security

Question 1

the process of verifying the identity of a person or device.

Answer 1

authentication

Question 2

authentication typically occurs when ?

Answer 2

during logon

Question 3

this is used to prevent someone from opening the case to your computer

Answer 3

chassis lock

Question 4

Some motherboards allow you to set a password on the system hard disk, it is called

Answer 4

drive locking

Question 5

it is used to helps identify when a system case has been opened

Answer 5

chassis intrusion detection

Question 6

a special chip, on the motherboard, that generates and stores cryptographic keys

Answer 6

Trusted Platform Module (TPM)

Question 7

TPN chips are configured using what program

Answer 7

BIOS/UEFI

Question 8

a mechanism used to secure systems that are prone to being stolen, such as notebooks systems.

Answer 8

lo-jack software

Question 9

how is lo-jack software implemented

Answer 9

within a chip located on the motherboard

Question 10

UEFI systems requires that firmware updates are digitally signed who

Answer 10

hardware vendor

Question 11

a UEFI security feature which requires the operating system installed on the system hard drive to be digitally signed

Answer 11

SecureBoot

Question 12

malware that inserts itself into the boot sector causing it to be loaded first

Answer 12

rootkit

Question 13

this is used by UEFI to prevent rootkit

Answer 13

SecureBoot

Question 14

a Microsoft tool used to encrypt an entire computer’s hard drive or removable storage disk, to protect the drive contents from malicious offline attacks

Answer 14

BitLocker

Question 15

BitLocker requires what

Answer 15

a system partition. 100 MB volume and

operating system partition

Question 16

Which BitLocker partition is encrypted

Answer 16

operating system partition

Question 17

a tool used in Windows for encrypting individual files

Answer 17

encrypting file services (EFS)

Question 18

EFS can only be performed on

Answer 18

NTFS partitions

Question 19

a secure communication channel between two hosts

Answer 19

VPN

Question 20

common protocols used for establishing a VPN connection

Answer 20

IPSec
PPTP
L2TP

Question 21

this protocol can be added to another protocols to provide security and encryption

Answer 21

secure sockets layers (SSL)

Question 22

a device, or software, that inspects network traffic and allows or blocks traffic based on a set of rules

Answer 22

firewall

Question 23

this type of firewall inspects traffic as it flows between networks.

Answer 23

network based firewalls

Question 24

this type of firewall inspects traffic received by a specific host.

Answer 24

host based firewall

Question 25

firewalls use ____ to identify allowed and blocked traffic

Answer 25

ACL’s