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Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) 200-301 Practice Test 57

Question 560

At a stadium, a network operations engineer is interpreting IOS syslog severity level 1 for an alert routing policy. Which number-to-severity mapping is correct?

  1. 1 — critical
  2. 2 — alerts
  3. 1 — alerts
  4. 6 — alerts

Explanation

Correct Answer

C:

Syslog severity 1 represents alerts; numerically lower severity values are more urgent. This mapping helps determine whether a configured logging threshold includes the message.

Incorrect Answers

A:

This severity label is assigned to level 2, not level 1. Using a wrong label can mis-prioritize event responses.

B:

This applies an incorrect severity number to alerts; syslog uses standard 0-through-7 severity numbering.

D:

This number/label pairing does not match the syslog severity table; verify the actual level 1 before configuring logging traps.

Question 561

At a retail branch, the migration lead is interpreting IOS syslog severity level 2 for an alert routing policy. Which number-to-severity mapping is correct?

  1. 2 — critical
  2. 5 — critical
  3. 2 — errors
  4. 3 — critical

Explanation

Correct Answer

A:

Syslog severity 2 represents critical; numerically lower severity values are more urgent. This mapping helps determine whether a configured logging threshold includes the message.

Incorrect Answers

B:

This number/label pairing does not match the syslog severity table; verify the actual level 2 before configuring logging traps.

C:

This severity label is assigned to level 3, not level 2. Using a wrong label can mis-prioritize event responses.

D:

This applies an incorrect severity number to critical; syslog uses standard 0-through-7 severity numbering.

Question 562

At a logistics provider, the infrastructure lead is interpreting IOS syslog severity level 3 for an alert routing policy. Which number-to-severity mapping is correct?

  1. 3 — warnings
  2. 3 — errors
  3. 3 — notifications
  4. 4 — errors

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

Syslog severity 3 represents errors; numerically lower severity values are more urgent. This mapping helps determine whether a configured logging threshold includes the message.

Incorrect Answers

A:

This severity label is assigned to level 4, not level 3. Using a wrong label can mis-prioritize event responses.

C:

This number/label pairing does not match the syslog severity table; verify the actual level 3 before configuring logging traps.

D:

This applies an incorrect severity number to errors; syslog uses standard 0-through-7 severity numbering.

Question 563

An IOS device is configured to send syslog messages of severity 4 and higher importance to a remote collector. Which severity numbers are included?

  1. Levels 0 through 4, because numerically lower levels indicate more severe events.
  2. Only numerical levels 4 through 7.
  3. Only level 4, never the more severe levels.
  4. Only the log entry containing the word warning.

Explanation

Correct Answer

A:

Syslog level 0 is emergencies, 1 alerts, 2 critical, 3 errors, and 4 warnings. A level-4 threshold includes events at 4 or more severe.

Incorrect Answers

B:

Numbers 5–7 represent less severe notices, informational and debugging events, and fall outside a warnings-or-higher threshold.

C:

Typical threshold configuration includes messages at the selected level and all more severe lower-numbered levels.

D:

Severity is a structured numeric priority, not merely a keyword match in the message text.

Question 564

A router stores buffered logs locally, but operations need messages delivered to a central syslog receiver. Which configuration direction addresses the requirement?

  1. Increase logging buffered size without configuring a destination.
  2. Use show logging only on the router and assume the collector receives it.
  3. Disable all logging severity levels below 7.
  4. Configure a reachable logging host and appropriate trap severity for remote messages.

Explanation

Correct Answer

D:

Local buffered logging keeps logs on the device; a remote syslog destination and level settings send records to the collector. Verify network reachability and timestamps.

Incorrect Answers

A:

More local buffer capacity does not transmit events to a remote receiver.

B:

A show command displays existing logs but does not configure remote syslog transport.

C:

Suppressing messages would undermine central collection rather than establish a remote destination.

Question 565

An alert policy treats syslog severity 0 as more urgent than severity 3. Why is that correct?

  1. Syslog uses smaller numeric levels for greater severity: 0 emergencies, 3 errors.
  2. Severity numbers rank from 0 debugging to 7 emergency.
  3. Severity 3 always means the interface has been administratively shut down.
  4. Severity 0 denotes only successful user logins.

Explanation

Correct Answer

A:

The standard severity numbering is inverse to urgency: emergencies are the most severe; errors have lower priority. Thresholds must account for that order.

Incorrect Answers

B:

That reverses the syslog severity mapping; 7 is debugging.

C:

Severity is a class of message urgency, not a unique event type or interface state.

D:

Login success is not the syslog emergencies level, which indicates an unusable system or comparable critical condition.

Question 566

At a university, the campus network lead is interpreting IOS syslog severity level 7 for an alert routing policy. Which number-to-severity mapping is correct?

  1. 7 — emergencies
  2. 7 — debugging
  3. 0 — debugging
  4. 7 — alerts

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

Syslog severity 7 represents debugging; numerically lower severity values are more urgent. This mapping helps determine whether a configured logging threshold includes the message.

Incorrect Answers

A:

This severity label is assigned to level 0, not level 7. Using a wrong label can mis-prioritize event responses.

C:

This applies an incorrect severity number to debugging; syslog uses standard 0-through-7 severity numbering.

D:

This number/label pairing does not match the syslog severity table; verify the actual level 7 before configuring logging traps.

Question 567

At a regional office, the on-call technician has DHCP clients on GigabitEthernet0/1 but DHCP server 10.99.13.84 is in another subnet. Which IOS interface configuration relays broadcasts to that server?

  1. interface GigabitEthernet0/1 ; switchport trunk native vlan 1
  2. interface GigabitEthernet0/1 ; ip route 10.99.13.84 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0
  3. interface GigabitEthernet0/1 ; ip dhcp excluded-address 10.99.13.84
  4. interface GigabitEthernet0/1 ; ip helper-address 10.99.13.84

Explanation

Correct Answer

D:

ip helper-address 10.99.13.84 on the client-facing Layer 3 interface forwards supported UDP broadcasts, including DHCP discovery, to the off-subnet server.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Native VLAN settings control untagged 802.1Q classification, not DHCP relay across an IP subnet.

B:

A static route is not a DHCP relay agent; the broadcast request must be forwarded to the server through relay logic.

C:

Excluded addresses are configured for local DHCP pool allocation and do not relay client broadcasts to 10.99.13.84.

Question 568

At a media studio, a network operations engineer connects a routed WAN interface to an ISP that dynamically assigns the router interface IPv4 address via DHCP. What behavior must be configured?

  1. Assign the DHCP server an OSPF priority as the client lease.
  2. Use ip helper-address on the WAN interface as the only means of acquiring its own lease.
  3. Enable DHCP client mode on the WAN-facing interface to obtain address parameters from upstream.
  4. Configure `ip helper-address` on the WAN interface and assume this makes the router itself a DHCP client.

Explanation

Correct Answer

C:

A routed interface acting as a DHCP client requests its own address, mask and gateway details from an upstream DHCP service.

Incorrect Answers

A:

OSPF priority affects DR eligibility and cannot assign client IPv4 parameters.

B:

ip helper-address relays other hosts broadcasts to server 10.111.183.135; it does not request a lease for the router interface itself.

D:

DHCP relay forwards requests for downstream clients; the router WAN address requires DHCP client operation on its own interface.

Question 569

At a regional office, a network administrator has a helper configured toward server 10.159.175.227, yet clients on GigabitEthernet0/0 still receive no addresses. Which evidence best isolates the relay failure?

  1. Confirm the branch can ping any unrelated internet address, without checking DHCP helper state.
  2. Change syslog message facility without examining DHCP exchange.
  3. Confirm only that 10.159.175.227 is a resolvable DNS hostname.
  4. Confirm a DHCP Discover reaches client SVI GigabitEthernet0/0, is relayed to 10.159.175.227, and the Offer/ACK can return.

Explanation

Correct Answer

D:

A DHCP relay depends on the client-facing helper, UDP path to 10.159.175.227, and server response flow. Packet and lease evidence validates both directions of the exchange.

Incorrect Answers

A:

General IP reachability can coexist with blocked DHCP-relay traffic or a bad scope.

B:

Syslog facility changes are unrelated to relay forwarding and client address allocation.

C:

A DNS entry alone does not prove UDP 67/68 broadcasts are relayed or leases granted.

Question 570

At an enterprise data center, the site engineer must place a Cisco DHCP relay for a client VLAN with off-subnet server 10.94.9.8. On which interface should the helper normally be configured?

  1. Place the DHCP relay on the remote server interface instead of the client VLAN gateway.
  2. Use a host static route as an automatic substitute for forwarding client DHCP broadcasts.
  3. Place the ip helper-address 10.94.9.8 on the interface receiving the client DHCP broadcast.
  4. Place the helper only on the remote DHCP server uplink and omit it from client gateway.

Explanation

Correct Answer

C:

The relay command belongs on the client-facing Layer 3 interface because that interface receives the broadcast and can convert it into a unicast message toward 10.94.9.8.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Client DHCP broadcasts originate on the local subnet; the gateway receiving those broadcasts is the relay point toward the server.

B:

A route enables unicast reachability but does not turn an IPv4 broadcast into a relay request.

D:

The remote server uplink does not see the original client-side broadcast across subnet boundaries.

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