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Configuration Register Practice Questions

Extension practice: boot behavior controlled by the configuration register.

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A router boots with show version reporting a configuration register value of 0x2142. What effect does this have?

It skips startup-config and boots without the saved settings

Bit 6 of the register (0x2142) tells the router to skip reading the startup-config in NVRAM at boot, which is the classic setting used for password recovery and the cause of a router appearing blank after a reload.

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  1. Which value is the factory default configuration register that causes a router to boot normally and load its saved startup-config?

    • 0x2102
    • 0x2142
    • 0x2100
    • 0x0000 (ROM monitor boot)

  2. After changing the configuration register back to 0x2102 with config-register 0x2102 and issuing reload, the router prompts 'System configuration has been modified. Save? [yes/no]'. Why should the answer be no in this scenario?

    • Saving is required to apply the register value, because config-register changes are discarded at reload otherwise
    • Saving would overwrite the real startup-config with the blank running-config
    • Answering no prevents the configuration register from taking effect
    • The answer makes no difference in this scenario

  3. A router's configuration register is set to 0x2100, and show version confirms this. What is the correct way to fix it before the next reload?

    • Enter config-register 0x2102 in global configuration mode
    • Reload the router, then at the rommon prompt run confreg 0x2102 followed by reset
    • Edit the startup-config file directly to change the register value
    • Power cycle the device repeatedly until the register resets itself

  4. A router's startup-config was lost, but a valid configuration named live-config still exists in flash. Which sequence correctly restores it as the active configuration?

    • copy running-config flash, then reload
    • View flash:live-config, copy it to running-config, then write memory
    • erase startup-config, then reload, then confreg 0x2102
    • copy flash:live-config startup-config only, with no further action needed