CompTIA Network+: Networking Appliances, Applications, & Functions

 

Question:

When comparing Layer 2 and Layer 3 switches, what part of the data does a Layer 3 switch use to direct traffic over multiple networks?

Answer C.

• IP address

Question

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You are working as a network technician in your organization and have been asked to attend a meeting with the Email Server Team. They’re concerned about particular information that may be transmitted in outgoing emails that may be considered sensitive and would like a firewall to prevent that.

 

Which type of firewall would best suit their needs?

• Application-level

Question

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You are currently employed as a network administrator for your corporation. The Web Team is complaining that the corporation’s web page, which is hosted on a server in California, is suffering from high latency when users from Europe try to access it. 

 

Which technology do you recommend investigating that will resolve this latency problem?

• Content delivery network (CDN)

Question

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You are currently employed as a technician in a corporation with an extensive Ethernet network. Your administrator has indicated that the router connected to the external network (Internet) requires a restart.

 

What is the name used to describe a router connected to an external network (Internet)?

• Edge

Question

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Which type of intrusion detection system is most likely to develop “false positives” when first enabled in a network?

• Anomoly-based

Question

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You are currently employed as a network administrator for your organization. The video editing team requires very high-speed access to a large storage repository that they can share. Additionally, they require low latency, high availability, and robust fault tolerance.

 

Which technology will fulfill their requirements?

• Storage area network (SAN)

Question

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In wireless networking, what is the SSID?

• Network name

Question

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Users in your company are complaining that, when using the video conferencing software, they experience pauses in the video stream and dropouts in the audio.

 

Which technology can be used to help improve the quality of the video conferencing experience?

• QoS

Question

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You are employed as a network administrator in your organization. The web server team are complaining that although they have multiple servers providing service to Internet users, it seems that one of them is handling most of the incoming requests.

 

What technology do you recommend to help alleviate this issue?

• Load balancer

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