Answers to Review Questions
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Answers to Review Questions
1.
C. The
session
command is used to create a session from the switch
CLI to the RSM CLI.
2.
D. The
show module
command displays the type of cards in each
slot, the hardware address, and serial number of each card.
3.
A. The command
mac-address mac-address
is used under the
interface vlan #
command to set a virtual MAC address to a
VLAN interface.
4.
A, C. The frame tagging encapsulation methods are dot1q and isl.
Dot1q is the IEEE standard for frame tagging between disparate sys-
tems. ISL is a Cisco proprietary Fast and Gigabit Ethernet frame tag-
ging method.
5.
B, D. If you have an external router, you certainly can have a router
interface for every single VLAN. However, you can also have only one
Fast or Gigabit Ethernet interface connected into a switch running a
trunking protocol that will provide inter-VLAN routing.
6.
B. You can create subinterfaces on a FastEthernet or Gigabit Ether-
net modular interface by using the type slot/port.subinterface_
number
command.
7.
A. Layer 2 switches break up only collision domains by default. A
layer 3 device is needed for inter-VLAN routing. An external route
processor cannot attach to the backplane of a switch, only into a
switch port.
8.
B, C, D. The 5000 series uses the RSM or a Route Switch Feature
Card (RSFC), and the 6000 series uses the Multilayer Switch Mod-
ule (MSM).
9.
D. There is absolutely no difference in the configuration of the dif-
ferent types of internal route processors.
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