9.8 - Windows Client Firewall

With a Windows firewall, which option best describes the role of the access control list?

Permits or denies network traffic through a firewall.

You use a Windows desktop system. You need to configure Windows Firewall to allow traffic for a newly-installed application that dynamically opens multiple ports on an as-needed basis.

What should you do?

Add an exception for the application.

You need to change how Windows provides notifications when the firewall blocks a new program.

Click the links that you would choose to make this change. (Select two.)

Change Notification Settings

Turn Windows Defender On

You have a Windows system that has both wired and wireless network connections. The wired connection is on the internal private network, but the wireless connection is used for public connections.

You need to allow help desk users to use Remote Assistance to help you while working on the wired network, but you want to block any such access from the wireless network.

How can you configure Windows Firewall to allow and deny access as described?

Enable the Remote Assistance exception only on the private profile.

Which statements are true regarding firewalls? (Select two.)

Host-based firewalls are implemented using software and reside on the individual hosts within the network.

Network firewalls are typically implemented using hardware and positioned at the network's perimeter.

When should you disable the Windows firewall?

Only if the computer is protected by a different firewall program.

Which of the following predefined exceptions in Windows Firewall allows users to view and control remote desktops?

Remote Assistance

You have installed a new Windows system, and you have not changed the default configuration of the Windows Firewall.

How will the Windows Firewall handle inbound responses to requests sent from the local system?

All such traffic is allowed by default.

You have installed a new Windows system, and you have not changed the default configuration of the Windows Firewall.

How will the Windows Firewall handle inbound traffic that was initiated from an external server that a hacker is using to spread a worm?

All such traffic is blocked by default.

Windows provides several interfaces that can be used to configure the Windows Defender Firewall.

Drag the Windows Firewall interface on the left to its appropriate description on the right. (Each tool may be used once, more than once, or not at all.)

Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security

Allowed apps

Firewall & network protection

Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security

Firewall & network protection