33. What is the purpose of the routing A routing table is a data structure used to store
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 table?
34. What does the debug command
show?
35. What debug command will show
you as networks are connected?
36. What command is used to turn off
the debug command?
37. What two commands are used to
remove a directly connected
network?
38. What is the crucial step in
configuring your network?
39. What two commands should you
use before you continue with more
complex configurations?
40. What does a failed ping display?
41. Why does the first ping fail and the
second ping succeed?
42. What is the network monitoring and
troubleshooting tool used in this
section?
43. Which device will information be
gathered about, be specific?
44. What information is contained in the
advertisements?
45. At layer 3, what do routing protocols
consider neighbors?
46. What layer does CDP operate at?
47. Describe Cisco CDP neighbors?
48. What are the commands to display
CDP information?
49. What is the default setting for CDP?
routing information acquired from different sources.
The main purpose of a routing table is to provide
the router with paths to different destination
networks.
Monitor router operations in real time
Debug ip route
Undebug all
shutdown and no ip address
Verify that all interfaces are up and up
the show ip interface brief command and the show
ip route command
…..
There is no match in the routing table for the first
ping but there is for the second ping
Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)
directly connected Cisco devices
the types of devices that are connected, the router
interfaces they are connected to, the interfaces
used to make the connections, and the model
numbers of the devices
devices that share the same network address
space
Layer 2
Cisco devices that are directly connected
physically and share the same data link
show cdp neighbors and show cdp neighbors
detail
On
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50. What information is displayed after
issuing the show cdp neighbors
command?
51. What information will be provided
even if you can not ping that
interface?
52. What information can be gathered if
you telnet to a neighboring device?
53. Can CDP be a security risk?
54. What command can be used to shut
off CDP on a router? (command and
prompt)
55. What command can be used to shut
off CDP on an interface? (command
and prompt)
56. What are the two ways a router can
learn about remote networks?
57. What is a stub route?
58. When are static routes used?
59. Why would dynamic routing be a
waste of resources for a stub route?
60. What is the complete syntax for
entering a static route?
61. What is the simpler version of the
command that we will use?
62. What are the 2 commands to verify
static routes?
63. Before a router forwards a packet,
what must be determined?
64. List the two steps that the router
uses to forward a packet.
65. When the router has to perform
multiple lookups in the routing table
before forwarding a packet, what is
the process called?
Neighbor device ID
Local interface
Holdtime value, in seconds
Neighbor device capability code
Neighbor hardware platform
Neighbor remote port ID
IP address
Show CDP information from that device and build a
logical topology
Yes
Router(config)#no cdp run
Router(config-if)#no cdp enable
Manually, from configured static routes
Automatically, from a dynamic routing protocol
A network that can only be accessed by a single
route
Stub routes
Because there is only one way out for sending
non-local traffic
Router(config)#ip route prefix mask {ip-address |
interface-type interface-number [ip-address]}
[distance] [name] [permanent] [tag tag]
Router(config)#ip route network-address subnet-
mask {ip-address | exit-interface }
Show ip route
Show running-config
The exit interface
Match the ip address to the routing table
Determine the exit interface, based on the route in
the routing table.
Recursive lookup
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66. How can a static route be entered
to stop the recursive lookup
process?
67. What happens to the static route
if the exit interface goes down?
68. What is the command to remove
the static route with the next hop
ip address?
69. What is the command to enter a
static route using an exit
interface?
70. Can a static route be directly
modified? Explain your answer
71. What is the most efficient way to
enter a static route?
72. What are the three commands
listed to verify static route
configuration?
73. Why does making a routing table
smaller improve the efficiency of
the router?
74. What are the 2 rules on when a
static route can be summarized?
75. What are the six steps in creating
a summary route?
76. If two routes in the routing table
match the packet, which route will
the router choose?
Enter the exit interface vs. next hop ip address
The static route is removed
No ip route (ip address) (s/n mask) (next hop ip)
ip route (ip address) (s/n mask) (exit interface)
No it must be removed and a new one configured
Use the exit interface
Show running-config, show ip route, ping
There are fewer routes to examine
The destination networks can be summarized into a
single network address, and
The multiple static routes all use the same exit-
interface or next-hop IP address
1. Write out the networks that you want to
summarize in binary.
2. To find the subnet mask for summarization, start
with the left-most bit.
3. Work your way to the right, finding all the bits that
match consecutively.
4. When you find a column of bits that do not match,
stop. You are at the summary boundary.
5. Now, count the number of left-most matching bits,
which in our example is 22. This number becomes
your subnet mask for the summarized route, /22 or
255.255.252.0
6. To find the network address for summarization,
copy the matching 22 bits and add all 0 bits to the
end to make 32 bits.
The match that is most specific
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77. What are the 2 times a default static
route is used?
78. List the complete command to enter
a default static route.
79. What is the ip address and subnet
mask for quad-zero?
80. What does the * mean next to the S
in the routing table?
81. What is true about a default static
route and matching packets?
82. What are some of the commands
you can used to troubleshoot a
network?
When no other routes in the routing table match
the packet's destination IP address. In other words,
when a more specific match does not exist. A
common use is when connecting a company's
edge router to the ISP network.
When a router has only one other router to which it
is connected. This condition is known as a stub
router.
Router(config)#ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 [exit-
interface | ip-address ]
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
Candidate default
It will match all packets
Ping, traceroute, show ip route, show ip interface
brief, show cdp neighbors detail
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