Chapter Review Questions
| 1: | What is a protocol? |
| 2: | What is a bridge loop? |
| 3: | What is purpose of the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)? |
| 4: | What is a BPDU? |
| 5: | What are the STP states? Which state can only be manually configured? |
| 6: | What is the difference between a blocked port and a disabled port? |
| 7: | What is the starting point for the Spanning Tree Protocol called? |
| 8: | What two components make up the bridge identifier, how long is the bridge identifier, and how is the bridge identifier used? |
| 9: | From the time it is powered up, how long does it take a switch to enter the forwarding state and begin forwarding LAN traffic? |
| 10: | What is convergence? |
| 11: | What does the Spanning Tree Protocol do when a new bridge is added to the network? |
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