200-401 Exam Questions

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According to the Purdue Reference Model, at which layer would you perform manufacturing operations and control?

Refer to the exhibit. CCNA.com has the industrial network shown in the exhibit. All switches are configured as layer 2 switches and are using VLAN 1 as their management VLAN. Each...

What should be done with unused conductors in copper unshielded or shielded twisted-pair network cables?

Which option best describes a mechanical, ingress, climatic, chemical and electromagnetic environment that is classified as M3 I3 C3 E3?

With what are APC connectors used?

Which characteristic causes multimode fiber-optic cable to differ from single mode?

For which three issues should fiber-optic network segments be tested? (Choose three.)

An Ethernet cable is attached to a PC NIC and then attached to a switch port. The PC power is turned on and the switch port link LED turns green. The link light indicates what two...

At which Layer would you check ACLs for TCP ports being blocked?

What two things does a router do when it forwards a packet? (Choose two.)

You are a called upon to troubleshoot connectivity problems to a network device on a production floor. You have used ping and traceroute to verify that you cannot connect to the de...

Which of these is a routed protocol?

With a Cisco IE 2000 switch, what does a port status LED indicate when it is solid amber?

With a Cisco IE 2000 switch, what does a port status LED indicate when it is solid green?

Refer to the exhibit. The output that is shown is generated at an industrial switch. Which three statements are true? (Choose three.)

At which Layer would you check for spanning tree loops?

At which Layer would you troubleshoot a cabling issue?

Refer to the exhibit. A technician enters the exhibited commands to configure a new router on the plant floor, but receives an error message when attempting to save the configurati...

In which two ways could you minimize the impact of monitoring an industrial network? (Choose two.)

Which three pieces of information must be maintained for all stakeholders as part of the change management process? (Choose three.)

With a Cisco IE 2000 switch, what does a power status LED indicate when it is solid green?

What does the Cisco PSIRT issue for significant security issues that directly involve Cisco products and require an upgrade, fix, or other customer action?

What is a reason to use privileged EXEC mode on an industrial switch?

Which two commands can help you to determine what image is running on your industrial switch? (Choose two.)

Which parameter would you tune to affect the selection of a static route as a backup, when a dynamic protocol is also being used?

What is a characteristic of cables that are used in articulating equipment arms?

Which protocol is a secure alternative to Telnet?

What is the function of the command switchport trunk native vlan 999 on a Cisco Catalyst switch?

Which of the following are benefits of VLANs? (Choose three.)

What does a Layer 2 switch use to decide where to forward a received frame?

Refer to the exhibit. Which port should a PLC with IP address 192.168.3.65 be plugged into in order to communicate to the rest of the network?

Refer to the exhibit. What are three traffic and interconnection requirements for the devices in the exhibit? (Choose three.)

Refer to the exhibit. Host 3 on Network A is sending data to Host 8 on Network B. Which address is the default gateway of Host 3?

What are two benefits of a star network topology? (Choose two.)

Which of the following correctly pairs the dotted decimal subnet mask with the correct number of binary bits that represent the subnet mask?

A small manufacturing company has a Class C network address on the plant floor and needs to create five subnets, each accommodating 25 endpoints. Which subnet mask needs to be conf...

Why is SSH preferred over Telnet as a method of accessing a network device to alter or view the configuration?

Given a ring topology, which loop prevention mechanism provides the fastest reconvergence time after a link failure?

Which three of the following components must be elected before the Spanning Tree Protocol can converge in a switched LAN? (Choose three.)

You are troubleshooting a connectivity problem and want to isolate the problem. You suspect that a router on the route to an unreachable network is at fault. Which command would yo...

The network administrator is using a Windows PC application that is called putty.exe for remote communication to a switch for network troubleshooting. Which two protocols could be...

What is the leading cause of fiber-optic link failure?

A network administrator has subnetted the 172.16.0.0 network using a subnet mask of 255.255.255.192. A duplicate IP address of 172.16.2.120 has accidentally been configured on a wo...

What are two recommended tools or commands that allow you to troubleshoot connectivity between two devices in different IP networks? (Choose two.)

What are two symptoms of duplex mismatch? (Choose two.)

With a Cisco IE 2000 switch, what does a port status LED indicate when it is alternating green and amber?

Which two ports does EtherNet/IP use to communicate? (Choose two.)

Which prompt is used to configure parameters for the Ethernet ports of an industrial switch?

EtherNet/IP is an Ethernet implementation of which protocol?