LABS OF COMPUTER NEYWORKS

• Chapter 1:
o Lab 1.1:
➢ Answer the following questions about the OSI model:
1. Which layer chooses and determines the availability of
communicating partners along with the resources necessary to
make the connection, coordinates partnering applications, and
forms a consensus on procedures for controlling data integrity
and error recovery?
2. Which layer is responsible for converting data packets from the
Data Link layer into electrical signals?
3. At which layer is routing implemented, enabling connections and
path selection between two end systems?
4. Which layer defines how data is formatted, presented, encoded,
and converted for use on the network?
5. Which layer is responsible for creating, managing, and
terminating sessions between applications?
6. Which layer ensures the trustworthy transmission of data across
a physical link and is primarily concerned with physical
addressing, line discipline, network topology, error notification,
ordered delivery of frames, and flow control?
7. Which layer is used for reliable communication between end
nodes over the network and provides mechanisms for
establishing, maintaining, and terminating virtual circuits;
transport-fault detection and recovery; and controlling the flow of
information?
8. Which layer provides logical addressing that routers will use for
path determination?
9. Which layer specifies voltage, wire speed, and pinout cables and
moves bits between devices?
10. Which layer combines bits into bytes and bytes into frames,
uses MAC addressing, and provides error detection?
11. Which layer is responsible for keeping the data from
different applications separate on the network?
12. Which layer is represented by frames?
13. Which layer is represented by segments?
14. Which layer is represented by packets?

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 15. Which layer is represented by bits?
16. Put the following in order of encapsulation:
▪ Packets
▪ Frames
▪ Bits
▪ Segments
17. Which layer segments and reassembles data into a data
stream?
18. Which layer provides the physical transmission of the data
and handles error notification, network topology, and flow
control?
19. Which layer manages device addressing, tracks the
location of devices on the network, and determines the best way
to move data?
20. What is the bit length and expression form of a MAC
address?

o Answers lab 1.1:

1. Application layer. 11. Session layer.
2. Physical layer. 12. Data Link layer.
3. Network layer. 13. Transport layer.
4. Presentation layer. 14. Network layer.
5. Session layer. 15. Physical layer.
6. Data Link layer. 16. Segments, packets, frames,
bits.
7. Transport layer. 17. Transport.
8. Network layer. 18. Data Link.
9. Physical layer. 19. Network.
10. Data Link layer. 20. 48 bits (6 bytes).

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o Lab 1.2:
➢ Fill in the blanks with the appropriate layer of the OSI or
hub, switch, or router device.
Description Device or OSI
Layer
1. This device sends and receives information
about the Network layer.
2. This layer creates a virtual circuit before
transmitting between two end stations.
3. This layer uses service access points.
4. This device uses hardware addresses to filter a
network.
5. Ethernet is defined at these layers.
6. This layer supports flow control and sequencing.
7. This device can measure the distance to a
remote network.
8. Logical addressing is used at this layer.
9. Hardware addresses are defined at this layer.
10. This device creates one big collision
domain and one large broadcast domain.
11. This device creates many smaller
collision domains, but the network is still one
large broadcast domain.
12. This device can never run full duplex.
13. This device breaks up collision domains
and broadcast domains.

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o Answers lab 1.2:
1. Router 8. Network.
2. Transport 9. Data Link (MAC sublayer).
3. Data Link (LLC sublayer). 10. Hub.
4. Bridge or switch. 11. Switch or bridge.
5. Data Link and Physical. 12. Hub.
6. Transport. 13. Hub.
7. Router.

o Lab 1.3:
➢ In the following exhibit, identify the number of collision
domains and broadcast domains in each specified
device. Each device is represented by a letter:
a. Hub.
b. Bridge.
c. Switch.
d. Router.

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o Answers lab 1.3:
1. Hub: One collision domain, one broadcast domain.
2. Bridge: Two collision domains, one broadcast domain.
3. Switch: Four collision domains, one broadcast domain.
4. Router: Three collision domains, three broadcast domains

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o Lab 1.4:
1. Convert from decimal IP address to binary format:
a. Complete the following table to express 192.168.10.15 in binary
format.
128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 Binary

b. Complete the following table to express 172.16.20.55 in binary

format.
128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 Binary

c. Complete the following table to express 10.11.12.99 in binary

format.

128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 Binary

2. Convert the following from binary format to decimal IP address.

a. Complete the following table to express
11001100.00110011.10101010.01010101 in decimal IP address
format.

128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 Decimal

b. Complete the following table to express

11000110.11010011.00111001.11010001 in decimal IP address
format.

128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 Decimal

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 c. Complete the following table to express
10000100.11010010.10111000.10100110 in decimal IP address
format.

128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 Decimal

3. Convert the following from binary format to hexadecimal.

a. Complete the following table to express
11011000.00011011.00111101.01110110 in hexadecimal.

128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 Hexadecimal

b. Complete the following table to express

11001010.11110101.10000011.11101011 in hexadecimal.

128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 Hexadecimal

c. Complete the following table to express

10000100.11010010.01000011.10110011 in hexadecimal.

128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 Hexadecimal

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o Answers lab 1.4:

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• Chapter 2:
o Answer the following questions about TCP/IP:
1. What is the Class C address range in decimal and in binary?
2. What layer of the DoD model is equivalent to the Transport layer of
the OSI model?
3. What is the valid range of a Class A network address?
4. What is the 127.0.0.1 address used for?
5. How do you find the network address from a listed IP address?
6. How do you find the broadcast address from a listed IP address?
7. What is the Class A private IP address space?
8. What is the Class B private IP address space?
9. What is the Class C private IP address space?
10. What are all the available characters that you can use in
hexadecimal addressing?

o Answers lab 2:

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• Chapter 3:
o Lab 3.1:

o Answers lab 3.1:

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o Lab 3.2:

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o Answers lab 3.2:

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o Lab 3.3:

o Answers lab 3.3:

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• Chapter 4:
o Write out the command or commands for the following
questions:
1. What command is used to set a serial interface to provide clocking
to another router at 64Kb?
2. If your telnet into a router and get the response connection refused,
password not set, what would you do on the destination router to
stop receiving this message and not be prompted for a password?
3. If you type show inter et 0 and notice the port is administratively
down, what would you do?
4. If you wanted to delete the configuration stored in NVRAM, what
would you type?
5. If you wanted to set a user-mode password for the console port,
what would you type?
6. If you wanted to set the enable secret password to cisco, what
would you type?
7. If you wanted to see if a serial interface needed to provide clocking,
what command would you use?
8. What command would you use to see the terminal history size?
9. You want to reinitialize the router and totally replace the running-
config with the current startup-config. What command will you
use?
10. How would you set the name of a router to Chicago?

o Answers lab 4:

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• Chapter 5:
o Write the answers to the following questions:
1. What is the command to copy a Cisco IOS to a TFTP server?
2. What is the command to copy a Cisco startup-config file to a TFTP
server?
3. What is the command to copy the startup-config file to DRAM?
4. What is an older command that you can use to copy the startup-
config file to DRAM?
5. What command can you use to see the neighbor router’s IP address
from your router prompt?
6. What command can you use to see the hostname, local interface,
platform, and remote port of a neighbor router?
7. What keystrokes can you use to telnet into multiple devices
simultaneously?
8. What command will show you your active Telnet connections to
neighbor and remote devices?
9. What command can you use to upgrade Cisco IOS?
10. What command can you use to merge a backup configuration
with the configuration in RAM?

o Answers lab 5:

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• Chapter 6:
o Write the answers to the following questions:
1. Create a static route to network 172.16.10.0/24 with a next-hop
gateway of 172.16.20.1 and an administrative distance of 150.
2. From the SDM you have just enabled RIP and the passive-
interface box for your serial interface is unchecked. What does
this mean?
3. What command will you type to create a default route to
172.16.40.1?
4. If you are using default routing, what command must also be
used?
5. You would use a default route on which type of network?
6. To see the routing table on your router, what command will you
use?
7. When creating a static or default route, you don’t have to use the
next-hop IP address; you can use the ___________________.
8. True/False: To reach a destination host, you must know the MAC
address of the remote host.
9. True/False: To reach a destination host, you must know the IP
address of the remote host.
10. If you have a DCE serial interface, what command must you
enter for that interface to work?
11. Write the commands used to turn RIP routing on in a router
and advertise network 10.0.0.0.
12. Write the commands to stop a router from propagating RIP
information out serial 1.
13. What works with triggered updates to help stop routing
loops in distance-vector networks?
14. What stops routing loops in distance-vector networks by
sending out a maximum hop count as soon as a link fails?

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 15. What stops routing loops in distance-vector networks by
not resending information learned on an interface out of that
same interface?
16. What command is used to send RIP routing updates as they
are sent and received on the router to the console session?

o Answers lab 6:

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• Chapter 7:
o What four routed protocols are supported by EIGRP?
o When is redistribution required for EIGRP?
o What command would be used to enable EIGRP with an autonomous
system number of 300?
o What command will tell EIGRP that it is connected to network
172.10.0.0?
o What type of EIGRP interface will neither send nor receive Hello
packets?
o Write the command that will enable OSPF process 101 on a router.
o Write the command that will display details of all OSPF routing
processes enabled on a router.
o Write the command that will display interface-specific OSPF
information.
o Write the command that will display all OSPF neighbors.
o Write the command that will display all different OSPF route types that
are currently known by the router.

o Answers lab 7:

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• Chapter 8:
o Write the answers to the following questions:
1. What command will show you the forward/filter table?
2. If a destination MAC address is not in the forward/filter table, what
will the switch do with the frame?
3. What are the three switch functions at layer 2?
4. If a frame is received on a switch port and the source MAC address
is not in the forward/ filter table, what will the switch do?
5. What is used at layer 2 to prevent switching loops?
6. 802.1w is also called what?
7. When is STP considered to be converged?
8. Switches break up _________ domains.
9. What is used to prevent switching loops in a network with
redundant switched paths?
10. Which Cisco 802.1d extension stops BPDU from being
transmitted out a port?
a. are currently known by the router.

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• Chapter 9:
o Write the answers to the following questions:
1. What VTP mode can only accept VLAN information and not change
it?
2. What VLAN identification method is proprietary to Cisco routers?
3. VLANs break up ________ domains.
4. Switches, by default, only break up ________ domains.
5. What is the default VTP mode?
6. What does trunking provide?
7. What is frame tagging?
8. True/False: The ISL encapsulation is removed from the frame if the
frame is forwarded out an access link.
9. What type of link is only part of one VLAN and is referred to as the
“native VLAN” of the port?
10.What type of Cisco tagging information allows VLANs to be
multiplexed over a trunk link through an external encapsulation
method?

o Answers lab 9:

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• Chapter 10:
o Write the answers to the following questions:
1. What command would you use to configure a standard IP access
list to prevent all machines on network 172.16.0.0 from accessing
your Ethernet network?
2. What command would you use to apply the access list you
created in question 1 to an Ethernet interface?
3. What command would you use to create an access list that
denies host 192.168.15.5 access to an Ethernet network?
4. Which command verifies that you’ve entered the access list
correctly?
5. Which two commands verify that the access list was properly
applied to the Ethernet interface?
6. What command would you use to create an extended access list
that stops host 172.16.10.1 from telnetting to host 172.16.30.5?
7. What command would you use to set an access list on a VTY line?
8. From question 1, write the same standard IP access list as a
named access list.
9. From question 2, write the command to apply the named access
list you created to an interface.
10. Which command verifies the placement and direction of an
access list?

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