Exam 11: Supporting a Small Business Network

Every business should have password policies that require frequent changes and complex passwords.

____ is an open-source office application suite that runs on Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris, and Mac OS.

Windows Server 2003 with ____ can serve as a dial-up remote access server and offers a number of advanced features for managing and securing dial-up connections.

____ is the cost when you factor in intangibles such as support costs and productivity gain or loss.

A rack full of blade servers is ____ for most small businesses, unless their business is Web hosting.

____ is a remote control/remote desktop application that works across several platforms, including Linux, UNIX, and Windows.

Not all businesses need a backup strategy.

Designating as few computers as possible to share resources is recommended.

What is the gateway-to-gateway VPN mode?

____ is a virtualization program that allows one computer to run two or more OSs simultaneously.

The advantage of using NFS rather than Samba for file sharing in Linux, is NFS's compatibility with Windows file sharing.

How can you secure a small business network from the outside world?

Disk mirroring (with RAID)requires ____ equal-size disk partitions on separate drives.

A common disk configuration is to use RAID ____ (disk mirroring)on the drives containing the OS and applications.

A router may play the role of DHCP server and network address translator, handing out private IP addresses to internal computers and translating them via _________________________ (PAT)to the address the ISP provides when Internet requests are made.

____ provides a full-featured word processor, a spreadsheet program, presentation software, a database application, and many other add-on applications.

Many home computers have Windows XP Home Edition or Windows ____________________ (MCE)installed, whereas a business computer is better off with Windows XP Professional.

The most common piece of equipment shared in a network is a ____.

Devices that can be shared on a network include external hard drives that connect via a USB interface and card readers that read ____________________ (SD)and compact flash (CF)cards, such as those in digital cameras and PDAs.

A(n)____ switch has a number of advanced configuration options and can sometimes gather network data on a per-port basis.