Week 3 - Software Services

Question 1

What are software services?

Answer 1

services/programs that employees use for their daily job functions

Question 2

What does POP3 stand for?

Answer 2

Post Office Protocol 3

Question 3

How does POP3 work?

Answer 3

It downloads an email from the email server to your local device, then deletes the email from the email server

Question 4

What does IMAP stand for?

Answer 4

Internet Message Access Protocol

Question 5

What does IMAP allow you to do?

Answer 5

It allows you to download emails from your email server onto multiple devices

Question 6

What are the 2 protocols that enable us to make our web servers secure?

Answer 6

1. TLS - Transport Layer Security protocol (replaced SSL)
2. SSL - Secure Socket Layer protocol (old and insecure)

Question 7

What is HTTP also referred to as since there are 2 protocols that enable us to make our web servers more secure? (2)

Answer 7

1. HTTP/TLS
2. HTTP/SSL

Question 8

What’s a certificate authority?

Answer 8

A step in enabling TLS for your web server, it provides a certificate to your site saying “I trust that you control the server” and that you are who you say you are