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What are three elements of network management?   Security, Performance, Reliability  
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What is the difference between a Manager and an Agent?   agent = software that send alerts, manager = react to received alerts  
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What is MIB?   Management Information Base  
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What are management Proxies?   Entities that provide management information on behalf of other entities.  
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What is SNMP?   Simple Network Management Protocol  
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Why would you do a network audit?   Know equipment on network, location, normal operation. Then you know when something is abnormal.  
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What is a baseline?   Normal status on the network, provides a reference point  
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Name five types of audits.   Inventory, Facility, Operational, Efficiency, Security  
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What is the difference between the five audit types above?   They should be done in order Inventory > Security  
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What is EMI?   Electromagnetic Interference  
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What is RFI?   Radio Frequency Interference  
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What is SOAP?   Simple Object Access Protocol  
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What is NFS?   Network File System  
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What is a RFC?   Request For Comments  
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What is CIFS?   Common Internet File System. Microsoft's renaming of future versions of the SMB protocol.  
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What is SMB the same as?   CIFS  
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What does SMB stand for?   Server Message Block  
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What is SAMBA?   Unix applications that speak the SMB protocol  
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What is smbd?   Daemon that allows file and printer sharing on an SMB network and provides authentication and authorization for SMB clients.  
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What is nmbd?   Daemon that looks after the WINS (windows internet name service) and assists with browsing.  
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What is SFU and what can it do?   Service for Unix, file sharing, remote access & admin, password synch, common directory management, common set of utilities, and a shell.  
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What does SAN stand for?   Storage Area Network  
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What does NAS stand for?   Network Attached Storage  
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What does DAS stand for?   Direct Attached Storage  
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What does SCSI stand for?   Small Computer System Interface  
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What is Fibre Channel?   Technology for transmitting data between computer devices  
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What is iSCI?   SCSI over and IP network  
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What is the difference between Postscript and PCL?   Postscript was developed initially by Adobe  
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What is a WinPrinter?   Printer that usually will only come with Windows drivers  
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What is CUPS?   Common Unix Printing System  
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What is Raster Graphics?   Bitmapped graphics  
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What is Vector Graphics?   Mathematically generated points, lines, and shapes  
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What does BIND stand for?   Berkeley Internet Name Domain  
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What is the purpose of using a PROXY server?   Filter out content and improve performance through caching  
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What is a FIREWALL?   A system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a private network (intranet).  
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Name three techniques used by firewalls.   Packet filter, Application gateway, Stateful inspection  
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What is IP spoofing?   An intruder sends messages to a computer with an IP address indicating that the message is coming from a trusted host.  
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What does DMZ stand for?   Demilitarized Zone  
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What is a gateway?   A combination of hardware and software that links two different types of networks.  
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What is an Extranet?   business-to-business intranet that allows limited, controlled, secure access between a company's intranet and designated, authenticated users from remote locations  
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What is XML?   Extensible Markup Language  
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What is LDAP?   Lightweight Directory Access Protocol  
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What is ADSL?   Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line  
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What is IMAP?   Internet Message Access Protocol  
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What is the difference between Unicode and ASCII?   ASCII = 8 bit, Unicode = 16 bit  
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What is MIME?   Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions  
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What is SMTP?   Simple Mail Transfer Protocol  
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What is MTA?   Message Transfer Agent  
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Name two examples of MTA's.   UNIX sendmail and Microsoft Exchange Server  
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What are two examples of MUA?   Eudora and Outlook  
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What does MAPI stand for?   Messaging Application Programming Interface  
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What does CGI stand for?   Common Gateway Interface  
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Name some technologies to create dynamic web sites.   Java, Javascript, Perl, C/C++, and ASP  
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What is a persistent connection in HTTP?   single TCP connection, more efficient  
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What is multi‐threading?   Manage multiple threads of a single program at the same time. Allows for multiple users on a single program.  
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What is inetd?   Internet Service Daemon, provides internet services on unix systems  
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Describe load balancing using DNS as described in notes.   Multiple copies of site on separate physical servers.  
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What are problems with load balancing using DNS?  Choose best answer.   Difficult to determine which IP client will use, will use same IP as long as it's cached, possible that server could get overloaded still.  
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How can you speed up web page access from a single server?  Choose the best answer.   Better hardware (disk, memory, CPU), memory generally most important, proxy server, SSL acceleration if encrypted.  
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What does SSL stand for?   Secure Sockets Layer  
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What does TLS stand for?   Transport Layer Security  
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What does XML stand for?   Extensible Markup Language  
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What is a disadvantage of CGI?   SLOW, each request of dynamic document launches a new program.  
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What advantage does servlets have over ASPs?   Cached  
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What is Oracle?   Company which specializes in database tools/hardware.  
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What does PHP now stand for?   Hypertext Preprocessor  
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What port is used by default for HTTP?   80  
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What does JSP stand for?   JavaServer Pages  
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What is Apache?   Popular, reliable web server  
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What does RDB stand for?   Relational Database  
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What does ASP stand for?   Microsoft Active Server Pages  
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What does S/MIME stand for?   Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions  
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What does ANSI stand for?   American National Standards Institute  
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What does SQL stand for?   Structured Query Language  
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Name three email clients.   Outlook, Eudora, Thunderbird  
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What does URL stand for?   Uniform Resource Locator  
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What does JDBC stand for?   Java Database Connectivity  
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What does HTTP stand for?   Hypertext Transfer Protocol  
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What does MHTML stand for?   MIME HTML, Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions Hypertext Transfer Protocol  
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What is concurrency control?   Allows two people to work on same database record at same time without corrupting data.  
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What does NNTP stand for?   Network News Transfer Protocol  
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What is Availability?   Ability to support non-stop (24x7) operations.  
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Which of the following is an example of a URL?    
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Another term for Application Server is?   Middleware  
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What is Normalization?   Organizing database to minimize redundancy  
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What is a differential backup?   Only data changed since last backup  
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What is a transaction log?   Tracks all modifications performed within a database.  
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What does it mean to rollback a transaction?   Allows users to "undo" database transactions  
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What does LDAP stand for?   Lightweight Directory Access Protocol  
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What does ‘Committed’ mean in database terms?   Permanently stored transactions in database  
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What is DB2?   IBM Database Server Software  
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What is MySQL?   Open source relational database system (free)  
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Explain what three‐tiered means?   Database, Client Program, and Application Server  
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What does J2EE stand for?   Java Platform, Enterprise Edition  
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What does ODBC stand for?   Open Database Connectivity  
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What does SOAP stand for?   Simple Object Access protocol  
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What does DBMS stand for?   Database Management Systems  
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What is Scalability?   Ability to grow and handle much larger demands.  
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What would let you log into a network, then access various resources without needing to provide your username. username.   LDAP  
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What is more secure SSL or TLS?   TLS  
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