Which risk management plan involves discontinuing an activity that creates a risk? risk retention risk avoidance risk sharing risk reduction The correct answer is: Risk avoidance. Understanding Risk Avoidance in…
A social media site is describing a security breach in a sensitive branch of a national bank. In the post, it refers to a vulnerability. What statement describes that term?…
Why do IoT devices pose a greater security risk than other computing devices on a network? IoT devices cannot function on an isolated network with only an Internet connection Most…
What type of attack allows an attacker to use a brute-force approach? Packet sniffing Password cracking Denial of service Social engineering The correct answer is: Password cracking. Understanding Password Cracking…
A set of changes done to any program or application with the aim of updating, fixing or improving it is often referred to as what? A hack A fix An…
What technology is used to negotiate security associations and calculate shared keys for an IPsec VPN tunnel? 3DES IKE PSK SHA Understanding IKE and Its Role in IPsec VPN Tunnels…
A technician uses the ping 127.0.0.1 command. What is the technician testing? the TCP/IP stack on a network host connectivity between two adjacent Cisco devices connectivity between a PC and…
Which parameter does the router use to choose the path to the destination when there are multiple routes available? the lower metric value that is associated with the destination network…
A PC user issues the netstat command without any options. What is displayed as the result of this command? a local routing table a network connection and usage report a…
Which of the following firewalls hides or masquerades the private addresses of network hosts? Proxy server Host-based firewall Reverse proxy firewall Network address translation firewall Network layer firewall The correct…