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Tools and Protocols N10-009 Practice Questions (Page 8)
Part of the Network troubleshooting domain, which makes up ~15% of our current practice bank. CompTIA does not publish an official question count, but from its 90-minute exam (~35–60 total, ~5–9 in this domain), expect 1–2 from this objective — we provide 53 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Questions 36–40
- 36
A workstation cannot communicate with a server at 192.168.1.100, but other workstations on the same subnet can. You run `arp -a` on the problematic workstation and see an entry for 192.168.1.100 with a MAC address of `00-11-22-33-44-55`. You suspect this MAC address is incorrect. What is the BEST next step to resolve this?
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A user reports that they can access the website `www.example.com` from their browser, but when they run `ping www.example.com`, it returns 'Ping request could not find host www.example.com.' Other users on the same subnet can ping the hostname successfully. What is the MOST likely cause?
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What type of server does the nslookup utility communicate with to resolve hostnames?
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A network administrator is configuring syslog on a router to send logs to a central server. The administrator wants to ensure that only critical and higher-severity events (emergency, alert, critical) are sent, to reduce log volume. Which syslog severity level should be configured as the threshold?
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A network engineer needs a versatile tool to open a TCP connection to a remote port and send or receive data, which can be used for banner grabbing or testing services. Which utility is best for this?
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