Extension practice
Password Recovery Practice Questions
Extension practice: recovering IOS device access via ROMMON or a boot loader.
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During password recovery on a Cisco router, which configuration register value causes the router to boot while ignoring the contents of NVRAM's startup-config?
0x2142
0x2142 tells the router to skip loading the startup configuration on boot, so it comes up with a blank running configuration while leaving the startup config in NVRAM untouched.
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