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1. Email Spoofing

Email server Network security Spoofing attack
   
Easy 

Employees of a company are facing lots of bounced email notifications from email addresses they have never sent messages to. Select the options below which are correct for the given scenario.

(Select all acceptable answers.)

Mail boxes of the company users are full, resulting in bounced emails.
Company email addresses seem to have been spoofed and used for spamming.
An email authentication method like DKIM can be used to prevent such incidents.
SMTP would prevent such incidents as emails can be sent reliably using it.
Having more than one email server would reduce such email bouncing incidents.
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2. IP Privacy

Application layer IP Network security
   
Easy  

Select the methods that can be used to hide your public IP address when making calls to a remote server over the internet.

(Select all acceptable answers.)

A Virtual Private Network.
A Proxy Server.
Using the HTTPS protocol.
The Transport Layer Security protocol.
Spoofing the device's MAC address.
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3. Grouping Hosts

Network layer Routing Subnet
   
Easy 

A computer network has hosts with the following IP addresses:

  • 124.127.64.147
  • 124.127.64.151
  • 124.127.64.155
  • 124.127.64.156

What is the routing prefix (in format: address of a network/bit-length of the prefix) for the smallest subnet that contains these four hosts?

124.127.64. /  

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4. MX Record

Application layer DNS MX Record
   
Hard 

The email service provider has provided only an IP address for the TestDome email server - 192.0.2.0. TestDome owns the domain 'testdome.com'. Fill in the blanks for the correct DNS configuration, so that 'mail.testdome.com' points to the email server.

Type Host Name Points To
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