ITN 261 CH2 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
100% CORRECT
Domain Name Service (DNS) - ANSWERA hierarchical system of servers and services
specifically designed to translate IP addresses into domain names (forward lookups) as
well as the reverse (reverse lookups) is called
denial of service attack - ANSWERAn attack in which a service is overwhelmed by
traffic preventing or denying its legitimate use is called a
A firewall - ANSWERWhich of the following regulates the flow of traffic between different
networks?
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) - ANSWERWhich of the following was
designed for network diagnostics and to report logical errors?
Link state - ANSWERWhich routing protocol calculates the best path to a target network
by one or more metrics such as delay, speed, or bandwidth?
Distance vector - ANSWERWhich routing protocol makes a decision on what is the best
route by determining the shortest path?
the deny-all principle - ANSWERBlocking everything and allowing only what is needed
is known as
be put in promiscuous mode - ANSWERIn order to realize the full potential of a sniffer,
the network card must
Physical or Network Access Layer equipment - ANSWERRepeaters, hubs, bridges, and
switches are part of
wiretapping - ANSWERThe act of a third party covertly monitoring Internet and
telephone conversations is called
Ethernet - ANSWERThe most common type of network and the frames that come with it
is Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), also known as
User Datagram Protocol - ANSWERWhich of the following is a connectionless protocol
that offers speed and low overhead as its primary advantage?
100% CORRECT
Domain Name Service (DNS) - ANSWERA hierarchical system of servers and services
specifically designed to translate IP addresses into domain names (forward lookups) as
well as the reverse (reverse lookups) is called
denial of service attack - ANSWERAn attack in which a service is overwhelmed by
traffic preventing or denying its legitimate use is called a
A firewall - ANSWERWhich of the following regulates the flow of traffic between different
networks?
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) - ANSWERWhich of the following was
designed for network diagnostics and to report logical errors?
Link state - ANSWERWhich routing protocol calculates the best path to a target network
by one or more metrics such as delay, speed, or bandwidth?
Distance vector - ANSWERWhich routing protocol makes a decision on what is the best
route by determining the shortest path?
the deny-all principle - ANSWERBlocking everything and allowing only what is needed
is known as
be put in promiscuous mode - ANSWERIn order to realize the full potential of a sniffer,
the network card must
Physical or Network Access Layer equipment - ANSWERRepeaters, hubs, bridges, and
switches are part of
wiretapping - ANSWERThe act of a third party covertly monitoring Internet and
telephone conversations is called
Ethernet - ANSWERThe most common type of network and the frames that come with it
is Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), also known as
User Datagram Protocol - ANSWERWhich of the following is a connectionless protocol
that offers speed and low overhead as its primary advantage?
