CCNA Sample Questions
CCNA Sample Questions
Question 1
You want to verify the configuration register entry of a Cisco 2500 series router. What command should
you use on the router?
a. show config-reg
b. show version
c. show register
d. show running-config
e. show bootflash
f. show flash
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Question 2
Users on a network subnet experience slow connectivity when trying to access file servers located on
another LAN segment. There are more than 200 users on the subnet. A Cisco 2500 router serves as the
default gateway as well as the firewall for the subnet. You suspect the problem could be caused by
excessive CPU utilization on the router.
What command will verify that this is the case?
a. show cpu
d. show hardware
a. It is possible to configure all line access passwords during setup configuration mode.
a. Hardware platform.
d. Routing table.
e. Routing protocol .
f. Device ID.
Question 5
It was a Saturday morning. You had just been waked up by a pager call about a connectivity problem
between a branch router and the head office router. Both routers are connected via a leased line. The link
needs to be up 24-hour a day because it carries important financial transactions.
You began your troubleshooting by trying to connect to the branch router using telnet but failed.
Fortunately, you managed to connect to a dial up modem attached to the branch router. You did a 'show
interface' command on the router. The result is shown below:
Branch#show interface serial 0/0
Serial0/0 is down, line protocol is down
Hardware is HD64570
Internet address is 192.168.10.2/30
MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1544 Kbit, DLY 20000 usec, rely 255/255, load 1/255
Encapsulation HDLC, loopback not set, keepalive set (10 sec)
Last input never, output 00:03:11, output hang never
Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
Input queue: 0/75/0 (size/max(drops): Total output drops: 0
Queuing strategy: weighted fair
Output queue: 0/1000/64/0 (size/max active/threshold/drops)
Conversations 0/2/256 (active/max active/max total)
Reserved Conversations 0/0 (allocated/max allocated)
5 minute input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
0 packets input, 0 bytes, 0 no buffer
Received 0 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored, 0 abort
11 packets output, 476 bytes, 0 underruns
0 output errors, 0 collisions, 27 interface resets
0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out
11 carrier transitions
DCD=down DSR=down DTR=down RTS=down CTS=down
Based on the output of the 'show interface serial 0/0' command issued on the branch router, which OSI
layer is most likely causing the problem?
a. Transport layer
b. Session layer
c. Data layer
d. Physical layer
e. Network layer
Question 6
Geoff is a network administrator of a small network consists of three Cisco 2600 routers interconnected by
a frame relay cloud. One day, he wants to add a static route to one of the remote router. He connects to
the router using telnet from his workstation. Which layer of the OSI protocol stack is Geoff using for this
task?
a. Application
b. Presentation
c. Session
d. Transport
e. Network
f. Data-link
Question 7
From the seven OSI layers, which layer is responsible for error recovery and reliability?
a. Presentation
b. Session
c. Application
d. Transport
e. Network
f. Data-link
Question 8
You are a network consultant for Super LAN Interconnect, Inc. (SLII). One of your clients has a flat
Ethernet network with 500 end-users and server farms. The network performance is poor from time to
time.
The client hires your company to do analysis and redesign the current network infrastructure to improve
performance. You recommend to segment the flat network into multiple segments. What is the benefit of
your solution to solve the problem?
b. Switches operate at data link layer while bridges operate at physical layer.
e. Switches are mainly software based while bridges are hardware based.
a. The access-layer switch does not propagate the host routing entries to the core layer switches.
b. The switch ports on which the workstations are connected to are configured with incorrect
VLAN.
e. The router that performs intra-VLAN routing does not have route entries for the workstations.
Question 11
A Catalyst 2950 switch runs multiple VLANs to serve different workgroups. You want to verify that VLAN
100 is working properly and execute the 'show spantree' command.
Which of the following line confirms the correct operation of VLAN 100?
c. 802.1D
d. 802.3u
e. 802.10
a. 10Base2
b. 10Base5
c. 10BaseT
d. 100BaseT
e. 1000BaseT
Question 14
The 10BaseT Ethernet standard defines full-duplex mode as well as half-duplex mode. Which of the
following are characteristic of full-duplex mode? (Choose three.)
e. No collisions
a. Install two Catalyst 1900 switches and configure the servers to use 100 Mbps ports. Assign
b. Replace existing 10baseT hubs with 100BaseT hubs to improve overall performance
c. Separate the servers' network segment from the users through the use of a router. This segregation
d. Put a bridge between the servers' network segment and the users.
e. Retain existing hubs but separate the network segments with multiple VLANs.
Question 16
When designing a switch internetwork, one important consideration is the physical cabling distance. What
is the maximum allowable distance of the 100BaseTX standard?
a. 10 m
b. 50 m
c. 95 m
d. 100 m
e. 1000 m
Question 17
You are investigating a LAN congestion issue using a network sniffer. Several entries of address
175.36.78.255 appear in the capture result. What is the function of this address?
a. IP directed broadcast
b. IP multicast group
c. Reserved IP address
b. TCP provides dynamic throughput for large data transfer through windowing and connection-
oriented services.
e. UDP provides an efficient way of delivering information without additional overheads and
a. show
b. icmp
c. trace
d. arp
e. ping
f. debug
Question 20
Which of the following IOS command displays all routed protocols configured on a Cisco router as well as
the interfaces on which the protocols are enabled?
a. show interfaces
b. show protocols
a. RIP
b. IGRP
c. EIGRP
d. OSPF
e. IS-IS
Question 23
Generally, routing protocols can be classified into classfull and classless routing protocols. Which of the
following are categorized as classfull?
b. BGP
c. OSPF
d. RIP version 1
e. IGRP
f. EIGRP
Question 24
Which of the following statements correctly activate IGRP routing process on a Cisco router?
d. router igrp
network 192.168.22.0
network 10.0.0.0
b. access-group 110 in
e. ip access-group 110 in
f. access-class 110 in
Question 26
Which of the following statement will permit traffic from subnet 172.168.30.0/24 on a specific interface?
a. access-list 100
a. show ip access-list
b. show ip interface
c. show interface
d. show access-list
e. show access-list interface
Question 29
Miami#debug ppp authentication
BRI0:1 PPP: send CHAP challenge id=58 to remote
BRI0:1 PPP: CHAP challenge from Florida
BRI0:1 PPP: CHAP response received from Florida
BRI0:1 PPP: CHAP response id=58 received from Florida
BRI0:1 PPP: Send CHAP success id=58 to remote
BRI0:1 PPP: Remote passed CHAP authentication
BRI0:1 PPP: Passed CHAP authentication
BRI0:1 PPP: Passed CHAP authentication with remote
You are examining ISDN BRI dialup connectivity between Miami and Florida routers using PPP
encapsulation. You enabled a debug command and obtained the result as shown in the output above.
What type of handshake is involved in the PPP authentication?
a. One-way
b. Two-way
c. Three-way
d. Four-way