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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 does a firewall do?
Software that protects and blocks against the IP's of known phishing sites
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
SHA+MD5

2. What is the command in a batch file to do a backup?
Set of rules that denies packets that dont meet a certain criteria
NT Backup
A backup that archives all selected files regardless of if they have changed since the last backup.
At home or business - full-time internet access - laptop or desktop?

3. What are file level permissions?
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches
A PC that was taken over by malware - and now sends SPAM email to other pc's unknown to the user.
Read - write - read and execute - modify - full control
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.

4. What is a software firewall?
An application that filters data packets - uses resources of the pcm potentially slowing it
Read - write - read and execute - modify - full control
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches
A PC that was taken over by malware - and now sends SPAM email to other pc's unknown to the user.

5. What is an incremental backup?
In a locked secure room
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches
A backup that archives all files that have changed since the last backup
On a secure tunnel over an unsecure network

6. How can you protect your data?
Physical+Data security
An application that filters data packets - uses resources of the pcm potentially slowing it
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
With devices to authenticate users asking for access

7. What products can be used to protect network devices?
Broadcasts the networks name - can be turned off to make network 'disappear'
With devices to authenticate users asking for access
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches

8. What is malicious software installed on a computer with the knowledge or permission of the user?
In a locked secure room
Software that protects and blocks against the IP's of known phishing sites
Malware
An application that filters data packets - uses resources of the pcm potentially slowing it

9. 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.
Read - write - list folder contents - read and execute - modify
Broadcasts the networks name - can be turned off to make network 'disappear'
At home or business - full-time internet access - laptop or desktop?

10. Which wireles tool uses a 64-bit or 128-bit incryption key?
WEP
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

11. What folder level permissions are available?
Read - write - list folder contents - read and execute - modify
Broadcasts the networks name - can be turned off to make network 'disappear'
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches

12. Most popular hashing algorithms?
SHA+MD5
Software that protects and blocks against the IP's of known phishing sites
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC
NT Backup

13. What is hash encoding?
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
Ensures messages are not corrupted or tampered with
In a locked secure room

14. What is two factor security?
Software that protects and blocks against the IP's of known phishing sites
Actively stops computers from accessing the PC
An application that filters data packets - uses resources of the pcm potentially slowing it
Physical+Data security

15. Where should network equipment be housed?
NT Backup
In a locked secure room
Malware
With devices to authenticate users asking for access

16. What is a zombie?

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17. What does SSID do?

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18. What is a full backup?
A PC that was taken over by malware - and now sends SPAM email to other pc's unknown to the user.
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
Read - write - read and execute - modify - full control

19. 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

20. What is phishing protection software?

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21. What are biometric devices?
Broadcasts the networks name - can be turned off to make network 'disappear'
WEP
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.

22. What is packet filtering?
Read - write - read and execute - modify - full control
Devices that detect valid users with their physical characteristics.
Ensures messages are not corrupted or tampered with
Set of rules that denies packets that dont meet a certain criteria

23. What are two common security errors?
Software firewall - IDs - App and OS patches
Read - write - list folder contents - read and execute - modify
Incorrect permissions and incorrect configuration of the wireless utility
NT Backup