Q&A
The questions and scenarios in this book are designed to be challenging and to make sure that you know the answer. Rather than allowing you to derive the answers from clues hidden inside the questions themselves, the questions challenge your understanding and recall of the subject.
You can find the answers to these questions in Appendix A. For more practice with exam-like question formats, use the exam engine on the CD-ROM.
| 1. | What are some of the benefits of IPv6? |
| 2. | Describe the fields in the IPv6 packet header. |
| 3. | What is an IPv6 extension header? |
| 4. | List some differences between the IPv4 header and the IPv6 header. |
| 5. | What is the shortest way to write the IPv6 address 2001:0000:240E:0000:0000:0AC0:3428:021C? |
| 6. | Why is IPv6 multicasting more efficient than IPv4 broadcasting? |
| 7. | A device has a MAC address 00-0C-0A-28-12-1C. What is its EUI-64 bit interface ID? How could this value be used? |
| 8. | List three ways that an IPv6 host can obtain an address. |
| 9. | How is an anycast address used in a network? |
| 10. | How is the scope of a multicast address specified? |
| 11. | Hosts may respond to many IPv6 addresses on each interface. List as many as you can. |
| 12. | Along with the addresses described in the previous question, routers must respond to additional IPv6 addresses on each interface. What are they? |
| 13. | How does IPv6 support renumbering? |
| 14. | How does IPv6 support mobility? |
