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WorksheetsNetworking Exam
Total questions: 59
Worksheet time: 30mins
What kind of attack targets a server’s OS?
Keylogger
Phishing
Social engineering
Rootkit
In a DDoS attack, the flood of messages to the target website come from blank 1 servers.
infected
uninfected
spoofed
the hacker’s
Which of the following does NOT provide physical security?
Access badge
Firewall
Video camera
Tamper detection
Which of these devices does NOT prevent access to a protected area?
IPS
Firewall
Keypad
IDS
Which of the following is the most secure password?
p@SSw0rd
St@rw@r$
07041776
yellowMonthMagneficant
Which of these encryption techniques does NOT rely on a key?
Polyalphabetic substitution-based cipher
Data Encryption Standard
Monoalphabetic substitution-based cipher
Transposition-based cipher
Which principle, if adequately followed, ensures a person cannot write their own employee evaluation report?
Shared responsibility model
Separation of duties
Defense in depth
Principle of least privilege
A digital signature supports which component of the CIA triad?
Accountability
Availability
Confidentiality
Integrity
After a digital signature is created, what information is needed to access the hash stored in the digital signature?
The signer’s private key
The signer’s public key
The document’s hash
The lawyer’s private key
Which protocol is used to secure HTTP?
TLS
SSH
RDP
IPsec
You have forgotten your password, so you call the help desk and ask the representative to retrieve your password. After a few moments, the help desk representative tells you your forgotten password. What do you now know about the company’s password storage method?
Passwords are encrypted.
Passwords aren’t hashed.
Passwords are hashed.
Passwords aren’t encrypted.
Which of the following characteristics can a firewall NOT use to filter network traffic?
Port number
IP address
Protocol
Username
Which of the following is NOT an acceptable risk response strategy?
Avoid
Evaluate
Integrity
Accept
Which AWS resource filters traffic to an EC2 instance?
Firewall
Security group
NACL
Proxy server
What data classification should be applied to your company’s bank statements?
Sensitive
Public
Protected
Private
You receive an email from a business associate that has been encrypted with your public key. What information is needed to decrypt the message?
Your associate’s public key
Your associate’s private key
Your private key
Your public key
You receive a document from a business associate that has been encrypted with their private key. Where will your browser look to retrieve the required key to decrypt the message?
The browser’s digital certificate
A CA
The DNS server
A CRL
What security is provided by FHSS?
Obscurity
Encryption
Confidentiality
Hashing
Which authentication technique allows a student to use their Microsoft account to access their LMS (learning management system) for schoolwork?
MFA
SSO
RWX
FIM
What component stored in a block ensures the integrity of data recorded in the blockchain?
The transactional data
The previous block’s hash
The next block’s hash
The block’s owner
What type of cloud network traffic incurs fees?
Traffic between two VMs in the same subnet
Ingress traffic to a storage bucket
Egress traffic from a database
Traffic between two VMs in the same VPC
Which of the following is a legitimate CIDR block for a subnet? Choose TWO.
172.300.7.0/25
192.168.4.0/24
10.10.10.0/33
192.168.168.0/10
Which of the following concepts is ensured by redundant routers and switches?
VPC
HA
SDN
AZ
Which IP address belongs within the CIDR block 172.25.1.0/23?
172.25.2.10
192.25.1.100
172.25.0.254
192.24.1.0
Which tier is most protected?
Logic tier
Subnet tier
Data tier
Presentation tier
Which cloud stack layer corresponds to IaaS services?
Physical layer
Network layer
Virtualization layer
Which technology is used to improve vNIC performance?
SDDC
NFV
RFC 1918
SR-IOV
How do you change applicable routes in an Azure VNet?
Delete system routes.
Edit system routes.
Create a new VNet with different system routes.
Override system routes with custom routes.
What factor is improved by SR-IOV?
Security
Performance
Availability
Adaptability
Which cloud platform’s VPC or VNet can extend beyond a single region?
Azure
VMware
GCP
AWS
When a router receives multiple possible routes for the same network connection from three different routing protocols, what information will the router use to choose the route it adds to its routing table?
Autonomous system
Convergence time
Overhead
Administrative distance
With which network type does a single organization most likely own all the equipment?
WAN
SD-WAN
CAN
MAN
What technique will ensure a message arrives at its destination even if a router along the path loses power?
Backup
Best path
Failover
Multiplexing
Which of the following is NOT an optimal application of a MAN?
Long-haul connection across states
High-speed disaster recovery site
Interconnection between corporate data center and ISP
Real-time transaction backup
Which device determines the best path for a message traversing the Internet?
Switch
Fiber cable
Router
Multiplexor
Which algorithm is often used to help calculate the least-cost path on a network?
Lempel-Ziv
DWDM
Dijkstra
MU-MIMO
Which routing protocol requires that routers transmit their routing tables every 30 seconds?
EIGRP
OSPF
IS-IS
RIP
Which routing protocol has the fastest convergence time?
EIGRP
OSPF
RIPv2
IS-IS
How does OSPF advertise its routing information?
It listens for update requests from each of its neighbors.
It floods other routers with link state packets when something changes.
It measures the delay or cost to each neighboring router.
As you’re designing your network across multiple, private WAN connections, you realize you need to choose a secure routing protocol for your AS. Which of the following would NOT be a reasonable choice to consider?
BGP
IS-IS
EIGRP
RIPv2
What type of protocol is BGP?
Distance vector
Hybrid
Link state
Path vector
Which routing protocol is limited to 15 hops?
RIPv2
EIGRP
OSPF
BGP
Which of the following is NOT an example of some variation of FDM?
5G
MIMO
CWDM
Cable television
Which multiplexing technique uses a round-robin pattern?
SM
CWDM
Stat TDM
Sync TDM
Which multiplexing technique requires addressing to identify each data stream?
CDM
Stat TDM
Sync TDM
FDM
What type of medium is required to support WDM?
Wi-Fi
Cable TV
Fiber
Cellular
If data has a large number of one type of symbol, which type of compression would be the most effective?
Lempel-Ziv technique
MP3
Quantization
Run-length encoding
Which of the following is NOT a phase of JPEG compression?
Run-length encoding
Lempel-Ziv technique
Quantization
Discrete cosine transformation
Given the following bit string, what run-length encoding would result? 0000 0001 0000 0110 0000 0000 00
0111 0101 0000 1011
7 5 0 11
4 3 4 1 1 4 4 2
0 1 0 6 0 0 0
Your company transitions a dozen servers to the cloud instead of purchasing several new servers to replace aging equipment. The monthly cost of these cloud-hosted servers that can grow with the business is significantly lower than the anticipated cost of purchasing new hardware that would have, at first, greatly exceeded the current needs of the business. What feature of the cloud has your company taken advantage of?
Broad network access
Measured service
Multitenancy
Cross-platform compatibility
When you speak to Alexa, you initiate the processing of code that runs in the cloud without creating a new server to do so. Which cloud service model most likely provides the service that processes this code?
SaaS
PaaS
IaaS
DBaaS
Which of the following is NOT an advantage of a cloud-within-a-cloud deployment model?
Unlimited scalability
Minimal cost
Platform familiarity
Seamless migration
To deploy a series of test environments in the cloud, you want a script that will design and configure several servers, some network infrastructure, and firewall rules. What process will produce the script you need?
Automation
Self-healing infrastructure
Multitenancy
Orchestration
Which document can ensure you will receive compensation if your company’s Internet service has an extended outage?
GDPR
NDA
SLA
HIPAA
Multitenancy enables what cloud characteristic?
Rapid elasticity
Broad network access
On-demand self-service
Resource pooling
Which document might require an NDA before you can read it?
SSAE 18
SOC 2
ISO/IEC 27001
SAS 70
As you’re developing your hybrid cloud, you move a handful of servers and two applications to the cloud. Both applications need to communicate with a database that will remain on-prem. What technology will allow the applications to communicate with the database without human intervention?
VPN
CLI
GUI
API
For what purposes does the IoT often use cloud technologies? Choose TWO.
Virtualization
Storage
Compute
Communication
During which step of the troubleshooting process should you back up data?
While testing your theory as to the probable cause
While identifying the problem
While verifying full system functionality
While establishing a plan of action
