Cisco ENCOR Practice Exam

What is a characteristic of spine-and-leaf architecture?

Which of the following relate to the Distribution Layer? (Choose two).

Which protocol is the Cisco proprietary implementation of FHRP?

Which of the following descriptions are related to Ansible technology? (Choose two).

What are the two advantages of deploying cloud-based Cisco SD-WAN controllers? (Choose two).

A network engineer is configuring an OSPFv2 neighbor adjacency. Which of the following parameters must match regarding OSPF routers? (Choose three).

From the following descriptions, identify those that pertain to EIGRP. (Choose two)

Select the correct order of path selection criteria considered by BGP.

In a typical SD-Access implementation, which type of device would act as a Location ID Separation Protocol (LISP) server for mapping node locations within the network?

Which plane of operation within the Cisco SD-Access fabric leverages Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) tunneling?

What component can you design in the SD-Access Overlay solution in order to perform micro-segmentation?

What 8-bit field exists in IP packet for QoS?

What Cisco WLAN QoS class is designed for normal traffic? 

Which switch structure stores IP routing-related information, and is also referred to as the Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF) table?

What is the term used to refer to a broadcast domain within a VXLAN network?

What component of a LISP architecture identifies the IP address of a router responsible for forwarding traffic to devices within a LISP location?

In a VRF configuration, you wish view the IP routing table of a virtual router with a VRF instance name of “TENANT-A”. What command would you use?

What is the output of the following command:

show ip vrf

What parameter can be different on ports within an EtherChannel?

Which mode must be used to configure EtherChannel between two switches without using a negotiation protocol?

Which two statements about EtherChannel technology are true? (Choose two).

Which two of these statements regarding RSTP are correct? (Choose two).

Which two states are the port states when RSTP has converged? (Choose two).

A network engineer needs to verify IP SLA operations on an interface that shows on indication of excessive traffic. Which command should the engineer use to complete this action?

What command will clear your NAT entries from the translation table?

Which Cisco IOS command would be used to send NetFlow data to a collection server with the IP address 10.1.1.5 over port 9995?

Refer to the exhibit. Why is the remote NetFlow server failing to receive the NetFlow data?

Which entity within the Control Plane Policing (CoPP) solution allows for traffic filtering and rate limiting?

Which structure within a Control Plane Policing (CoPP) configuration is used to define the action which should be taken against policed traffic?

You’re writing a Python script and wish to ask the user the name of the SSID in a wireless network, and you want to assign their response to a variable of ssid. Which command can you use?

Examine the JSON shown – { “employee”:{ “name”:”John”; “age”:30; “city”:”New York” } } – what is the issue with this syntax?

Which option about JSON is true?

Identify the YANG Data Modeling element that represents an attribute of something being modeled.

When configuring Cisco Embedded Event Manager (EEM) using applets within the CLI, which command keyword defines a condition that we want to take action against?

With Cisco Embedded Event Manager (EEM), what is used to create policies by using the command line interface (CLI)?

In a switched environment, what does the IEEE 802.1Q standard describe?

Refer to the exhibit. Switch port FastEthernet 0/24 on ALSwitch1 will be used to create an IEEE 802.1Q-compliant trunk to another switch. Based on the output shown, what is the reason the trunk does not form, even though the proper cabling has been attached?

How can you fix a recursive routing issue with a GRE tunnel?

What protocol number is used when you encapsulate a packet with GRE?

An administrator intends to configure an IPSec solution that provides ESP with integrity protection, but not confidentiality protection. Which of the following AES modes of operation would meet this integrity-only requirement?

What IPsec technology allows the exchange of a shared secret key over an unsecured medium using a symmetric key exchange?

What port number is used by Network Time Protocol (NTP)?

Which command must be entered when a device is configured as an NTP server?

After configuring ERSPAN in Cisco IOS, what command is necessary in order to enable the ERSPAN configuration on a selected interface?

By default, which type of traffic does SPAN monitor in Cisco IOS?

An engineer configured the wrong default gateway for the Cisco DNA center enterprise interface during the install. Which command must the engineer run to correct the configuration?

How does Cisco DNA Center gather data from the network?

Refer to the exhibit. A network administrator is discovering a Cisco Catalyst 9300 and a Cisco WLC 3504 in Cisco DNA Center. The Catalyst 9300 is added successfully However the WLC is showing [ error “uncontactable” when the administrator tries to add it in Cisco DNA Center. Which action discovers WLC in Cisco DNA Center successfully?

NETCONF supports what type of data formatting?

If a notice-level message is sent to a syslog server, which event has occurred?

What command instructs the device to timestamp Syslog debug messages in milliseconds?

Which Cisco IOS command allows us to specifically turn off conditional debugging that has been put in place for the GigabitEthernet 0/1 interface of a router?

Which command is used to turn off all possible debugging in Cisco IOS?

What are two requirements for an HSRP group? (Choose two).

Which of the following is true of VRRP but not true of HSRP?

Which MAC address is recognized as a VRRP virtual address?

During an inter-controller Layer 3 roam, how does Cisco refer to the target WLC?

What multicast routing protocol must use an RP in its operation?

What is a difference between local AP mode and FlexConnect AP mode?

Which of the following are valid options for AP WLC discovery? (Choose three)

The SNR in wireless networking is calculated using the transmit power and what other value? 

Which native extensible authentication protocol (EAP) type uses certificates for mutual authentication?

Which piece of the Network Access Control (NAC) architecture receives extensible authentication protocol (EAP) packets and translates those into RADIUS packets?

What Cisco command shows you the status of an 802.1x connection on interface gi0/1?

Which type of web-based authentication (WebAuth) leverages an external AAA server that works as a centralized RADIUS database, such as Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)?

An engineer must configure a WLAN using the strongest encryption type for WPA-2 PSK. Which cipher fulfills the requirement?

Refer the exhibit. BGP is flapping after the CoPP policy is applied. What are the two solutions to fix the issue? (Choose two).

Refer to the exhibit. A company wants to use NAT in the network shown. Which commands will apply the NAT configuration to the proper interfaces? (Choose two).

A user configured OSPF in a single area between two routers. A serial interface is connecting the two routers. If a user types the command  “show ip ospf interface” on either router, which OSPF network type will be assigned to the serial interface connecting to the other OSPF router?

OSPF can perform route summarization on an ASBR or on an ABR. What command is used to summarize routes on an ASBR?

OSPF routing uses the concept of areas. What are the characteristics of OSPF areas? (Choose three).

Refer to the exhibit. After the configuration is applied, the two routers fail to establish an OSPF neighbor relationship. what is the reason for the problem?

Refer to the exhibit. Assume that all router interfaces are operational and correctly configured. In addition, assume that OSPF has been correctly configured on router R2. How will the default route configured on R1 affect the operation of R2?

An inbound access list has been configured on a serial interface to deny packet entry for TCP and UDP ports 21, 23, and 25. What types of packets will be permitted by this ACL? (Choose three).

A company is practicing server virtualization by running the hypervisor software directly on top of the hardware platform. What type of hypervisor is this?

What asset tag technology can function with the location services of Cisco WLAN technologies? 

Refer to the exhibit. A router receives BGP routing updates from multiple neighbors to routers in AS690. Why does the router send traffic that is destined to AS690 to a neighbor other than 10.222.1.1?

Which effect does the aaa new-model configuration command have?

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator configures four switches for local authentication using passwords that are stored in a cryptographic hash. The four switches must also support SSH access for administrators to manage the network infrastructure. Which switch is configured correctly to meet these requirements?

Which two keying mechanisms are available within MACsec? (Choose two).

What technology available for the LAN today is similar to IPsec but operates at Layer 2? 

Northbound Interfaces (NBIs) are what type of Application Programing Interfaces (APIs)?

What does traffic shaping do to reduce congestion in a network?

Which API is used in controller based architecture to interact with edge devices?

Which if the following is NOT a Rapid PVST+ port state?

Which element of the SD-WAN solution from Cisco Systems represents the controller responsible for the management of the solution?

You are interested in using a new security model in your Enterprise network; one that is not based strictly on Layer 2 or Layer 3 addressing. What component of the SD-Access solution accommodates this?

What SD-Access device is responsible for de-encapsulating LISP traffic for transport to non-LISP sites?

What technology uses HTTP methods to provide CRUD operations on a conceptual datastore containing YANG-defined data?

What REST API response code would you expect to see if there was a problem with authorization during the REST API usage? 

You want to improve the performance of roaming in your FlexConnect infrastructure. Specifically, you want to employ the Fast Transition feature. What technology permits this? 

You are preparing to add a new node to your Cisco DNA Center cluster. What command should you run to verify your configuration before adding the new node? 

What SD-WAN component performs the initial authentication of WAN edge devices?

What is the multicast address used by HSRPv2? 

Which of the following is not an Authentication Key Management option for WLAN security? 

Which of the following statements regarding Access Control Lists in Cisco networking are true? (Choose 3)

You are interested in providing your WLC address to your Lightweight Access Point using DHCP. What option is used for this? 

Which of the following statements are valid considering fabric-mode access points in the SD-Access solution? (Choose 2)

Which type of WiFi antenna is not directional? 

What form of QoS is most likely to cause TCP retransmissions? 

When using Cisco DNA Center, templates you create with the Template Editor are associated with what DNA Center component?