Ch21 Network Service Configuration Web Complete Test Bank

Linux Essentials for Cybersecurity (Rothwell/Kinsey)

Chapter 21 Network Service Configuration: Web Services

1) Which of the following is another name for the Apache Hypertext Transfer Protocol Server?

A) Apache Web Server

B) httpd

C) Apache

D) All of the above

2) Which of the following is a protocol that has been a standard for web pages since the 1990s, and allows for a client program (web browser) to request data from a server program?

A) Ubuntu

B) HTTP

C) Apache

D) HTML

3) Which of the following basic Apache directives can be a critical setting when your web server is not performing correctly?

A) LogLevel

B) DocumentRoot

C) Listen

D) ServerRoot

4) By default, the location where Apache web pages reside is the __________ directory.

A) /etc/apache

B) /etc/httpd

C) /var/www/html

D) /etc/httpd/conf

5) Which client restriction setting for the Apache Web Server makes sure that a specific number of httpd processes are always available?

A) MaxClients

B) MinSpareServers

C) StartServers

D) MaxRequestsPerChild

6) All web domains share a single IP address in which of the following virtual hosting methods?

A) Name-based virtual hosts

B) IP-based virtual hosts

C) Both A and B

D) None of the above

7) In Apache Web Server, HTTPS uses which of the following ports?

A) 80

B) 21

C) 443

D) 280

8) With asymmetric cryptography, how many keys are used to encrypt and decrypt data?

A) 1

B) 2

C) 3

D) 4

9) Which of the following is a concern regarding the use of SSL?

A) Having a large number of Certificate Authority (CA) machines increases the chance that one could be compromised.

B) Man-in-the-middle attacks are possible when you connect through a router that can exploit the connection.

C) If the security key gets into the wrong hands, the encrypted data can be compromised.

D) All of the above

10) To create an SSL certificate, you must have the __________ software package installed.

A) genrsa

B) newreq

C) openssl

D) openssl-perl

11) Which of the following critical Apache SSL directives is used to create footers with useful information for debugging purposes?

A) ServerSignature

B) TraceEnable

C) ServerTokens

D) SSLProtocol

12) Which of the following proxy servers is designed to act as a gateway between two networks, such as when an IPv4-based network needs to communicate with an IPv6-based network?

A) Forward proxy

B) Reverse proxy

C) Tunneling proxy

D) Squid proxy

13) Which of the following proxy servers is configured just for the server side of the communication?

A) Forward proxy

B) Reverse proxy

C) Tunneling proxy

D) Squid proxy

14) Which of the following proxy servers is designed to work only on the client side of the communication?

A) Forward proxy

B) Reverse proxy

C) Tunneling proxy

D) Squid proxy

15) Which of the following Squid configuration settings allows you to perform authentication of the client using a variety of authentication methods?

A) http_access

B) acl

C) cache_dir

D) auth_param

16) The default Squid configuration file normally has which of the following statements?

A) http_access

B) acl

C) Both A and B

D) None of the above

17) Which of the following is the basic syntax for an acl statement?

A) acl data name type

B) acl name type data

C) acl type name data

D) acl name data type

18) Which of the following access control lists, already defined in the Squid configuration file, is a special ACL for the management of Squid’s cache?

A) localhost

B) all

C) to_localhost

D) manager

19) Which feature of Nginx, when used as a reverse proxy server, is provided by a combination of features, including compression of both inbound and outbound data and caching static web server content?

A) Authentication

B) Load balancing

C) Web acceleration

D) Support for multiple protocols

20) After configuring a proxy server, you may want to test it by setting up a client system to use the proxy server. Which of the following is the first step when using Firefox for this test?

A) Access the menu options for the browser.

B) Click the Manual proxy configuration option.

C) Click the Preferences button.

D) Click Advanced in the left pane and then click Network.