IS4680 Chapter 11

Question 1

(CCB) Configuration control board

Answer 1

A person or group of people that reviews each change request and either approves or denies the request.

Question 2

Distributed application.

Answer 2

An environment in which the components that make up an application reside on different computers.

Question 3

Dual-homed ISP connection

Answer 3

A design in which a network maintains two connections to its ISB.

Question 4

FCAPS

Answer 4

Acronym for a network mgt functional model: Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, and Security.

Question 5

Footprinting

Answer 5

Process to determine the operating system and version of a network node.

Question 6

Internet-facing

Answer 6

The network components in your organization’s IT infrastructure that users can access via the Internet.

Question 7

(MLPS)Multi-Protocol Label Switching

Answer 7

A network mechanism that adds a simple label to each network pkt, making rout of the pkt faster than routing based on data in the header portion of the pkt.

Question 8

(NAC) Network Access Control

Answer 8

A combination of security controls that defines and implements a policy that describes the requirements to access your network.

Question 9

Proxy server

Answer 9

A type of firewall that makes request for remote services on behalf of local clients.

Question 10

Service

Answer 10

A set of software functionality that a client accesses using a prescribed interface.

Question 11

Single point of failure

Answer 11

Any component on which service relies; if the single component fails, all other dependent components essentially fail as well.

Question 12

(ITU-T) Telecommunication Standardization Sector

Answer 12

An international organization that produces global telecommunication standards.