Security+ Acronym Test

1. Access _______ List (ACL) is a table or data file that specifies whether a user or group has access to a specific resource on a computer or network.

Center

Checkpoint

Control

Confidentiality

2. Network- __________ Detection System (N-IDS) attaches the system to a point in the network where it can monitor and report on all network traffic.

Internet

Intrusion

Institute

Infrastructure

3. ___________ Zone (DMZ) is an area for placing web and other servers outside the firewall, therefore, isolation them from internal network access.

Demilitarized

Data Messaging

Mantrap

DeArmored

4. A derivative of a DoS attack in which multiple hosts in multiple locations all focus on one target to reduce its availability to the public. ___________ Denial of Service (DDOS) Stands for:

Distributed

Discretionary

Demilitarized

Derivative

5. A calculation that is used to identify risks and calculate the expected loss each year is _______ Loss Expectancy (ALE)?

All

Annual

Authenticated

Accepted

6. Protocol used to map known IP addresses to unknown physical addresses is Address __________ Protocol (ARP) Stands for?

Resolution

Repair

Recovery

Rescission

7. Between 1901 and 1988 as the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), which is a measurement standards labratory which is a non-regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce is now called the National _______ of Standards and Technology (NIST)?

Internet

Intrustion

Institute

Infrastructure

8. Pretty _______ Privacy (PGP) is an implementation of RSA encryption.

Great

Good

Group

Golden

9. Password __________ Protocol (PAP) is accomplished by sending the username and password to the server and having them verified.

Accessing

Access

Activity

Authentication

10. All communications look as if they originated from a proxy server because the IP address of the user making a request is hidden is also known as Network _________ Translation (NAT)?

Authentication

Address

Access

Algorithm

11. A protocol that challenges a system to verify identity which is an improvement over Password Authentication Protocol is Challenge _________ Authentication Protocal (CHAP)?

Host

Hopping

Hyper

Handshake

12. While Plain Old _________ Service (POTS )provides limited features, low bandwith and no mobile capabilities, it provides greater reliability than other telephony systems mobile phone, VOIP, etc.

Transport

Text

Transfer

Telephone

13. A method of restricting access to objects based on the identity of the subjects or the groups to which they belong is _________ Access Control (DAC)?

Discredited

Discretionary

Denial

Dynamic

14. A security policy wherein labels are used to identify the sensitivity of objects is ________ Access Control (MAC)?

Managed

Multipurpose

Mandatory

Microsoft