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| What is the most common WAN circuit for a business? |
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What kind of network is used for bluetooth? |
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| PAN (Personal Area Network) |
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| What is a router used for? |
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It connects a LAN to a WAN and the WAN is connected to the internet. |
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| What is a switch used for? |
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| It is used to connect multiple computers together on a LAN. |
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| Voice over IP, Voice translated into data that can be sent across a network, usually a WAN, to recieve a varierty of benefits. |
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| What are the components use in LAN? |
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Ethernet (RJ45 and Cat5), NIC, and switches |
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| Malicious programs that cause damage to a PC, but can't run or spread without being executed by a user. |
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A malicious software that finds its way into your PC through an open port. It can reproduce itself and spread on its own. |
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| Using fake email or web pages to get imformation from someone for improper use. |
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| When someone takes your personal information. |
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| Are you really who you say you are? |
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| What you are able to do on the servers/network |
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| Network Interface Card, connects your PC to the network through a cable. |
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| What is used in a home network? A switch or a router? |
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Trick question. They're both in the same unit. A switch would be used just for a LAN in the house and a router is used to connect it to the internet (WAN). |
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What are the negatives of a network? |
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1) If the main server goes down, the whole network is down
2) No network is fully secure |
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| What is an example of a network operating system? |
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| What kind of cable is used to connect two computers in a LAN? |
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Straight-through if the computers connect to a switch or hub.
Cross-over if they connect straight to each other. |
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| What are the seven layers of the OSI Model? |
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7) Application
6) Presentation
5) Session
4) Transfer
3) Network
2) Data
1) Physical
Another way to help remember this is:
All People Seem To Need Data Processing |
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| What does IEEE stand for? |
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| Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
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| What does TCP/IP stand for? |
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| Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
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An inexpensive LAN architecture built into all Apple Macintosh Computers and laser printers. |
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A protocol is a convention or standard that controls or enables the connection, communication, and data transfer between two computing endpoints. |
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| What is a MAC address and which level of the OSI model does it belong to? |
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A MAC address is a number used by network adapters to uniquely identify themselves on a LAN. MAC addresses are 12-digit hexadecimal numbers. In theory, they are like fingerprints. Only one device in the world will have that MAC address.
It belongs to the Physical layer of the OSI. |
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| What is the command in command prompt that will show you your MAC address? |
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ipconfig -all
or
ipconfig /all
They will both show you the same thing. |
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| A group of 8 bits, often referred to as a byte. |
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| How many octets are in an IP address? |
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| What is the decimal range in each part of the IP address? |
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| What is a subnet used for? |
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It is an identifiably separate part of an organization's network. |
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What is the command in command prompt that will show you that subnet? |
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| In IP addressing, how many octets must be the same to be on the same network? |
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| It is a standard communications protocol embedded in software and hardware devices, intended for building a LAN. |
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| How fast does ethernet run at? |
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Different cables run at different speeds. There are:
10 MB
100 MB
1000 MB or 1 GB
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| What is the base for idenifying the speed and common cable type for 100mb ethernet? |
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| What is the difference between full and half duplex? |
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With half duplex, only one machine can talk at a time.
With full duplex, multiple machines and talk at once. |
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| What is an example of full duplex? |
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| Like two or more people talking on the phone at once. |
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| What is an example of half duplex? |
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Like walkie-talkies, only one person can talk at a time. |
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| It is the amount of data that can be carried from one point to another in a given time period. |
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| What does bps stand for in bandwidth? |
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| What is the bottleneck affect in networking? |
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| It's like a plastic or glass bottle. It's wide at the bottom, but as you move up, it gets smaller and smaller until everything has to go through the same small opening. |
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| What kind of cable is used commonly for ethernet? |
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| Who made the OSI model and why? |
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| ISO (The International Organization for Standardization) and it was made so that every computer could talk to each other. |
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| What is the best kind of cable for speed? |
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| What kind of cable is used for TV cable? |
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| What does UTP stand for in cables? |
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| What does STP stand for in cables? |
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| How do you check your network status? |
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1) Click start and go to control panel.
2) Click on Network connections.
3) Right click on your connection and go to status. |
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How do you install a network card? |
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| Turn off the computer, put the card in the appropriate slot, and turn on the computer to install the drivers. |
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| What would you need to use to add wireless to your network? |
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1) Wireless NIC cards
2) Wireless Routers |
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| What are status indicators for networks? |
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| Shows how strong the connection is with your network |
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| Techniques to make sure that data stored in a computer can't be read or compromised by anyone without authorization. |
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| What are the eight things that a business owner would want to be implemented for reasonable security? |
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1) Physical security
2) Anti-virus & anti-spyware software
3) Up to date patches on OS & applications
4) Usernames & passwords for access with logging of login/logouts
5) Firewall to protect us from the internet
6) If you are using wireless, wireless network security
7) System data backups in case of drive failure or a disaster
8) Video surveillance |
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| What is a security policy? |
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| Anything that revolves around the policy. The policy documents who can do what, when, how, how to be logged, verified, tested, and retested. |
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Which of the four steps is the end of the security wheel?
A) Implement
B) Monitor
C) Manage
D) Access |
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| Trick question, there is no end to the cycle because you're continuously changing the security to make it better. |
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| What are the four parts of the security wheel? |
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1) Implement
2) Monitor
3) Manage
4) Access |
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What does the security wheel revolve around? |
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| Encryption is the conversion of data into a form, called a ciphertext, that can't be easily understood by unauthorized people. |
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| What are the three types of encryption? |
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1) Hashing
2) Symmetric keys
3) Asymmetric keys |
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How is each different encryption different?
Hashing
Symmetric keys
Asymmetric keys |
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Hashing - Converting a message into numbers.
Symmetric keys - The same key is used on each side ot protect the data, called the private key.
Asymmetric keys - There are public & privite keys, only a message encrypted with the public key can be unencrypted with the corresponding private key. |
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| Why do we always backup data? |
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| In the event of a failure or a disaster. |
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| What is social engineering? |
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| Acquiring information or access by talking to someone and, usually, tricking them |
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| What is an incident control policy? |
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If someone gets into something that they aren't suppose to be getting in, you have to log it, and document what you did to fix the problem. |
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| What are redudant systems? |
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If one server goes down, there's a switch that can be activated to bring the network back up from another server that mirrors the one that went down. |
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| What does the AAA stand for in the computer security? |
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Accounting
Authorization
Authentication |
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What are smart cards used for? |
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| A smart card is a plastic card about the size of a credit card, with an embedded microchip that can be loaded with data. Can be used for authentication. |
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| What is a key fob used for? |
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Anything on your key ring that isn't a key, like your car door opener, also used for authentication and access, usually with digital displays on them. |
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Life or body measurements
Examples: Hand print, Finger print, Retinal |
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| Programs that run and keep track of what you do and what websites you visit. The info is sent back to someone so that it can be sold. |
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| A trojan is a program that installs malicious software while under the disguise of doing something else. |
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| A rootkit is a general description of a set of programs which work to subvert control of an operating system from its legitimate operators. |
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| What are the four things used to protect against attacks? |
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1) Anti-virus and anti-spyware updates
2) OS updates
3) Firewall
4) Update often |
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What is a way to ensure that OS patches stay updated? |
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Set the computer to do automatic updates. |
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| What is a security appliance? |
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Definition
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| What kind of file system security is on your computer? |
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Which kind of network is more secure?
Wireless or Ethernet LAN? |
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| What are the four of the six measures recommended to do to ensure wireless security? |
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1) Enable firewall
2) Disable the DHCP and use the static IP
3) Change the SSID
4) Disable the SSID broadcast
5) Use MAC filtering
6) Change default user name and password
7) Update firmware |
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| What does SSID stand for? |
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