CNX-001 Practice Questions
91 real CNX-001 exam questions with expert-verified answers and explanations. Page 1 of 2.
- Question #1Cloud Network Operations and Troubleshooting
A network administrator receives a ticket from one of the company's offices about video calls that work normally for one minute and then get very choppy. The network administrator...
Network troubleshootingJitterVideo conferencingNetwork performance - Question #2Cloud Network Security
A network architect is designing a solution to place network core equipment in a rack inside a data center. This equipment is crucial to the enterprise and must be as secure as pos...
Physical SecurityData Center SecurityAccess ControlSurveillance - Question #3Cloud Network Security
An organization has centralized logging capability at the on-premises data center and wants a solution that can consolidate logging from deployed cloud workloads. The organization...
SIEMLog ManagementCloud Security MonitoringSecurity Operations - Question #4Cloud Network Security
Security policy states that all inbound traffic to the environment needs to be restricted, but all external outbound traffic is allowed within the hybrid cloud environment. A new a...
Cloud SecurityNetwork Access ControlFirewallNetwork Security Group - Question #5Cloud Network Operations and Troubleshooting
A company is experiencing multiple switch failures. The network analyst discovers the following: - Network recovery time is unacceptable and occurs after the shutdown of some switc...
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)Layer 2 LoopsNetwork RecoveryRedundancy Management - Question #6Cloud Network Security
An architect needs to deploy a new payroll application on a cloud host. End users' access to the application will be based on the end users' role. In addition, the host must be dep...
Zero TrustLeast PrivilegeMicrosegmentationRole-Based Access Control (RBAC) - Question #7Cloud Network Design
A network architect is creating a network topology for a global SD-WAN deployment. The business has offices in Asia, Europe, and the United States and makes use of data centers in...
Network TopologiesSD-WANLatency OptimizationGlobal Networking - Question #8Cloud Network Operations and Troubleshooting
A network administrator is troubleshooting an outage at a remote site. The administrator examines the logs and determines that one of the internet links at the site appears to be d...
Network TroubleshootingIncident ResponseSystem VerificationFailover - Question #9Cloud Network Design
A network architect is designing an expansion solution for the branch office network and requires the following business outcomes: - Maximize cost savings with reduced administrati...
SD-WANCloud ConnectivityBranch NetworkingNetwork Design - Question #10Cloud Network Design
A network engineer is designing a Layer 2 deployment for a company that occupies several floors in an office building. The engineer decides to make each floor its own VLAN but stil...
STP ConvergencePortfastLayer 2 Design - Question #11Cloud Network Security
After a malicious actor used an open port in a company's lobby, a network architect needs to enhance network security. The solution must enable: - Security posture check - Auto rem...
Network Access Control (NAC)Network SecurityAuthenticationPosture Assessment - Question #12Cloud Network Design
A company deployed new applications in the cloud and configured a site-to-site VPN to connect the internal data center with the cloud. The IT team wants the internal servers to con...
DNSHybrid Cloud NetworkingSite-to-Site VPNName Resolution - Question #13Cloud Network Operations and Troubleshooting
An outage occurred after a software upgrade on core switching. A network administrator thinks that the firmware installed had a bug. Which of the following should the network admin...
TroubleshootingNetwork OutageProblem ResolutionFirmware Upgrade - Question #14Cloud Network Security
A network engineer identified several failed log-in attempts to the VPN from a user's account. When the engineer inquired, the user mentioned the IT help desk called and asked them...
Social engineeringAttack typesSecurity awareness - Question #15Cloud Network Operations and Troubleshooting
A company is replacing reserved public IP addresses with dynamic IP addresses. The network architect creates a list of assets with some dependencies to these reserved IPs: Which of...
IP address managementDynamic IP addressingIP reuseCloud asset dependencies - Question #16Cloud Network Design
A network architect needs to design a solution to ensure every cloud environment network is built to the same baseline. The solution must meet the following requirements: - Use aut...
Cloud AutomationCI/CDVersion ControlCollaboration - Question #17Cloud Network Design
A network engineer adds a large group of servers to a screened subnet and configures them to use IPv6 only. The servers need to seamlessly communicate with IPv4 servers on the inte...
IPv6IPv4 InteroperabilityNAT64Network Translation - Question #18Cloud Network Design
A customer asks a MSP to propose a ZTA design for its globally distributed remote workforce. Given the following requirements: - Authentication should be provided through the custo...
Zero Trust ArchitectureAccess ControlGeolocation BlockingIdentity and Access Management - Question #19Cloud Network Operations and Troubleshooting
Application development team users are having issues accessing the database server within the cloud environment. All other users are able to use SSH to access this server without i...
Network TroubleshootingCloud FirewallsAccess ControlSSH Connectivity - Question #20Cloud Network Implementation
A partner is migrating a client from on premises to a hybrid cloud. Given the following project status information, the initial project timeline estimates need to be revised: Which...
Project ManagementCloud MigrationWork Breakdown Structure (WBS)Project Timelines - Question #21Cloud Network Design
A company's IT department is expected to grow from 100 to 200 employees, and the sales department is expected to grow from 1,000 to a maximum of 2,000 employees. Each employee owns...
IP AddressingSubnettingCIDRNetwork Segmentation - Question #22Cloud Network Security
A network security administrator needs to set up a solution to: - Gather all data from log files in a single location. - Correlate the data to generate alerts. Which of the followi...
SIEMLog ManagementSecurity MonitoringAlerting - Question #23Cloud Network Implementation
A cloud network engineer needs to enable network flow analysis in the VPC so headers and payload of captured data can be inspected. Which of the following should the engineer use f...
Traffic mirroringDeep packet inspectionVPC networkingNetwork analysis - Question #24Cloud Network Operations and Troubleshooting
A company is experiencing numerous network issues and decides to expand its support team. The new junior employees will need to be onboarded in the shortest time possible and be ab...
TroubleshootingDocumentationKnowledge ManagementOperational Procedures - Question #25Cloud Network Design
An application is hosted on a three-node cluster in which each server has identical compute and network performance specifications. A fourth node is scheduled to be added to the cl...
Load balancingTraffic distributionServer capacityNetwork design principles - Question #26Cloud Network Operations and Troubleshooting
An architecture team needs to unify all logging and performance monitoring used by global applications across the enterprise to perform decision-making analytics. Which of the foll...
Data LakeLog ManagementPerformance MonitoringCloud Analytics - Question #27Cloud Network Security
After a company migrated all services to the cloud, the security auditor discovers many users have administrator roles on different services. The company needs a solution that: - P...
Privileged Access ManagementCloud SecurityIdentity and Access ManagementSecurity Auditing - Question #28Cloud Network Design
A network architect needs to build a new data center for a large company that has business units that process retail financial transactions. Which of the following information shou...
Regulatory complianceData center designNetwork architectureFinancial data - Question #29Cloud Network Security
Server A (10.2.3.9) needs to access Server B (10.2.2.7) within the cloud environment since they are segmented into different network sections. All external inbound traffic must be...
network security groupscloud network securitytraffic filteringnetwork segmentation - Question #30Cloud Network Design
A network architect is choosing design options for a new SD-WAN installation that has the following requirements: - All network traffic from the cloud must pass through inspection...
SD-WAN designNetwork topologyCentralized egressSecurity inspection - Question #31Cloud Network Security
A developer reports errors when trying to access a web application. The developer uses Postman to troubleshoot and receives the following error: Which of the following is the cause...
Web application troubleshootingHTTP authenticationHTTP status codesPostman - Question #32Cloud Network Design
Which of the following helps the security of the network design to align with industry best practices?
Reference ArchitecturesNetwork Security DesignSecurity Best PracticesDesign Principles - Question #33Cloud Network Operations and Troubleshooting
An organization's Chief Technical Officer is concerned that changes to the network using IaC are causing unscheduled outages. Which of the following best mitigates this risk?
IaCCI/CDChange ManagementRisk Mitigation - Question #34Cloud Network Security
A network architect is working on a new network design to better support remote and on-campus workers. Traffic needs to be decrypted for inspection in the cloud but is not required...
Secure Web GatewayCloud SecurityRemote Access SecurityTraffic Inspection - Question #35Cloud Network Design
A cloud architect must recommend an architecture approach for a new medical application that requires the lowest downtime possible. Which of the following is the best application d...
High AvailabilityDisaster RecoveryCloud ArchitectureActive-Active Topology - Question #36Cloud Network Operations and Troubleshooting
A company just launched a cloud-based application. Some users are reporting the application will not load. A cloud engineer investigates the issues and reports the following: - Not...
Geolocation rulesAccess controlTroubleshootingNetwork access issues - Question #37Cloud Network Security
An organization wants to evaluate network behavior with a network monitoring tool that is not inline. The organization will use the logs for further correlation and analysis of pot...
Network MonitoringNetFlowSIEMThreat Analysis - Question #38Cloud Network Security
A company hosts its application s on the cloud and is expanding its business to Europe. The company must comply with General Data Protection Regulation to limit European customers'...
GeofencingCloud SecurityAccess ControlGeographical Restrictions - Question #39Cloud Networking Fundamentals
An administrator needs to add a device to the allow list in order to bypass user authentication of an AAA system. The administrator uses MAC filtering and needs to discover the dev...
MAC address discoveryNetwork information commandsDevice identificationAAA system configuration - Question #40Cloud Network Operations and Troubleshooting
A network load balancer is not correctly validating a client TLS certificate. The network architect needs to validate the certificate installed on the load balancer before progress...
TLS certificatesopenssl commandsPrivate key validationNetwork troubleshooting - Question #41Cloud Network Operations and Troubleshooting
A global company has depots in various locations. A proprietary application was deployed locally at each of the depots, but issues with getting the consolidated data instantly occu...
LatencyNetwork PerformanceCloud Migration IssuesApplication Performance - Question #42Cloud Network Design
A network architect is designing a new network for a rural hospital system. Given the following requirements: - Highly available - Consistent data transmission - Resilient to simul...
Network TopologyNetwork DesignHigh AvailabilityResilience - Question #43Cloud Network Design
A cafe uses a tablet-based point-of-sale system. Customers are complaining that their food is taking too long to arrive. During an investigation, the following is noticed: - Every...
Wireless NetworkingNetwork TroubleshootingNetwork DesignCongestion Management - Question #44Cloud Network Security
An organization with an on-premises data center is adopting additional cloud-based solutions. The organization wants to keep communication secure between remote employees' devices...
Zero Trust ArchitectureIdentity as the PerimeterRemote Access SecurityCloud Security - Question #45Cloud Network Operations and Troubleshooting
A company provides an API that runs on the public cloud for its customers. A fixed number of VMs host the APIs. During peak hours, the company notices a spike in usage that results...
API ThrottlingResource ManagementPerformance ManagementCost Optimization - Question #46Cloud Network Security
An administrator must ensure that credit card numbers are not contained in any outside messaging or file transfers from the organization. Which of the following controls meets this...
Data Loss Prevention (DLP)Data ProtectionSecurity ControlsEgress Security - Question #47Cloud Network Design
A network administrator must connect a remote building at a manufacturing plant to the main building via a wireless connection. Which of the following should the administrator choo...
Wireless NetworkingAntenna TypesFrequency BandsRange Optimization - Question #48Cloud Network Operations and Troubleshooting
A network engineer at an e-commerce organization must improve the following dashboard due to a performance issue on the website: Which of the following is the most useful informati...
Website performanceMonitoring metricsOperations dashboardsTroubleshooting - Question #49
A SaaS company's new service currently is being provided through four servers. The company's end users are having connection issues, which is affecting about 25% of the connections...
- Question #50Cloud Network Design
A network architect is working on a physical network design template for a small education institution's satellite campus that is not yet built. The new campus location will consis...
Network Design ModelsCollapsed Core ArchitectureCampus Network DesignTwo-tier Network