The simplest form of a firewall is a packet filtering firewall. Typically a router works as a packet-filtering firewall and has the capability to filter on some of the contents of packets. On which of the following layers of the OSI reference model do these routers filter information?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A remote-access VPN offers secured and encrypted connections between mobile or remote users and their corporate network across public networks. Which of the following does the remote-access VPN use for offering these types of connections?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose two.
Which of the following statements about a host-based intrusion prevention system (HIPS) are true?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose two.
You work as a Network Administrator for Tech Perfect Inc. The company has a TCP/IP-based network. A Cisco switch is configured on the network. You change the original host name of the switch through the hostname command. The prompt displays the changed host name. After some time, power of the switch went off due to some reason. When power restored, you find that the prompt is displaying the old host name. What is the most likely cause?
John works as a professional Ethical Hacker. He is assigned a project to test the security of www.we-are-secure.com. You have searched all open ports of the we-are-secure server. Now, you want to perform the next information-gathering step, i.e., passive OS fingerprinting. Which of the following tools can you use to accomplish the task?
Sam works as a Network Administrator for Gentech Inc. He has been assigned a project to develop the rules that define the IDP policy in the rulebase. Which of the following will he define as the components of the IDP policy rule?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
You are the Network Administrator for a large corporate network. You want to monitor all network traffic on your local network for suspicious activities and receive a notification when a possible attack is in process. Which of the following actions will you take for this?
Which of the following firewall types operates at the Network layer of the OSI model and can filter data by port, interface address, source address, and destination address?
Which of the following protocols is used with a tunneling protocol to provide security?
An organization has more than a couple of external business, and exchanges dynamic routing information with the external business partners. The organization wants to terminate all routing from a partner at an edge router, preferably receiving only summary routes from the partner. Which of the following will be used to change all partner addresses on traffic into a range of locally assigned addresses?
