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

What must a network administrator consider when deciding whether to configure a new wireless network with APs in autonomous mode or APs running in cloud-based mode?

A. Autonomous mode APs are less dependent on an underlay but more complex to maintain than APs in cloud-based mode.

B. Cloud-based mode APs relay on underlays and are more complex to maintain than APs in autonomous mode.

C. Cloud-based mode APs are easy to deploy but harder to automate than APs in autonomous mode.

D. Autonomous mode APs are easy to deploy and automate than APs in cloud-based mode.

Refer to the exhibit.

Wireless LAN access must be set up to force all clients from the NA WLAN to authenticate against the local database. The WLAN is configured for local EAP authentication. The time that users access the network must not be limited. Which action completes this configuration?

A. Uncheck the Guest User check box

B. Check the Guest User Role check box

C. Set the Lifetime (seconds) value to 0

D. Clear the Lifetime (seconds) value

Refer to the exhibit.

A network engineer must configure NETCONF. After creating the configuration, the engineer gets output from the command show line but not from show running- config. Which command completes the configuration?

A. Device(config)# netconf lock-time 500

B. Device(config)# netconf max-message 1000

C. Device(config)# no netconf ssh acl 1

D. Device(config)# netconf max-sessions 100

Which encryption method is used by WPA3?

A. PSK

B. TKIP

C. SAE

D. AES

Drag and drop the Ansible terms from the left onto the right.

Refer to the exhibit.
A network engineer must configure communication between PC A and the file server. Which commend must be configured on switch A to prevent interruption of other communications?

A. switch port trunk allowed vlan 12

B. switchport trunk allowed vlan none

C. switchport trunk allowed vlan add 13

D. switch port trunk allowed vlan remove 10-11

Drag and drop the characteristics of device-management technologies from the left onto
the corresponding deployment types on the right.

Refer to the exhibit.

Which two values does router R1 use to determine the best path to reach destinations in
network 1,0.0.0/8? (Choose two.)

A. longest prefix match

B. highest administrative distance

C. highest metric

D. lowest metric

E. lowest cost to reach the next hop

How does MAC learning function on a switch?

A. broadcasts frames to all ports without queueing

B. adds unknown source MAC addresses to the address table

C. sends a retransmission request when a new frame is received

D. sends frames with unknown destinations to a multicast group

How do TCP and UDP fit into a query-response model?

A. TCP establishes a connection prior to sending data, and UDP sends immediately.

B. TCP uses error detection for packets, and UDP uses error recovery.

C. TCP avoids using sequencing, and UDP avoids using acknowledgments.

D. TCP encourages out-of-order packet delivery, and UDP prevents re-ordering.