Exam Prep Connecting To Remote Systems Chapter 22

Linux Essentials for Cybersecurity (Rothwell/Kinsey)

Chapter 22 Connecting to Remote Systems

1) LDAP is an acronym for which of the following?

A) Linux Directory Active Protocol

B) Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

C) Lightweight Directory Active Protocol

D) Linux Directory Access Protocol

2) For Linux, __________ is the most commonly used open source directory service.

A) SSSD

B) Active Directory

C) OpenLDAP

D) LDIF

3) Which of the following key LDAP terms defines the attributes and specifies what the attributes can store?

A) Schema

B) Object

C) DN

D) CN

4) Which of the following key LDAP terms is the relative name of an object?

A) DN

B) Attribute

C) CN

D) Schema

5) After you have installed the OpenLDAP software, a configuration file named __________ should be saved to the system.

A) rootdn

B) openldap-server

C) rootpw

D) slapd.conf

6) Which of the following options of the ldapsearch command indicates to use simple authentication instead of SASL?

A) -S

B) -x

C) -b

D) -X

7) Which of the following options used with the ldapadd command has the ldapadd command query for the rootdn password?

A) -f

B) -D

C) -W

D) -x

8) Which of the following commands that are designed to make modifications to the OpenLDAP database uses an LDIF file to change an existing object?

A) slapindex

B) ldapdelete

C) slapcat

D) ldapmodify

9) Which of the following options for the ldapsearch command displays only the search results and the version of LDAP?

A) -L

B) -LL

C) -LLL

D) -LLLL

10) When specifying a filter for ldapsearch, which of the following is used as the logical NOT operator?

A) |

B) %

C) !

D) &

11) Which of the following FTP servers is the default for most of the major Linux distributions?

A) ProFTPd

B) vsftpd

C) Pure-FTPd

D) None of the above

12) Which of the following anonymous FTP settings, if set to Yes, displays the contents of the message file when the user enters the directory?

A) anon_upload_enable=

B) dirmessage_enable=

C) local_enable=

D) anonymous_enable=

13) Which directive setting in the vsftpd.conf file can be used to display a small, pre-login message?

A) ftpd_banner=

B) write_enable=

C) anon_max_rate=

D) max_per_ip=

14) After connecting to an FTP server, you can use the __________ command to copy multiple files from the current local directory to the current remote directory.

A) get

B) put

C) mget

D) mput

15) Which of the following is designed to replace unsecure remote communication operations, such as the telnet, ftp, rlogin, rsh, rcp, and rexec commands/protocols?

A) LDAP

B) LDIF

C) SSH

D) SSSD

16) The two different Secure Shell (SSH) protocols are numbered __________.

A) 0 and 1

B) 1 and 2

C) 0 and 2

D) 2 and 4

17) Which of the following is the standard port number that SSH listens to?

A) 22

B) 80

C) 389

D) 636

18) Which of the following SSH server settings, if set to yes, provides an easy way to allow graphical programs to be executed on the SSH server and displayed on the SSH client?

A) X11Forwarding

B) PrintMotd

C) PermitEmptyPasswords

D) MaxAuthTries

19) Which of the following SSH client commands allows you to transfer files to and from an SSH server via the command line?

A) sftp

B) ssh

C) scp

D) sshd

20) Which of the following is a utility that allows you to have a passphrase for an RSA key and avoid having to type it for each connection?

A) ssh-copy-id

B) ssh-keygen

C) ssh-rsa

D) ssh-agent