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Windows 2000 Network Security - Midterm

Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 

1. 

____ is a system of protecting data that is sent across a public network by authenticating and validating users and by encrypting traffic on the network.
a.
IPSec
c.
Kerberos
b.
SMTP
d.
PKI
 

2. 

If you are working in a volatile company, where the company may do well one year and not so well the next, and you are in a bad year, your security plan will be focused on ____.
a.
all security issues
c.
addressing long term issues
b.
long-term projects
d.
dealing with problems after they happen
 

3. 

A security expert does not need to ____.
a.
know exactly what happens at each step of the business process
b.
understand the overall business processes
c.
understand the overall communication and information flow in the company
d.
None of the above.
 

4. 

A security plan is typically not useful for ____.
a.
determining what inappropriate Internet use is
b.
dealing with people that do not follow the security guidelines
c.
outlining a response plan to use if your Web server is under a DoS attack
d.
None of the above.
 

5. 

Which is not true about the creation of a security plan in an international corporation?
a.
If the corporate users are located around the world, you do not have the standard downtime at night when you can do server maintenance or backups.
b.
The possibility of several domains throughout the world can complicate something as simple as assigning share permissions.
c.
It must comply with security guidelines specific to international companies, not to individual countries.
d.
None of the above.
 

6. 

What is one of the biggest issues facing a small organization?
a.
Securing WAN connections.
b.
The lack of a person dedicated to managing the security of the IT infrastructure.
c.
Securing multiple access points to the Internet.
d.
All of the above.
 

7. 

____ provides name resolution services for Windows NT.
a.
Active Directory
c.
DNS
b.
WINS
d.
DHCP
 

8. 

Which remote access authentication option is the least secure and is used mainly by non-Windows clients?
a.
Digest Authentication
c.
CHAP
b.
PAP
d.
EAP
 

9. 

NTFS permissions are set on the ____ tab, which may be accessed by right-clicking on any file or folder and selecting Properties.
a.
General
c.
Managed By
b.
Security
d.
Object
 

10. 

By default, Full Control of the Registry is not assigned to the ____.
a.
Administrators account
c.
Everyone group
b.
System Account
d.
Both B and C.
 

11. 

Which is not true about OUs?
a.
You can delegate administrative permissions at an OU level.
b.
If you assign permissions to an OU, all of the users in that OU automatically inherit those permissions.
c.
Verify that the OU structure you develop is relatively stable, even if the company should reorganize.
d.
Avoid creating an OU structure that contains too many levels of OUs nested inside other OUs.
 

12. 

When a new Active Directory forest is created by installing the forest root domain, the ____ group is created, and its users are the only users who have the right to make any changes to the Active Directory schema.
a.
Schema Admins
c.
Administrators
b.
Domain Admins
d.
Enterprise Admins
 

13. 

Which is not true about security templates?
a.
They help ensure that a consistent setting can be applied to multiple machines.
b.
They are text-based files.
c.
They are often changed by the administrator.
d.
None of the above.
 

14. 

When setting up security templates, which Account Policy sub-category allows you to set session and TGT ticket lifetime?
a.
Password Policy
c.
Account Lockout Policy
b.
Kerberos Policy
d.
Security Policy
 

15. 

When setting up security templates, which is not a sub-category under the Local Policy category?
a.
Account Lockout Policy
c.
User Rights Assignment
b.
Audit Policy
d.
Security Options
 

16. 

Which groups can be used to assign permissions anywhere in the forest and are listed in the Global Catalog, but the group membership is not?
a.
computer local
c.
global
b.
domain local
d.
universal
 

17. 

Any access permissions given to the Everyone group give permissions to the ____ group.
a.
Users
c.
Backup Operators
b.
Guests
d.
None of the above.
 

18. 

When creating digital signatures, which is not true?
a.
Any change to the message makes the message digest invalid.
b.
The message digest is encrypted using the sender's private key.
c.
The receiver's public key is used to decrypt the digital signature.
d.
None of the above.
 

19. 

____ is a proposed standard for secure e-mail.
a.
Authenticode
c.
PGP
b.
Verisign
d.
S/MIME
 

20. 

With IPSec, encryption takes place at the Internet Protocol network layer.  This means that the encryption is ____.
a.
visible to the applications at higher levels of the TCP/IP stack but invisible to the lower physical layers
b.
visible to the applications at higher levels of the TCP/IP stack and the lower physical layers
c.
invisible to the applications at higher levels of the TCP/IP stack but visible to the lower physical layers
d.
invisible to the applications at higher levels of the TCP/IP stack and the lower physical layers
 

21. 

If you are managing certificates only for users in your organization, and all of the users that require certificates have Active Directory accounts, then the ____ CA is the best option.
a.
enterprise
c.
standalone root
b.
subordinate enterprise
d.
subordinate standalone
 

22. 

If you are going to be handing out certificates to users outside your organization, or if you want to install a subordinate CA to a commercial CA, then you need to install a(n) ____ CA.
a.
enterprise
c.
standalone
b.
subordinate enterprise
d.
subordinate standalone
 

23. 

In most cases, when choosing the name of the Web site to which you are assigning the certificate, you should choose ____ bits as the length of the encryption key.
a.
32
c.
128
b.
1024
d.
64
 

24. 

When configuring the server to require SSL, use the ____ option to configure whether or not you want to require client certificates when clients connect to the server.
a.
Client Certificates
c.
Enable certificate trust list
b.
Enable client certificate mapping
d.
Require secure channel
 

25. 

If you are implementing an internal Certificate Server CA hierarchy that is part of a larger commercial CA hierarchy, install a Windows 2000 ____ CA and send the subordinate certificate request to a third-party CA.
a.
enterprise
c.
standalone root
b.
subordinate enterprise
d.
subordinate standalone
 



 
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