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Ethernet Switching And Spanning Tree
Practise identifying common networking hardware like routers, switches, access points, and their roles in a network.
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What to know about Ethernet Switching And Spanning Tree
Tests identification, purpose, and configuration of routers, switches, access points, and patch panels.
Identify routers, switches, and access points by function
Understand PoE and PoE+ power requirements
Differentiate managed vs unmanaged switches
Recognize cable types: Cat5e, Cat6, fiber
Why learners struggle
Why Ethernet Switching And Spanning Tree questions are commonly missed
Common Networking Hardware questions are often missed because learners confuse device functions and port types. The exam tests specific hardware features like PoE and managed switching that are easy to mix up.
- ·Router vs switch — routing vs switching function
- ·PoE vs PoE+ — power budget differences
- ·Managed vs unmanaged — configuration capability
- ·Access point vs router — wireless vs routing
- ·Patch panel vs switch — termination vs active
- ·Cat5e vs Cat6 — speed and frequency limits
Watch out for
Common Ethernet Switching And Spanning Tree exam traps
- ▸Confusing a switch with a router on the exam
- ▸Thinking all switches support PoE by default
- ▸Mixing up patch panel and switch roles
- ▸Assuming fiber requires the same connectors as copper
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All Ethernet Switching And Spanning Tree questions (42)
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You are troubleshooting MAC address learning on an EX Series switch and want to display dynamic MAC entries learned specifically on interface ge-0/0/5. Which operational command should you use?
Easy2You are configuring private VLANs (PVLANs) on a Juniper EX switch to isolate customer ports from one another while sharing a common gateway. Which VLAN type is configured to allow communication only with promiscuous ports?
Easy3You are troubleshooting a Q-in-Q tunneling implementation on an MX Series router where customer VLAN tags are being stripped instead of preserved across the service provider core. Under which configuration hierarchy should the 'vlan-tagging' and 'pop-pop' or 'push' actions be applied on the interface?
Medium4You are configuring MACsec (Media Access Control Security) on an EX Series switch interface to secure Layer 2 links between two enterprise buildings. Which requirement is mandatory for MACsec to establish a secure session successfully between the two switches?
Medium5You want to configure voice VLAN functionality on a Juniper EX switch so that IP phones automatically place voice traffic into VLAN 50 while passing PC data through unchanged. Which feature should you configure?
Easy6You are configuring Ethernet switching on an EX4300 switch and need to implement storm control to prevent broadcast, multicast, and unknown unicast traffic from overwhelming access links. Where is storm-control applied in the Junos configuration hierarchy?
Medium7An enterprise network operates VSTP across 150 VLANs. The network engineering team notices high CPU utilization on the Routing Engine due to VSTP BPDU processing. Which Junos command or feature can mitigate this control-plane load while keeping VSTP operational?
Hard8Which TWO operational commands are valid for troubleshooting VSTP on Juniper EX switches? (Choose two)
Easy9In a Juniper Virtual Chassis scaling deployment comprising 10 EX4600 switches, how are control and management planes structured across member switches to maintain high availability and failover resilience?
Hard10An administrator needs to verify the operational state of an MSTP instance named 'MSTI-1' on an EX Series switch, including its designated root and regional parameters. Which operational command should be executed?
Easy11You are configuring MAC limiting on an EX Series switch interface to restrict the maximum number of learned MAC addresses to 10. What happens when the 11th unique MAC address attempts to communicate through the interface?
Medium12Which THREE features or protocols are used in Juniper enterprise switching environments to prevent Layer 2 bridging loops while avoiding traditional Spanning Tree blocking ports? (Choose three)
Hard13In a Juniper Q-in-Q deployment, customer frames are received with an EtherType of 0x8100 (IEEE 802.1Q). The service provider network uses a custom provider EtherType of 0x9100 for outer tags. Where and how is this custom EtherType configured on an MX Series router?
Hard14An administrator implements MSTP (Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol) in a large data center using Juniper switches. Region boundaries must be maintained strictly. Which three parameters must match identically across all switches for them to be considered part of the same MST region?
Hard15Which TWO parameters are part of the standard MSTP configuration digest computed across switches in an MST region? (Choose two)
Medium16Which TWO actions can be triggered when a MAC address limit is exceeded on a Juniper switch interface configured with MAC limiting? (Choose two)
Medium17An engineer is deploying VSTP on a Juniper EX Series network. Which THREE characteristics or limitations of VSTP should be considered during the design phase? (Choose three)
Medium18Which TWO statements describe the behavior of VSTP (VLAN Spanning Tree Protocol) on Juniper EX Series switches? (Choose two)
Medium19When configuring advanced Layer 2 tunneling (Q-in-Q) on Juniper EX Series switches, which THREE statements are correct regarding VLAN stacking behavior and limitations? (Choose three)
Hard20You are troubleshooting a switching loop issue in an enterprise core utilizing MSTP. You run 'show mstp interface' and notice that a specific port is stuck in the discarding state for MSTI 1. Which command should you run to verify if root guard has been triggered on this port?
Medium21An administrator wants to configure MSTP on Juniper switches and needs to assign VLANs 10 through 50 to MST Instance 2. Which configuration command hierarchy is correct in Junos?
Medium22An enterprise network engineer is designing a redundant Layer 2 topology with MSTP across Juniper EX switches. Two switches have identical bridge priorities and MAC addresses that result in a tie for regional root. How does MSTP deterministically break the tie to select the regional root bridge?
Hard23You are configuring VSTP (VLAN Spanning Tree Protocol) on Juniper EX switches to interoperate with legacy third-party switches running PVST+. Which operational command allows you to verify the VSTP bridge identifier and root bridge status per VLAN?
Easy24When designing advanced enterprise campus VLAN architectures with Juniper EX Series switches, which TWO considerations are critical for large-scale Layer 2 domains? (Choose two)
Hard25Which TWO security features can be configured on Juniper EX switches to prevent DHCP spoofing and ARP poisoning attacks on Layer 2 access ports? (Choose two)
Easy26An engineer is configuring QinQ (802.1ad) tunneling on a Juniper EX Series switch to transport customer VLANs across a service provider core. The customer-facing access port receives tagged frames with outer VLAN ID 100 and inner VLAN ID 200. Which configuration statement correctly defines the interface encapsulation and VLAN mapping?
Medium27You are configuring Q-in-Q tunneling on an MX Series router where customer frames arrive with VLAN tag 100, and you need to encapsulate them with a service provider outer VLAN tag 3000 using 'vlan-map'. Where is the VLAN map applied?
Medium28An enterprise network uses Q-in-Q tunneling over an MX Series provider network. Customer BPDUs must pass transparently across the provider core without being processed by the provider's own VSTP/MSTP instances. Which feature must be enabled on the provider switch access ports to achieve this?
Hard29When configuring advanced Q-in-Q tunneling on Juniper MX Series routers, which THREE encapsulation or tagging parameters must be correctly aligned between the customer edge and provider edge interfaces? (Choose three)
Hard30An engineer is configuring a QinQ tunnel where the service provider bridge needs to transparently carry customer control traffic (like STP BPDUs) through the core without processing them. What feature must be enabled on the provider edge access ports?
Easy31Which THREE mechanisms are provided by Juniper switches running MSTP to protect against bridging loops caused by unidirectional link failures or misbehaving switches? (Choose three)
Hard32When configuring advanced VLAN mapping on a Juniper MX Series router using flexible VLAN tagging, which term describes the action of replacing an incoming inner VLAN tag with a new tag before forwarding into the provider core?
Easy33An enterprise network running VSTP (VLAN Spanning Tree Protocol) across Juniper EX Series switches experiences unexpected loops because a newly added switch does not participate in VSTP for VLAN 50. Upon investigation, you discover the VSTP BPDU multicast destination MAC address is being dropped by a third-party non-Juniper intermediate switch. What is the standard VSTP MAC address used for BPDU transmission?
Hard34When designing a high-scale enterprise campus network using Juniper EX Series switches, which THREE best practices should be followed for Spanning Tree Protocol design? (Choose three)
Hard35An administrator needs to enable BPDU protection on edge access ports in a VSTP environment to prevent loops caused by unauthorized switches. Which command under 'protocols vstp' accomplishes this globally or per-interface?
Easy36Which TWO configuration statements are required when setting up an MSTP region on a Juniper EX Series switch? (Choose two)
Medium37An enterprise network runs MSTP across an EX Series core. An administrator wants to ensure that a specific core port never becomes the root port for any MSTI, protecting the upstream core path. Which command achieves this?
Hard38An engineer is troubleshooting a large-scale enterprise network with multiple MSTP regions connected by a legacy RSTP region. How do boundary switches running MSTP interact with RSTP switches on shared segments?
Hard39An enterprise network engineer needs to configure a trunk port on a Juniper EX Series switch running Junos OS to allow multiple VLANs while explicitly blocking VLAN 99. Which configuration statement under 'interfaces ge-0/0/1 unit 0 family ethernet-switching' correctly achieves this?
Easy40You are designing an enterprise network running Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) across multiple data center switches. To ensure that switches belong to the same MST region, which three parameters must match identically across all switches in that region?
Easy41You are configuring selective Q-in-Q stacking on an MX Series router. Unlike standard Q-in-Q where all customer VLANs are encapsulated into a single provider VLAN, selective Q-in-Q allows you to map specific customer VLAN ranges to different provider VLANs. Which configuration element enables this granularity?
Medium42You need to design a scalable Layer 2 architecture across multiple data center buildings using Juniper switches, avoiding single points of failure while preventing bridging loops. Which scaling mechanism allows Active-Active multihoming without running Spanning Tree Protocol across the core?
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