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Posted by Phildefer on November 1, 2007, 2:04 pm
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> I failed my CCNA by 10 points yesterday and am going to take it again next
> Monday (before this exam expires). There was one particular question on the
> test that is driving me nuts and I can't seem to find the answer, if anyone
> can help, I'd appreciate it. The question was a multi-question multiple
> choice scenario with simulated CLI. I had console access to 1 switch of about
> 6 on a switched network (with a couple of routers thrown in for good measure)
> So from this one switch, I needed to execute dubug or sho commands to provide
> the answers to the questions. The one that hung me up was "which switch is
> the root bridge?" To the best of my recollection, I only had host names for
> the switches to identify them. I know I can find the MAC of the root by doing
> a "show spanning-tree" - but how can I identify the host name by MAC or the
> root bridge by name? Anyone? Thanks!
Hi, I failed the exam twice (809 and 821 scores) and I got the same
question twice, but I couldn't figure out the answer either. I think
it might have something to do with IP ARP, e.g. "show ip arp | (mac
address)".
That's a dirty one...
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