Exam 6: Network Security Devices, Design, and Technology

All modern operating systems include a hardware firewall,usually called a host-based firewall.

What is the name of an instruction that interrupts a program being executed and requests a service from the operating system?

Behavior-based monitoring attempts to overcome the limitations of both anomaly-based monitoring and signature-based monitoring by being more adaptive and proactive instead of reactive.

When VPN network traffic is routing only some traffic over the secure VPN while other traffic directly accesses the Internet,what technology is being used?

Which of the following is a software-based application that runs on a local host computer that can detect an attack as?it occurs?

Discuss the two advantages that NAT provides.

Which of the following is a system of security tools that are used to recognize and identify data that is critical to the organization and ensure that it is protected?

An administrator has two servers that host the same web content,but only one server is utilized at a given time.What can be configured that can help to evenly distribute work across the network,and make use of both servers in a manner that is transparent to the end users?

Describe the difference between subnetting and VLANs.

What type of network access control uses Active Directory to scan a device to verify that it is in compliance?

What specific type of hardware card inserts into a web server that contains one or more co-processors to handle SSL/TLS?processing?

If a network is completely isolated by an air gap from all other outside networks it is using what type of configuration?

An early networking device that functioned at layer 1 of the OSI model and added devices to a single segment is known as which of the following choices?

What is the difference between anomaly based monitoring and signature based monitoring?

How does a Unified Threat Management (UTM)security product help reduce administrative overhead?

Workgroup switches must work faster than core switches.

The management in your corporate office needs to group users on the network together logically even though they are attached to separate network switches.How can this be done?

What kind of networking device forwards packets across different computer networks by reading destination addresses?

What data unit is associated with the Open Systems Interconnection layer four?

List and describe two advantages of a proxy server.