Network+ Practice Quiz: N10-008 Quiz 9

1. Which of the following tasks is associated with the Session layer?

• Connection establishment
• Data block breakdown
• IP address assignment
• Port number assignment

2. Which of the following is the process of breaking a message into packets, adding controls and other information, and then transmitting the message through the transmission medium?

• Sequencing
• Encapsulation
• Segmentation
• Transformation

3. Which type of address is the IP address 232.111.255.250?

• Broadcast
• Unicast
• Multicast
• Private

4. Which address type do people use to support video conference calls consisting of multiple participants?

• Unicast
• Multicast
• Anycast
• Loopback

5. Which of the following common network issues can be caused by multicast flooding?

• DHCP scope exhaustion
• Routing loops
• Duplicate IP addresses
• Switching loops

6. Your company is a small startup that has leased office space in a building shared by other businesses. All businesses share a common network infrastructure. A single switch connects all devices in the building to the router that provides internet access.

You would like to make sure that your computers are isolated from the computers used by other companies. Which feature should you request to have implemented?

• VLAN
• VPN
• Spanning Tree
• Port security

7. Which of the following is the least effective power loss protection for computer systems?

• Secondary power source
• Surge protector
• Uninterruptible power supply
• Backup power generator

8. Which of the following devices accepts incoming client requests and distributes those requests to specific servers?

• Load balancer
• CSU/DSU
• Media converter
• Caching engine

9. Which of the following components do switches use to optimize network performance by performing switching operations in hardware rather than using the CPU and software?

• A traffic shaper
• Ethernet bonding
• An application-specific integrated circuit
• A caching engine

10. A user reports that he can't connect to a specific website. You go to the user's computer and reproduce the problem. What should you do next?

• Determine if escalation is necessary.
• Identify the affected areas of the network.
• Determine whether anything has changed.
• Establish the most probable cause.