The corporate office sends you a new router to connect, but upon connecting the console cable, you see that there is already a configuration on the router. What should be done before a new configuration is entered in the router?
Options
A. RAM should be erased and the router restarted.
B. Flash should be erased and the router restarted.
C. NVRAM should be erased and the router restarted.
D. The new configuration should be entered and saved.
Correct Answer
NVRAM should be erased and the router restarted.
Explanation
Before you start to configure the router, you should erase the NVRAM with the
erase startup-config command and then reload the router using the
reload command.
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1. If you want to have more than one Telnet session open at the same time, what keystroke combination would you use?
To keep open one or more Telnet sessions, use the
Ctrl+Shift+6 and then
X keystroke combination.
2. You copy a configuration from a network host to a router's RAM. The configuration looks correct, yet it is not working at all. What could the problem be?
Options
A. You copied the wrong configuration into RAM.
B. You copied the configuration into flash memory instead.
C. The copy did not override the shutdown command in running-config.
D. The IOS became corrupted after the copy command was initiated.
Correct Answer: The copy did not override the shutdown command in running-config.
Explanation:
Since the configuration looks correct, you probably didn't screw up the copy job. However, when you perform a copy from a network host to a router, the interfaces are automatically shut down and need to be manually enabled with the
no shutdown command.
3. You are troubleshooting a connectivity problem in your corporate network and want to isolate the problem. You suspect that a router on the route to an unreachable network is at fault. What IOS user exec command should you issue?
The command
traceroute (trace for short), which can be issued from user mode or privileged mode, is used to find the path a packet takes through an internetwork and will also show you where the packet stops because of an error on a router.
4. A network administrator wants to upgrade the IOS of a router without removing the image currently installed. What command will display the amount of memory consumed by the current IOS image and indicate whether there is enough room available to hold both the current and new images?
Correct Answer: Issue the show cdp neighbors detail command on the router connected to the switch.
Explanation:
Although option A is certainly the "best" answer, unfortunately option D will work just fine and your boss would probably prefer you to use the
show cdp neighbors detail command.
7. You are unsuccessful in telnetting into a remote device. What could the problem be?
The best answers, the ones you need to remember, are that either an access control list is filtering the Telnet session or the VTY password is not set on the remote device.
8. Which three commands can be used to check LAN connectivity problems on a router?
Since the question never mentioned anything about a suspended session, you can assume that the Telnet session is still open, and you would just type
exit to close the session.
10. You telnet into a remote device and type debug ip rip, but no output from the debug command is seen. What could the problem be?