1. Active Directory was introduced with which version of Windows Server?

2. If you wanted to remote control a Windows computer as if you were sitting in front of it, which built-in tool would you use?

a. Remote Terminal
b. SSH
c. Virtual Desktop
d. Remote Desktop - D

3. You are proposing a hardware/server solution for a database server - You want to make sure you buy enough hard drives. What is the absolute minimum number of separate drives (or RAID volumes) you should use

a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4

4. Why doesn't it make sense to use a dynamic IP address for a server?

5. Write the UNC path you would use to access a share named ‘DEPTFILES' on a server named ‘FILESERV1'

6. If you only need 1TB of space, why would you potentially need to buy 5 drives that are 600GB and arrange them to get the capacity of 2.4TB?

a. The overhead of RAID 5 parity data makes the total space too small otherwise
b. You need the additional speed provided by the additional drives
c. RAID0 is not fast enough
d. Microsoft recommends it that way

7. Choose the built-in Web Service application in Windows Servers

a. Apache
b. Domino
c. Linux
d. IIS

8. Many common administrative tools in Windows are actually __________ the Microsoft Management Console (MMC)

a. Additional cost on top of
b. Snap-ins to
c. Separate from
d. Not included in

9. List something other than files that a Windows computer can share.

10. A Service is software

a. That runs only when a user is logged on
b. That requires a special code
c. That runs all the time, including when a user is logged out
d. That runs most of the time, except when a user is logged in.

11. Active Directory ________ DHCP

a. Requires
b. Relies on
c. Doesn't require
d. Is patterned after

12. Active Directory _________ DNS

a. No longer needs
b. Sometimes needs
c. Requires
d. Authenticates users with

13. Which of the following items are the "brains" of Active Directory

a. Domain Controllers
b. Organizational Units
c. Member Servers
d. Service Accounts

14. Choose Two types of Security Groups in Active Directory

a. Global
b. Contextual
c. Domain Local
d. Distribution

15. Choose the correct nesting for an account (A) into different types of groups to get granted a permission (P)

a. A > G > U > P
b. A > D > L > P
c. A > DL > G > P
d. A > G > DL > P

16. To get a computer to participate in Active Directory you must ________ it to the domain

a. Apply
b. Link
c. Stick
d. Join

17. List two different types of Windows accounts

18. Choose the best definition of a Directory Service

a. Physical structure of users, groups, and objects.
b. A large group of accounts, resources, and users contained in a database and operating according to a set of rules
c. Logical representation of a company's organization chart.
d. Graphical layout of an organizations users, computers and teams

19. Choose the valid Linux file path

a. /usr/bin
b. C:\home\bin
c. \usr\bin
d. \\usr\bin

20. What is a Linux distribution?

a. the process by which you update Linux with new software
b. the Linux kernel itself
c. a collection of applications and services bound around a Linux kernel
d. a Web site where you can freely download Linux

21. What is the name of the Linux equivalent of a Windows Administrator account?

22. True or False - Using Samba, Linux can mimic Windows and provide all of the file sharing features that a Windows Server can.

23. The ________ operating system has been available since the 1970 and was originally developed by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others at AT&T labs.

a. Linux
b. BSD
c. GNU
d. Unix

24. Which Linux command will show you your network configuration including IP addressing information?

a. IPconfig
b. IFconfig
c. NetConfig
d. Netstat

25. The _________ is the method used by UNIX and Linux systems to share disk resources.

a. Network Information Service
b. Distributed File System
c. Network File System
d. File Information Service

26. What are the two largest GUI implementations for Linux?

27. In Linux, using the shell one can:

a. perform basic tasks
b. configure anything and everything
c. look at files and directories
d. pretend it's DOS

28. Choose the linux command that will show you the contents of a directory

a. List
b. dir
c. show
d. ls

29. Explain why Fault Tolerance is not the same as Redundancy.

30. A(n) ________ is an unsecure network that operates between two different networks, like the public Internet and a private LAN.

31. Disk Mirroring is called

a. RAID1
b. RAID0
c. RAID5
d. RAID6

32. List a non-network or computer related method to increase the fault tolerance of a network.

33. True or False - RAID5 requires 5 disks

34. Hard drives that can be removed and connected to a running system are called _______ hard drives.

a. Hot Swappable
b. Warm swappable
c. Hot fixable
d. Popup

35. ____________ authentication means using more than 1 authentication method at a time to authenticate a user

a. Extra-factor
b. Multi-factor
c. Super-factor
d. Biometric

36. What feature of a managed switch allows it to reduce the impact of a broadcast based attacks

a. Logins
b. Authenticated traffic manager
c. Split horizon
d. VLANs

37. A Host based IDS will

a. Protect only a single system
b. Be placed outside the network like a stateful firewall
c. Work only with Linux systems
d. Have a configured connection allowing it to see(sniff) all network traffic

38. True or False - The main security issues for switches are actually caused by designed network behavior

39. NMAP is considered a __________

a. Port scanner
b. Vulnerability scanner
c. IDS
d. Firewall

40. What Windows command will show you the ports that your PC is listening on, or actively using for communication?

41. Which security device/software requires a network tap (or mirrored port on a switch) to function

a. Firewall
b. Host based IDS
c. Proxy Server
d. Network based IDS

42. Name the protocol analyzer we used in class

43. True or False - A SYN flood originating from a powerful computer that can overwhelm a target would be considered a DDoS attack True

44. You have a Full backup followed by 4 incremental backups. Write the number of restores you need to perform to get the latest files restored.

45. Documentation that is out of date...

a. is good enough because you can get the idea.
b. is potentially dangerous because you can't be sure what's right and what's not.
c. is worthless because nothing in it is worth anything
d. should be what you use

46. Give an explanation/example that highlights the difference between redundancy and fault tolerance.

47. Which backup method will not reset the archive bit on a file?

48. What's the difference between physical and logical network documentation?

49. True or False - SMTP is a standard method and protocol to provide diagnostic information about a resource

50. You are a network administrator and just realized that you completely forgot the password to a really important Windows server - You think back to class and try to remember how we did it so easily:

a. Name the tool we used in class to recover a Windows user password
b. Explain how it can crack the password so quickly using hash values when you don't have a supercomputer.x