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Routing and Switching MCQs with Answers

Practice important Routing and Switching MCQs with answers and explanations.

Chapter: 131
Q1521:
What does the term "inside address" refer to in NAT terminology?
A. The address of the device being translated by NAT
B. The address of the destination device
C. A public IP address
D. An IP address used for internal routing
Correct Answer: A
Chapter: 131
Q1522:
Which of the following is NOT a solution developed to address the depletion of IPv4 addresses?
A. Subnetting
B. Classless interdomain routing (CIDR)
C. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
D. Network Address Translation (NAT)
Correct Answer: C
Chapter: 131
Q1523:
Fill in the blank: A _______ address appears on the inside portion of the network in NAT terminology.
A. Local
B. Global
C. Outside
D. Inside
Correct Answer: A
Chapter: 131
Q1524:
What happens when two intranets with duplicate addresses merge?
A. NAT helps resolve the address conflict
B. Public IPv4 addresses are reassigned
C. The network speed increases
D. The organization must renumber its network
Correct Answer: A
Chapter: 131
Q1525:
Fill in the blank: NAT allows the use of _______ addresses for internal devices while translating to public addresses when necessary.
A. Private
B. Public
C. Reserved
D. Static
Correct Answer: A
Chapter: 131
Q1526:
What does the term "global address" refer to in NAT terminology?
A. Any address that appears on the outside portion of the network
B. An address used for internal network communication
C. A private IP address
D. An address that is not routable on the Internet
Correct Answer: A
Chapter: 131
Q1527:
Fill in the blank: To connect to the Internet when hosts do not have globally unique IP addresses, you would use _______.
A. NAT (Network Address Translation)
B. IPv6
C. Subnetting
D. VLSM
Correct Answer: A
Chapter: 132
Q1528:
What type of NAT involves a one-to-one address mapping between local and global addresses?
A. Static NAT
B. Dynamic NAT
C. Port Address Translation (PAT)
D. NAT Overloading
Correct Answer: A
Chapter: 132
Q1529:
Fill in the blank: Static NAT is typically used to configure an internal server that must be accessed from the _______.
A. Inside network
B. Local network
C. Outside world
D. Internal network
Correct Answer: C
Chapter: 132
Q1530:
Which command is used to configure a static NAT mapping?
A. ip nat inside source static inside-local inside-global
B. ip nat inside source dynamic inside-local inside-global
C. ip nat outside source static inside-local inside-global
D. ip nat inside source static global-local
Correct Answer: A
Chapter: 132
Q1531:
Fill in the blank: The command to identify the inside NAT interface is _______.
A. ip nat inside
B. ip nat outside
C. ip nat inside source
D. ip nat global
Correct Answer: A
Chapter: 132
Q1532:
What does PAT (Port Address Translation) use for address mapping?
A. Many-to-one
B. One-to-one
C. Many-to-many
D. None of the above
Correct Answer: A
Chapter: 132
Q1533:
Fill in the blank: Port Address Translation (PAT) is also known as _______.
A. NAT overloading
B. Static NAT
C. Dynamic NAT
D. Address pooling
Correct Answer: A
Chapter: 132
Q1534:
Which of the following is NOT a step in configuring Static NAT?
A. Create a mapping between inside local and inside global addresses
B. Identify the inside and outside NAT interfaces
C. Configure dynamic address translation
D. Use the ip nat inside source static command
Correct Answer: C
Chapter: 132
Q1535:
Fill in the blank: The command to identify the outside NAT interface is _______.
A. ip nat outside
B. ip nat inside
C. ip nat source dynamic
D. ip nat global
Correct Answer: A
Chapter: 132
Q1536:
What is the primary purpose of Static NAT?
A. To permanently map a local address to a global address
B. To dynamically assign global addresses to internal hosts
C. To overload multiple local addresses to a single global address
D. To map many local addresses to many global addresses
Correct Answer: A
Chapter: 132
Q1537:
Fill in the blank: The configuration command ip nat inside source static is used to map an _______ local address to an inside global address.
A. Inside
B. Outside
C. Global
D. Public
Correct Answer: A
Chapter: 133
Q1538:
What does Dynamic NAT use to assign addresses?
A. A pool of public addresses
B. A single public address
C. Private addresses
D. Random addresses
Correct Answer: A
Chapter: 133
Q1539:
Fill in the blank: Dynamic NAT assigns addresses on a _______ basis.
A. First-come, first-served
B. Random
C. Fixed
D. Last-come, first-served
Correct Answer: A
Chapter: 133
Q1540:
Which command is used to define the pool of addresses for Dynamic NAT?
A. ip nat pool pool-name start-ip end-ip
B. ip nat inside source list acl-# pool pool-name
C. ip nat inside source static inside-local inside-global
D. ip nat outside source dynamic local-global
Correct Answer: A

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