CMIT 202 Practice B questions and answers with solutions 2025

When would a technician use RDP? - ANSWER When remotely accessing a Windows computer Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is used to connect to a remote Windows computer. Which of the following wireless security protocols is least secure? - ANSWER WEP WEP is the first and least secure wireless security protocol. WPA and WPA2 have been developed since WEP was created and are much better options than WEP. For encryption WPA2 uses AES, which is the strongest algorithm available. Which of the following would be the best options for preventing the theft of laptops? - ANSWER Door locks Equipment locks An equipment lock is used to lock a laptop to a desk when it is in use to mitigate the risk of someone walking by and taking the laptop. When laptops are not in use, they should be locked away in locking cabinets or behind locked doors to prevent theft. Motion sensors and CCTV (closed-circuit TV), which are helpful, don't prevent anything; rather, they provide detection. USB locks prevent USB ports from being used. Which technique would most likely be used on a hard drive being removed from a corporate computer that a technician is going to use as a replacement drive for another computer in the future? - ANSWER Drive wipe Some hard drive manufacturers have a utility that rewrites the drive with all 1s or all Os to prevent data remnants from being recovered. A drive wipe utility could use a number of techniques to remove data. Not all drive wipe utilities are guaranteed to be effective on drives that contain highly sensitive data. What should an organization require when an outside company provides a service for shredding and disposal of sensitive corporate documents? - ANSWER Certificate of Destruction An outside company should provide a certificate of destruction or proof of incineration (when the documents have been destroyed by fire) as part of the service of s