CREST CPSA CORE MAIN EXAMS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS FIRM A+
✔✔Token Ring - ✔✔a communications protocol for local area networks
✔✔Token Ring - ✔✔uses a special three-byte frame called a 'token' that travels around
a logical 'ring' of workstations or servers
✔✔wireless (802.11) - ✔✔part of the IEEE 802 set of LAN protocols, and specifies the
set of media access control (MAC) and physical layer protocols for implementing
wireless local area network (WLAN) Wi-Fi computer communication in various
frequencies, including but not limited to 2.4, 5, and 60 GHz frequency bands
✔✔shared media - ✔✔nodes share a single communication medium (e.g. Ethernet);
every message reaches every node
✔✔switched media - ✔✔communication is point-to-point through dedicated lines
✔✔Virtual LAN (VLANs) - ✔✔any broadcast domain that is partitioned and isolated in a
computer network at the data link layer
✔✔Computer Misuse Act - ✔✔CMA
✔✔Domain Name System - ✔✔DNS
✔✔Electronic Code Book - ✔✔ECB
✔✔Flexible Single Master Operations - ✔✔FSMO
✔✔Hypertext Markup Language - ✔✔HTML
✔✔Hypertext Transfer Protocol - ✔✔HTTP
✔✔Inter Asterisk eXchange - ✔✔IAX
✔✔Internet Server Application Programming Interface - ✔✔ISAPI
✔✔Network File System - ✔✔NFS
✔✔Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol - ✔✔PEAP
✔✔Public Key Infrastructure - ✔✔PKI
✔✔Remote Authentication Dial In User Service - ✔✔RADIUS
, ✔✔Rivest Shamir Adleman - ✔✔RSA
✔✔Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition - ✔✔SCADA
✔✔Session Initiation Protocol - ✔✔SIP
✔✔Start Of Authority - ✔✔SOA
✔✔Simple Object Access Protocol - ✔✔SOAP
✔✔Structured Query Language - ✔✔SQL
✔✔Secure Shell - ✔✔SSH
✔✔Spanning Tree Protocol - ✔✔STP
✔✔Temporal Key Integrity Protocol - ✔✔TKIP
✔✔Universal Description Discovery and Integration - ✔✔UDDI
✔✔User Datagram Protocol - ✔✔UDP
✔✔Wired Equivalent Privacy - ✔✔WEP
✔✔Wi-fi Protected Access - ✔✔WPA
✔✔Web Services Description Language - ✔✔WSDL
✔✔application pen testing - ✔✔finds technical vulnerabilities
✔✔infrastructure pen testing - ✔✔examines servers, firewalls and other hardware for
security vulnerabilities
✔✔black box - ✔✔no information is provided to the penetration tester
✔✔white box - ✔✔full information is provided, for example network maps and access to
development staff
✔✔Computer Misuse Act 1990 - ✔✔originally nothing to make DOS attacks illegal
✔✔Computer Misuse Act 1990 - ✔✔modifications in Police and Justice Act 2006
changed Section 3
ANSWERS FIRM A+
✔✔Token Ring - ✔✔a communications protocol for local area networks
✔✔Token Ring - ✔✔uses a special three-byte frame called a 'token' that travels around
a logical 'ring' of workstations or servers
✔✔wireless (802.11) - ✔✔part of the IEEE 802 set of LAN protocols, and specifies the
set of media access control (MAC) and physical layer protocols for implementing
wireless local area network (WLAN) Wi-Fi computer communication in various
frequencies, including but not limited to 2.4, 5, and 60 GHz frequency bands
✔✔shared media - ✔✔nodes share a single communication medium (e.g. Ethernet);
every message reaches every node
✔✔switched media - ✔✔communication is point-to-point through dedicated lines
✔✔Virtual LAN (VLANs) - ✔✔any broadcast domain that is partitioned and isolated in a
computer network at the data link layer
✔✔Computer Misuse Act - ✔✔CMA
✔✔Domain Name System - ✔✔DNS
✔✔Electronic Code Book - ✔✔ECB
✔✔Flexible Single Master Operations - ✔✔FSMO
✔✔Hypertext Markup Language - ✔✔HTML
✔✔Hypertext Transfer Protocol - ✔✔HTTP
✔✔Inter Asterisk eXchange - ✔✔IAX
✔✔Internet Server Application Programming Interface - ✔✔ISAPI
✔✔Network File System - ✔✔NFS
✔✔Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol - ✔✔PEAP
✔✔Public Key Infrastructure - ✔✔PKI
✔✔Remote Authentication Dial In User Service - ✔✔RADIUS
, ✔✔Rivest Shamir Adleman - ✔✔RSA
✔✔Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition - ✔✔SCADA
✔✔Session Initiation Protocol - ✔✔SIP
✔✔Start Of Authority - ✔✔SOA
✔✔Simple Object Access Protocol - ✔✔SOAP
✔✔Structured Query Language - ✔✔SQL
✔✔Secure Shell - ✔✔SSH
✔✔Spanning Tree Protocol - ✔✔STP
✔✔Temporal Key Integrity Protocol - ✔✔TKIP
✔✔Universal Description Discovery and Integration - ✔✔UDDI
✔✔User Datagram Protocol - ✔✔UDP
✔✔Wired Equivalent Privacy - ✔✔WEP
✔✔Wi-fi Protected Access - ✔✔WPA
✔✔Web Services Description Language - ✔✔WSDL
✔✔application pen testing - ✔✔finds technical vulnerabilities
✔✔infrastructure pen testing - ✔✔examines servers, firewalls and other hardware for
security vulnerabilities
✔✔black box - ✔✔no information is provided to the penetration tester
✔✔white box - ✔✔full information is provided, for example network maps and access to
development staff
✔✔Computer Misuse Act 1990 - ✔✔originally nothing to make DOS attacks illegal
✔✔Computer Misuse Act 1990 - ✔✔modifications in Police and Justice Act 2006
changed Section 3
