A switch forwards data only to the port that connects to the destination device. It knows which port to forward it to based on which value?

Which type of fiber cable is normally used to connect two buildings that are several miles apart?

Your company purchases a new bridge that filters packets based on the MAC address of the destination computer.

On which layer of the OSI model is this device functioning?

Which of the following hardware devices forwards a signal out all connected ports without examining the frame or packet contents?

Which command will show the hops that the packets passes through to get to its destination?

Which network command would produce the following output?

Nancy is responsible for the administration of many different servers in her company. Which one of the following commands can she use to gain command-line administrative access to her Linux servers in a secure manner? (Choose 2)

Tom would like to determine what network ports are open on a newly commissioned server. Which one of the following tools is best suited for that task?

Which of the commands would produce the following output?

Diana is investigating suspicious software installed on a machine and would like to identify any network connections made by that machine.

Which one of the following tools can best assist her with this task by running it on the target machine?

Which of the following geographic network types are typically contained within city or county limits?

Two or more computers connected together over a wide geographical area (e.g. county, country, globe). What type of network is this?

Which network is this? I allow wireless computers to communicate with each other in the same building.

You have a small network that uses a switch to connect multiple devices. Which physical topology are you using?

Your manager has asked you to implement a wired network infrastructure that will accommodate failed connections.

Which of the following network topologies should you implement?

Which of the following topologies connects each device to a neighboring device?

Which of the following topologies connects all devices to a single cable?

You have implemented a network where each device provides all other devices on the network with access to shared files.

What type of network do you have?

Which of the following cloud computing solutions will deliver software applications to a client either over the internet or on a local area network?

Which of the following describes a public cloud?

You were recently hired by a small start-up company. The company has no plans to setup their own datacenter. You have been asked to find a cloud service that would provide several physical servers or virtual machines that the company would be able to install whatever operating systems and applications they need.

Which cloud service model should you use?

Which of the following describes a private cloud?

James is working with his organization’s platforms team to select a virtualization approach for use on test systems managed by developers. He is looking for a hypervisor that can run on top of the Windows operating system already installed on their laptops. What type of hypervisor is James looking for?

Barry is working with his organization’s platforms team to select a virtualization approach for use in their data center. To provide stronger security, he would like to select a hypervisor that runs directly on bare metal hardware without an intervening host operating system.

What type of hypervisor should he choose?

In what type of attack does the attacker attempt to send unauthorized commands to a back-end database through a web application?

Gary is participating in a cybersecurity exercise. His job is to defend the network against attack. What role is Gary playing?

Kyle is concerned that an attacker is probing his network and would like to use a decoy system to attract the attacker and analyze his or her activity. What type of tool would best meet Kyle’s needs?

Which of the following strategies involves sharing some of the risk burden with someone else, such as an insurance company?

Which of the following threat actors seeks to defame, shed light on, or cripple an organization or government?

Which of the following are examples of social engineering? (Choose two)

Which attack floods a system with traffic in order to prevent legitimate activities or transactions from occurring?

Which of the following describes a man-in-the-middle attack?

A cybersecurity specialist is asked to identify the potential criminals known to attack the organization. Which type of hackers would the cybersecurity specialist be least concerned with?

What type of attack targets an SQL database using the input field of a user?

Cynthia is working on her Western Governors University application online, when the admissions website crashes. She is unable to finish her application on time.

What part of the CIA Triad is affected?

Kim has taken her Network and Security Foundation exam and is waiting to get her results by email. By accident, Kim’s results are sent to Karen.

What part of the CIA Triad is affected?

In cybersecurity, what does CIA stand for?

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 being blocked or eradicated by antivirus. What technology can be put in place to detect potential malware traffic on the network?

If it detects a threat, an IPS can:

You want to install a firewall that can reject packets that are not part of an active session. Which type of firewall should you use?

Which of the following filters based on application, program or service?

The restrictions most commonly implemented in packet-filtering firewalls are based on ____.

Tom would like to protect against an intruder tapping his network cable. Which cable provides the best protection against this type of attack?

Sue is inspecting her application logs and finds log records that indicate attackers may be attempting to use SQL injection attacks to access the database underlying her application.

What is the most effective security control that Sue can apply to address this risk? (Choose 2)

Brian would like to secure his website. Which one of the following protocols is the best choice for encrypting communication between a website and its users?

Alice would like to send a message to Bob using an asymmetric cryptography algorithm. What key should she use to encrypt the message?

Bob receives a message from Alice that she sent using an asymmetric cryptography algorithm. What key should he use to decrypt the message?

What encryption algorithm uses the same pre-shared key to encrypt and decrypt data?

In a hybrid cloud, data is traveling over the wide area network (WAN) connection between the private and public clouds is known as?

Data at rest provides an additional layer of protection by keeping data protected and inaccessible to the attacker if even the system is physically stolen.

In a private cloud companies such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform are responsible for the physical data center security concerns.

Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform are responsible for the physical data center security and most the physical hardware security concerns in which cloud deployment?

What are two states of data? (Choose 2)

Which one of the following wireless encryption protocols is considered the weakest and recommended to no longer use?

Which of the following would provide the most effective security for a small wireless network?

Which of the following wireless security protocols has been discouraged in favor of newer standards due to known vulnerabilities resulting from implementation flaws?

A wireless deauthentication attack is an example of which type of attack:

With regards to AAA, ________ defines what the user can access and in what manner.

With regards to AAA, _______ confirms that the user is how he or she claims to be.

What should we be concerned with keeping up to date?

What are two ways to protect a computer from malware? (Choose two.)