Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician (CCENT) Practice Exam

ACLs are checked from top to bottom, and once a packet matches a rule, that rule’s action is taken and processing stops. If nothing matches, the packet would be dropped by the default behavior (implicit deny). When the final rule explicitly says “permit all other traffic,” it provides a catch-all that allows any traffic not matched by earlier rules. This makes the rest of the ACL effectively permissive for everything not previously denied, which is why this final rule best describes its effect. The other ideas don’t fit how ACLs operate: nothing in an ACL inherently denies all unmatched traffic unless you’ve configured that explicit deny, ACLs are applied on the interface you bind them to (inbound or outbound), and they do affect traffic on that interface rather than forwarding without applying.