Chapter 9: Network Services, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing

 

1. B. For secure transactions, the web server should be using HTTPS, which uses port 443. If non-secure portions of the website work, then the server is fine. It’s most likely that the firewall is blocking inbound traffic on port 443.
2. C. It sounds like the manager wants a unified threat management (UTM) device. They are designed to be one-stop network protection devices. Networked intrusion detection and prevention systems will detect network attacks but do not have anti-malware or anti-spam capabilities. An endpoint management system is not a security appliance.
3. C. If the data on the server does not need to be accessed via the Internet, then the server should be in the most secure place possible, which is inside the firewall(s) in the secure network.
4. A. Platform as a Service (PaaS) is probably the right level of service for the developer team. It provides infrastructure, like IaaS, and also supplies needed...