The answer to #1 can be found on google in seconds, and has little use outside the classroom.
#4 is too easy.
#7 is unanswerable unless you are more specific reagarding which IPSEC implementation, and even then most network engineers I know would still reach for the docs in order to provide a comprehensive list of parameters. I guess this is a good question to ask if you want to see who will BS and who will ask for the appropriate docs.
#9 indicates I know more about ciscos than the person asking the question - that's the point in the interview in which I start wondering if I should just leave, since I'll wind up having to work under someone who knows less than I do about what I'm supposed to be doing. (Hint: you're assuming something that is not necessarily true)
#10 Should be more simply "What's a netmask?". This would actually be my #1, since you can usually weed out 95% of all prospectives with this one right off the top, and it is really so simple that everyone should know it.
Personally, I'd dump #5 and replace it with "Exactly how do ping and traceroute work"?
Cheers,
-Jon
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by: SteveJPosted on 2003-11-19 at 15:08:24ID: 9783400
1. What's the "base" in 100BaseT refer to?
2. When is a duplicate ACK not really a duplicate ACK?
3. What are the states that a switch port can go through in Spanning Tree?
4. What does Cisco mean by address overloading?
5. How many DS1's in a DS3?
6. What do 2-wire and 4-wire refer to with respect to 1.544mbits/sec?
7. What are the configurable paramters with IPSEC?
8. How does HSRP work?
9. On a Cisco router, why does it take the same amount of time to ping a local serial interface as it does to ping the remote end serial interface?
10. What's the significance of the address 255.255.255.255?
Pay me in cash.
Steve