How Firewalls Work Quiz

Mr. Schmid

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A firewall is a barrier to keep bad things away from your computer.

Your answer:
TrueFalse

A firewall is always a physical piece of hardware.

Your answer:
TrueFalse

___________ is when small chunks of data are filtered.

Your answer:
Censoring
Packet Filtering
Chunk Checking
Snooping

___________ is when data is retrieved by the firewall and then passed on to the requesting computer.

Your answer:
Conduit service
Data routing
Proxy service
go-through service

____________ is a method that compares parts of the small chunks of data to a filter.

Your answer:
Data Routing
Stateful inspection
Proxy Service
Packet Filtering

A firewall can _____ each packet for specific text.

Your answer:
Scan
Tear apart
Snoop
Sniff

A _________ is another name for a computer that runs a firewall and is the only access point to the internet in a network.

Your answer:
Gateway
Snooper
T1
T3

SMTP session hijacking is often used to send large amounts of spam

Your answer:
TrueFalse

_______________ is an attack that sends unanswerable session requests, and can crash or significantly slow down a server.

Your answer:
Source routing
E-mail
Redirect
Denial of service

A _________________ allows you to place things outside of the protection of a firewall.

Your answer:
aniti-firewall
T1
DMZ
Honey pot

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