Study Guide

Computer Systems Technology

Study Guide

  1. What is one of the most important router configurations? Why?



  2. What are some of the configurations used to configure an interface ?



  3. What does the command “int serial ?” do?



  4. What is the command to choose a serial interface to control?



  5. What is the command to choose an ethernet interface to control?



  6. What is the sequence you will always use to configure an interface on a



  7. Did you do what he said and make note of the fact that you must type the full commands? If not then do so below.



  8. What is the “media-type” command used for?



  9. How do you turn and interface on and off?



  10. What will an interface display if it is shutdown?



  11. What is another way to check an interface status?



  12. What will an interface display if it is not shutdown?



  13. How do you set an ip address onto a router interface?



  14. How would you add a second subnet address to an interface? Why would you do this?



  15. How would you verify that both addresses are configured on the interface?



  16. What do you need to know before you configure a serial interface?



  17. What command is used to configure the clock rate on a DCE serial interface?



  18. What speeds in bps are available?



  19. How can you see if a router's serial interface has a DCE cable connected?



  20. What does the bandwidth command do?



  21. What speed is the bandwidth configured in?



  22. If you are running in setup mode and say that yes you want to use the configuration where is the information copied to and what is the file named?



  23. What does it sometimes mean when you see a question with an answer in [] ?



  24. Can you change the name of the file you are copying this information to? Why do they give you an option as to what name you wanna use?



  25. How can you view the files?



  26. What does the “sh start” command stand for? What does it do?



  27. How do you delete the startup config?



  28. If you reload or power down and up your router after using the erase startup-config command what should happen and why?



  29. What is the best way to verify your config?



  30. How do you ping with other protocols besides ICMP?



  31. How could you find a neighbor's Network layer address without having to go to the switch or router itself?



  32. What protocols can traceroute be used with?



  33. Why is telenet good to test a connection with?



  34. What is the show interface command used for?



  35. List all “sh int” commands and what they do.



  36. What are the only “real” physical interfaces?



  37. What is the most important statistic of the “show interface” command?



  38. What does the first part of output of the line and datalink protocol status show you?



  39. What does the second part of output of the line and datalink protocol status show you?



  40. If your line is up but your protocol is down what is probably the problem?



  41. What if both are down?



  42. What is important to note about the keep alive time on both ends of a connection?



  43. What is the “clear counters” command used for? What switches are available for it and what do they do?



  44. What does the “sh ip interface” command do?



  45. What does the “sh ip int brief” command do?



  46. What does the “sh protocols” command do?



  47. What does the “sh controllers” command do?



  48. According to the first sentence of the summary: What was this chapter? Do you agree?