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How to approach show command output questions

These questions present the output of IOS show commands — show ip route, show interfaces, show ip ospf neighbor, show vlan brief — and ask you to interpret what they reveal about the network state. Reading IOS output accurately is one of the highest-value skills on the CCNA.

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Question 1mediummultiple choice
Study the full ACL explanation →

A network engineer is troubleshooting a connectivity issue between two routers R1 and R2 connected via GigabitEthernet0/0. The engineer notices that R1 can ping its own IPv6 address 2001:db8:1::1/64, but cannot ping R2's interface address 2001:db8:1::2/64. The output of 'show ipv6 interface GigabitEthernet0/0' on R1 indicates that IPv6 is enabled and the interface is up/up. The engineer checks the access list applied to the interface and sees an inbound IPv6 ACL that permits only ICMPv6 echo requests from a specific source. What is the most likely cause of the ping failure?

Question 2hardmultiple choice
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A dual-stack network uses BGP for IPv6 between AS 100 and AS 200. Router R1 (AS 100) has an inbound route-map that sets local preference to 200 for routes from R2 (AS 200). R1 also has an IPv6 ACL applied inbound that permits only BGP (TCP 179) and denies ICMPv6. R2 advertises a prefix 2001:db8:1::/48. R1's BGP table shows the prefix with local preference 200, but 'show ipv6 route' does not install it. R1 has uRPF strict mode on the interface facing R2. What is the root cause?

Question 3hardmultiple choice
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An OSPFv3 network has multiple areas. Area 0 includes R1 and R2. Area 1 includes R2 and R3. R2 is an ABR. R1 has an IPv6 ACL applied inbound on the interface to R2 that permits only OSPFv3 and denies all other traffic. R3 advertises a prefix 2001:db8:3::/48 into Area 1. R1's routing table shows the prefix but with a next-hop of R2. R1's uRPF is configured in strict mode on the interface to R2. Traffic from R1 to 2001:db8:3::1 is dropped. R1 shows 'show ipv6 cef 2001:db8:3::/48' points to R2's link-local address. What is the root cause?

Question 4easymultiple choice
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A network engineer runs the following command to verify DHCPv4 server bindings on router R1:

R1# show ip dhcp binding

Output: Bindings from all pools not associated with VRF:

IP address       Client-ID/              Lease expiration        Type

Hardware address/ User name

192.168.1.10     0050.7966.6800           Mar 01 2025 12:00 PM   Automatic
 192.168.1.11     0063.6973.636f.2d30      Mar 01 2025 01:00 PM   Automatic
 192.168.1.12     0100.1a.2b.3c.4d.5e     Mar 01 2025 02:00 PM   Automatic

What does this output indicate?

Question 5mediummultiple choice
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A network engineer runs the following command to troubleshoot DHCPv6 address assignment on router R1:

R1# show ipv6 dhcp binding

Output: Client: FE80::21A:2BFF:FE3C:4D01 DUID: 0003000121A2B3C4D5E6

Username: unassigned

VRF: default IA NA: IA ID 0x00040001, T1 302400, T2 483840 Address: 2001:DB8:1::100 Preferred lifetime 604800, valid lifetime 2592000 Expires at Mar 01 2025 12:00 PM (2592000 seconds) IA PD: IA ID 0x00040002, T1 302400, T2 483840 Prefix: 2001:DB8:1::/48 Preferred lifetime 604800, valid lifetime 2592000 Expires at Mar 01 2025 12:00 PM (2592000 seconds)

What does this output indicate?

Question 6mediummultiple choice
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A network engineer runs the following command to verify DHCPv4 server statistics on router R1:

R1# show ip dhcp server statistics

Output: Memory usage: 12345 Address pools: 2 Database agents: 0 Automatic bindings: 150 Manual bindings: 5 Expired bindings: 10 Malformed messages: 0

Message Received

BOOTREQUEST    0

DHCPDISCOVER 200 DHCPREQUEST 180 DHCPDECLINE 2 DHCPRELEASE 5 DHCPINFORM 10

What does this output indicate?

Question 7hardmultiple choice
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An enterprise uses EIGRP for IPv6 with route redistribution from a static route. R1 has a static route 2001:db8:0::/32 via Null0 redistributed into EIGRP. R2 receives this route and has a more specific route 2001:db8:1::/32 via a different interface. R2 has an IPv6 ACL applied inbound on the interface facing R1 that permits only EIGRP and denies all other traffic. R2's uRPF is configured in loose mode. Traffic from R2 to 2001:db8:2::1 fails. R2 shows 'show ipv6 route' has both routes, but 'show ipv6 cef' shows the summary route for 2001:db8:2::1 pointing to R1. What is the root cause?

Question 8hardmultiple choice
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A dual-stack network uses BGP for IPv6 between two ISPs. R1 (AS 100) receives a full BGP table from R2 (AS 200). R1 has an IPv6 ACL applied inbound on the interface to R2 that permits only BGP (TCP 179) and denies all other traffic. R1 also has uRPF configured in strict mode on the same interface. R1's BGP table has a route to 2001:db8:1::/48 with next-hop 2001:db8:2::2. R1's routing table shows the route, but traffic from R1 to 2001:db8:1::1 fails. R1 shows 'show ipv6 cef 2001:db8:1::/48' points to 2001:db8:2::2 via the interface to R2. What is the root cause?

Question 9mediummultiple choice
Study the full IPv6 explanation →

A network engineer runs the following command to troubleshoot an IPv6 traffic filtering issue:

R1# show ipv6 access-list FILTER

IPv6 access list FILTER

permit ipv6 2001:DB8:1::/48 any sequence 10
    deny ipv6 2001:DB8:2::/48 any sequence

20

permit ipv6 any any sequence 30

What does this output indicate?

Question 10mediummultiple choice
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A network engineer runs the following command to verify IPv6 uRPF operation:

R1# show ipv6 interface GigabitEthernet0/0 | include verify

IPv6 verify source: strict

What does this output indicate?

Question 11mediummultiple choice
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A network engineer runs the following command to verify IPv6 uRPF drops:

R1# show ipv6 traffic | include verify

0 verify source drops, 0 verify source suppressed drops

What does this output indicate?

Question 12mediummultiple choice
Study the full IPv6 explanation →

A network engineer runs the following command to verify IPv6 access-list hits:

R1# show ipv6 access-list FILTER | include matches
    permit ipv6 2001:DB8:1::/48 any sequence 10 (10 matches)
    deny ipv6 2001:DB8:2::/48 any sequence 20 (5 matches)
    permit ipv6 any any sequence 30 (100 matches)

What does this output indicate?

Question 13mediummultiple choice
Study the full IPv6 explanation →

A network engineer runs the following command to verify IPv6 uRPF on an interface:

R1# show ipv6 interface GigabitEthernet0/0 | include verify|suppress

IPv6 verify source: strict IPv6 verify source suppress: disabled

What does this output indicate?

Question 14easymultiple choice
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A network engineer runs the following command to verify DHCPv4 pool configuration on router R1:

R1# show ip dhcp pool DHCP_POOL

Output: Pool DHCP_POOL : Utilization mark (high/low) : 100 / 0 Subnet size (first/next) : 0 / 0 Total addresses : 254 Leased addresses : 100 Pending event : none 1 subnet is currently in the pool : Current index IP address range Leased addresses

192.168.1.1          192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.254         100

What does this output indicate?

Question 15mediummultiple choice
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A network engineer runs the following command to verify DHCPv6 pool configuration on router R1:

R1# show ipv6 dhcp pool

Output: Pool DHCPv6_POOL : Prefix number: 1 Prefix: 2001:DB8:1::/48 Preferred lifetime 604800, valid lifetime 2592000 Expires at Mar 01 2025 12:00 PM (2592000 seconds) DNS server: 2001:DB8::1 Domain name: example.com Active clients: 5

What does this output indicate?

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