October 29, 2010, 7:52 AM PDT
Takeaway: Do you know the difference between ping and traceroute? Take this short quiz and test your knowledge of command-line networking utilities.
From ping to traceroute, command-line network troubleshooting tools, can be an admin’s best friend. But, how much do you really know about the different tools? Take this short quiz and test your knowledge.
Note: Unfortunately, our poll tool, which I use to create each pop quiz, doesn’t let me indicate a correct answer after each question. To keep from giving away the answers before everyone has a chance to test his/her knowledge, and ruining all the fun, I’ve published the answers on the second page of this blog post. I encourage everyone to answer all the questions before looking at the second page.
Which of the following tools is designed to test connectivity between two systems by sending an ICMP echo request and waiting for an ICMP echo response?
Which of the following tools provides a list of network hops between two systems?
Which of the following Linux/UNIX command-line tools combines the features of both ping and traceroute?
Which of the following switches would you use with the netstat command to view a system's routing table?
Which of the following switches would you use with the netstat command to view a system's protocol statistics?
Which of the following tools would you use to display the TCP/IP configuration for the installed NICs on a Windows system?
Which of the following tools would you use to display the TCP/IP configuration for the installed NICs on a Linux/UNIX system?
Entering the nslookup command and a server name returns which of the following?
Which of the following Linux/UNIX commands can be used to determine a remote system's host name from its IP address?
Which of the following tools would you use to review and modify a host's address resolution protocol table?
Answers are on the next page »
