CompTIA N10-008 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

CompTIA N10-008 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 301:

  An administrator is writing a script to periodically log the IPv6 and MAC addresses of all the devices on a network segment. Which of the following switch features will MOST likely be used to assist with this task?

  A. Spanning Tree Protocol
  B. Neighbor Discovery Protocol
  C. Link Aggregation Control Protocol
  D. Address Resolution Protocol
  B. Neighbor Discovery Protocol

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  Explanation/Reference:

  Neighbor Discovery Protocol is similar to ARP but retrieves the IPV6 address. ARP retrieves IPv4.

• Question 302:

  A company is hosting a secure server that requires all connections to the server to be encrypted. A junior administrator needs to harden the web server. The following ports on the web server are open:

  

  Which of the following ports should be disabled?

  A. 22
  B. 80
  C. 443
  D. 587
  B. 80

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  Explanation/Reference:

  Port 80 is used for HTTP, which is unencrypted web traffic. Since the requirement is for all connections to the server to be encrypted, disabling port 80 (which facilitates unencrypted connections) would ensure that all web traffic to the server is encrypted, typically via HTTPS on port 443.

• Question 303:

  A network administrator corrected a rule on a misconfigured firewall. Which of the following should the administrator do NEXT when applying the network troubleshooting methodology?

  A. Verify full system functionality.
  B. Document actions and lessons learned.
  C. Establish a theory of probable cause.
  D. Identify potential effects.
  A. Verify full system functionality.

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  Explanation/Reference:

  After correcting a rule on a misconfigured firewall, the next step in applying the network troubleshooting methodology is to verify full system functionality and ensure that the correction has resolved the issue without causing additional problems. This involves testing the network to confirm that it operates as expected under normal conditions and that the initial problem has been effectively resolved. Verification is crucial to ensure that the changes made have indeed fixed the issue and that there are no unintended side effects.

• Question 304:

  A network engineer has been assigned a support ticket for a PC that will not connect to the network in a new area of the building. The engineer knows the PC should be assigned to the PC VLAN (VLAN 1101) and should have an IP in the

  172. 16. 250. 0/22 range. While talking with the hardware team, the engineer is told this is the first PC to be installed in this area

  The engineer then logs into the edge switch the PC is connected to and looks at the configuration. Given the output below:

  

  Which of the following BEST explains the reason why the PC cannot connect?

  A. The VLAN interface is missing.
  B. The VLAN is not allowed across the trunk.
  C. The PC is in the wrong VLAN.
  D. The PC does not have a valid IP.
  B. The VLAN is not allowed across the trunk.

• Question 305:

  Which of the following routing protocols is used to exchange route information between public autonomous systems?

  A. OSPF
  B. BGP
  C. EGRIP
  D. RIP
  B. BGP

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  Explanation/Reference:

  BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) is the correct answer as it is used to exchange route information between public autonomous systems.

• Question 306:

  A security team would like to use a system in an isolated network to record the actions of potential attackers. Which of the following solutions is the security team implementing?

  A. Perimeter network
  B. Honeypot
  C. Zero trust infrastructure
  D. Network segmentation
  B. Honeypot

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  Explanation/Reference:

  A honeypot is a security mechanism set up to act as a trap, simulating vulnerabilities and services that might attract attackers. Its primary purpose is to be probed, attacked, or compromised in order to study the attackers' behavior, techniques, and methods without affecting the actual production systems.

  The isolated network containing the honeypot is separate from the main network and is designed to monitor and log any unauthorized access attempts or malicious activities. It allows the security team to study the attackers' tactics, tools, and motives while preventing them from reaching critical systems or causing damage to the actual infrastructure.

• Question 307:

  A network technician is reviewing a document that specifies how to handle access to company resources, such as the Internet and printers, when devices are not part of the company's assets. Which of the following agreements would a user be required to accept before using the company's resources?

  A. BYOD
  B. DLP
  C. AUP
  D. MOU
  C. AUP

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  Explanation/Reference:

  This part would be AUP as it's the companies resources.

  A network technician is reviewing a document that specifies how to handle access to company resources, such as the Internet and printers

  And this part of the first sentence would be BYOD, when devices are not part of the company's assets.

  However neither of the two above parts are a question. It's a statement of what the technician is doing. The second sentence contains the actual question being asked.

  Which of the following agreements would a user be required to accept before using the company's resources?

  Since the question is only asking what they need to accept to use the companies resources this would be strictly AUP. If they had asked what the user would need to accept to use their devices for company business it would then be BYOD.

• Question 308:

  An infrastructure company is implementing a cabling solution to connect sites on multiple continents. Which of the following cable types should the company use for this project?

  A. Cat 7
  B. Single-mode
  C. Multimode
  D. Cat 6
  B. Single-mode

• Question 309:

  A network administrator is looking for an out-of-band method for accessing the console ports of a company's network devices when working remotely. Which of the following can be deployed as a solution?

  A. A hub
  B. Abridge
  C. A modem
  D. A WAP
  C. A modem

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  Explanation/Reference:

• Question 310:

  A company's primary ISP is experiencing an outage. However, the network administrator notices traffic continuing to flow through a secondary connection to the same ISP. Which of the following BEST describes this configuration?

  A. Diverse paths
  B. Load balancing
  C. Multipathing
  D. Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
  A. Diverse paths

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  Explanation/Reference:

  Diverse paths, also known as path diversity, refers to the use of multiple network paths to ensure redundancy and high availability in case of network failures or outages. In this scenario, the company has set up a secondary connection to the same ISP to provide an alternate path for traffic when the primary connection fails. This allows the traffic to continue to flow without interruption, minimizing downtime and maximizing network uptime.