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Midterm 1 Lecture 1 What is the CIA triangle and what does it mean? What are the three goals of security? What is the difference between an attack and a threat?

Lecture 2 What is the purpose of an operating system? What does a file system do? What is the role of the pagefile/swap file (virtual memory)? How does data flow within a computer?

Lecture 3 What is the difference between symmetric encryption and asymmetric encryption? How does public key encryption work? How do digital signatures work? What are the three categories/types of authentication? What is the process used by current operating systems to authenticate users? Password Cracking Lab Review

Lecture 4 What are the two most common topologies we discussed and how do they work? What is the name for the HARDWARE address of a network interface? What is an IP addresses and what types did we discuss? How does a network translate between MAC addresses and IP addresses? What is the single point of a network that is connected to the public internet? 1

How does the internet translate URLs into actual connections? Is TCP/IP OSI compliant? - No. TCP/IP pre-dates OSI Lecture 5 What is the most common networking protocol used today? How many layers does it have? Compare it to the OSI model. What is the three way handshake and what is its purpose? What is PAR and what is its purpose? What is the sliding window and what is its purpose? What is a port? What is UDP and what is an example of what it is used for? What is ICMP and what is an example of what it is used for? Lecture 6

Lecture 7 Midterm will be MCQs and short answers, 50 – 60 Qs,

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