Free Cisco 200-301 Practice Questions 2026 | Cisco Certified Network Associate

Drag and drop the WLAN components from the left onto the correct descriptions on the right.

An extended ACL has been configured and applied to router R2 The configuration failed to work as intended Which two changes stop outbound traffic on TCP ports 25 and 80 to 10.0.20 0 26 from the 10.0.10 0/26 subnet while still allowing all other traffic? (Choose two )

A. Add a "permit ip any any" statement to the begining of ACL 101 for allowed traffic.

B. Add a "permit ip any any" statement at the end of ACL 101 for allowed traffic

C. The source and destination IPs must be swapped in ACL 101

D. The ACL must be configured the Gi0/2 interface inbound on R1

E. The ACL must be moved to the Gi0/1 interface outbound on R2

How does HSRP provide first hop redundancy?

A. It load-balances traffic by assigning the same metric value to more than one route to the same destination m the IP routing table.

B. It load-balances Layer 2 traffic along the path by flooding traffic out all interfaces configured with the same VLAN.

C. It forwards multiple packets to the same destination over different routed links n the data path

D. It uses a shared virtual MAC and a virtual IP address to a group of routers that serve as the default gateway for hosts on a LAN

What is a function of a remote access VPN?

A. used cryptographic tunneling to protect the privacy of data for multiple users simultaneously

B. used exclusively when a user is connected to a company's internal network

C. establishes a secure tunnel between two branch sites

D. allows the users to access company internal network resources through a secure tunnel

An engineer is asked to protect unused ports that are configured in the default VLAN on a switch.
Which two steps will fulfill the request? (Choose two)

A. Configure the ports in an EtherChannel.

B. Administratively shut down the ports

C. Configure the port type as access and place in VLAN 99

D. Configure the ports as trunk ports

E. Enable the Cisco Discovery Protocol

Which two events occur automatically when a device Is added to Cisco DNA Center? (Choose two. )

A. The device Is assigned to the Global site.

B. The device Is placed into the Unmanaged state.

C. The device Is placed into the Provisioned state.

D. The device Is placed into the Managed state.

E. The device is assigned to the Local site.

What criteria is used first during the root port selection process?

A. local port ID

B. lowest path cost to the root bridge

C. lowest neighbor's bridge ID

D. lowest neighbor's port ID

What are two improvements provided by automation for network management in an SDN environment? (Choose two)

A. Data collection and analysis tools establish a baseline for the network

B. Artificial intelligence identifies and prevents potential design failures.

C. Machine learning minimizes the overall error rate when automating troubleshooting processes

D. New devices are onboarded with minimal effort

E. Proprietary Cisco APIs leverage multiple network management tools.

Why was the RFC 1918 address space defined?

A. conserve public IPv4 addressing

B. preserve public IPv6 address space

C. reduce instances of overlapping IP addresses

D. support the NAT protocol

Which two command sequences must you configure on switch to establish a Layer 3 EtherChannel with an open-standard protocol? (Choose two )

A. interface GigabitEthernet0/0/1
channel-group 10 mode on

B. interface GigabitEthernet0/0/1
channel-group 10 mode active

C. interface GigabitEthernet0/0/1
channel-group 10 mode auto

D. interface port-channel 10
switchport
switchport mode trunk

E. interface port-channel 10
no switchport
ip address 172.16.0.1.255.255.255.0