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Cisco 642-785 Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Traffic Policing and Shaping | 20% | - Policing concepts and configuration - Shaping mechanisms and operation - Congestion management and avoidance |
| QoS in MPLS and Service Provider Environments | 15% | - SLAs and QoS policy maintenance - QoS for Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN services - End-to-end QoS across MPLS networks |
| Monitoring and Troubleshooting QoS | 20% | - Verifying QoS policies on IOS and IOS XR - Troubleshooting classification and marking issues - Analyzing queuing and congestion problems |
| Queuing and Scheduling Mechanisms | 25% | - Modular QoS CLI (MQC) implementation - Class-Based Weighted Fair Queuing (CBWFQ) - Low Latency Queuing (LLQ) |
| QoS Fundamentals in Service Provider Networks | 20% | - Classification and marking mechanisms - DiffServ, IntServ, and MPLS QoS integration - Quality of Service models and architectures |
Cisco 642-785 Exam: Questions Before You Commit
The Cisco Maintaining Cisco Service Provider Quality of Service (MSPQS) blueprint is divided into 5 domains, headlined by QoS Fundamentals in Service Provider Networks (20%), Queuing and Scheduling Mechanisms (25%), and Monitoring and Troubleshooting QoS (20%). The full weighted outline is in the syllabus section above — our materials are revised against it, and your study hours should follow it too.
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The 642-785 exam — full name Maintaining Cisco Service Provider Quality of Service (MSPQS) — is Cisco's certification exam for professionals working with its technologies; passing it awards the CCNP Service Provider Operations certification, a credential at the Professional level. It is the kind of vendor-issued proof employers can compare across candidates, which is exactly why it stays in demand. It also leads naturally toward CCIP, CCNP Service Provider.
Cisco Maintaining Cisco Service Provider Quality of Service (MSPQS) Sample Questions:
Which tool is best suited to provide incident management or trouble ticketing?
- A. CiscoWorks
- B. Voyence
- C. Tivoli
- D. Intelliden
- E. Remedy
Correct Answer: E 🗳️
Which two statements about IP SLA are correct? (Choose two.)
- A. IP SLA uses NBAR to provide the reporting engine for statistics that it collects.
- B. IOS IP SLA uses active traffic monitoring which allows users to analyze service levels for IP applications.
- C. Cisco IOS IP SLA can be used to help detail billing information for each defined class of service.
- D. IOS IP SLA is a traffic monitoring mechanism that gathers statistics about traffic based on packet headers and fields.
- E. Cisco IOS IP SLA is Layer 2 transport independent.
Correct Answer: B,E 🗳️
Which three issues are important challenges for monitoring service quality in the SP core network? (Choose three.)
- A. Multiple flows compete for a limited amount of bandwidth.
- B. Packets may have to be dropped when a link is congested.
- C. Traffic flows are continuously high.
- D. Relatively few tools are available for collecting service quality data.
- E. Packets have to traverse many network devices and links that add up to the overall delay.
Correct Answer: A,B,E 🗳️
Which Cisco IOS command will show a summary of probes?
- A. show ip sla monitors
- B. show ip sla responder
- C. show ip sla statistics
- D. show ip sla configuration
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
Which two items can be obtained from the CISCO-NETFLOW-MIB? (Choose two.)
- A. CEF tables
- B. protocol statistics
- C. cache configuration
- D. buffer hits
- E. signal-to-noise ratio
Correct Answer: B,C 🗳️







