Acronyms

Question 1

DDoS

Answer 1

Distributed Denial of Service (Chapter 7)

Question 2

NOP

Answer 2

No Operation (Chapter 7)

Question 3

XSS

Answer 3

Cross Site Scripting (Chapter 7)

Question 4

XSRF

Answer 4

Cross Site Request Forgery (Chapter 7)

Question 5

SHA

Answer 5

Secure Hash Algorithm (Chapter 10)

Question 6

AES

Answer 6

Advanced Encryption Standard (Chapter 10)

Question 7

DES

Answer 7

Data Encryption Standard (Chapter 10)

Question 8

RC4

Answer 8

Rivest Cipher 4 (Chapter 10)

Question 9

MD5

Answer 9

Message Digest 5 (Chapter 10)

Question 10

HMAC

Answer 10

Hash-Based Message Authentication Code (Chapter 10)

Question 11

PGP

Answer 11

Pretty Good Privacy (Chapter 10)

Question 12

ECC

Answer 12

Elliptic Curve Cryptography (Chapter 10)

Question 13

RSA

Answer 13

Rivest, Shamir & Adleman (Chapter 10)

Question 14

RTO

Answer 14

Recovery Time Objective (Chapter 9)

Question 15

RPO

Answer 15

Recovery Point Objective (Chapter 9)

Question 16

MTBF

Answer 16

Mean Time Between Failures (Chapter 9)

Question 17

MTTR

Answer 17

Mean Time To Recover (Chapter 9)

Question 18

ALE

Answer 18

Annual Loss Expectancy (Chapter 8)

Question 19

SLE

Answer 19

Single Loss Expectancy (Chapter 8)

Question 20

ARO

Answer 20

Annual Rate of Occurrence (Chapter 8)

Question 21

PAT

Answer 21

Port Address Translation

Question 22

NAT

Answer 22

Network Address Translation

Question 23

ISP

Answer 23

Internet Service Provider

Question 24

LAN

Answer 24

Local Area Network

Question 25

CISO

Answer 25

Chief Information Security Officer

Question 26

HIDS

Answer 26

Host Based Intrusion Detection System

Question 27

NIPS

Answer 27

Network Based Intrusion Prevention System

Question 28

IDS

Answer 28

Intrusion Detection System

Question 29

CTO

Answer 29

Chief Technical Officer

Question 30

FQDN

Answer 30

Fully Qualified Domain Name

Question 31

UTM

Answer 31

Unified Threat Management

Question 32

WAF

Answer 32

Web Application Firewall

Question 33

NGFW

Answer 33

Next Generation Firewall

Question 34

XML

Answer 34

Extensible Markup Language (Chapter 7)

Question 35

LDAP

Answer 35

Lightweight Directory Application Protocol (Chapter 7)

Question 36

CIA

Answer 36

Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability

Question 37

WPA2

Answer 37

Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (Chapter 5)

Question 38

TPM

Answer 38

Trusted Platform Module (Chapter 5)

Question 39

VSAN

Answer 39

Virtual Storage Area Network (Chapter 5)

Question 40

EFS

Answer 40

Encrypting File System (Chapter 5)

Question 41

HSM

Answer 41

Hardware Security Module (Chapter 5)

Question 42

DLP

Answer 42

Data Loss Prevention (Chapter 5)

Question 43

IaaS

Answer 43

Infrastructure as a Service (Chapter 5)

Question 44

SaaS

Answer 44

Software as a Service

Question 45

NAC

Answer 45

Network Access Control (Chapter 4)

Question 46

CVE

Answer 46

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (Chapter 4)

Question 47

TKIP

Answer 47

Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (Chapter 4)

Question 48

SSID

Answer 48

Service Set Identifier (Chapter 4)

Question 49

CCMP

Answer 49

Counter Mode Cipher Block Chaining Message Authentication Code Protocol (Chapter 4)

Question 50

PPTP

Answer 50

Point to Point Tunneling Protocol

Question 51

SFTP

Answer 51

Secure File Transfer Protocol

Question 52

NFC

Answer 52

Near Field Communication (Chapter 4)

Question 53

SCP

Answer 53

Secure Copy

Question 54

SQL

Answer 54

Structured Query Language

Question 55

LSO

Answer 55

Locally Shared Objects

Question 56

IV

Answer 56

Initialization Vector

Question 57

RFID

Answer 57

Radio Frequency Identification

Question 58

MaaS

Answer 58

Monitoring as a Service

Question 59

BCP

Answer 59

Business Continuity Plan

Question 60

ECDHE

Answer 60

Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral

Question 61

PBKDF2

Answer 61

Password-Based Key Derivation Function 2