Cisco IT Essentials

Instructions:

• Answer 23 questions in 15 minutes.
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• Match each statement with the correct term.
• Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. What does a firewall do?
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
NT Backup
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC


2. What are two common security errors?
In a locked secure room
With devices to authenticate users asking for access
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
WEP


3. What are biometric devices?
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches
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


4. What is phishing protection software?


5. Most popular hashing algorithms?
Read - write - list folder contents - read and execute - modify
Set of rules that denies packets that dont meet a certain criteria
SHA+MD5
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.


6. When is VPN (virtual private network) used?
On a secure tunnel over an unsecure network
Ensures messages are not corrupted or tampered with
In a locked secure room
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility


7. What are file level permissions?
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.
Read - write - read and execute - modify - full control
Broadcasts the networks name - can be turned off to make network 'disappear'
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC


8. Which wireles tool uses a 64-bit or 128-bit incryption key?
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.
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
WEP


9. What is the command in a batch file to do a backup?
Software that protects and blocks against the IP's of known phishing sites
WEP
NT Backup
An application that filters data packets - uses resources of the pcm potentially slowing it


10. 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.
In a locked secure room
Physical+Data security
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC


11. What does SSID do?


12. What is two factor security?
Read - write - read and execute - modify - full control
Physical+Data security
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility


13. What is a full backup?
NT Backup
A backup that archives all selected files regardless of if they have changed since the last backup.
In a locked secure room
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches


14. What folder level permissions are available?
Ensures messages are not corrupted or tampered with
WEP
Software that protects and blocks against the IP's of known phishing sites
Read - write - list folder contents - read and execute - modify


15. What is packet filtering?
Set of rules that denies packets that dont meet a certain criteria
WEP
With devices to authenticate users asking for access
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility


16. What is an incremental backup?
A backup that archives all files that have changed since the last backup
NT Backup
With devices to authenticate users asking for access
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches


17. What is malicious software installed on a computer with the knowledge or permission of the user?
A backup that archives all files that have changed since the last backup
SHA+MD5
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches
Malware


18. What questions should you ask to determine security factors?
At home or business - full-time internet access - laptop or desktop?
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC
WEP
Broadcasts the networks name - can be turned off to make network 'disappear'


19. What is a software firewall?
In a locked secure room
WEP
An application that filters data packets - uses resources of the pcm potentially slowing it
A PC that was taken over by malware - and now sends SPAM email to other pc's unknown to the user.


20. What products can be used to protect network devices?
Set of rules that denies packets that dont meet a certain criteria
NT Backup
Read - write - list folder contents - read and execute - modify
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches


21. What is a zombie?


22. How can you protect your data?
At home or business - full-time internet access - laptop or desktop?
Broadcasts the networks name - can be turned off to make network 'disappear'
With devices to authenticate users asking for access
WEP


23. What is hash encoding?
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.
Set of rules that denies packets that dont meet a certain criteria
At home or business - full-time internet access - laptop or desktop?
Ensures messages are not corrupted or tampered with