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You work as a Network Administrator for McRobert Inc. Your company has a TCP/IP-based network. You want to get the protocol statistics and the active TCP/IP network connections of your computer…

The correct answer is E. NETSTAT. The NETSTAT command displays active TCP/IP network connections, listening ports, and per-protocol statistics on a local host.

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Question

You work as a Network Administrator for McRobert Inc. Your company has a TCP/IP-based network. You want to get the protocol statistics and the active TCP/IP network connections of your computer. Which of the following will you use?

Options

  • AIPSTAT
  • BSNMP
  • CARP
  • DNBTSTAT
  • ENETSTAT

How the community answered

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  • A
    4% (1)
  • C
    12% (3)
  • D
    4% (1)
  • E
    81% (21)

Why each option

The NETSTAT command displays active TCP/IP network connections, listening ports, and per-protocol statistics on a local host.

AIPSTAT

IPSTAT is not a valid or recognized standard TCP/IP command-line utility on any major operating system.

BSNMP

SNMP is a network management protocol used to monitor and manage remote network devices, not a local command for viewing connection statistics.

CARP

The ARP command displays and modifies the local IP-to-MAC address resolution cache and does not show TCP/IP connection statistics or active sessions.

DNBTSTAT

NBTSTAT displays NetBIOS over TCP/IP statistics and the local NetBIOS name cache, which is specific to NetBIOS name resolution and unrelated to general TCP/IP protocol statistics.

ENETSTATCorrect

NETSTAT (Network Statistics) is the standard utility for viewing active TCP/IP connections, including local and remote IP addresses, port numbers, and connection states such as ESTABLISHED or LISTENING. Options such as 'netstat -a' list all active connections and listening ports, while 'netstat -s' provides detailed per-protocol statistics, fulfilling both requirements described in the question.

Concept tested: NETSTAT utility for TCP/IP connection and protocol statistics

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/netstat

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#NETSTAT#TCP connections#network statistics#active connections

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