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Cisco IT Essentials

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Answer 23 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are two common security errors?
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
In a locked secure room
Read - write - list folder contents - read and execute - modify

2. What is malicious software installed on a computer with the knowledge or permission of the user?
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches
Set of rules that denies packets that dont meet a certain criteria
WEP
Malware

3. Most popular hashing algorithms?
SHA+MD5
Physical+Data security
In a locked secure room
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.

4. What does SSID do?

5. What is packet filtering?
Ensures messages are not corrupted or tampered with
Physical+Data security
Set of rules that denies packets that dont meet a certain criteria
Read - write - read and execute - modify - full control

6. What are biometric devices?
A backup that archives all selected files regardless of if they have changed since the last backup.
On a secure tunnel over an unsecure network
Set of rules that denies packets that dont meet a certain criteria
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.

7. What is an incremental backup?
A backup that archives all files that have changed since the last backup
WEP
Malware
Physical+Data security

8. When is VPN (virtual private network) used?
A backup that archives all files that have changed since the last backup
Broadcasts the networks name - can be turned off to make network 'disappear'
On a secure tunnel over an unsecure network
Software that protects and blocks against the IP's of known phishing sites

9. What is the command in a batch file to do a backup?
SHA+MD5
NT Backup
Broadcasts the networks name - can be turned off to make network 'disappear'
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility

10. What are file level permissions?
WEP
With devices to authenticate users asking for access
Set of rules that denies packets that dont meet a certain criteria
Read - write - read and execute - modify - full control

11. How can you protect your data?
Malware
A PC that was taken over by malware - and now sends SPAM email to other pc's unknown to the user.
With devices to authenticate users asking for access
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.

12. What folder level permissions are available?
Read - write - list folder contents - read and execute - modify
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
In a locked secure room

13. What is a software firewall?
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
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
Software that protects and blocks against the IP's of known phishing sites

14. What is a full backup?
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.
Malware
A backup that archives all selected files regardless of if they have changed since the last backup.
Read - write - read and execute - modify - full control

15. 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.
A backup that archives all files that have changed since the last backup
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.
At home or business - full-time internet access - laptop or desktop?

16. What is hash encoding?
Ensures messages are not corrupted or tampered with
Read - write - read and execute - modify - full control
A backup that archives all files that have changed since the last backup
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.

17. What products can be used to protect network devices?
On a secure tunnel over an unsecure network
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches
A backup that archives all selected files regardless of if they have changed since the last backup.

18. What is phishing protection software?

19. Where should network equipment be housed?
Read - write - list folder contents - read and execute - modify
SHA+MD5
In a locked secure room
On a secure tunnel over an unsecure network

20. What does a firewall do?
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
Broadcasts the networks name - can be turned off to make network 'disappear'
A PC that was taken over by malware - and now sends SPAM email to other pc's unknown to the user.

21. What is a zombie?

22. What is two factor security?
At home or business - full-time internet access - laptop or desktop?
With devices to authenticate users asking for access
An application that filters data packets - uses resources of the pcm potentially slowing it
Physical+Data security

23. Which wireles tool uses a 64-bit or 128-bit incryption key?
WEP
Physical+Data security
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.
Malware