1.

Which of the following statements are true regarding the View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum
command ip route 172.16.4.0 255.255.255.0
192.168.4.2? 3. Which statement is true regarding classless routing
protocols?
1. The command is used to establish a static route.
2. The default administrative distance is used.
1. The use of discontiguous networks is not
3. The command is used to configure the default
allowed.
route.
2. The use of variable length subnet masks is
4. The subnet mask for the source address is
permitted.
255.255.255.0.
3. RIPv1 is a classless routing protocol.
4. IGRP supports classless routing within the same
autonomous system.
A. 1 and 2
5. RIPv2 supports classless routing.

B. 2 and 4
A. 1, 3 and 5
C. 3 and 4
B. 3 and 4
D. All of the above
C. 2 and 5
Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option A D. None of the above

Answer & Explanation

Explanation:

Answer: Option C
Although answer D almost seems right, it is not; the
mask is the mask used on the remote network, not the Explanation:
source network. Since there is no number at the end of
the static route, it is using the default administrative
Classful routing means that all hosts in the internetwork
distance of 1.
use the same mask. Classless routing means that you
can use Variable Length Subnet Masks (VLSMs) and can
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also support discontiguous networking.

2. Which command displays RIP routing updates? View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum

A. show ip route
4. You have the following routing table. Which of the
following networks will not be placed in the neighbor
B. debug ip rip
routing table?

C. show protocols
R 192.168.30.0/24 [120/1] via 192.168.40.1,
00:00:12, Serial0
C 192.168.40.0/24 is directly connected,
D. debug ip route
Serial0
172.16.0.0/24 is subnetted, 1 subnets
Answer & Explanation C 172.16.30.0 is directly connected,
Loopback0
R 192.168.20.0/24 [120/1] via 192.168.40.1,
Answer: Option B
00:00:12, Serial0
R 10.0.0.0/8 [120/15] via 192.168.40.1,
00:00:07, Serial0
Explanation:
C 192.168.50.0/24 is directly connected,
Ethernet0
The debug ip rip command is used to show the
Internet Protocol (IP) Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
A. 172.16.30.0
updates being sent and received on the router.
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7. Two connected routers are configured with RIP routing.

C. 10.0.0.0
What will be the result when a router receives a routing
update that contains a higher-cost path to a network
All of them will be placed in the neighbor already in its routing table?
D.
routing table.
The updated information will be added to the
Answer & Explanation A.
existing routing table.

Answer: Option C
The update will be ignored and no further
B.
action will occur.
Explanation:

The network 10.0.0.0 cannot be placed in the next The updated information will replace the
C.
router's routing table because it already is at 15 hops. existing routing table entry.
One more hop would make the route 16 hops, and that is
not valid in RIP networking. The existing routing table entry will be deleted
from the routing table and all routers will
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exchange routing updates to reach
convergence.
5. What is split horizon? Answer & Explanation

Information about a route should not be sent

Answer: Option B
A. back in the direction from which the original
update came.
Explanation:

It splits the traffic when you have a large bus

B. When a routing update is received by a router, the router
(horizon) physical network.
first checks the administrative distance (AD) and always
chooses the route with the lowest AD. However, if two
It holds the regular updates from broadcasting routes are received and they both have the same AD,
C.
to a downed link. then the router will choose the one route with the lowest
metrics, or in RIP's case, hop count.
It prevents regular update messages from
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reinstating a route that has gone down.

Answer & Explanation

8. You type debug ip rip on your router console and see
that 172.16.10.0 is being advertised to you with a metric
Answer: Option A
of 16. What does this mean?

Explanation: A. The route is 16 hops away.

A split horizon will not advertise a route back to the same

B. The route has a delay of 16 microseconds.
router it learned the route from.
6. What command is used to stop RIP routing updates from exiting out an
interface but still allow the interface to receive RIP route updates? C. The route is inaccessible.
A. Router(config-if)# no routing

B. Router(config-if)# passive-interface D. The route is queued at 16 messages a second.

C. Router(config-router)# passive-interface s0 Answer & Explanation

D. Router(config-router)# no routing updates

Answer: Option C
Answer & Explanation
Answer: Option C
Explanation: Explanation:
The (config-router)#passive-interface command stops
updates from being sent out an interface, but route updates are still
 A. Any available route
You cannot have 16 hops on a RIP network by default. If
you receive a route advertised with a metric of 16, this
means it is inaccessible. B. RIP route

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C. Static route

9. The Corporate router receives an IP packet with a source D. IGRP route

IP address of 192.168.214.20 and a destination address
of 192.168.22.3. Looking at the output from the
E. They will all load-balance.
Corporate router, what will the router do with this
packet? Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option C
Corp#sh ip route
[output cut]
R 192.168.215.0 [120/2] via 192.168.20.2, Explanation:
00:00:23, Serial0/0
R 192.168.115.0 [120/1] via 192.168.20.2,
00:00:23, Serial0/0 Static routes have an administrative distance
R 192.168.30.0 [120/1] via 192.168.20.2,
of 1 by default. Unless you change this, a
00:00:23, Serial0/0
C 192.168.20.0 is directly connected, static route will always be used over any
Serial0/0 other found route. IGRP has an
C 192.168.214.0 is directly connected,
FastEthernet0/0 administrative distance of 100, and RIP has
an administrative distance of 120, by
default.
A. The packet will be discarded. 11. What is route poisoning?

The packet will be routed out the S0/0 It sends back the protocol received
B. A. from a router as a poison pill,
interface.
which stops the regular updates.

The router will broadcast looking for the

C. It is information received from a
destination.
B. router that can't be sent back to
the originating router.
The packet will be routed out the Fa0/0
D.
interface.
It prevents regular update
Answer & Explanation
C. messages from reinstating a route
that has just come up.
Answer: Option A

It describes when a router sets the

Explanation: D.
metric for a downed link to infinity.

Since the routing table shows no route to the Answer & Explanation
192.168.22.0 network, the router will discard the packet
and send an ICMP destination unreachable message out Answer: Option D
interface FastEthernet 0/0, which is the source LAN
where the packet originated from. Explanation:

View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum Another way to avoid problems caused by
inconsistent updates and to stop network
10. loops is route poisoning. When a network
If your routing table has a static, a RIP, and
goes down, the distance-vector routing
an IGRP route to the same network, which
protocol initiates route poisoning by
route will be used to route packets by
advertising the network with a metric of 16,
default?
or unreachable (sometimes referred to as
infinite).
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route with a higher AD than 100.

12. Which of the following is true regarding
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RIPv2?

It has a lower administrative 14. What does RIPv2 use to prevent routing
A.
distance than RIPv1.
loops?

B. It converges faster than RIPv1. 1. CIDR

2. Split horizon
C. It has the same timers as RIPv1. 3. Authentication
4. Classless masking

It is harder to configure than 5. Holddown timers

D.
RIPv1.

Answer & Explanation A. 1 and 3

Answer: Option C B. 2, 3 and 5

Explanation:
C. 2 and 5

RIPv2 is pretty much just like RIPv1. It has

D. 3 and 4
the same administrative distance and timers
and is configured just like RIPv1. Answer & Explanation

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Answer: Option C

13. A network administrator views the output Explanation:

from theshow ip route command. A
network that is advertised by both RIP and RIPv2 uses the same timers and loop-
IGRP appears in the routing table flagged as avoidance schemes as RIPv1. Split horizon is
an IGRP route. Why is the RIP route to this used to stop an update from being sent out
network not used in the routing table? the same interface it was received on.
Holddown timers allow time for a network to
A. IGRP has a faster update timer. become stable in the case of a flapping link.

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B.
distance.
15. Which two of the following are true regarding
RIP has a higher metric value for the distance-vector and link-state routing
C.
that route. protocols?

D. The IGRP route has fewer hops. 1. Link state sends its complete routing
table out all active interfaces on
Answer & Explanation
periodic time intervals.
2. Distance vector sends its complete
Answer: Option B
routing table out all active interfaces
on periodic time intervals.
Explanation: 3. Link state sends updates containing
the state of its own links to all
RIP has an administrative distance (AD) of routers in the internetwork.
120, while IGRP has an administrative 4. Distance vector sends updates
distance of 100, so the router will discard any containing the state of its own links
 to all routers in the internetwork. 17. Network 206.143.5.0 was assigned to the Acme
Company to connect to its ISP. The administrator of
Acme would like to configure one router with the
A. 1 only commands to access the Internet. Which commands
could be configured on the Gateway router to allow
B. 3 only Internet access to the entire network?

1. Gateway(config)# ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0

C. 2 and 3 only
206.143.5.2
2. Gateway(config)# router rip
D. None of the above
3. Gateway(config-router)# network
Answer & Explanation 206.143.5.0
4. Gateway(config-router)# network
Answer: Option C 206.143.5.0 default

Explanation:
A. 1 only

The distance-vector routing protocol sends its

complete routing table out all active B. 3 only
interfaces at periodic time intervals. Link-
state routing protocols send updates C. 1, 2 and 4
containing the state of its own links to all
routers in the internetwork.
D. 1 and 4
16. IGRP uses which of the following as default
parameters for finding the best path to a remote Answer & Explanation
network?
Answer: Option D
1. Hop count
2. MTU Explanation:
3. Cumulative interface delay
4. STP There are actually three different ways to configure the
5. Path bandwidth value same default route, but only two are shown in the
answer. First, you can set a default route with
the0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 mask and then specify the next
A. 1 and 3 hop, as in option A. Or you can use 0.0.0.0
0.0.0.0 and use the exit interface instead of the next
B. 3 and 5 hop. Finally, you can use option D with the ip default-
network command.

C. 2, 3 and 5

D. All of the above

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B

Explanation:

IGRP uses bandwidth and delay of the line, by

default, to determine the best path to a remote
network. Delay of the line can sometimes be called
the cumulative interface delay.

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