A company allows employees to work from home. Remote employees connect to the corporate network using a VPN client. The VPN uses IPsec with pre-shared keys. The security team is concerned about the security of the VPN connections. Which change would most improve the security of remote access?

Replace pre-shared keys with certificate-based authentication.

A company is designing a network for a new office building. The building has three floors, and each floor has a wiring closet. The company wants to ensure that a failure of a switch on one floor does not affect users on other floors. Which physical topology should the company implement?

Hierarchical star topology with a core switch and distribution switches on each floor.

Ring topology with a single ring.

Bus topology with a single backbone cable.

Mesh topology with full connectivity between all switches.

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Networking Fundamentals CCOA Practice Questions (Page 3)

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Questions 11–15

11foundation · easy
Which tool is used to display the route that packets take to reach a destination, showing each hop along the path?
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12foundation · easy
Which network topology provides the highest level of redundancy because every device is connected to every other device?
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13application · medium
A company allows employees to work from home. Remote employees connect to the corporate network using a VPN client. The VPN uses IPsec with pre-shared keys. The security team is concerned about the security of the VPN connections. Which change would most improve the security of remote access?
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14application · medium
A company is designing a network for a new office building. The building has three floors, and each floor has a wiring closet. The company wants to ensure that a failure of a switch on one floor does not affect users on other floors. Which physical topology should the company implement?
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15application · medium
A security analyst is investigating a suspicious connection from a workstation to an external IP address on TCP port 445. The analyst wants to determine which process on the workstation is responsible for the connection. Which command should the analyst use?
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Questions 11–15

Which tool is used to display the route that packets take to reach a destination, showing each hop along the path?

Which network topology provides the highest level of redundancy because every device is connected to every other device?

A company allows employees to work from home. Remote employees connect to the corporate network using a VPN client. The VPN uses IPsec with pre-shared keys. The security team is concerned about the security of the VPN connections. Which change would most improve the security of remote access?

A company is designing a network for a new office building. The building has three floors, and each floor has a wiring closet. The company wants to ensure that a failure of a switch on one floor does not affect users on other floors. Which physical topology should the company implement?

A security analyst is investigating a suspicious connection from a workstation to an external IP address on TCP port 445. The analyst wants to determine which process on the workstation is responsible for the connection. Which command should the analyst use?

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