Troubleshooting
A hardware issue often indicated by high temperatures, caused by factors like dust buildup, malfunctioning fans, or dried thermal paste.
A security mechanism that requires users to provide two or more verification factors to gain access, adding extra layers of authentication
What is MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication)?
A cloud computing model that provides users with full administrative control over virtualized computing resources, including VMs, networking, and storage.
What is IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)?
A tool used to verify the electrical continuity and correct pinout of a network cable.
What is a Cable Tester?
AI-generated synthetic media, such as fake videos or voices, created for the purpose of deception.
What is a Deepfake?
A command-line utility that uses ICMP echo requests to test network reachability to a destination and measure round-trip latency.
What is the Ping command?
A security concept that dictates users and systems should be granted only the minimum access and permissions necessary to perform their required tasks.
What is Principle of Least Privilege?
Microsoft's native virtualization platform for creating and managing virtual machines.
What is Hyper-V?
A network medium that transmits data using light pulses. It is immune to electromagnetic interference (EMI) and supports high speeds over long distances.
What is a Fiber Optic Cable?
A risk in AI systems where biased training data leads to the model producing biased or unfair outcomes.
What is Data Bias?
A network configuration error where two connected devices have different duplex settings (e.g., one half-duplex, one full-duplex), leading to collisions and slow performance.
What is Duplex Mismatch?
A security strategy that involves layering multiple security controls to reduce overall risk.
What is Defense in Depth?
A cloud computing model which contains all the tools necessary for application development.
What is Platform as a Service (PaaS)?
A network device that forwards traffic between different networks, operating at Layer 3.
What is a Router?
An ethical principle in AI, often codified in regulations, that allows users to request an explanation for decisions made by an automated or AI system.
What is Right to Explanation?
DAILY TRIPLE
This is the first step of troubleshooting that everyone should do.
What is turning it off and on again?
This type of firewall does not maintain any information about the active connections and routes packets based on predefined rules.
What is a Stateless Firewall?
This cloud type is shared between multiple organizations.
What is a Community Cloud?
This network service can mask your private IP address by translating it to a public IP address.
What is Network Address Translation (NAT)?
An A.I. model that generates new data using the input prompt.
What is Generative A.I?
Your machine is not starting and you are seeing the lights blink in a pattern. You have tested all of your components and confirm they all work. What error has occurred?
What is a POST error?
This type of malware is notable for its ability to self-replicate across machines on the network.
What is a Worm?
This BIOS setting is required to allow your computer to create and run virtual machines.
What is Hardware Virtualization?
DAILY DOUBLE
What is the broadcast address of the subnet that the following IP address is on?
192.168.5.188/26
What is 192.168.5.191?
If you were a researcher of A.I. in the 1970s or 1980s, the general doubt about the feasibility of intelligent machines might have led you to call this time period what?
What is the A.I Winter?