MIS 341

Tara had originally created a /28 mask for the 12 servers in the sales group server pool. However, her company has just merged with a competitor, and she needs to expand the subnet to accommodate another 20 servers. Which of the following new subnet masks will accommodate the new servers in addition to the original servers while having the fewest number of unused IP addresses remaining?

/26

Glenn has been tasked with creating a few new virtual machines for a new project that will be used by the finance department. It will contain sensitive data about the company and its operations. Which of the following is the most important thing for Glenn to consider as he's creating the virtual machines?

Which region he is creating the virtual machines in

Thelonius has just created a new virtual machine. By default, the cloud service provider automatically configured it as part of a class C private network. Which of the following is the default subnet mask expressed in CIDR notation that was configured?

/24

Carl has created a virtual machine on the cloud service provider that his company uses and has given it a static private IP address. He wants to make this server is the new web server for the company's website. Which of the following is required to allow that server to perform in that role?

IG

Abby has just created a new virtual machine. Once it has been installed, she connects to it and finds that it has configured the default subnet mask for a class A network. Which of the following subnet masks was automatically configured for this server?

255.0.0.0

Finn needs to create multiple virtual networks using a /28 mask. How many devices can he put on each subnet?

14

Michonne currently manages a private cloud that has been built out in an on-premises data center. Some of the servers are reaching the end of their life, and she has been tasked with finding a solution that minimizes the amount of capital investment necessary. Which of the following might she choose to implement for her company?

VPC

Fictional Corp has just moved its web server from its on-premises data center to a cloud service provider. Which of the following most likely needs to be changed by an administrator?

DNS Entries

Maggie wants to create a small subnetwork for the Human Resources servers that her organization uses. There are currently 10 servers, but she also needs to plan for 50 percent growth over the next two years. Which of the following subnet masks would give her adequate IP address space while leaving the fewest number of unused IP addresses in the block?

255.255.255.240

Enid is implementing new systems on a cloud service provider and needs to ensure that the finance systems and HR systems cannot communicate with each other without going through a virtual router. Which of the following should she implement

Different subnets for each department

Patti's company has just migrated the only Windows server in a particular VPC to a different VPC. Which of the following should she do next?

Disable port 3389 on the firewall of the original VPC.

Laurel is selecting a VPN protocol for her company's network. This network includes a large number of users that move between wireless hotspots in the course of their jobs. User privacy is also required when using the VPN. Which protocol should Laurel consider using?

IKEv2

Davis has been analyzing the on-premises data center and determined that the data center can handle most of the traffic on a day-to-day basis. However, there are times when the bandwidth becomes saturated, and he needs to find a solution to push the excess traffic out to virtual machines on a cloud service provider. Which of the following describes the technique he is looking to implement?

Cloud bursting

Colm is designating the QoS level to the messages on his corporation's network and has determined a certain type of message should be delivered exactly once when it is sent. Which QoS level should he designate these messages?

QoS 2

Frederica is installing more infrastructure in her company's on-premises data center. She has installed 10 servers, but there is only one switch in the rack that the new equipment is going in. Which of the following technologies can she use to segment the servers into two groups without having to add a new switch that will also put them into separate broadcast domains?

VLAN

Vahé is working on a Linux system and wants to determine which routers a packet will traverse when a packet is sent to a certain destination. Which of the following command line tools can he use to find that information?

traceroute

Olivia manages a group of Windows and Linux servers. She knows there is a command that she can use to view currently open network connections that works on both platforms. Which of the following commands will she most likely use?

netstat

Emily has just migrated the email from the company's on-premises data center to a cloud service provider. She has modified the appropriate A records, but e-mail isn't being delivered to the new servers. Which of the following records does she still need to modify?

MX

Darnell does not want to manually assign IP addresses to clients on one of the network segments that he manages. Instead, he wants clients to obtain an IP address from a server that manages a pool of IP addresses. Which of the following technologies should he implement?

DHCP

Adrienne wants to be able to analyze the traffic coming into a Linux server's network interface. Which of the following command line utilities will allow her to see this information?

tcpdump

Nirav is considering using private key encryption for transmitting messages from his VPC. What is a possible problem this may cause when he attempts to implement it?

Private key encryption requires the decryption key to somehow be sent in a secure manner.

Darren wants to implement a technology on the company's servers that will detect any intrusions as well as implement rules or other methods to immediately stop traffic that appears to be an intrusion. Which of the following is he looking to install?

HIPS

Jon recently returned from an IT conference where he learned about a technology that could alert the administrators to any intrusions that may occur by installing software on each of the servers within the cloud deployment. Unfortunately, this system wouldn't stop the intrusion automatically. Which of the following technologies did he learn about?

HIDS

Theo wants to transfer some files to one of the Linux servers that he manages. Which of the following would ensure that the transmissions are secure while not relying on SSL/TLS for the encryption?

SFTP

Kareem has set up a new web server on the company's private cloud. He has installed the security certificate necessary so that the application can be accessed by HTTPS. He isn't overly familiar with how these certificates work, so he decides to read up on the details. He learns that there is a pair of keys used to encrypt and decrypt the initial communications. Which of the following is the key that does not get sent to the browser?

Private key

Marcella has been hired to perform an audit of a security incident where a large corporation was using an open-source application that they had deployed to a cloud service provider. The application was used to manage the many people whose information it tracked and included a lot of identifying information about them that could be used in identity fraud. Unfortunately, the person that installed the application never removed the default administrative account that was still using the default password. Which of the following describes this scenario?

Incorrect hardening settings

Tomás has created a set of firewall rules and has noticed that when there is traffic that matches a rule, the traffic allowed in one direction automatically allows traffic in the other direction for an active connection as long as there is at least one message going either direction within 10 minutes. What is the name of that type of firewall?

Stateful

Aron has recently learned about the CIA triad. He knows that encryption is important to a variety of things within his organization's infrastructure. One of those is the ability to ensure that data being transmitted across the network cannot be modified undetected. Which of the following tenets of the CIA triad supports this idea?

Integrity

Lyle's manager has asked him to implement micro-segmentation for his company's cloud deployment. He wasn't very familiar with this term and upon researching, came across the reasoning to implement this as being that nothing should be trusted in a cloud environment and every system, communication, and user is considered a threat until proven otherwise. To which of the following concepts does this relate?

Zero-trust security model

Petyr has been called into Fictional Corp to perform a security audit of their systems. One of the things that he notes on his report is that the sales department is using FTP to remotely upload scanned copies of physical order sheets from customers. Why is this an issue?

FTP is considered insecure.

Angela has decided upon a multi-cloud deployment so that the company can continue to operate even if one of the cloud service providers experiences an outage. Which of the following explains the factor that was important to Angela in choosing this structure?

Disaster recovery

Breanne wants to create a tunneled connection between her on-premises data center and the cloud service provider that her company uses. Which of the following would allow her to create that connection?

VPN

Cara works for a startup company that up until now has been running on a single virtual machine. The virtual machine is starting to see capacity issues and she is unable to provision more CPU and memory resources to satisfy its needs. Which of the following would allow her to expand the capacity of her company's web server?

Load balancer

Daisy is researching load balancing solutions to implement for a new application that she is tasked with designing and deploying the infrastructure for. One of the requirements is that a client should continue communicating with the same server for the duration of their web browsing session. Which of the following features should she look for in the load balancer?

Sticky sessions

Emina has three separate VPCs at the cloud service provider that her company uses. Some of the services in each of the VPCs need to communicate with some of the services in other VPCs on that same CSP. Which of the following might she implement in order to accommodate that requirement?

Cloud peering

Angela has decided upon a multi-cloud deployment so that the company can continue to operate even if one of the cloud service providers experiences an outage. Which of the following explains the factor that was important to Angela in choosing this structure?

Disaster recovery

Breanne wants to create a tunneled connection between her on-premises data center and the cloud service provider that her company uses. Which of the following would allow her to create that connection?

VPN

Cara works for a startup company that up until now has been running on a single virtual machine. The virtual machine is starting to see capacity issues and she is unable to provision more CPU and memory resources to satisfy its needs. Which of the following would allow her to expand the capacity of her company's web server?

Load balancer

Daisy is researching load balancing solutions to implement for a new application that she is tasked with designing and deploying the infrastructure for. One of the requirements is that a client should continue communicating with the same server for the duration of their web browsing session. Which of the following features should she look for in the load balancer?

Sticky sessions

Emina has three separate VPCs at the cloud service provider that her company uses. Some of the services in each of the VPCs need to communicate with some of the services in other VPCs on that same CSP. Which of the following might she implement in order to accommodate that requirement?

Cloud peering

Fredrica is installing more infrastructure in her company's on-premises data center. She has installed 10 servers, but there is only one switch in the rack that the new equipment is going in. Which of the following technologies can she use to segment the servers into two groups without having to add a new switch that will also put them into separate broadcast domains?

VLAN

Greta manages the on-premises networks for her company's Atlanta and Orlando offices. She hears about a technology that will allow her to connect certain network segments in Atlanta to their counterparts in Orlando by inserting the MAC address into layer 4 for UDP transport over the Internet. What is the technology that she has heard about that she should research more about in order to implement?

VXLAN

Haley does not want to manually assign IP addresses to clients on one of the network segments that she manages. Instead, she wants clients to obtain an IP address from a server that manages a pool of IP addresses. Which of the following technologies should she implement?

DHCP

Ingrid has configured one of the network segments to use a DHCP server to dynamically assign IP addresses. She knows that DHCP can also tell the clients the address of the server that they should use to resolve FQDNs to IP addresses. Which of the following settings should she configure?

DNS servers

Jenna's cloud service provider has just started supporting IPv6. She wants her web servers there to be accessible by both IPv4 and IPv6. Which of the following records should she add to the DNS configuration to ensure that IPv6 clients can access her company's website?

AAAA

Karen's manager knows that she is working on implementing a VPN connection between the company's on-premises data center and the cloud service provider her company uses. The manager approached her with a concern to make sure that she wasn't using an older data link layer protocol developed by Microsoft that is no longer considered secure. Which of the following was most likely the protocol that the manager was concerned about?

PPTP

Lara is trying to decide on a protocol to use for a VPN to connect from one cloud service provider to another. She knows there are a variety of protocols out there that can be used for VPNs, but wants to make sure she chooses one that both cloud service providers support and that can be combined with IPsec. Which of the following protocols would she most likely need to choose?

L2TP

Marissa is wanting to implement a VPN at her company, but knows that some of the places the users need to connect from have issues with IPsec being used through the firewall. Which of the following protocols should she choose?

OpenVPN

Nancy was recently reading about a network layer protocol that provides encryption, authentication, and key management for TCP/IP transmissions that is built into the IPv6 protocol stack. Which of the following should she read more about to find out how she can implement it?

IPsec

Ophelia wants to create a VPN that uses SSL or TLS for the encryption. Which of the following protocols should she choose?

. OpenVPN

Patti's company has just migrated the only Windows server in a particular VPC to a different VPC. Which of the following should she do next?

Disable port 3389 on the firewall of the original VPC.

Quinn is currently looking to deploy a new Microsoft SharePoint server farm, a web-based application, into its own VPC. Which of the following ports would be unnecessary for her to leave open on the firewall for usage or management purposes?

22

Rita has decided that the servers in one of the VPCs that she manages should only be reachable by IP address and they should not be able to perform any domain name lookups from the Internet. Which of the following ports should she disable on the firewall for that VPC?

53

Shelley wants to make sure that any protocols not using encryption are blocked at the firewall for one of her VPCs. Which of the following protocols should she ensure has a deny rule enabled for it?

Telnet

Tia has been analyzing the on-premises data center and determined that the data center can handle most of the traffic on a day-to-day basis. However, there are times when the bandwidth becomes saturated and she needs to find a solution to push the excess traffic out to virtual machines on a cloud service provider. Which of the following describes the technique she is looking to implement?

Cloudbursting

Uma has been analyzing the performance and baselines from her virtual machines that are on a cloud service provider's platform. She sees that they do not appear to be performing up to the standards that her cloud service provider guarantees. Which of the following documents outlines the standards that they are guaranteeing?

SLA

Victoria is trying to determine whether one of the new servers she set up on the cloud service provider is reachable and online from her current workstation. Which of the following tools is she most likely trying to use?

ping

Wanda is trying to determine which routes packets are traveling over when accessing the company's chosen cloud service provider. Which of the following Windows tools can help her discover that information?

tracert

Xena has noticed that traffic to her company's website has been increasing from across the world. She has decided to start deploying copies of that server to various regions and wants to direct traffic to the site that is closest to each user. Which of the following technologies could she use to do this?

GSLB. Global server load balancing

Yolanda wants to see a list of MAC addresses that one of her servers has been communicating with. Which of the following command line tools will display that information?

arp. address resolution protocol

Zoie is working on a Windows server that has two network interfaces. One is assigned an IP address by a DHCP server while the other is a static IP address. She wants to see what the current dynamic IP address is. Which of the following command line utilities can she use to view that information?

ipconfig

Adrienne wants to be able to analyze the traffic coming into a Linux server's network interface. Which of the following command line utilities will allow her to see this information?

tcpdump

Erma wants to look at the current IP configuration on a Linux server. Which of the following tools can she use to view this information? (Choose two)

ifconfig, IP

Isabel is troubleshooting a DNS issue on one of her Windows servers. Which of the following commands might let her look up the DNS records so she can track down where the problem might be?

nslookup

Olivia manages a group of Windows and Linux servers. She knows there is a command that she can use to view currently open network connections that works on both platforms. Which of the following commands will she most likely use?

netstat

Ursula is working on a Linux system and wants to determine which routers a packet will traverse when a packet is sent to a certain destination. Which of the following command line tools can she use to find that information?

traceroute

A year ago Yvette configured two servers on separate VLANs. She still needs them to remain on separate VLANs, but now has a need for them to be able to send certain communications to each other over a certain port. Which of the following will be necessary for her to do?

Create a route between the two VLANs so they know how to contact each other.

Emily has just migrated the email from the company's on-premises data center to a cloud service provider. She has modified the appropriate A records, but e-mail isn't being delivered to the new servers. Which of the following records does she still need to modify?

MX

Rick is planning a deployment of multiple virtual machines that need to have internal IP addresses. He is unsure which address ranges he can use. He knows there is a formal document that outlines the ranges that can be used for internal addresses. Which of the following options is that formalized set of specifications?

RFC 1918

Carl has created a virtual machine on the cloud service provider that his company uses and has given it a static private IP address. He wants to make this server is the new web server for the company's website. Which of the following is required to allow that server to perform in that role?

IG. Internet Gateway

Michonne currently manages a private cloud that has been built out in an on-premises data center. Some of the servers are reaching the end of their life and she has been tasked with finding a solution that minimizes the amount of capital investment necessary. Which of the following might she choose to implement for her company?

VPC

Negan has been given the 10.50.0.0/16 subnet to create the cloud infrastructure necessary for a new subsidiary that his company is creating, Zombies Inc. He wants to create a minimum of 500 smaller networks that can hold 100 servers each out of that space to minimize broadcast traffic within each subnet. Which of the following CIDR masks could he use to meet his requirements?

/25

Maggie wants to create a small subnetwork for the Human Resources servers that her organization uses. There are currently 10 servers, but she also needs to plan for 50 percent growth over the next two years. Which of the following subnet masks would give her adequate IP address space while leaving the fewest number of unused IP addresses in the block?

255.255.255.240

Darryl has been given the 10.20.30.64/26 network to use for a set of virtual machines that he is provisioning on his company's private cloud. He has been told to configure the last usable IP address in the range as the gateway, or router, address. Which of the following IP addresses should he use for the gateway?

10.20.30.126

Carol has created a subnet of 10.20.30.0/27. Which of the following is the address that is used for broadcast messages within the subnet?

10.20.30.31

Morgan has hardened the virtual machines in the subnet he's just finished creating by turning off unnecessary services that were running in the background. However, he still wants to prevent unnecessary traffic from getting to the servers in the first place. Which of the following might he choose to implement in his cloud environment?

Virtual firewall

Glenn has been tasked with creating a few new virtual machines for a new project that will be used by the finance department. It will contain sensitive data about the company and its operations. Which of the following is the most important thing for Glenn to consider as he's creating the virtual machines?

Which region he is creating the virtual machines in

Enid is implementing new systems on a cloud service provider and needs to ensure that the finance systems and HR systems cannot communicate with each other without going through a virtual router. Which of the following should she implement?

Different subnets for each department

Eugene has been given the subnet 10.20.30.0/24 to use for the creation of a group of virtual machines to be used for the sales department. He is used to seeing a subnet mask in the format of four numbers separated by periods (255.255.255.0) along with the subnet ID, but isn't familiar with what the slash and a number mean after the subnet ID. He asks you to help him interpret the information. What term should you tell him to search for on a search engine to learn more about this topic?

CIDR. Classless Inter-Domain Routing

Ezekiel wants to ensure that several of the cloud resources he is responsible for managing are always available. Which of the following might best help him meet his goals of high availability?

Site mirroring between two or more regions

Site mirroring between two or more regions

Remove the rules that allow port 22 from the firewall to the original VPC

Fictional Corp has just moved its web server from its on-premises data center to a cloud service provider. Which of the following most likely needs to be changed by an administrator?

Routing tables

Jadis has just created a new Linux server on the cloud service provider that her company uses. She attempts to SSH into it and it immediately fails. Which of the following steps might she have forgotten to do?

Open port 22 on the virtual firewall

Simon was asked to create three Linux virtual machines to host the company's new sales application and database server. He is going to be using the company's cloud service provider and was given the 10.20.30.0/30 subnet to put them on. He immediately tells the person giving him this task that he cannot do what is asked of him. Why?

The /30 subnet is not large enough for 3 virtual machines

Gabriel has been given the 10.30.0.0 network and told to use the subnet mask 255.255.248.0 for the new cloud infrastructure he is building out for the subsidiary his company just purchased. Assuming one of the IP addresses is used for a virtual router interface on that subnet, how many virtual machines could he create in each subnetwork?

2045

Tara had originally created a /28 mask for the 12 servers in the sales group server pool. However, her company has just merged with a competitor and she needs to expand the subnet to accommodate another 20 servers. Which of the following new subnet masks will accommodate the new servers in addition to the original servers while having the fewest number of unused IP addresses remaining?

/26

Rosita has configured a subnet mask of 255.255.252.0 for the new virtual private cloud she is creating for her organization. One of the junior administrators remarks that he's never seen that kind of a subnet mask before and isn't sure how many devices the subnet would hold. How many devices should Rosita tell him that it will support?

1,022

Beth has been asked to migrate the company's virtual private clouds from class C private addresses to class B private addresses. Which of the following is a valid address for her to change the web server's IP address to?

172.30.101.50

Hershel is working with a virtual network that has the subnet mask 255.255.255.192. He changes the IP address of one of the servers from 172.16.25.183 to 172.16.25.193. What is the result of this change?

The server will no longer be able to communicate with the devices on the subnetwork that it was previously in without the aid of a router.

Clarke is trying to come up with a subnet mask so that three servers with the IP addresses 172.16.31.10, 172.16.30.15, and 172.16.31.206 are in the same network. Which of the following subnet masks will accommodate this requirement?

255.255.254.0

Bellamy has been asked to configure the virtual router interface for the subnetwork that contains the server with IP address 172.19.101.200 and subnet mask of 255.255.255.128. He is asked to use the first usable IP address of the subnet. Which of the following IP addresses should he use?

172.19.101.129

Octavia has set up a private cloud with a virtual machine at the IP address 172.19.101.5 and the subnet mask 255.255.255.192. She has been asked what the broadcast IP address is for the network. How should she respond?

172.19.101.63

Lexa has been asked for the subnet ID and subnet mask in CIDR notation for one of the web servers in the company's private cloud. The web server has an IP address of 192.168.1.200 and a subnet mask of 255.255.255.192. What should she tell them?

192.168.1.192/26

Finn needs to create multiple virtual networks using a /28 mask. How many devices can he put on each subnet?

14

Jasper was given the IP address of 10.17.101.120/15 for the virtual machine he is to create along with the default gateway of 10.0.0.1. He enters the IP address correctly along with the subnet mask 255.254.0.0. However, the virtual machine doesn't appear to be able to communicate with the Internet when he tries to ping a popular domain name. Which of the following might be the reason why?

The default gateway is incorrect.

Raven has been asked to configure the web server with a specific public class B IP address. Which of the following is a possible address she was given?

168.192.10.172

Marcus has been asked to configure a web server with a specific private class C IP address. Which of the following is a possible address she was given?

192.168.205.63

Thelonius has just created a new virtual machine. By default, the cloud service provider automatically configured it as part of a class C private network. Which of the following is the default subnet mask expressed in CIDR notation that was configured?

/24

Abby has just created a new virtual machine. Once it has been installed, she connects to it and finds that it has configured the default subnet mask for a class A network. Which of the following subnet masks was automatically configured for this server?

255.0.0.0