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Lab 4 © R. Craig Collins, 2005/6
General Lab Directions
Note: There is not enough time in lecture to cover all
the material; read your book BEFORE you begin the lab
Note: Typically labs will require you to invest some time in the lab, outside
of class lecture hours
Check with your Instructor for due date, typically Friday, 11:59PM, of the week assigned
Part 1, Server Activity (29%):
• Windows Project 5-2
Part 2: Documentation, (29%)
• Linux Project 5-4
Part 3: Q&A (42%)
• Security: the 22 review questions at the end of chapter 5
• Security: the 20 review questions at the end of chapter 6
1. One of the server operators in your organization seems to have problems
accessing folders containing programs he needs to run. What tool might help
diagnose the problem most quickly?
Answer:
2. Which of the following are examples of extended attributes in NTFS? (Choose
all that apply.)
Answer: .
3. Which command is used to change permissions using the Red Hat Linux 9.x
command line?
Answer:
4. Which operating system uses domain local security groups? (Choose all that
apply.)
Answer:
5. You have discovered that for some reason two groups in Red Hat Linux 9.x
share the same GID. Is this a problem?
Answer:
6. The FLAG command in NetWare 6.x can be used to _________________________________.
Answer:
7. Generally, in an operating system, the account used to create an object,
such as a folder, ____________________________________.
Answer:
8. Which of the following are NTFS permissions that can be set in Windows 2000
Server and Windows Server 2003? (Choose all that apply.)
Answer:
9. You are consulting for a doctor’s office consisting of 18 networked
workstations and one Windows 2003 server that is used to share folders. The
office has a demo of a new medical database, but the licensing requires that
not more than two people access it at the same time. How can you accommodate
this requirement most easily?
Answer:
10. When you set permissions in Red Hat Linux 9.x using the command line, the
_________________ option applies those permissions to users, groups, and others.
Answer:
11. How can you control access to shared resources in Red Hat Linux 9.x when
using NFS? (Choose all that apply.)
Answer:
12. Which of the following are permissions that you can configure for a folder
in Mac OS X? (Choose all that apply.)
Answer:
13. Which type of group would typically be use primarily to house user accounts
in Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 when Active Directory is installed?
Answer:
14. The Mac OS users on your NetWare 6.x server often copy files from the server
that are not compatible with Mac OS AppleTalk Filing Protocol. This practice
causes you to receive telephone queries about what has gone wrong. What can
you do?
Answer:
15. In Windows XP Professional, share permissions work for which of the following
file systems? (Choose all that apply.)
Answer:
16. In Windows 2000 Server, you can hide a shared folder by _________________________.
Answer:
17. A(n) ___________________________________ is associated with a folder or
file to show which users or groups have what kind of permissions or rights to
that folder or file.
Answer:
18. The more /etc/group command-line command can provide information about
groups in which of the following operating systems? (Choose all that apply.)
Answer:
19. The accounting supervisor in your firm wants you to examine, once a week,
the security for all files in the Data folder for the accounting system on a
Red Hat Linux 9.x server. This new precaution is necessary because recently
there have been problems with unauthorized people accessing these files. Which
command-line command can you use to monitor the security settings?
Answer:
20. In NetWare 6.x, a user’s access to resources in a search drive is
controlled through which of the following? (Choose all that apply.)
Answer:
21. From which file menu option for a folder in Mac OS X can you configure
ownership and permissions?
Answer:
22. For security, files in the SecretResearch directory on your NetWare 6.x
server must be immediately discarded after they are deleted, so that they cannot
be recovered. How is this possible?
Answer:
1. When an application is designed for faster connectionless transport, it
uses which of the following? (Choose all that apply.)
Answer:
2. Some of the staff in the warehouse building like to end the day playing games
over the Internet. However, none of their job duties necessitates access to
the Internet, and playing the games exposes the computers in their building
to unnecessary security risks. Which of the following offers the best solution?
Answer:
3. You are the server and network administrator for the city and county court
system, which has Internet connectivity. The judges are concerned about developing
security to make it difficult for outside Internet users to determine information
about the network computers and their contents on the internal court-system
network. Which of the following should you do? (Choose all that apply.)
Answer:
4. A TCP source port is similar to a(n) _________________________________.
Answer:
5. A network administrator in your organization has configured a firewall to
block Telnet and SSH communications by blocking the TCP and UDP ports 22 and
80. Will this accomplish the job?
Answer:
6. IPTables is used to configure firewall and NAT activities in ____________________________.
Answer:
7. Which of the following are functions performed by routers? (Choose all that
apply.)
Answer:
8. One of the Windows XP Professional users who has configured a firewall suspects
she may have been the victim of an attempted attack. Which of the following
might enable her to determine this?
Answer:
9. From where do you configure a firewall in Mac OS X?
Answer:
10. You have placed a Web server between your border security devices and the
Internet connection. This area is the _______________________________.
Answer:
11. The ______________________field in IP enables a determination of what path
to use for sending a particular packet, when multiple network paths can be used.
Answer:
12. Port-scanning software used by an attacker may take advantage of which
of the following types of communications? (Choose all that apply.)
Answer:
13. Port-scanning attacks are more likely to be fruitful against ___________________
than _________________________.
Answer:
14. The ___________________________ is the same as the physical address of
a network interface.
Answer:
15. The vice president of finance in your company keeps confidential spreadsheets
in the Public folder of his Mac OS X workstation, and he is unknowingly sharing
this folder for all to access over the company’s internal network. The
company IT director asks you to shut down access to his shared folder. Which
of the following might you do? (Choose all that apply.)
Answer:
16. The 16-bit ________________________________ is a basic way in which TCP
verifies the accuracy of packets received at the destination computer of a data
transmission from a source computer.
Answer:
17. In an IT department meeting, the computer professionals are discussing
how to implement Microsoft Network Address Translation in Windows Server 2003.
One of the user support professionals is concerned that implementing NAT will
cause confusion, because client workstations must use addresses in the range
of 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255, and many users want to keep their present IP
addresses. What is your response?
Answer:
18. Your company wants to configure ICF on the 64-bit version of Windows Server
2003, Datacenter Edition. What step must be taken to configure ICF?
Answer:
19. Which of the following are examples of border points on a network? (Choose
all that apply.)
Answer:
20. The network in the manufacturing building of your company is connected
to a network used by the sales division. The sales division network is an older
network that has many workstations still configured for the NetWare version
3 and 4 servers that were once on that network. You’ve noticed a lot of
unnecessary traffic that comes from the sales division network into the manufacturing
network, and the sales division network administrator is too busy to help. What
might you do to help secure and improve the network in the manufacturing building?
Answer:
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