Review Questions

1. Firewalls provide security through what mechanism?

A. Watching for intrusions

B. Controlling traffic entering and leaving a network

C. Requiring strong passwords

D. Preventing misuse of company resources

2. A network-based IDS is not suitable for detecting or protecting against which of the following?

A. Email spoofing

B. Denial-of-service attacks

C. Attacks against the network

D. Attacks against an environment that produces significant traffic

3. Which of the following allows the deployment of a publicly accessible web server without compromising the security of the private network?

A. Intranet

B. DMZ

C. Extranet

D. Switch

4. A switch can be used to prevent broadcast storms between connected systems through the use of what? ...

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