Network Management Question Pool

1. What is the least desirable way for the network manager to specify how a bridge or router should make its decisions?
2. You would use an OTDR to:
   • find the length of an thicknet segment
   • determine how many repeaters were allowed on a fiber segment.
   • find a break in an FDDI segment.
   • check the maximum packet size through a hub.
3. The two most important areas of network management are: (select 2)
   • fault management.
   • configuration management
   • performance management
   • accounting management
   • security management
4. The Accounting Management function of Network Management involves:
   • inventory and asset control.
   • identifying usage by user.
   • identifying usage by segment.
   • maintenance contracts on installed equipment.
5. Variables in the MIB :
   • are identified by their place in the Object Identifier tree.
   • are identified by a sequence of integers.
   • must be declared globally in network programs.
   • all correspond to hardware features.
   • all of the above.
   • only two of the above: ________ and ________.
6. A MIB is:
   • a database with all the information any vendor needs to manage its network device.
   • a Minimum Information Base.
   • common information used by all vendors and users to manage network devices.
   • a product of an ITU-T committee
7. SNMP is preferred over CMIP at the lowest layer because:
   • of a generic bias against ISO protocols.
   • SNMP provides more functionality.
   • performance of the managed objects.
   • CMIP is for manager-to-manager communications only.
8. _________ is used for network management in the ISO protocol stack.
   • SNMP
   • CMOT
   • CMIP
   • SMTP
9. One function that SNMP does not address is:
   • Accounting Management
   • Fault Management
   • Configuration Management
   • Performance Management
10. SNMP does not implement any part of the following management functions except:
    • Security Management
    • Fault Management
    • Accounting Management
    • Schedule Management
11. SNMP TRAPS are aperiodic events.
    T F (circle one)
12. List and define 3 of the five functional areas of network management.
13. The major purpose of a network firewall is to:
14. ensure unauthorized users cannot access your hosts.
15. filter certain types of traffic (to keep it off your network).
16. ensure flames don't spread to all parts of the building.
17. separate different kinds of protocols.