A help desk technician is troubleshooting a Windows server named SQL.local and wants to check which port a specific application is running on. Which of the following commands should the technician run?
A help desk technician is troubleshooting a Windows server named SQL.local and wants to check which port a specific application is running on. Which of the following commands should the technician run?
To determine which port a specific application is running on, the technician should use the netstat command. Netstat is a common command-line tool that provides information about network connections, routing tables, and a number of network interface statistics. It can be used to display active connections and the ports that the applications are listening on. Other options like dig, traceroute, and arp do not provide detailed information about the local ports that applications are using.
He should have done this certification and remembered all the port numbers. He didn't have to use any tools or google-search. netstat is the only reasonable answer
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It's a relatively common practice to change default ports for applications as a security practice. It may be that this was done in the past and the current port is not known.
Netstat is a command-line tool that displays active network connections and listening ports on a host. By running the netstat command with appropriate parameters on the Windows server (SQL.local), the technician can view the list of active connections and the associated ports. This will help identify the port on which the specific application is running.
D. netstat