Networking Questions and Answers for Interview

141. What is a Routed Protocol?
A Routed Protocol carries data from one network to another network. Routed Protocol carries user traffic such as file transfers, web traffic, e-mails etc.

142. What is Routing Protocol?
Routing Protocols learn the routes and provide the best routes from one network to another network. Example - RIP (Routing Information Protocol) , EIGRP (Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol) and OSPF (Open Shortest Path First).

143. What is Hop Count?
Hop count is the number of routers from the source through which data must pass to reach the destination network.

144. What is CDP?
Cisco Discovery Protocol is a CISCO proprietary protocol to help administrators in collecting information about both locally attached and remote devices.