Review Questions

You can find the answers to the review questions in Appendix B.

1. You want to improve network performance by increasing the bandwidth available to hosts and limiting the size of the broadcast domains. Which of the following options will achieve this goal?

   1. Managed hubs
   2. Bridges
   3. Switches
   4. Switches configured with VLANs

2. The types of ports that can be found on a switch are ____________________ and ____________________. (Choose two.)

   1. VLAN Trunk Protocol
   2. Access
   3. 802.1Q
   4. Trunk

3. Which switching technology reduces the size of a broadcast domain?

   1. ISL
   2. 802.1Q
   3. VLANs
   4. STP

4. Which of the following are IEEE versions of STP? (Choose two.)

   1. 802.1X
   2. VLANs
   3. 802.1D
   4. 802.11
   5. 802.1w

5. You connect a host to a switch port, but the new host cannot log into the server that is plugged into the same switch. What could the problem be? (Choose two.)

   1. The router is not configured for the new host.
   2. The STP configuration on the switch is not updated for the new host.
   3. The host has an invalid...