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Security+ Practice Quiz: SY0-501 Quiz 24

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1. You have used firewalls to create a demilitarized zone. You have a web server that needs to be accessible to internet users. The web server must communicate with a database server for retrieving product, customer, and order information.

How should you place devices on the network to best protect the servers? (Choose two)
2. In which of the following situations would you most likely implement a demilitarized zone (DMZ)?
3. Which of the following terms describes a network device that is exposed to attacks and has been hardened against those attacks?

4. Your company has a connection to the internet that allows users to access the internet. You also have a web server and an e-mail server that you want to make available to internet users. You want to create a DMZ for these two servers.

Which type of device should you use to create the DMZ?

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5. Which of the following is a firewall function? *This question is required.
6. You manage a small network at work. Users use workstations connected to your network. No portable computers are allowed. As part of your security plan, you would like to implement scanning of e-mails for all users. You want to scan the e-mails and prevent any e-mails with malicious attachments from being received by users.

Your solution should minimize administration, allowing you to centrally manage the scan settings. Which solution should you use?
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7. Which of the following are characteristics of a circuit-level gateway? (Choose two)
8. Which of the following are characteristics of a packet filtering firewall? (Choose two)
9. You want to install a firewall that can reject packets that are not part of an active session. Which type of firewall should you use?
10. You provide internet access for a local school. You want to control Internet access based on user, and prevent access to specific URLs.

Which type of firewall should you install?
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