Learn About Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

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These practice test questions from MeasureUp are based on Cisco’s exam 640-802: Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA).

The audience for this exam includes individuals who are responsible for installing, managing and troubleshooting a branch network of an enterprise. Experience with connecting a branch network to a wide area network (WAN); working with a variety of network types, network media and network connections; configuring IP addressing; and configuring IOS devices will help you prepare for this exam.

Note: To earn your CCNA certification, you may take the CCNA exam or two other
Cisco exams: 640-822 Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices Part 1 (ICND1) and 640-816 Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices Part 2 (ICND2).
 

Objective: Implement an IP addressing scheme and IP Services to meet network requirements in a medium-size Enterprise branch office network.
Sub-objective: Determine the appropriate classless addressing scheme using VLSM and summarization to satisfy addressing requirements in a LAN/WAN environment.

Single answer, multiple-choice

You are a network administrator for your company. Your Internet service provider has provided you an IP address 60.212.10.0/24. You want to divide the network into seven subnets, one having 50 hosts and the other having 20 hosts. Which could be the network address of the subnet that consists of 50 hosts?

A.    60.212.10.0/26
B.    60.212.10.0/27
C.    60.212.10.0/28
D.    60.212.10.0/29

Answer:
A

Tutorial:
Of the choices, the network address of the subnet that consists of 50 hosts is 60.212.10.0/26.

Variable length subnet masking (VLSM) is used to divide a network into subnets having a different number of hosts. VLSM uses variable masks to accommodate the network requirements. The first step in a VLSM calculation is to determine the number of subnets necessary and determine the number of hosts necessary in each subnetwork. The number of IP addresses that can be assigned to hosts on a network is calculated using the formula 2^n - 2, where “n” is the number of host bits.

In the given scenario, one of the subnetworks has 50 hosts; therefore, the number of addresses required is 50 + 2 = 52. Rounding up to the next power of 2 gives you 64. Therefore, according to the formula, the number of host bits required for this subnet is 6. The prefix for this network would be 32-6= 26. You can divide 60.212.10.0/24 into the following four /26 subnets:

* 60.212.10.0/26

* 60.212.10.64/26

* 60.212.10.128/26

* 60.212.10.192/26

You can assign the first network address (60.212.10.0/26) to the subnet that has 50 hosts and divide the remaining /26 subnetwork addresses to accommodate the remaining subnets.

Reference:
CCNP Self-Study: Advanced IP Addressing
Ciscopress.com
http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=174107&seqNum=2

Objective: Implement and verify WAN links.
Sub-objective: Troubleshoot WAN implementation issues.

Multiple answer, multiple-choice

You are the network administrator of your organization. You were assigned the task of establishing a Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) WAN link using Cisco routers between the headquarters where you are located and a remote branch. As per the security policy of the organization, Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) is required to be configured on the PPP link.

However, after configuration, the CHAP authentication fails. You run the show running-config command on the local router and ask your colleague at the remote location to send the output of the show running-config command at the remote router. The partial configuration of both the routers "local" and "remote" is shown below:

Local Router
hostname local
username local password local
int async 0
encapsulation ppp
ppp authentication CHAP

Remote router
hostname remote
username local password remote
int async 0
encapsulation ppp
ppp authentication CHAP

What is the cause of the problem? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose two.)

A.    The hostname is incorrectly defined at both routers.
B.    The username is incorrectly defined at the remote router.
C.    The username is incorrectly defined at the local router.
D.    The hostname and the username cannot be the same at both routers.
E.    The passwords are incorrectly defined at both routers.

Answer:
C, E

Tutorial:
The username is incorrectly defined at the local router, and the passwords are incorrectly defined at both the routers. If not configured using the ppp chap hostname command, the username on both routers should be the hostname of the router at the other end (i.e., the local router should have the username as remote, and the remote router should have the username as local). Routers by default use their hostname as the username for PPP authentication.

For CHAP authentication, the password on both the routers should be identical.

Following are the steps to configure CHAP authentication on a pair of Cisco routers:

Step 1: Enable PPP by issuing the encapsulation ppp interface configuration command.

Step 2: Enable CHAP authentication on both routers using the ppp authentication chap interface configuration command.

Step 3: Configure the usernames and passwords using the username username password password global configuration command. The username is the hostname of the router at the other end. The passwords must be the same at both ends. The username and password are case-sensitive.

Reference:
Understanding and Configuring PPP CHAP Authentication, Cisco.com, Configure CHAP
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk713/tk507/technologies_tech_note09186a00800b4131.shtml

Objective: Configure, verify and troubleshoot basic router operation and routing on Cisco devices.
Sub-objective: Configure, verify and troubleshoot OSPF.

Single answer, multiple-choice

You are the network administrator for your company. You are in the process of configuring Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) as the routing protocol for the network. Which set of commands would you use to enable OSPF on the network?

A.    router ospf process-id network address wildcard-mask
B.    router ospf process-id network address wildcard-mask area area-id
C.    router ospf network address wildcard-mask area area-id
D.    router ospf network-ip network address wildcard-mask area area-id

Answer:
B

Tutorial:
To configure OSPF, the following set of commands would be used:

router ospf process-id
network address wildcard-mask area area-id

The router ospf process-id command is used to enable OSPF routing. You enter the router configuration mode when you use this command.

The network address wildcard-mask area area-id command is used to enable an interface for running OSPF. It also configures the area ID for that interface.