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Cisco IT Essentials

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Answer 23 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What questions should you ask to determine security factors?
Physical+Data security
NT Backup
At home or business - full-time internet access - laptop or desktop?
Software that protects and blocks against the IP's of known phishing sites

2. What is two factor security?
A PC that was taken over by malware - and now sends SPAM email to other pc's unknown to the user.
On a secure tunnel over an unsecure network
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.
Physical+Data security

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
On a secure tunnel over an unsecure network
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC

4. What is packet filtering?
With devices to authenticate users asking for access
Ensures messages are not corrupted or tampered with
Set of rules that denies packets that dont meet a certain criteria
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC

5. What is hash encoding?
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.
A backup that archives all selected files regardless of if they have changed since the last backup.
Ensures messages are not corrupted or tampered with

6. What is phishing protection software?

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7. Where should network equipment be housed?
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.
NT Backup
Read - write - list folder contents - read and execute - modify
In a locked secure room

8. What is a full backup?
Set of rules that denies packets that dont meet a certain criteria
A PC that was taken over by malware - and now sends SPAM email to other pc's unknown to the user.
Read - write - read and execute - modify - full control
A backup that archives all selected files regardless of if they have changed since the last backup.

9. What is an incremental backup?
Malware
With devices to authenticate users asking for access
Read - write - list folder contents - read and execute - modify
A backup that archives all files that have changed since the last backup

10. What is a software firewall?
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
A backup that archives all files that have changed since the last backup
An application that filters data packets - uses resources of the pcm potentially slowing it
A backup that archives all selected files regardless of if they have changed since the last backup.

11. When is VPN (virtual private network) used?
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC
On a secure tunnel over an unsecure network
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
Physical+Data security

12. What is malicious software installed on a computer with the knowledge or permission of the user?
Malware
Physical+Data security
Ensures messages are not corrupted or tampered with
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches

13. What is the command in a batch file to do a backup?
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches
NT Backup
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
Read - write - list folder contents - read and execute - modify

14. How can you protect your data?
Set of rules that denies packets that dont meet a certain criteria
A backup that archives all files that have changed since the last backup
Read - write - read and execute - modify - full control
With devices to authenticate users asking for access

15. Most popular hashing algorithms?
SHA+MD5
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
Physical+Data security
Software that protects and blocks against the IP's of known phishing sites

16. What are biometric devices?
With devices to authenticate users asking for access
Software that protects and blocks against the IP's of known phishing sites
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.

17. What are two common security errors?
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
WEP
In a locked secure room
On a secure tunnel over an unsecure network

18. What products can be used to protect network devices?
With devices to authenticate users asking for access
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches
Set of rules that denies packets that dont meet a certain criteria
A backup that archives all selected files regardless of if they have changed since the last backup.

19. What folder level permissions are available?
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC
Set of rules that denies packets that dont meet a certain criteria
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
Read - write - list folder contents - read and execute - modify

20. What are file level permissions?
Malware
With devices to authenticate users asking for access
Read - write - read and execute - modify - full control
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.

21. Which wireles tool uses a 64-bit or 128-bit incryption key?
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
An application that filters data packets - uses resources of the pcm potentially slowing it
WEP
Software that protects and blocks against the IP's of known phishing sites

22. What is a zombie?

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23. What does SSID do?

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