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The first state to ratify the Constitution was Delaware. Answer: Members of Congress are absolutely immune from suit for statements made while on the floor of either house. Answer: TRUE The Preamble and Articles of the U.S. Constitution reflect a […]

Each house of Congress possesses the final authority to decide who won in contested elections. Answer: Legislation that conflicts with the U.S. Constitution may be declared void by the President. Answer: FALSE Substantive due process concerns the type or substance […]

The Eighth Amendment bars government from imposing cruel and unusual punishment. Answer: The rule of law is the principle that all people and the government itself are obliged to follow legitimately enacted and fairly enforced laws. Answer: TRUE The bad […]

Match the constitutional amendment listed in Column 1 to the protection listed in Column 2. A) bars government from abridging the freedom of speech B) bars government from infringing on the right to bear arms C) bars government from imposing […]

A technical security architecture should be created ________. A) annually B) before a firm creates individual countermeasures C) before a firm creates a specific countermeasure D) after each major compromise Answer: Prosecutors initiate legal proceedings in ________ cases. A) civil […]

Border management ________. A) is no longer important because there are so many ways to bypass borders B) is close to a complete solution to access control C) Both A and B D) Neither A nor B Answer: What protection […]

In order to be considered strong today, a symmetric encryption key must be at least ________ bits long. A) 6 B) 8 C) 100 D) 1,000 Answer: Integrated log files ________. A) tend to have problems with format incompatibilities B) […]

If a PC fails its initial NAC health assessment, it may be ________. A) refused access B) allowed to go to a remediation server and other nonsensitive resources C) Either A or B D) Neither A nor B Answer: ________ […]

The Microsoft Windows Server interface looks like the interface in ________. A) client versions of Microsoft Windows B) UNIX C) Both A and B D) Neither A nor B Answer: Allowing an attacker to continue working in a system after […]

A(n) ________ is defined as an attack that comes before fixes are released. A) exploit B) zero-day attack C) worm D) anomaly attack Answer: ________ ciphers leave letters in their original positions. A) Transposition B) Substitution C) Both A and […]

In internets, different networks are connected by ________. A) switches B) routers C) Both A and B D) Neither A nor B Answer: The ________ collects event data and stores them in log files on the monitoring devices. A) manager […]

A ________ server gives an original host the IP address of another host to which the original host wishes to send packets. A) DHCP B) DNS C) Both A and B D) Neither A nor B Answer: When risk analysis […]

A network administrator notices extensive damage to wireless packets. This might indicate a ________ attack. A) man-in-the-middle B) SYN/ACK C) DoS flood attack D) None of the above Answer: Regarding retention policies, firms need to ________. A) implement strong and […]

Generally speaking, vendors use similar mechanisms for downloading and installing patches. Answer: Focusing electronic attacks on specific high-value targets is known as promiscuous attacks. Answer: FALSE Social engineering is rarely used in hacking. Answer: FALSE A false acceptance occurs when […]

When you use your mobile firm to surf the Internet, it is a host. Answer: EAP uses RADIUS for authentication. Answer: FALSE On a compromised computer, if you mistype the name of a URL, you may be taken to a […]

Total software reinstallation effectively addresses data loss. Answer: The most common attack against a wireless network is a wireless DoS attack. Answer: FALSE Under current U.S. federal laws, if a company allows personal information to be stolen, it may be […]

Flooding the frequency of a wireless network is one method attackers use to affect the network. Answer: Security tends to impede functionality. Answer: TRUE Vulnerability testing typically is not outsourced. Answer: FALSE CLIs usually are easier to learn than GUIs. […]

The most common form of deletion in Windows-based systems is nominal deletion. Answer: Trade secret theft can occur through interception, hacking, and other traditional cybercrimes. Answer: TRUE Incident response is defined as reacting to incidents according to plan. Answer: TRUE […]

Misappropriation of assets is an example of employee financial theft. Answer: The first task in establishing a cryptographic system is selecting a cryptographic system standard for the dialogue. Answer: TRUE When a hashing algorithm is applied, the hash will ALWAYS […]

Another name for data is raw facts. Answer: SPI filtering for packets that are part of ongoing communications is usually simple. Answer: TRUE DoS attacks against VoIP can be successful even if they increase latency only slightly. Answer: TRUE Training […]

Firewall appliances need little or no hardening before they are installed. Answer: File/directory data backup copies data, programs, configurations, and registry settings. Answer: FALSE Different honest people can make different ethical decisions in a given situation. Answer: TRUE Programmers can […]

Because fingerprint scanning is often deceived, it should never be used as a security measure. Answer: In benefits, costs and benefits are expressed on a per-year basis. Answer: TRUE Incremental and full backups may be restored out of order in […]

Botnets usually have multiple owners over time. Answer: Wireless attacks avoid the access points to limit detection. Answer: FALSE In authentication, the party trying to provide its identity to the other party is called the applicant. Answer: FALSE Scripts do […]

Most cookies are dangerous. Answer: SIP identity protocols are common on IP telephones. Answer: TRUE When assigning initial permissions, it is good to add more permissions than strictly necessary and then remove permissions if appropriate. Answer: FALSE Backup onto another […]

To outsource some security functions, a firm can use an MISP. Answer: After access is granted to a network, many NACs continue to monitor network PCs. Answer: TRUE Antivirus protections may be deliberately turned off by users. Answer: TRUE There […]

In this book, when internet is spelled with a capital I, it means the global Internet. Answer: Backed-up data must be physically stored on something. Answer: TRUE You have access to your home page on a server. By accident, you […]

The attacker sends a mal-formed TCP segment. The victim host sends back a TCP RST message. This exchange verifies that the victim host exists and has a certain IP address. Answer: Prosecuting attackers in other countries is relatively straightforward under […]

The primary function of a gateway is to relay data from one network to the other on its route from the source to the destination end system. Answer: ________ consists of three subfields: user priority, canonical format indicator and VLAN […]

The ________ field in the TCP header contains the sequence number of the next data octet that the TCP entity expects to receive. Answer: Real-time traffic is an example of ________ traffic. Answer: inelastic In a data transmission system the […]

When a TCP entity retransmits a segment using fast retransmit it assumes that a segment was lost, even though it has not yet timed out on that segment. Answer: The key technology for 4G systems is ________. Answer: Orthogonal Frequency […]

________ schemes can be categorized based on a number of factors, such as: what criterion is used to determine the best route between two nodes, what strategy is used for obtaining information needed to determine route, and whether a distributed […]

The IEEE 802.11 services include managing associations, delivering data, and ________. Answer: The m * n matrix H = [hij] is called the _______ . Answer: parity check matrix Diverse multipath fading offers multiple views of the transmitted data at […]

In ________ modulation, each signal occupies a distinct frequency band so these signals can be combined by simple addition to produce the composite signal for transmission. Answer: The data, plus preamble, postamble and control information are called a ________. Answer: […]

Minimal encapsulation results in less overhead and can be used if the mobile node, home agent, and foreign agent all agree to do so. Answer: Whereas traditional telephone networks allocate dedicated circuits for voice communications using circuit switching, VoIP uses […]

The ________ is designed for use between local area networks that use identical protocols for the physical and link layers and, because the devices all use the same protocols, the amount of processing here is minimal. Answer: In the ________ […]

One of the benefits of MPLS is that it does not need to retain the flexibility of an IP-based networking approach Answer: Networks that generally cover a large geographical area, require the crossing of public right-of-ways, consist of a number […]

Currently wireless LAN products fall into three categories: spread spectrum LANs, OFDM LANs and ________ LANs. Answer: The most important data link control protocol is ________. Answer: high level data link control (HDLC) A receiver joins a multicast group by […]

A ________ is a server that appears to the client as if it were an origin server. A) tunnel B) proxy C) gateway D) all of the above Answer: If the ________ has to do with the ability of the […]

Correction of errors using an error detecting code requires that block of data to be ________. A) skipped over B) deleted C) retransmitted D) streamed Answer: The term ________ means that all users share a common MAC broadcast address. A) […]

The disadvantage of fixed routing is ________. A) its lack of flexibility B) its simplicity C) it does not work with virtual circuits D) it does not work with datagrams Answer: ________ is used on the uplink channel to provide […]

VoIP is the transmission of speech across IP-based network. Answer: The selection of a route is generally based on some performance criterion. Answer: T Analog data must be converted to digital before transmission for packet switching. Answer: T When there […]

In a rate based scheme any node along the path of the connection can reduce the data rate limit in a control message to the source. Answer: If dynamic or alternate routing is used the potential exists for a datagram […]

When the mobile node moves its attachment point to another network, that network is considered a foreign network for this host. Answer: Priority could be assigned on a message basis or on a connection basis. Answer: T Some e-mail systems […]

The counterpart of fragmentation is reassembly. Answer: The greater the bandwidth of the signal the greater its information carrying capacity. Answer: T The most prominent specification for wireless LANs was developed by the IEEE 802.3 working group. Answer: F Amplitude […]

Twisted pair may only be used to transmit analog and digital signals. Answer: An individual cell of an IR LAN is limited to a single room because infrared light does not penetrate opaque walls. Answer: T Second generation cellular networks […]

Traffic on a network or internet can be divided into two broad categories: elastic and inelastic. Answer: One of the things that may happen when network congestion occurs is packets are discarded. Answer: T SIP is based on an HTTP-like […]

Transmission is generally in the form of frames when using a ring topology. Answer: Effective and efficient data communication and networking facilities are vital to any enterprise. Answer: T FTP provides a basic electronic mail transport facility. Answer: F Rapid […]

A protocol is concerned with exchanging data between two entities. Answer: In 1994 the Internet Architecture Board issued a report titled “Security in the Internet Architecture” that stated that the general consensus was that the Internet was secure and there […]

Congestion control is concerned with efficient use of a network at high load. Answer: Because the least-cost criterion is more flexible, it is more common than the minimum-hop criterion. Answer: F A modem is required to establish communication between a […]

________ economies are achieved by the ability of firms to dictate prices by exerting market power. A) Pecuniary B) Technical C) Diversification D) Production Answer: Sematech is a producer of computer chips. To gain an advantage over other computer chip […]