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ASIF

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Sparse format
Delta layers
Plugin for Amber

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AMBER

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Apple Modular Block Device Library

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AEBD

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Apple Encrypted Block Device

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KNOX

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Asset database
Fast and secure storage

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NBD

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Network block device

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FileVault

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Storage encryption with volume key (class C protection on ASM)

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Data Protection

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File Encryption

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Data Vault

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Restrict access to the data of an app from all other requesting apps

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Sandbox access controls

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Restrict what data an app can access

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GCD: definition and description

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Grand central dispatch
Execute code concurrently on multicore hardware by submitting work to dispatch queues managed by the system

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Forward secrecy

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Ensures session keys will not be compromised even if long term secrets used in the session key exchange are compromised

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ARV

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Authenticated root volume

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Evil Maid Attack

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An attack on an unattended device, in which an attacker alters it in some undetectable way so that they can later access the device, or the data on it.

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ABD: description

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file format for external customers that support AMBER like functions

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ACS

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Apple Cloud Service

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DT: definition and two goals

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Developer Tools
Planning to use virtual machine to test different OS and Xcode
replace Xcode simulator

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MAC stadium

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Build and run with macOS in the cloud

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Journaling file system

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Keep track of uncommitted changes in a data structure to avoid data corruptions

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CAS

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Build server

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What are the two ways to find build records?

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xbs buildrecords
knox download/extract build-record

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New train names

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Luck iOS
Cheer macOS
Napili watch
Charisma tv
Wonder Xcode
Discovery vision

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Libkrun

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Rust based virtual machine monitor that links directly to hypervisor framework

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Orbstack

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Run docker container and Linux on macOS VM

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Accelerate framework

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Make large scale mathematical computations and image calculations using SME and AMX

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Gray matter

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Apple intelligence

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Networking: ESP: define, who, what

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Encapsulating security payload
Member of IPSec set of protocols
encrypt and authenticate the data packets between computers using a VPN

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VMNet

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Apple Framework for virtual machines to read and write packets

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Stolen time

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Time that guest is ready to run but not scheduled

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Network link conditioner

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Xcode tool to control bandwidth, latency and packet loss

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VZVirtioSocketDevice

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A device that manages port-based connections between guest and host

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Four trap controls for performance monitors

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ARM PMU register
CPMU, UPMU and CLPC registers

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How CPMU registers are partitioned

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Guarded vs unguarded
Host vs guest

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Two functions of PMCR0_EL1

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Enabling CPMU counters
Configuring overflow interrupts

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Apple framework

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A bundled shared library (dylib), which contains code and miscellaneous files

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libSystem: 3 facts

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Darwin’s most essential library
Services provided by the lowest level of the C runtime
Wrappers over kernel functions

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NMOS

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Next mainline OS

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Linux namespace

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Partition kernel resources such that one set of processes sees one set of resources, while another set of processes sees a different set of resources

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VirtioFS: 3 facts

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This uses the FUSE protocol, funnels requests through shared memory, and handles them on macOS

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Recap

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API and CLI to Synthetically playback events or gestures on a device

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Virtio Net: what, how, who

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Paravirtualized network device
Use shared memory for data transmission
Adopted in Linux and other operating systems

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Impacts of entitlements on VM ISA

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security.hypervisor allows generic ISA
Private.hypervisor.apple - allows Apple ISA
private.hypervisor - allows Apple ISA at least but also internal ISA for
Development kernel, AppleInternal, research guests

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Darwin’s four kernel interfaces

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System calls
Mach traps
Machine dependent calls (machdep)
Comm page

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ACPI: definition, info, code, management

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Advanced configuration and power interface
Description of a computer’s configuration and its various components
Associate drivers with its system peripherals
Platform interfaces for power and system management

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PSCI: definition and four management functions

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Power state coordination interface
Core idle management
Dynamic addition and removal of cores
secondary core boot
System shutdown and reset

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SMCCC: 4 things being defined

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Defines a common calling mechanism to be used with SMC and HVC
Defines how registers are used to pass parameters and results
Defines service types
Defines Arm architectural calls

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NAT: definition and description

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Network address translation
Map one address space to another by modifying address information in the IP header in transit across a routing device or virtual machine monitor

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TAP in Linux: definition, what, vm, why

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Terminal access point
Network device mode that allows the creation of a virtual network interface
Support network backend for virtual machines
More performant and capable than SLIRP (user networking)

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CentOS: one liner

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Linux distribution derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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Three VMWare scheduling constraints

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Shares
Reservation
Limit

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50
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Two ways to put expiring workarounds

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_CFAppVersionCheckLessThan

dyld_program_sdk_at_least

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51
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Names of 1000 bytes to the power of 1 to 5

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Kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, petabytes

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Names of 1024 bytes to the power of 1 to 5

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Kibibytes, Mebibytes, Gibibytes, tebibytes, pebibytes

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PCIe BAR: what, where and how many

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Describe a memory region the CPU accesses to interact with a PCIe device
Defined in configuration space
Each device has 8 functions, and each has 6 BARs

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Kali Linux

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Debian based Linux distribution geared toward information security tasks

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P2V: definition and description

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Physical to virtual
Migration of physical machines to virtual machines

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Libkern

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C++ runtime environment in XNU

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IOKit: what, find, interface, support

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Objected oriented kernel drivers
A driver is looked up through IORegistry
Driver properties are provided in IOUserClient
Kernel APIs

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APFS: definition and 4 features

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Apple File System
Full 64-bit mode, snapshots, encryption, volume management

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APFS: definition and 4 features

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Apple File System
Full 64-bit mode, snapshots, encryption, volume management

60
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DMG: what, why

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Disk image
bundling software distribution into single files and can be mounted as a block device

61
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FSEvent: description

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File system wide notifications

62
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Apple CLI to gather details about every aspect of the system

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system_profiler

63
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Apple home applications

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MacOS: finder
iOS: SpringBoard
TvOS: Pineboard
WatchOS: carousel
AudioOS: soundboard

64
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Apple HID monitor

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MacOS: WindowServer
Others: backboardd

65
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Two entities of MacOS window

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IOSurface provides the visible view
Tactile layer provides user input

66
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VirtioBlk: what and how to communicate

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Simple virtual block device
Communication based on the virtio notification and queues

67
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Isochronous transfer in USB

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Transmit at a constant rate for real time information such as audio and video

68
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Bridged networking

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Replicate another node in the physical network and your VM will receive its own IP address if DHCP is enabled in the network

69
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SMBIOS: definition and function

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System Management BIOS
Reading management information produced by the BIOS of a computer

70
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MDM: definition and 2 facts

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Mobile device management
Securely and wirelessly configure a device by sending profiles and commands
Administer managed preferences

71
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Apple Open Directory: 2 facts

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Light weight directory protocol (LDAP) implementation from Apple
Organize information about a network’s users and resources

72
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When isn’t APFS clone used?

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Copy to a different volume
Copy nested directory
Extra: cp -c

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REST API: 2 facts

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conforms to the representational state transfer principles
Integrate applications and components in microservices architecture

74
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XPC services: 3 benefits

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mediate access to a shared resource
continue work beyond a client’s lifecycle
narrow the scope of access for different functionality

75
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3 Apple service types

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Launch agent
Launch daemon
XPC service

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GPTK

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Game porting kit

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Ray tracing

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Technique for rendering light transport

78
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Turing machine: what and why

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Abstract machine that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules
Prove properties of computation in general

79
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IPSW: definition and description

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iPhone software
File format for most Apple firmware

80
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Apple three commands to debug memory usage

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leaks —outputGraph
Footprint
Vmmap

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Owned unmapped memory

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Represent memory that your process allocated, shared with another process, unmapped from its own address space but not yet unmapped from the other process address space

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SFR

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System firmware and recovery

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EBS

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Block storage service designed for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

84
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BSD interface name

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Network driver name followed by a number.
Ex. En0

85
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Thimble

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Trusted hybrid inference machine learning

86
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TCB in security: definition and description

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Trusted computer base
Set of components that collectively enforce the system’s security properties

87
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Inode: definition and description

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Index node
Data structure that describes a file or directory

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VHDX

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Virtual hard disk drive of a virtual machine used by hyper-v

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Universal binary

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Package with one binary for each architecture

90
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Apple CLI to see architectures of a universal binary

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file

91
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Apple CLI to see details of a Mach O file

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otool

92
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WASM

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Web assembly

93
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Shared library cache

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Prelink various commonly used Mach O dylibs into one file per architecture

94
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What does kevent do?

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Block current thread until any of the requested events occur

95
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SPRR

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Shadow permissions remap registers

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APRR

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Access permissions remap registers

97
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CTRR

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Configurable text read only region

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CDN: d2

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Content distribution network
Geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers

99
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UAF

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Use after free

100
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Palladium

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In circuit emulation for verification and debug

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Amazon: AMI

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Amazon machine image

102
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AWS Nitro

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Combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor for running EC2 instances efficiently and securely

103
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VPC: d2

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Virtual private cloud
Networking for cloud based resources and services that is global, scalable and flexible

104
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Tart VM: 2 facts

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Link to virtualization framework
Run locally or in the cloud

105
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AI quantization: what, why

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Convert input values from a large set to output values in a small set
Reduce computation demands of AI models

106
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NumPy

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Python package for scientific computing

107
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Swift structured concurrency: two keywords

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Async to define a method for doing asynchronous work
Await to call an async method

108
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DPDK: D2

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Data Plane Development Kit
Open source kit consists of libraries to accelerate package processing workloads running on a wide variety of CPUs.

109
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Apple VideoToolbox: what and why

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Low level framework that provides direct access to hardware encoders and decoders
For video compression and decompression, and for conversion between raster image formats

110
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Rasterization

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Converting images in a vector graphics format to raster format used by display monitors

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TBB: d2

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Thread building block
C++ template library from Intel for parallel programming on multi core processors

112
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Future

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place holder for the result of an asynchronous operation

113
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Promise

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Set the value of a future once an asynchronous operation is complete

114
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Pure function: do, don’t

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Return the same result given the same argument
Cannot be affected by mutable states or other side effects

115
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VFS: define, what, why

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Virtual file system
Standard interface for all file systems
Enable Linux to support large number of file systems

116
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SQ: define, push, pop

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DI2 submission queue
Producer pushes a SQE for a new IO request, which rings the doorbell
Consumer pops a SQE to service the request

117
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CQ: define, push, pop

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DI2 Complete Queue
Push a CQE for a completed IO operation, which may invoke a callback function.
Pop CQE to acknowledge

118
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Upward dependency

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Two software modules that have link dependencies on each other

119
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TCC: definition, user perspective, OS perspective

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Transparency, consent and control
OS perspective: manager of authorizing system
User perspective: decision input point

120
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ACIO: DD

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Apple Converged Input Output
Apple trade-mark for USB 4.0

121
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OVS: definition, connections, routing

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Open vSwitch
Connecting different VMs and Internet
Route packets from vhost net and NIC

122
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Libvirt : 2 functions

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Translate XML configurations to QEMU CLI calls
Provide admin daemon to manage QMU child processes

123
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vhost protocol

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Allows the virtio data plane implementation to be offloaded to another element (user process or kernel module) for performance

124
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Two meanings of virtio net

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Virtio networking device implementation
Guest kernel front end described in the vhost net protocol

125
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DPDK: dd

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Data plane development kit
Bypass the kernel networking stack and directly access network devices

126
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AMFI: definition, two functions

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Apple Mobile files integrity
Validate code signatures
Ensure they are signed by a trusted authority

127
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ABA problem in concurrency

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A value is read is twice and it’s having the same value is used to conclude nothing has happened in the interim

128
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REMITS: what, each letter

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Chain of trust pipeline
Root of trust
Endorsement
Measurement
Identity
Trust
Secrets

129
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TCG in QEMU: D2

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Tiny Code Generator
Dynamic translation backend that translates guest code to host code

130
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When is RC_XBS defined?

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Both local and B&I builds using buildit

131
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When is RC_BUILDIT defined?

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local build using buildit

132
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COCONUT SVSM: what, trust, 3 services

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Secure VM service module
same trust boundary but isolated from guest operating system
vTPM
UEFI variable store
Live migration for CVMs

133
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IGVM: definition, 2 facts

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Independent guest virtual machine
Encapsulate all the information required to launch a virtual machine on any virtualization stack
Contain measurement

134
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ARC: define, how, so what

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Automatic reference counting
Retain and release are inserted at compile time
Deallocate objects with zero reference

135
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VPC: d2

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Virtual private cloud
An isolated and customizable network within a public cloud

136
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Syntactic sugar

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Programming syntax that’s easier to read and write

137
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Mersenne twister

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Pseudo number generator

138
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Paravisor: security, function

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Executed within the VM but higher privilege than the guest OS
Provide virtualization and device services

139
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OpenVMM

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Modular cross-platform virtual machine monitor written in Rust

140
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OpenHCL - what, parts, why

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Open source paravisor
Consists of OpenVMM, boot loader and Linux kernel
Confidential compute for non enlightened guests

141
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Progression of kernel memory corruption exploit - 6 steps

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vulnerability → constrained memory corruption → strong memory corruption → memory read/write → control flow integrity bypass → arbitrary code execution

142
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Monad: what, why

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Structure that combines program fragments and wraps their return values in a type with additional computations
Simplifying common operations and abstracting control flows

143
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Hyperlight: what, who

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Open Source Rust library enabling fast and secure execution of small functions using hypervisor based protection
Developed by Microsoft Azure

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