CST3607 Class Notes 2022-05-24

News & Tools

• Test TCP utility (TTCP) is used to measure TCP throughput through an IP path. This utility is effective in determining the actual bit rate of a particular WAN or modem connection. This feature is also used to test the connection speed between any two devices with IP connectivity between them.
• Configure ACL (Access-list) in Cisco packet tracer

Spring 2022 Final Exam is Tues., May 24 at 8pm

(Note: This outline of the final exam may change, so check regularly for updates.)

Make sure you can correctly answer all of the Review Questions from each Chapter!

The final exam includes, but is not limited, to the following:

Chapter 13: Security

Make sure you can correctly answer all of the Review Questions at the end of this Chapter!

Network Security Threats

• What are four primary threats to network security you must be familiar with?
• Define the type of attacker.

Three Primary Network Attacks

• What are the three (3) categories network attacks fall into?

Security Program Elements

• What are the three key elements a security program must cover?

Layer 2 Security Features

• What are some of the Access Layer functions?
• What are the eight Layer 2 Security methods?

Authentication Methods

• What are the five (5) Authentication Methods?

External Authentication Options

• What are the two (2) most popular options for external AAA?
• Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA)
• TACACS+
• RADIUS

Managing User Accounts

Security Password Policy Elements

• Password Management
• Single Sign-On
  • LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)
  • DAP (Directory Access Protocol)
  • X.500
  • Single Logout
• Security Certificates
• Break-Glass Admin account

User-Authentication Methods

• IEEE 802.1x standard allows you to implement identity-based networking on wired and wireless hosts by using client-server access control. What are the three roles?

Setting Passwords

Chapter 14: First Hop Redundancy Protocol (HSRP)

• Client Redundancy Issues
• Proxy Address Resolution Protocol (Proxy ARP)
• First hop redundancy protocols (FHRPs)

Chapter 17: Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

Make sure you can correctly answer all of the Review Questions at the end of this Chapter!

• Advantages IPv6 has over IPv4
• Transition from IPv4 to IPv6 (What are the 3 strategies?)
• What are the three categories / transmission types of IPv6 addresses and how do they work?
• What are the types of IPv6 addresses?
  • Which types of IPv6 addresses can’t be routed at all, not even within your organization/LAN?
• Define and use IPv6 Zero Omission Rule 1 and Rule 2
• StateLess Automatic Address Configuration (SLAAC)
  • Converting a MAC address to EUI-64 in IPv6
    • Inserting 0xFF:FE into a MAC address
    • Flipping the 7th binary bit
    • Both steps are used to create a 64-bit EUI-64 interface identifier.
• What is the Cisco IOS command to enable IPv6 on a Cisco router?
• OSPFv3
  • What is the command to configure OSPFv3 on a router?
    • In global configuration mode?
    • In interface configuration mode?
• RS (Router Solicitation)
  • What is the all-routers multicast address?
  • What is the all-hosts multicast address?

Chapter 18: Troubleshooting IP, IPv6, and VLANs

Make sure you can correctly answer all of the Review Questions at the end of this Chapter!

Network Fundamentals

• Identify interface and cable issues (collisions, errors, mismatch duplex, and/or speed)
• Configure and verify IPv4 addressing and subnetting
• Configure and verify IPv6 addressing and prefix
• Verify IP parameters for Client OS (Windows, MacOS, Linux)

Network Access

• Configure and verify interswitch connectivity
  • Trunk ports
  • 802.1Q
  • Native VLAN
• DTP (Dynamic Trunk Protocol)

Cisco IOS Diagnostic Commands

• show ip interface brief
  • What would the “status” and “protocol” columns display if an interface was not enabled?
  • What would the “status” and “protocol” columns display when an interface is “shutdown?”
  • What would the “status” and “protocol” columns display if an Ethernet interface is enabled, and configured, but the other end of the connection was shutdown?
  • What would the “status” and “protocol” columns display if a Serial interface is enabled, and configured, but the other end of the connection was shutdown?
  • What would the “status” and “protocol” columns display if an interface is enabled, and configured, but the interface was not connected to another device?
  • What would the “status” and “protocol” columns display for a Serial DCE interface, where the clock rate was not set or was zero?

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