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12. List at least five top-level domain names used in the United States.
13. When are a bridge and with a gateway used to connect networks?
14. Describe an advantage to the client/server topology.
15. Describe one primary advantage of polling as a network control method.
16. Describe one disadvantage to carrier sensing as a network control method.
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17. Why is network control needed? What tasks are performed?
18. Define WAN, LAN, and VAN.
19. What are the five basic network architectures?
20. Discuss the private key encryption technique and its shortcomings.
21. Discuss the public key encryption technique.
22. What is a digital signature?
23. What is a digital certificate?
24. What is a seal of assurance?
25. Describe a denial of service (DoS) attack and identify three common forms.
26. What is cloud computing?
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27. Describe virtualization.
ESSAY
1. Contrast a LAN and a WAN. Typically, who owns and maintains a WAN?
2. Describe the basic differences between the star, ring, and bus topologies.
3. What security questions must be considered with regard to Internet commerce?
4. What is the World Wide Web?
5. Discuss the three levels of Internet business models.
6. Define risk in an electronic commerce setting.
7. Discuss the four areas of concern as they are related to e-commerce: data security, business policy,
privacy, and business process integrity.
8. Define and contrast digital certificate and digital signature.
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9. Explain the function of the two parts of the TCP/IP protocol.
10. What are network protocols? What functions do they perform?
11. List and briefly define the privacy conditions inherent to the Safe Harbor agreement
12. Explain the disadvantage of private key encryption and how public key encryption overcomes the
problem.
13. What is a Certification Authority and what are the implications for the accounting profession?
14. Explain a SYN Flood attack.
15. Explain a Smurf Attack.
16. Explain a Distributed Denial of Service Attack.
17. Discuss the changing motivation behind a Denial of Service Attack
18. Discuss the key features of cloud computing.
19. Is cloud computing the best option for all companies? Why or why not?
