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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?
At home or business - full-time internet access - laptop or desktop?
Ensures messages are not corrupted or tampered with
In a locked secure room
With devices to authenticate users asking for access

2. Which wireles tool uses a 64-bit or 128-bit incryption key?
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC
With devices to authenticate users asking for access
WEP
On a secure tunnel over an unsecure network

3. When is VPN (virtual private network) used?
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches
At home or business - full-time internet access - laptop or desktop?
An application that filters data packets - uses resources of the pcm potentially slowing it
On a secure tunnel over an unsecure network

4. What is the command in a batch file to do a backup?
SHA+MD5
NT Backup
WEP
Read - write - list folder contents - read and execute - modify

5. How can you protect your data?
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches
With devices to authenticate users asking for access
An application that filters data packets - uses resources of the pcm potentially slowing it
Ensures messages are not corrupted or tampered with

6. Most popular hashing algorithms?
On a secure tunnel over an unsecure network
An application that filters data packets - uses resources of the pcm potentially slowing it
SHA+MD5
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.

7. What does SSID do?

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8. What is malicious software installed on a computer with the knowledge or permission of the user?
Malware
A backup that archives all files that have changed since the last backup
Set of rules that denies packets that dont meet a certain criteria
Physical+Data security

9. What is packet filtering?
Set of rules that denies packets that dont meet a certain criteria
With devices to authenticate users asking for access
Malware
A PC that was taken over by malware - and now sends SPAM email to other pc's unknown to the user.

10. What products can be used to protect network devices?
In a locked secure room
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches
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. Where should network equipment be housed?
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
In a locked secure room
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches

12. What is hash encoding?
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
Read - write - read and execute - modify - full control
Ensures messages are not corrupted or tampered with
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches

13. What are two common security errors?
NT Backup
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
On a secure tunnel over an unsecure network
Physical+Data security

14. What are file level permissions?
At home or business - full-time internet access - laptop or desktop?
Read - write - read and execute - modify - full control
Set of rules that denies packets that dont meet a certain criteria
Ensures messages are not corrupted or tampered with

15. What is a zombie?

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16. What folder level permissions are available?
Read - write - list folder contents - read and execute - modify
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches
At home or business - full-time internet access - laptop or desktop?
NT Backup

17. What is an incremental backup?
A backup that archives all files that have changed since the last backup
With devices to authenticate users asking for access
At home or business - full-time internet access - laptop or desktop?
A PC that was taken over by malware - and now sends SPAM email to other pc's unknown to the user.

18. What is a full backup?
WEP
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
A backup that archives all selected files regardless of if they have changed since the last backup.

19. What is a software firewall?
Ensures messages are not corrupted or tampered with
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC
NT Backup
An application that filters data packets - uses resources of the pcm potentially slowing it

20. What is two factor security?
Set of rules that denies packets that dont meet a certain criteria
An application that filters data packets - uses resources of the pcm potentially slowing it
Physical+Data security
WEP

21. What does a firewall do?
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC
Physical+Data security
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.
Set of rules that denies packets that dont meet a certain criteria

22. What is phishing protection software?

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23. What are biometric devices?
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.
Read - write - read and execute - modify - full control
An application that filters data packets - uses resources of the pcm potentially slowing it
Ensures messages are not corrupted or tampered with