IT Specialist
Network Specialist
Cybersecurity
Computer History
100

This is used on a Windows computer to occasionally transfer unused application data to the computer's SSD.

What is Virtual Memory (or pagefile or swapfile)?

100

This can double the network capacity between two switches.

What is link aggregation (LAG)?

100

In a cybersecurity exercise this group of security professionals is responsible for identifying vulnerabilities and deploying patches.

What is a blue team?

100

This is the year that the first Apple Macintosh was released.

What is 1984?

200

 The number of drives a motherboard with 2 SATA connectors can have.

What is the number 2?

200

This protocol prevents loops from occurring in a layer 2 loop which will prevent downtime.

What is spanning tree protocol (STP)?

200

Generating a list of a company's employee names found on social media is an example of this.

What is passive foot printing?

200

These were the 3 applications released with the first version of Microsoft Office in 1990.

What is Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint?

300

This is used by a system administrator to update the password policies for all devices on a Windows Domain.

What is gpupdate?

300

This is a device used to forward traffic between two separate IP sub-nets.

What is a router?

300

Identifying a Windows server vulnerability on a computer running Linux is known as this.

What is a False Positive?

300

This was the first web browser released in 1990.

What is WorldWideWeb (or Nexus as it was later known)?

400

This RAID level will duplicate data across multiple disks.

What is level 1?

400

This is the metric used to determine the best route when using routing information protocol (RIP).

What is the number of hops?

400

This type of wireless network security limits access using physical hardware addresses.

What is MAC filtering?

400

This was the first recognized computer virus initially released on January 19, 1986.

What is brain?

500

This terminal command is used on a Linux system to configure a file to be read-only.

What is chmod?

500

This is the compressed IPv6 address of 2601:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0007.

What is 2604::7?

500

A security framework that is mandatory for US federal agencies and includes a six-step process.

What is NIST RMF (National Institute of Standards and Technology Risk Management Framework.)?

500

This is the year the last slide rule was manufactured.

What is 1976?