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Cisco IT Essentials

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Answer 23 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. What is malicious software installed on a computer with the knowledge or permission of the user?
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
With devices to authenticate users asking for access
Broadcasts the networks name - can be turned off to make network 'disappear'
Malware

2. How can you protect your data?
Physical+Data security
With devices to authenticate users asking for access
At home or business - full-time internet access - laptop or desktop?
Malware

3. What are biometric devices?
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.
Set of rules that denies packets that dont meet a certain criteria

4. Where should network equipment be housed?
In a locked secure room
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.
A PC that was taken over by malware - and now sends SPAM email to other pc's unknown to the user.
At home or business - full-time internet access - laptop or desktop?

5. What is a zombie?

6. What does a firewall do?
WEP
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC
Physical+Data security
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches

7. When is VPN (virtual private network) used?
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.
At home or business - full-time internet access - laptop or desktop?
On a secure tunnel over an unsecure network
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC

8. 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
Software that protects and blocks against the IP's of known phishing sites
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility

9. Which wireles tool uses a 64-bit or 128-bit incryption key?
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
A backup that archives all files that have changed since the last backup
Ensures messages are not corrupted or tampered with
WEP

10. What are two common security errors?
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
A backup that archives all files that have changed since the last backup
In a locked secure room
Ensures messages are not corrupted or tampered with

11. What is two factor security?
Read - write - read and execute - modify - full control
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
Physical+Data security
A backup that archives all files that have changed since the last backup

12. What does SSID do?

13. What is a full backup?
A backup that archives all selected files regardless of if they have changed since the last backup.
Set of rules that denies packets that dont meet a certain criteria
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC
WEP

14. What products can be used to protect network devices?
Malware
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

15. What is packet filtering?
Set of rules that denies packets that dont meet a certain criteria
Physical+Data security
Malware
With devices to authenticate users asking for access

16. What is a software firewall?
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
In a locked secure room

17. What is phishing protection software?

18. What is an incremental backup?
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
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.
A backup that archives all files that have changed since the last backup

19. What are file level permissions?
Read - write - read and execute - modify - full control
In a locked secure room
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.

20. What folder level permissions are available?
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.
Read - write - list folder contents - read and execute - modify
A PC that was taken over by malware - and now sends SPAM email to other pc's unknown to the user.

21. What is the command in a batch file to do a backup?
NT Backup
With devices to authenticate users asking for access
Read - write - read and execute - modify - full control
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility

22. 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.
In a locked secure room
Ensures messages are not corrupted or tampered with
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility

23. Most popular hashing algorithms?
A backup that archives all selected files regardless of if they have changed since the last backup.
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
SHA+MD5
An application that filters data packets - uses resources of the pcm potentially slowing it