Day 12

Question 1

The property of a camera to be able to swivel in various directions on demand.

Answer 1

PTZ

Pan-Tilt-Zoom

Question 2

The monitoring and control function an organization that identifies, prevents or corrects errors in processes, procedures or products.

Answer 2

QA

Quality Assurance

Question 3

A networking function that seeks to reserve bandwidth in order to preserve the timing and availability of communication, especially as it pertains to multimedia.

Answer 3

QoS

Quality of Service

Question 4

The party in PKI who is capable of obtaining a private key locked away in escrow.

Answer 4

RA

Recovery Agent

Question 5

This is the entry point of a subject into PKI. It is here that a party establishes and verifies identity before obtaining keys.

Answer 5

RA

Registration Authority

Question 6

A model of application development that very quickly works through the development phases.

Answer 6

RAD

Rapid Application Development

Question 7

The most common centralized authentication service.

Answer 7

RADIUS

Remote Authentication Dial-in User Server

Question 8

A set of standards that specify varying levels of fault tolerance, performance and system requirements for hard drive data storage.

Answer 8

RAID

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks

Question 9

This is a form of storage that allows specific and independent access to information and does not require a sequential read or write.

Answer 9

RAM

Random Access Memory

Question 10

A Microsoft specific term that relates to servers that facilitate modem-based access to an intranet.

Answer 10

RAS

Remote Access Server

Question 11

Requires payment for return of information.

Answer 11

Ransomware

Cryptovirology

Question 12

Software that implements illicit remote control software.

Answer 12

RAT

Remote Access Trojan

Question 13

A model of access regulation commonly used for firewalls and physical controls.

A model of access control, typically implemented in an inverted tree, where rights float down.

Answer 13

RBAC

Role-based Access Control

Question 14

A now deprecated encryption algorithm used by SSL and WEP.

Answer 14

RC4

Rivest Cipher version 4

Question 15

This is designed to become a successor to SMS messaging that provides communication between phones and carriers.

Answer 15

RCS

Rich Communication Services

Question 16

Allows access to a system for remote management and help desk operations.

Answer 16

RDP

Remote Desktop Protocol

Question 17

Documents that are largely specifications and definitions for entities on the Internet.

Answer 17

RFC

Request for Comments

Question 18

This is a common choice for tracking small devices and objects, as well as doorway access control.

Answer 18

RFID

Radio Frequency Identifier

Question 19

This is a hashing algorithm.

Answer 19

RIPEMD

RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest

Question 20

This risk management paradigm was promulgated by the US government.

Answer 20

RMF

Risk Management Framework

Question 21

This is the primary metric to be used when evaluating whether something is worth the time, effort or cost.

Answer 21

ROI

Return on Investment

Question 22

Implemented by an attacker to prevent discovery or observation of activities.

Answer 22

Rootkit

Enables and hides access

Question 23

A metric that identifies the number of transactions or quantity of data that can be acceptably lost.

Answer 23

RPO

Recovery Point Objective

Question 24

This algorithm relies on factoring large prime numbers.

Answer 24

RSA

Rivest, Shamir, & Adleman

Question 25

A metric that identifies the maximum amount of time allowed for an outage.

Answer 25

RTO

Recovery Time Objective

Question 26

Cisco term that refers to a filtering technique that dumps unwanted traffic prior to being received in the target network.

Answer 26

RTBH

Remotely Triggered Black Hole