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Parts

100

This is the name of a physical part that can be moved to reset the BIOS to defaults.  (Double points if you name two)

CMOS battery / Jumper

200

This is a more common name for a DB15 connector

What is VGA (or 15 pin VGA)

300

This is the name of the chipset portion that handles data from PCI

Northbridge handles fast PCI/RAM connections

400

This is the name of the physical part that allows whole disk encryption and secure boot.

TPM (Trusted Platform Module)

500

This is the name of a power plug, generally white plastic with four female connectors.

MOLEX

Security

100

This policy helps to make logon credentials harder to guess by increasing the number of potential options.

Password complexity

200

This is a common term for hiding rather than locking which is ultimately no security at all.

security through obscurity

300

This is a policy that specifies it is not ok to leave physical copies of sensitive items out.

clean desk policy

400

This is the problem that occurs when a cached logon and domain auth logon are not the same.

AD password sync 

500

A computer that is not joined to a domain can only logon this way.

Locally

Ports and Protocols

100

These are the ports and protocols to send and receive web pages, both secured and insecure.

HTTP/80

HTTPS/443

200

This is the definition and purpose of SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol, collects and communicates messages about the status and configuration of devices -- specifically used for monitoring device statuses and alerting.

300

These are the ports and protocols required for mail inbound over internet messaging access and the third version of the post office protocol as well as sending mail to the transfer agents.

IMAP 143

POP3 110

SMTP 25

400

In a mixed windows/mac environment, these are the two ports/protocols you need to open for file sharing.

445 SMB/CIFS (windows)

548 AFP (mac)

500

On the board, create a firewall rule list the allow both secure and insecure webpages inbound and outbound, imap mail inbound, smtp outbound, RDP in and out, and filesharing across any private address space for both mac and windows.

check the board...

Binary

100

This is the binary representation of 11111110

254

200

This is the binary representation of 240

11110000

300

This is the decimal notation subject mask of a /30 network.

255.255.255.252

400

This is the cidr notation of a 255.255.255.248 subnet mask

/29

500

This is a valid APIPA address.  

Double points to define what APIPA stands for.

Triple points for the default APIPA subnet mask.  

APIPA: Automatic Private Internet Protocol Addressing.  

169.254.0.1 through 169.254.255.254. 

Default class B subnet mask of 255.255.0.0. 

Networks

100

This is the official identifier of wireless standards

802.11

200

A wireless network broadcasts this to let users know it exists.  Double points to explain what the letters mean.

SSID = Service Set IDentifier

300

This is an insecure option that should never be used when setting up a wireless network. (Hint: It's not "open")

Double points to name what the letters stand for.

WEP = Wired Equivalent Protection

400

This is the most secure option to chose when setting up a wireless network.

WPA2+AES

500

These are practical reasons to have a DMZ, DHCP pool, and Static pool.

DMZ to separate devices available from the internet.

DHCP for often disconnected/reconnected devices so IP addressing is automatic.

Static for core services where IP addresses should remain the same even after dis/re connection.