1. You are planning the cabling for your company's data center. A network speed of 10 Gbps is preferred. The maximum distance between servers and network switches is approximately 30 meters. Keeping costs to a minimum, what type of network cabling should be used?

2. Which type of fiber-optic cable should be used for the network backbone on a university campus?

3. A new HTTP intranet web server is installed. Your boss asks you to configure the firewall appliance to enable people to browse to the new site. Which port should be allowed through the firewall appliance?

4. Tamil is a network technician linking two older Ethernet switches together with a straight-through network cable. She later realizes the interswitch connection is not working. What should Tamil do?

5. Which of the following is a valid concern regarding ceiling cable channels?

6. Widgets, Inc., has offices in London and Paris. The IT team has been directed to deploy IPv6 for test VLANs in both cities in anticipation of the eventual requirement of using IPv6. What should be configured to ensure that servers in each city test VLAN can communicate over the Internet?

7. A help desk technician is addressing network connectivity issues being experienced by a user, Charlie. Charlie's station is unable to connect to a customer financial history database server on the same subnet named sect1-423.widgets.local, even though other stations do not have this problem; the error messages states 'Unknown Host.' The technician successfully pings the default gateway to verify a valid IP configuration from Charlie's station. What should the technician do next?

8. What is the primary difference between the categories of copper-based network cables?

9. Your smartphone receives an alert stating that ServerHFX-234 is not responding. You connect to the server using hardware remote control and issue the ipconfig command. You then notice the server IP address is 169.254.46.63. Why is the server having communication problems?

10. Which software communication method is not used with IPv6?

11. What type of address applies to Layer 3 switches?

12. What type of address applies to Layer 2 switches?

13. Which type of connector is commonly used with CAT6 cables?

14. Which of the following is a valid IPv6 link-local address?

15. A colleague, Malia, discusses the newly installed Layer 3 switches in the wiring closet. What benefit does a Layer 3 switch offer beyond a Layer 2 switch?

16. A data center uses disk images to deploy new physical servers quickly. Rather than have technicians apply the operating system images locally from disk media, network imaging is desired. Which technology must be configured?

17. Which of the following are valid methods of configuring VLAN membership?

18. Which spring-loaded fiber-optic cable connector is commonly used with multi-mode fiber cables?

19. Server1 has an IP address of 200.1.1.40/27. From Server1, you are attempting to make an SSH connection to Server2, whose IP address is 200.1.1.70/27, but you cannot connect. What might the problem be?

20. Which of the following statements best describe MAC addresses?