CNIT 242 Exam 1 Questions and Correct Answers 2025/2026

CNIT 242 Exam 1 Questions and Correct Answers 2025/2026 What does AAA stand for? - Answer -Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting What question does Authentication answer? - Answer -Do you have the credentials necessary to access this system? What question does Authorization answer? - Answer -Once authenticated, what do you have permission to do? What question does Accounting answer? - Answer -Once authorized to access a resource, how much of the resource are you using? Authentication can be accomplished using any of what 4 qualifications? - Answer -What you know, what you have, what you are, where you are What is two-factor authentication? - Answer -Using two of the 4 authentication qualifications to prove an identity. What 2 steps does the authentication process involve? - Answer - Identification and proof of identification What are ways to provide identification? - Answer -User ID, physical object (such as ATM card), biometrics, digital certificates What are ways to provide proof of identification? - Answer -passwords, access codes, one-time tokens, biometrics, digital certificatesWhat are strategic ways to develop user IDs? - Answer -computer generated (NEVER simple names), sometimes created to some algorithm, NEVER use the same as email address True or False: UID / password combo can be a powerful method of authentication if properly managed - Answer -True What is the number one rule of password security? - Answer -DON'T WRITE PASSWORDS DOWN What is the security tradeoff with password? - Answer -The more strict the password rules, the higher the chances users will violate the first rule of secure passwords What are biometrics? - Answer -authentication. functions as both ID and proof of ID, separated into physiological and behavioral What are digital certificates? - Answer -a form of authentication. encrypted data files that uses a Certificate Authority to guarantee the identity of the holder What does RADIUS stand for and what does it provide? - Answer - Remote Access Dial-In User Service, both Authentication and Authorization What does TACAS+ stand for? - Answer -Terminal Access Controller Access Control Service Plus Where does authentication across the network exist? - Answer -on the local computer by default, but in an enterprise environment, it will be on a different server