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Cisco IT Essentials

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Answer 23 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the command in a batch file to do a backup?
NT Backup
Read - write - read and execute - modify - full control
Broadcasts the networks name - can be turned off to make network 'disappear'
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.

2. What does a firewall do?
SHA+MD5
Set of rules that denies packets that dont meet a certain criteria
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC
Read - write - list folder contents - read and execute - modify

3. What is packet filtering?
An application that filters data packets - uses resources of the pcm potentially slowing it
Broadcasts the networks name - can be turned off to make network 'disappear'
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.

4. What is a zombie?

5. What does SSID do?

6. What are two common security errors?
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
Read - write - list folder contents - read and execute - modify
Software that protects and blocks against the IP's of known phishing sites
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC

7. Which wireles tool uses a 64-bit or 128-bit incryption key?
Read - write - list folder contents - read and execute - modify
Ensures messages are not corrupted or tampered with
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC
WEP

8. Where should network equipment be housed?
Ensures messages are not corrupted or tampered with
Read - write - list folder contents - read and execute - modify
In a locked secure room
A backup that archives all selected files regardless of if they have changed since the last backup.

9. What are biometric devices?
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.
NT Backup
Read - write - read and execute - modify - full control

10. What is a full backup?
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.
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC

11. What is two factor security?
Software that protects and blocks against the IP's of known phishing sites
With devices to authenticate users asking for access
A backup that archives all selected files regardless of if they have changed since the last backup.
Physical+Data security

12. What is phishing protection software?

13. How can you protect your data?
Malware
Physical+Data security
With devices to authenticate users asking for access
WEP

14. What is hash encoding?
Physical+Data security
Ensures messages are not corrupted or tampered with
SHA+MD5
An application that filters data packets - uses resources of the pcm potentially slowing it

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

16. 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
Broadcasts the networks name - can be turned off to make network 'disappear'
With devices to authenticate users asking for access

17. What is an incremental backup?
With devices to authenticate users asking for access
Physical+Data security
A backup that archives all files that have changed since the last backup
A backup that archives all selected files regardless of if they have changed since the last backup.

18. When is VPN (virtual private network) used?
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
On a secure tunnel over an unsecure network
Physical+Data security

19. What are file level permissions?
Malware
SHA+MD5
Read - write - read and execute - modify - full control
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.

20. Most popular hashing algorithms?
SHA+MD5
Malware
A backup that archives all selected files regardless of if they have changed since the last backup.
With devices to authenticate users asking for access

21. What is malicious software installed on a computer with the knowledge or permission of the user?
An application that filters data packets - uses resources of the pcm potentially slowing it
Read - write - list folder contents - read and execute - modify
Malware
NT Backup

22. What products can be used to protect network devices?
At home or business - full-time internet access - laptop or desktop?
Read - write - list folder contents - read and execute - modify
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.

23. What folder level permissions are available?
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
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility