Network Management Quiz: FCAPS · SNMP · NetFlow · ACLs · Hardening

1. A switch port keeps going up and down. Which FCAPS bucket covers detecting and fixing this?

Configuration Accounting Fault Performance

2. What is the main security difference between SNMPv2c and SNMPv3?

SNMPv3 polls faster SNMPv2c only works on Cisco devices SNMPv3 adds authentication and encryption; SNMPv2c sends everything in plain text SNMPv3 uses a different port number

3. NetFlow captures traffic metadata. Which of these would NOT appear in a NetFlow record?

Source and destination IP addresses Destination port The actual payload content of the packets Number of bytes transferred

4. On Cisco IOS, 'enable password' and 'enable secret' provide the same level of security.

True False

5. What does the implicit 'deny any' at the end of a Cisco ACL mean?

The last rule always permits traffic Any traffic not explicitly permitted by a rule is silently dropped The ACL only applies to inbound traffic You must add 'deny any' manually or the ACL has no effect

6. What makes an automation script 'idempotent'?

It runs faster than manual configuration It can run on multiple vendors without changes Running it multiple times produces the same result as running it once It backs up the config before making changes

7. IP SLA is best described as:

A traffic filtering mechanism similar to ACLs A scheduled synthetic test (like automated pings) that measures performance proactively A backup protocol that saves configs automatically A version of SNMP designed for high-speed polling

8. For enterprise WiFi authentication, what replaces a single shared passphrase?

WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) Hiding the SSID broadcast 802.1X with a RADIUS server for per-user authentication WEP with a longer key