CompTIA A+ Core 2: Best Practice Procedures for Malware Removal

 

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Why do you want to disable system restore?

• To prevent a future technician from restoring the virus back onto the machine

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Why do you want to create a system restore point once the malware has been remediated?

• This gives a technician the first known good configuration as a point to restore to in case of any problems with future updates or application installations

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What would be considered best practice for users to consider when replying to emails?

• Do not provide passwords in plaintext

• Never include financial or personal information

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Which tools can be used to identify running processes?

• Process Explorer

• Windows Task Manager

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Which options do you have to deal with infected files?

• Remove them

• Quarantine them

• Disinfect them

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Which malware characteristics would you want to look for when conducting malware research?

• Malware category

• Vulnerabilities exploited

• Services attacked

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Which other media would you want to enable automatic scanning of?

• Email attachments

• Removeable media

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Which are some typical symptoms that a computer may show when infected with spyware?

• Pop-up windows begin to appear

• The local firewall has been disabled

• The browser homepage has changed

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CompTIA A+ Core 2: Backup & Recovery Methods

 

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What is the primary benefit of off-site backup storage?

Recovery from any location

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Backing up information such as the Active Directory in a Windows environment, or the specific users on a mobile device, is considered to be part of which process of a disaster prevention and recovery plan?

Account recovery

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Which type of backup always uses the most recent full back up as a reference to determine which files should be backed up?

Differential

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Which component of determining how frequently backups should be performed defines the amount of acceptable downtime?

Recovery time objective

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Which statement correctly describes the 3-2-1 backup rule?

3 data copies, 2 media types, 1 off-site copy

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Artificial Intelligence: Basic AI Theory

 

Question: What is the output of this Python code?

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.figure()
y = np.random.hypergeometric(ngood=5, nbad=5, nsample=6, size=100)
plt.plot(y)
plt.show()

A graph with the amount of good samples drawn 100 times from random hypergeometric distribution, 5 good and 5 bad options, and 6 samples drawn

Question
 Place these events in the correct sequence.

Theoretical background for AI is created
First commercial AI system is developed
First Big Data AI system is developed
State-of-the-Art AI technology is developed

Question 
Which of the following approaches enable ethical use of AI?
Using encryption to secure computations
Utilizing control structures to prevent undesired actions
Federated learning approach to anonymize data

Question 
Match the qualities of overfitting and underfitting.
Underfitting - Connections between neurons do not form well enough - Low amount of repetitions (epochs) on data training
Overfitting - Large amount of repetitions (epochs) on data training - Dataset memorization - Model may perform well on training and validation data, but not on new data

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Identify features of a regular software system and an AI system.
Regular Software - Is a deterministic system - Execution of the product poses no uncertainty - Clear technical requirements
Artificial Intelligence - Performs differently based on input data - Processing steps are not directly programmed by the developer
Question 
Which of these packages have databases included as a part of them?
TensorFlow
SK-Learn

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Rank these fields by their presence in AI research throughout history.
Text Processing AI
Computer Vision AI
Communication AI
Big Data AI
AI for Robotics

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Match the following AI tools with their functions.
Reinforcement Learning System - Helps a machine learn from its mistakes
Probabilistic Model - Helps a machine understand its objectives and possible dangers in its environment
Machine Learning System - Used to make quantifying predictions or identify objects
Neural Network - Developed based of neuron structure inside our brains and can be used for object detection, text understanding, and more

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 Which of the following is a way Big Data benefits Artificial Intelligence
Use of Big Data AI gives businesses an opportunity for competitive advantage
New models can be trained with larger datasets
Internet increases data availability and makes it more accessible

Question 
Match reliable and unreliable conditions of using AI.
Unreliable conditions - Fully automated marketing through AI technology - Self-driving technology during heavy snow - AI doctor with no human oversight
Reliable conditions - AI tested in a fully controlled laboratory environment - AI assistant used for data processing task
Question
 Which of these are key mistakes to look for in AI development?
AI doing its own thing
User corruption
Disconnect between AI developers and their customers
Racial bias

Question
 Match a particular research breakthrough with its description.
AlphaStar - AI agent which can play e-sports better than professionals
GAN - Neural networks utilized for data generation based on examples - Neural networks utilized for image generation based on examples
RF-Pose - Technology which allows to utilize signal strength to track object position

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Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Managing Azure AD

 

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Where in the portal is user self-service password reset enabled?

• Azure AD

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What is the default Azure AD tenant DNS name suffix?

• onmicrosoft.com

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Which PowerShell cmdlet is used to create a new Azure AD user?

• New-AzAdUser

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Which file format is used when importing users for bulk create?

• CSV

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After enabling user MFA, what MFA status appears for the user?

• Enabled

Question: You want to automate Azure AD user creation using the CLI. What is missing from the following CLI statement?

az ad user create --display-name "Jen Hill" --user-principal-name jhill@stefansammsoutlook.onmicrosoft.com 

Password

Question: You are creating an Azure AD user through the portal. Which create options are you presented with?
Invite user
Create user

Question: Which statements regarding Azure AD guest users are correct?
Guest users can be assigned access to apps
An invitation email is sent to the user

Question: You want to use PowerShell to import users from a CSV file. Which PowerShell cmdlet accomplishes this task?
Import-Csv

Question: MFA users receive a verification phone call from Microsoft. What must the user enter to compete the sign-in?
#

Question: Which statement regarding assigning Azure AD licenses are correct?
The user must have a usage location specified
The licenses must first be added to Azure AD

Question: You would like to require current and future Azure AD users to use MFA. What should you do?
Enable an MFA registration policy

Question: Which are components of a conditional access policy?
Conditions
Access controls

Question: What is the purpose of MFA bypass?
Simple authentication from trusted networks

Question: Which type of managed identity is its own Azure resource?
User assigned

Question: You suspect Azure AD groups that no longer need app access still have active permissions. Which tool can you use to verify this?
Access review

Question: You have configured a banned password list, yet users are still able to set new passwords using banned items. What is the most likely cause of the problem?
The mode is not set to enforced

Question: Which are valid Azure AD MFA verification options?
Mobile app
SMS text message

Question: You need to configure an Azure AD registered app with claim information required by the app. Which option should you configure in the registered app?
Token configuration

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Google Associate Cloud Engineer: Google Cloud Operations Suite

 

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What is the name of the script that needs to be downloaded and ran, in order to install the cloud monitoring agent on a Linux device?

• add-monitoring-agent-repo.sh

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Which API is ran by an equipped application manage error reporting to the cloud error reporting console?

• gcloud beta error-reporting

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Which of the options are valid sink destinations?

• Cloud Logging Bucket

• BigQuery data set

• Cloud Storage Bucket

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The cloud logging agent is an application that runs on your virtual machines and is based on which open-source data collector?

• Fluentd

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What is the name of the request that is sent to a resource to see if it responds in a timely manner? These requests are useful to determine the availability of your VM instances, URLs and app engine services.

• Uptime checks

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Which pane in the logs explorer console must be added to the page and offers a high-level summary of the logs data and gives users a more practical way to refine queries?

• Logs fields pane

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What must be created as part of an alerting policy in order to advise administrators of problems within our GCP project?

• Notification channel

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When creating user defined logs-based metrics, what are the two metrics types available?

• Counter

• Distribution

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Which type of insights into your application can you gather from using the cloud trace tool in the Google cloud console?

• Application requests

• Application latency

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Which is the URL to view status information on all the services that make up Google cloud?

• https://status.cloud.google.com

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Which option is available to users to inject logging into our running app without the need to restart it?

• Log point

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The legacy log viewer allows users to view and organize their log data for which options?

• For a single cloud project

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What must you configure in your GCP project to ensure that all new VMs created automatically install the monitoring and logging agents?

• Agent rules

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Google cloud monitoring allows you to view and organize metrics in which ways?

• For multiple projects across multiple organizations

• For multiple projects in a single organization

• For a single project

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When creating resource groups, which criterion can you select to produce your resource groups with the most precision?

• Security group

• Resource type

• Tag

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Which of the options are resource types that custom metrics can be created for?

• k8s_cluster

• gce_instance

• aws_ec2_instance

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