MPCS 44725

Type

Quiz

Book Title

Business Data Networks and Security 10th Edition

ISBN 13

978-0133544015

July 19, 2017

In what mode of 802.11i operation is a central authentication server used?

A) 802.1X mode

B) PSK mode

C) both A and B

D) neither A nor B

E-mail bodies that have non-English text use ________.

A) RFC 822 and RFC 2822

B) HTTP

C) MIME

D) UNICODE

Momentary traffic peaks can lead to ________.

A) latency

B) packet loss

C) both A and B

D) neither A nor B

Which of the following regulates telephony within individual states in the United

States?

A) FCC

B) PUCs

C) neither A nor B

What kind of address do hosts have on the Internet?

A) World Wide Web URLs

B) MAC addresses

C) EUI-48 addresses

D) IP addresses

Jitter is a problem for ________.

A) downloading a file attached to an e-mail

B) e-mail

C) both A and B

D) neither A nor B

SNMPv3 uses ________ for authentication.

A) community names

B) digital certificates and digital signatures

C) a different password for each manager-agent pair

D) all of the above

Convert decimal 8 to binary.

A) 100

B) 1000

C) 10000

D) 111

Users of an access point share the transmission capacity of the access point. The

throughput a user gets is called the ________.

A) rated speed

B) aggregate throughput

C) individual throughput

D) all of the above

Another term for authorization is ________.

A) authentication

B) token

C) establishing the creator of a file

D) permission

Dotted decimal notation is used by ________.

A) networks

B) computers

C) both A and B

D) neither A nor B

Users typically can eliminate a vulnerability in one of their programs by ________.

A) installing a patch

B) doing a zero-day installation

C) using an antivirus program

D) all of the above

With WATS calls, the ________ pays and pays ________ per minute than direct

distance dialing.

A) caller, more

B) caller, less

C) called party, more

D) called party, less

Flow control in TCP depends on the ________ field.

A) acknowledgement number

B) window size

C) both A and B

D) neither A nor B

________ look at ________, and ________ look at ________.

A) Antivirus programs, packets, firewalls, packets

B) Antivirus programs, files, firewalls, files

C) Antivirus programs, packets, firewalls, files

D) Antivirus programs, files, firewalls, packets

PPP is standardized at the ________ layer.

A) physical

B) data link

C) Internet

D) transport

Under the standard, Ethernet switches can provide enough power over UTP for

________.

A) wireless access points

B) voice over IP telephones

C) both A and B

D) neither A nor B

Which of the following is used to query a directory server to get someone's e-mail

address?

A) LDAP

B) IMAP

C) SNMP

D) HTTP

Typically, the most common way for an attacker to get extensive privileges on a

computer is to ________.

A) take over an application program

B) take over the operating system

C) take over a computer's hardware

D) privilege escalation after an initial takeover

The digital certificate provides the ________.

A) private key of the supplicant

B) private key of the true party

C) public key of the supplicant

D) none of the above

________ is an interior dynamic routing protocol.

A) OSPF

B) BGP

C) both A and B

D) neither A nor B

After the Internet layer process does encapsulation, it passes the IP packet to the

________ layer process.

A) transport

B) data link

C) physical

D) none of the above

Which is the correct formula for decibels?

A) 10 * P2/P1

B) 10 * (P2/P1)2

C) Log10(P2/P1)

D) none of the above

Wireless access points typically link wireless clients to ________.

A) wireless servers

B) servers on the wired network

C) both A and B

In a subnet mask, the 1s correspond to the ________.

A) network part

B) subnet part

C) host part

D) none of the above

Tor was created to improve ________.

A) anonymity

B) end-to-end encryption

C) file download speed

D) all of the above

When an e-mail user encrypts an outgoing messages with SSL/TLS, how far will this

encryption extend?

A) to the sender's e-mail server

B) to the receiver's e-mail server

C) to the receiver's client host

D) to an application program on the receiver's client host

A router's load-balancing process is determined by ________.

A) the SDN controller

B) an SDN application

C) the router

D) any of the above

MPLS is ________ the source and destination hosts.

A) transparent to

B) nontransparent to

C) apparent to

D) a burden on

When a firewall identifies an attack packet, it ________.

A) discards the packet

B) copies information about the packet into a log file

C) both A and B

D) neither A nor B

A traditional e-mail user sending messages to his or her mail server would most likely

use ________.

A) IMAP standard

B) POP standard

C) either IMAP or POP standard

D) SMTP standard

Passive RFID chips are powered by ________.

A) a battery

B) the sun

C) body temperature

D) the scanning unit