IS3440 CHAP 15 BEST PRACTICES AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

Question 1

COMMAND ____ is a command being developed to replace COMMAND iptables as a firewall configuration tool.

Answer 1

nftables

Question 2

___ is a Digital Rights Management (DRM) scheme used to encrypt commercial DVDs.

Answer 2

(CSS) Content Scramble System

Question 3

___ is a storage system connected directly to one or more computer systems using cables; unlike NAS, these systems do not use network protocols to share data.

Answer 3

(DAS) Direct attached storage

Question 4

___ is a US copyright law associated with digital intellectual property. Controversial in part because of fears of prosecution by researchers looking for better forms of encryption. One intent is to prevent the decryption of systems encoded withDRM schemes.

Answer 4

(DMCA) Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Question 5

___ is a proprietary video-compression standard licensed by Canonical for use in the Lucid Lynx release of Ubuntu.

Answer 5

H.264

Question 6

___ is a storage system connected to a network, normally using file-sharing protocols such as NFS and Samba.

Answer 6

(NAS) Network attached storage

Question 7

___ is a storage system that may consist of one or more NAS or DAS systems.

Answer 7

(SAN) Storage area network

Question 8

___ is a system for version control frequently used on many open source projects, including nap.

Answer 8

Subversion

Question 9

___ is the main developer behind the Minix distribution, one of the first clones of UNIX. A proponent of a micro kernel, in opposition to Torvalds’ use of a modular kernel.

Answer 9

Tannebaum, Andrew

Question 10

1. Which of the following databases should be updated whenever a gold baseline system is updated with new packages?
2. MySQL
3. PostgreSQL
4. AIDE
5. LDAP

Answer 10

AIDE

Question 11

2. The total RAM requirements of virtual guests can exceed what is available from the virtual host.
   TRUE OR FALSE

Answer 11

TRUE

Question 12

3. Which command can you use to duplicate a partition by its device file name?

Answer 12

dd

Question 13

4. Which of the following services is frequently cited as inappropriate for configuration in a virtual guest machine?
5. MySQL
6. Apache
7. Squid
8. DNS

Answer 13

MySQL

Question 14

5. Which of the following features of a virtual host supports resource sharing among virtual guest?
6. Nulti-core CPUs
7. Virtual machine
8. Hypervisor
9. Networking

Answer 14

Hypervisor

Question 15

6. Which of the following companies provides specific support for the Linux desktop?
7. Canonical
8. Ubuntu
9. Red Hat
10. Apache

Answer 15

Canonical

Question 16

7. The OSSTMM methodology is customized for security audits on Linux networks.
   TRUE OR FALSE

Answer 16

TRUE

Question 17

8. What file numbest be modified on an Ubuntu system before running a distribution upgrade? Include the full path to the file.

Answer 17

/etc/apt/sources.list

Question 18

9. which of the following distributions normally provides security updates for the longest period of time?
10. RHEL
11. Fedora
12. Ubuntu LTS
13. Kubuntu

Answer 18

RHEL

Question 19

10. Which of the following software components is NOT open source?
11. GNOME
12. Apache
13. djbdns
14. OpenOffice.org

Answer 19

djbdns

Question 20

11. Which of the following COMMANDS can provide more information about a package named gimp?
12. apt - cache show gimp
13. apt - cache info gimp
14. apt - cache search gimp
15. apt - cache help gimp

Answer 20

apt - cache show gimp

Question 21

12. Which of the following COMMANDS can be used to identify the package that owns the /bin/ls file?
13. dpkg - qf
14. dpkg - i
15. dpkg - S
16. dpkg - V

Answer 21

dpkg - S