Selena has run out of memory on her phone's SD card. She has decided to store the files she has accumulated on a third-party cloud service provider's drives. Which of the following is a typical issue that she may encounter?
A. The files become corrupted due to an attack from a hacker botnet.
B. The files become unavailable whenever Internet connectivity is lost.
C. The files become unavailable because they are being shared with other users.
D. The files become corrupted because the provider uses a proprietary compression algorithm during transit.
Which term describes the practice of actively collecting wireless networking data from companies and individuals?
A. War driving
B. Spear phishing
C. Dictionary attack
D. Social engineering
Which of the following statement about virtualization is true?
A. Virtualization enables multiple physical computers to run off of a single virtualized server.
B. In virtualization, you run multiple virtual machines, provided they all use the same operating system.
C. In virtualization, the operating systems of the virtual machines should match the host operating system.
D. Virtualization enables you to run multiple operating systems and applications on a single computer.
Patrick visits his teenage daughter's social media page and discovers several offensive posts about one of her classmates. After speaking with his daughter, Patrick learns that several other girls in her class are upset with the classmate and have been posting, texting and e-mailing others about the girl. What is the best way for Patrick to help his daughter understand cyber bullying?
A. He should advise his daughter to ignore the posts, texts and c-mails.
B. He should explain to his daughter that she is participating in the bullying by accepting others'posts, texts and c-mails.
C. He should explain to his daughter that the Internet embraces freedom of speech, and anyone is allowed to write anything.
D. He should advise his daughter to delete all the posts, texts and c-mails she has received, as well as any new ones that appear.
What is the distinguishing difference between a LAN and WAN?
A. A LAN is a group of networked computers within a confined geographic area.
B. A WAN is a group of networked computers within a confined geographic area.
C. A LAN typically provides slower network connection speeds than a WAN.
D. A WAN is commonly used for intra-office communication.
You are a computer technician supporting a small 15-computer Internet lab. The computers are regularly used to browse the Internet and download files. Users have recently complained that they receive error messages saying the hard disk is full or out of space. You suspect this is a result of a large amount of temporary Internet files. Which of the following is a way to easily delete all the temporary Internet files?
A. Disk cleanup
B. fdisk command
C. chkdsk command
D. Disk defragmentation
You have recently purchased a new wireless router. You would like to configure a name for your wireless network so that you can easily identify it when scanning available wireless networks.
Which term describes this wireless network device name?
A. Default gateway
B. Wireless access point (AP)
C. Access Point Identifier (API)
D. Service Set Identifier (SSID)
You want to restrict host access to a wireless access point. What is the best way to do this?
A. Enable MAC address filtering at each host.
B. Log in to the access point and configure features, such as changing the SSID.
C. Change the Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) signal at both the access point and each hosts NIC.
D. Install software on the host you want to limit, then use a Web browser to log in to the host and configure it with the necessary settings to use the access point.
Jenny recently switched from broadband cable Internet to ADSL service with her local phone company.
To economize, she chose the self-installation option. It appears that her ADSL modem is not allowing her to connect to the Internet. Which setting should she check first?
A. Loopback address
B. Software version
C. Default gateway
D. Device name
Ron has an older computer to which he frequently downloads and saves company files. He recently noticed that he was running low on disk space and decided to delete many old files that he no longer needed. He now notices that it takes a long time to open or save documents to his hard drive. Which maintenance task can help?
A. Disk defragmentation
B. chkdsk command
C. fdisk command
D. Disk cleanup