Cybersecurity Chapter 6

A company is concerned with traffic that flows through the network. There is a concern that there may be malware that exists that is not or eradicated by antivirus.

What technology can be put in place to detect potential malware traffic on the network?

• NAC

• firewall

• IDS

• IPS

The CEO of a company is concerned that if a data breach should occur and customer data is exposed, the company could be sued. So the CEO made the decision to buy insurance for the company.

What type of risk mitigation is the CEO implementing?

• reduction

• mitigation

• avoidance

• transference

A user is running a routine audit of the server hardware in the company data center. Several servers are using single drives to host operate and multiple types of attached storage solutions for storing data.

The user wants to offer a better solution to provide fault tolerance during failure.

Which solution is best?

• Spanning Tree

• RAID

• UPS

• Hot Standby Router Protocol

A team has been asked to create an incident response plan for security incidents.

In what phase of an incident response plan does the management approval of the plan?

• analysis

• preparation

• containment

• post-incident

A user needs to add redundancy to the routers in a company. What are the three options the user can use? (Choose three.)

• STP

• HSRP

• VRRP

• GLBP

• RAID

A security breach has happened at a major corporation. The incident team has responded and executed their incident response plan and looking at how to monitor and improve the process.

What part of the incident response plan is this?

• preparation

• post-incident

• containment

• detection

A user is redesigning a network for a small company and wants to ensure security at a reasonable price. The user deploys a new application firewall with intrusion detection capabilities on the ISP connection.

The user installs a second firewall to separate the company network for public network.

Additionally, the user installs an IPS on the internal network of the company.

What approach is the user implementing?

• layered

• risk based

• attack based

• structured

A user is purchasing a new server for the company data center.

The user wants disk striping with parity on three disks.

Which RAID level does the user implement?

• 5

• 0

• 1

• 3

Five nines mean that systems and services are available 99.999% of the time.

It also means that both planned and unplanned downtime is less than ____________ minutes per year.

• 5

• 5.10

• 5.26

• 5.90

A user was hired by a company to provide a highly available network infrastructure.

The user wants to build redundancy into the network switch failure, but wants to prevent Layer 2 looping.

What would the user implement in the network?

• GLBP

• Spanning Tree Protocol

• VRRP

• HSRP