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Question 1

What is a swap partition?

Answer 1

It’s a strategy to mitigate memory starvation when a system is running out of memory. To employ it, Linux moves or swaps out blocks of non-critical memory to disk and swaps them back in on demand.

It’s a type of virtual memory.

Question 2

What file type protocol is AD?

Answer 2

LDAP.

Question 3

Difference between worms and viruses?

Answer 3

The main difference is how they self-replicate, with viruses requiring the help of a host and worms acting independently. Unlike viruses, worms can replicate and spread without any human activation.

Question 4

Windows 32 bit 10 requirements?

Answer 4

1 ram 1 core and 16 GB

1116

Question 5

Windows 10 64 bit requirements?

Answer 5

1 core dual, 2 ram and 32 gb

1232

Question 6

Windows 11 requirements?

Answer 6

1 dual core, 4 ram, 64 gb

Question 7

Trojan and virus difference?

Answer 7

Trojans infiltrate, viruses replicate.

Question 8

What is whaling?

Answer 8

Going after the big whale; CEO’s.

Question 9

What is VRAM?

Answer 9

RAM for GPU, graphics cards.

Question 10

What’s best TKIP or AES?

Answer 10

AES.

Question 11

Malware removal steps?

Answer 11

Identify
Quarantine
Disable system restore
Remove
Update and scans
Restore system restore
Educate user

Question 12

MBR specs?

Answer 12

Max HDD is 2TB and can only have 4 primary partitions.

Question 13

GPT specs?

Answer 13

Max 128 primary partitions. Use when partition is 2 TB+

Question 14

What is ps in Linux?

Answer 14

Processes.

Question 15

What is cat command in Linux?

Answer 15

It reads data from the file and gives its content as output.

Question 16

What is a NAS device?

Answer 16

Makes data continuously available for employees to collaborate effectively over a network. Like a SAN.

Question 17

What does WPS on a router do?

Answer 17

Allows any device to automatically connect to your router when the WPS button is pressed. Insecure and turn it off.

Question 18

What is an array?

Answer 18

A list of related values.

Question 19

What are the change management steps?

Answer 19

Determine the scope of the change.
Analyze the risk associated with the change.
Create a plan.
Get end-user approval.
Present the proposal to the change control board.
Have a backout plan.
Document the changes.

Question 20

What is RPO?

Answer 20

Recovery point objective. A max amount of data that can be lost before impacting a business.

Question 21

What is DLP?

Answer 21

Data loss protection software. Scans network and stops data loss.

Question 22

What are thin clients?

Answer 22

A sort of virtual computer, existing on the network. Basic, cheap and doesn’t need licenses.

Question 23

What does this mean:

rwx-r–r–

Answer 23

This means owner can read, write and execute.

Group can read.

Others can read.

Question 24

What is VSS?

Answer 24

A type of backup that creates snapshots of files.

Question 25

What does nslookup do?

Answer 25

Checks DNS.

Question 26

What is NTLDR?

Answer 26

It is the windows bootloader.

Question 27

What is Samba?

Answer 27

A cross platform SMB protocol allowing all systems to share files and printers.

Question 28

What is MMC?

Answer 28

You use Microsoft Management Console (MMC) to create, save and open administrative tools, called consoles, which manage the hardware, software, and network components of your Microsoft Windows operating system.

Question 29

What is UWP?

Answer 29

A universal windows platform for all things to be cross platform like Xbox and pc and their software to be interconnected.

Question 30

What is WDS?

Answer 30

It deploys windows without the need to be present and uses install images. Deployment of windows over a network.

PXE.