Wednesday, February 2, 2011

QUESTION 7 What are two reasons a network administrator would use CDP?

QUESTION 7
What are two reasons a network administrator would use CDP? (Choose two.)

A. to verify the type of cable interconnecting two devices
B. to determine the status of network services on a remote device
C. to obtain VLAN information from directly connected switches
D. to verify Layer 2 connectivity between two devices when Layer 3 fails
E. to obtain the IP address of a connected device in order to telnet to the device
F. to determine the status of the routing protocols between directly connected routers

Answer: DE

Explanation:CDP
CDP announcements are sent every 60 seconds on interfaces that support Subnetwork Access Protocol (SNAP) headers,
including Ethernet, Frame Relay and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM).CDP works at layer 2 and all these adverts
consist of infomation about all connected devices on the network like IP address,operating system etc.

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