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What examines the traffic between user's computer and public network?
Firewall
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True Or False. Hiding your personal information keeps you completely safe from an attack?
False
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Which type of person poses the greatest threat to an organisation's security?
Disgruntled employee
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What is a type of attack that sends enough requests to overload a resource or even stopping its operation?
Denial Of Service (DoS)
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What is the common technique for scrambling messages sent between users?
Encryption
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How Does Huffman Encoding work?
Huffman encoding is a compression technique that is used to reduce the number of bits required to store each letter. The more frequently a letter appears in the text, the fewer bits are used to represent it.
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What is Encryption?
Encoding data being transferred to prevent a third party from intercepting the data.
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What is ROM?
Read Only memory. Non Volatile. Contains the boot.
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What is the Bootstrap loader?
A small program that is used to load the OS.
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What is RAM?
Random Access Memory. Used to store software and programs in use as well as the operating system.
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What is Virtual Memory?
A small part of the hard drive used as an extension to RAM.
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What is cloud storage?
Cloud Storage refers to saving data in an offsite storage system maintained by a third party.
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