CNE252 NetWare 5.1 Advanced Administration

Review for Third Quiz

1. How many keys are used in private key cryptography?
   
   
2. How many keys are used in public key cryptography?
   
   
3. Which key must be used for encryption?
   
   
4. What assurance does a user have that a public key really belongs to the vendor he is trying to make a web purchase from?
   
   
5. What entity create digital signature in the Novell environment?
   
   
6. What is a public key certificate? What must be included in it?
   
   
7. What is the name of the public key standard your book described? What does this standard add to the required elements that must be found in a public key?
   
   
8. What are the duties of a Certificate Authority?
   
   
9. Name three reasons why you might want to use Novell's Certificate Server instead of a commercial provider.
   
   
10. Name two reasons you might want to use a commercial provider instead of Novell's Certificate Server.
    
    
11. How many bits can be used in a NICI compliant encryption key if you are in London, Ontario? How many bits can be used in London, England?
    
    
12. What NLM is the actual Certificate Server program?
    
    
13. What is a Certificate Signing Request?
    
    
14. What is the default lifespan of a certificate signed by the Novell Certificate Server?
    
    
15. When should a public key certificate be revoked?
    
    
16. Assume that a web user has sent a transmission to me encrypted with my public key. How must it be decrypted? Is this secure?
    
    
17. Assume that a web user has sent a transmission to me encrypted with my private key. How must it be decrypted? Is this secure?
    
    
18. What is the NDS object type of a Server Certificate object?
    
    
19. What is a Trusted Root certificate?
    
    
20. Where is a Trusted Root object stored?
    
    
21. What is NSS?
    
    
22. What does an NSS provider do? What layer of Novell's five layer system does a provider work on?
    
    
23. Why might you not be able to create an NSS partition (volume) in an existing DOS partition?
    
    
24. What kinds of space can NSS identify for use? What kinds of space should not be combined in the same volume?
    
    
25. What are the five layers identified in NSS architecture? Which is associated with hardware? Which is associated with the object bank?
    
    
26. Name four characteristics of NSS that make it superior to NFS.
    
    
27. What are some limitations of NSS?
    
    
28. What utility is used to repair an NFS volume? What is used to repair an NSS volume?
    
    
29. What is the minimum space required for an NSS volume?
    
    
30. What NLM runs the NSS service?
    
    
31. What standard utility may be used to configure NSS? What is the command line option for configuring NSS?
    
    
32. How might you implement NSS on an existing NetWare system?
    
    
33. What is a quick way to obliterate all data from an NSS volume?
    
    
34. What is a software requirement for using NetWare Management Portal (NMP) on a workstation?
    
    
35. Which NMP tab would you use to manage swap files? Which would you use to rename data files?
    
    
36. What NMP feature is your first clue to a server's Health?
    
    
37. What is the page size of RAM on a server?
    
    
38. What is garbage collection? How often does it run, by the default setting?
    
    
39. How many swap files can exist on a volume? What is the command syntax to remove a swap file? Under what circumstances can't you remove a swap file?
    
    
41. What is the term used for frequent swapping of memory to a swap file? What is the standard recommendation to fix this problem?
    
    
42. What are the three parameters for a swap file that can be changed on a command line? What are their default values?
    
    
43. What is a thread, with regard to an application? What does it mean when a thread goes to sleep?
    
    
44. What is the default application?
    
    
45. What is the syntax to load an NLM into a named application space?
    
    
46. What is a share value?
    
    
47. True or False?
    1. The NetWare 5 operating system runs in protected space.
    2. NLMs that load into protected space can be swapped into virtual memory
    3. NLMs that do not load into protected space can be swapped into virtual memory
    4. Data from NLMs cannot be swapped into virtual memory
    
    
    
48. What should you expect the processor utilization statistic to read under normal circumstances?
    
    
49. What do Original Cache Buffers represent? What do Total Cache Buffers represent?
    
    
50. What level should Long Term Cache Hits be above? What could/should you do if it falls below that number?
    
    
51. What has the age of a Disk Cache Buffer to do with its being Dirty?
    
    
52. How much memory would you expect an NLM to take up when loaded? What is an exception to this expectation?
    
    
53. What is the Maximum Packet size for an Ethernet? For a Token Ring?
    
    
54. What is the default for Maximum Packet Receive Buffers? What are they used for? What is the meaning of Minimum Packet Receive Buffers, and what is the default value? What observable phenomena would cause you to increase their values?
    
    
55. What is block suballocation? Is it on or off by default?
    
    
56. Is file compression on or off by default? How can each of these states be overridden?