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Cisco IT Essentials

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Answer 23 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. What is packet filtering?
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches
Broadcasts the networks name - can be turned off to make network 'disappear'
Set of rules that denies packets that dont meet a certain criteria
On a secure tunnel over an unsecure network

2. What does SSID do?

3. What does a firewall do?
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
An application that filters data packets - uses resources of the pcm potentially slowing it
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC
A PC that was taken over by malware - and now sends SPAM email to other pc's unknown to the user.

4. What products can be used to protect network devices?
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches
Malware
A PC that was taken over by malware - and now sends SPAM email to other pc's unknown to the user.

5. How can you protect your data?
With devices to authenticate users asking for access
SHA+MD5
A backup that archives all selected files regardless of if they have changed since the last backup.
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC

6. What are biometric devices?
Set of rules that denies packets that dont meet a certain criteria
Software that protects and blocks against the IP's of known phishing sites
Read - write - read and execute - modify - full control
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.

7. What is an incremental backup?
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
Software that protects and blocks against the IP's of known phishing sites
A backup that archives all files that have changed since the last backup

8. Which wireles tool uses a 64-bit or 128-bit incryption key?
A backup that archives all files that have changed since the last backup
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.
NT Backup
WEP

9. What is phishing protection software?

10. What is a full backup?
WEP
A backup that archives all selected files regardless of if they have changed since the last backup.
A PC that was taken over by malware - and now sends SPAM email to other pc's unknown to the user.
Ensures messages are not corrupted or tampered with

11. What are two common security errors?
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
An application that filters data packets - uses resources of the pcm potentially slowing it
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches
Read - write - list folder contents - read and execute - modify

12. Where should network equipment be housed?
Ensures messages are not corrupted or tampered with
Software that protects and blocks against the IP's of known phishing sites
An application that filters data packets - uses resources of the pcm potentially slowing it
In a locked secure room

13. What questions should you ask to determine security factors?
A backup that archives all selected files regardless of if they have changed since the last backup.
At home or business - full-time internet access - laptop or desktop?
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility

14. Most popular hashing algorithms?
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches
With devices to authenticate users asking for access
SHA+MD5
Ensures messages are not corrupted or tampered with

15. What is the command in a batch file to do a backup?
SHA+MD5
A PC that was taken over by malware - and now sends SPAM email to other pc's unknown to the user.
NT Backup
A backup that archives all files that have changed since the last backup

16. What is a software firewall?
Read - write - read and execute - modify - full control
NT Backup
An application that filters data packets - uses resources of the pcm potentially slowing it
On a secure tunnel over an unsecure network

17. What folder level permissions are available?
In a locked secure room
A backup that archives all selected files regardless of if they have changed since the last backup.
Read - write - list folder contents - read and execute - modify
A PC that was taken over by malware - and now sends SPAM email to other pc's unknown to the user.

18. What is two factor security?
With devices to authenticate users asking for access
Set of rules that denies packets that dont meet a certain criteria
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC
Physical+Data security

19. What is hash encoding?
Ensures messages are not corrupted or tampered with
Software that protects and blocks against the IP's of known phishing sites
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches
A PC that was taken over by malware - and now sends SPAM email to other pc's unknown to the user.

20. What is a zombie?

21. What are file level permissions?
Physical+Data security
WEP
An application that filters data packets - uses resources of the pcm potentially slowing it
Read - write - read and execute - modify - full control

22. When is VPN (virtual private network) used?
Software that protects and blocks against the IP's of known phishing sites
Read - write - list folder contents - read and execute - modify
On a secure tunnel over an unsecure network
Physical+Data security

23. What is malicious software installed on a computer with the knowledge or permission of the user?
Malware
A PC that was taken over by malware - and now sends SPAM email to other pc's unknown to the user.
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches