City Guilds Model Questions Vol1 2023 Information Technology Question 22

Practice objective / multiple choice question 22 from the 2023 City Guilds Model Questions Vol1 Information Technology examination.

City Guilds Model Questions Vol1 2023 Information Technology Objective / Multiple Choice Hard Difficulty
Question 22 CITY_GUILDS_MODEL_QUESTIONS_VOL1 • 2023 • INFORMATION_TECHNOLOGY • objective

A user cannot open the website www.example.com. The following diagnostics are recorded: - Ping to 8.8.8.8: average 32 ms, 0 % packet loss. - Ping to the website's IP (93.184.216.34): average 150 ms, 20 % packet loss. - nslookup of www.example.com returns the IP 93.184.216.34. - Traceroute to the website shows a delay of 200 ms at hop 3. The network firewall blocks TCP port 80 for any MAC address not listed in its allowed‑MAC table, and the user's MAC address is currently absent from that list. Assuming each remedial step (adding the MAC address to the firewall, clearing the DNS cache, and restarting the NIC) takes exactly 2 minutes, identify the most probable cause of the problem and calculate the minimum total time required to restore access.

Answer Options

A. DNS cache issue; 4 minutes
B. Incorrect IP address; 6 minutes
C. Network latency; 2 minutes
Correct Answer D. Firewall MAC‑address block; 6 minutes
Correct Answer
D
Correct Option:
Firewall MAC‑address block; 6 minutes

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This is City Guilds Model Questions Vol1 2023 Information Technology Question 22. It is one of the objective questions from the 2023 City Guilds Model Questions Vol1 Information Technology examination.

Difficulty level: Hard .

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