Chapter 8 Quiz

Question 1

An administrator wants to send log messages for all severity levels from a router to its console. Which procedure should the administrator follow to accomplish this?

Answer 1

The administrator needs to do nothing, because Cisco routers send log messages for all severity levels to the console by default.

Question 2

A company is designing a network monitoring system and is considering SNMPv3. What are three characteristics of SNMPv3?

Answer 2

1- It uses authentication to determine if messages are from a valid source.
2-It uses encryption to scramble the content of packets to prevent unauthorized access.
3-It uses message integrity to ensure that packets have not been altered in transit.

Question 3

Which item will limit the amount of information that can be analyzed by a NetFlow collector?

• Netflow version
• Netflow application software
• Netflow collector host
• multivendor Netflow devices

Answer 3

Netflow version

Question 4

Which SNMPv2 configuration step is required?

• documenting the location of the system contact
• configuring the community string and access level
• restricting SNMP access to NMS hosts
• enabling traps on an SNMP agent

Answer 4

configuring the community string and access level

Question 5

purpose of the SNMP trap?

Answer 5

makes the SNMP agent automatically send the value on an item from the MIB

Question 6

The ip flow
_______
command enables the router to capture NetFlow data for the monitoring of incoming packets on an interface.

Answer 6

ingress

Question 7

Which protocol or service can be configured to send unsolicited messages to alert the network administrator about a network event such as an extremely high CPU utilization on a router

Answer 7

SNMP

Question 8

Which type of information can an administrator obtain with the show ip cache flow command?

Answer 8

the protocol that uses the largest volume of traffic​