Cloud
SaaS is an acronym for this.
What is Software as a Service?
Provides power to data center equipment during a short power outage.
What is uninterruptible power supply (UPS)?
Malware that encrypts data and requests payment to unencrypt it.
What is ransomware?
Validates connectivity of one system to another.
What is a ping?
Translates IP addresses to domain names.
What is domain name service (DNS)?
IaaS is an acronym for this.
What is Infrastructure as a Service?
HVAC is an acronym for this.
What is heating, ventilation and air conditioning?
System that requires more than one authentication category (something you know, something you have, something you are) to access a system.
What is multi-factor authentication (MFA)?
Lists ports through which a system can be accessed.
What is a port scanner (e.g. nmap)?
Assigns IP addresses to hosts on a network.
What is dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP)?
PaaS is an acronym for this?
What is Platform as a Service?
Provides a virtualized hardware environment for running virtual machines.
What is a hypervisor?
Element of the CIA triad that prevents unauthorized modification of data.
What is integrity?
Allows someone to examine the contents of packets traveling across a network.
What is a protocol analyzer (e.g. Wireshark)?
Protocol used to sychronize computer clocks to a time signal provided by a server.
What is network time protocol (NTP)?
What cloud service places the least administrative burden on the customer?
What is Software as a Service (SaaS)?
The layers of a three tier data center or enterprise network.
What is core, distribution, and access?
What is least privilege?
Reveals the routers a packet traverses to reach a destination.
What is traceroute or tracert?
Created on a DHCP server to always assign the same IP address to a specified host.
What is a DHCP reservation?
The organizaton functions as the provider and consumer in this cloud model - private cloud, public cloud, or hybrid cloud.
What is private cloud?
Centralizes a network's management/control plane while separating the data plane.
What is software defined network (SDN)?
A default policy that blocks all access to a system unless a specific rule granting access is configured is an example of this.
What is implicit deny?
Displays the mapping of MAC addresses to IP addresses on a host.
What is the arp command (e.g. arp -a)?
A client sends a DHCPDISCOVER message using this type of packet - unicast, multicast, broadcast or anycast.
What is broadcast?