Cisco CCNA, CCENT, and CCNP Practice Exam Questions: Frames, OSPF, Authentication Proxy, And More!

Test your knowledge of vital Cisco certification exam topics with these practice questions!

CCNA and CCENT Certification:

A frame comes into a switch on port fast0/1. The switch does a lookup on the destination MAC, and sees that the destination is also found off fast0/1. What action describes how the frame will be handled?

A. broadcast

B. unicast

C. forwarded

D. filtered

E. multicast

Answer: D. That frame is filtered - that is, the switch drops it.

CCNP / BSCI: Cisco OSPF design guidelines state that a router should be in no more than how many areas?

A. One

B. Two

C. Three

D. Four

E. Five

Answer: C. Cisco recommends a router not be placed in more than three areas.

CCNP / BCMSN:

Which of the following is NOT true of a SPAN source port?

A. It can be part of an Etherchannel.

B. It can be monitored in multiple SPAN sessions.

C. It can be a regular Ethernet port, Fast Ethernet, or Gigabit Ethernet.

D. It can also be a destination SPAN port.

Answer: D. A SPAN source port cannot be a destination port. The other three statements are true of source ports.

CCNP / ISCW:

You're configuring the Authentication Proxy. In what locations can you store the user profiles?

A. TFTP Server

B. Local router's Flash

C. RADIUS Server

D. Local router's NVRAM

E. TACACS+ Server

Answers:  C, E.  The user profiles can be stored on and downloaded from a RADIUS or TACACS+ server.

CCNP / ONT Exam:

What's the difference between an "ad hoc" wireless network and an "infrastructure" wireless network?

Answer:  Ad Hoc networks have no wireless access points, and infrastructure wireless networks have at least one.

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