8.11. Answers to Review Questions

  1. C. It's considered a "best practice" to not use the names super, superuser, or administrator because those are default accounts. The best choice is to pick a user and give them administrative privileges. Then, delete, rename, or disable the built-in administration accounts.

  2. E. A proxy provides firewall services by keeping track of all communications sessions and fetching the next packets.

  3. B, D. EAP and CHAP provide only client authentication, while EAP-TLS and MS-CHAP provide authentication of the client to the server as well as authentication of the server to the client.

  4. B. L2TP provides a secure VPN connection over the Internet for TCP/IP only. In order to provide such a service to IPX, a protocol such as PPTP ...

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