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5. You have been assigned a ticket from your company’s help desk stating that a
user is unable to access their files over the VPN although they can access the
same files when connected to the corporate network at their office.While
troubleshooting the problem, you have the user perform a traceroute between
their workstation and the VPN gateway while connected to the VPN.The
traceroute results show that all eight hops respond with acceptable response
times.What do you suspect the problem is?

A. Network latency.
B. The user is not connected to the VPN.
C. Access permissions for the files are incorrect.

D. The VPN gateway is behaving abnormally and needs to be examined.

6. You are working with a network engineer to diagnose the cause for intermit-
tent communication issues on the corporate network.The engineer determines
that the cause is attenuation on the UTP cables used for network traffic.What
element of STP cable could help with this?

A. Increased twist rate
B. Shielding
C. Higher wire gauge

D. Optical data transmission

7. You are working with a team to prepare outdated workstations for resale.As
part of this task, you must ensure that no corporate data remains on the system.
What is the best way to do this?

A. Destroy the system hard disk drive.
B. Overwrite the system hard disk drive with random data to clear it.

C. Format the system hard disk drive.
D. Overwrite the system hard disk drive with random data multiple times to
clear it securely.

8. One of the employees at your company frequently does presentations. She car-
ries the slideshow for the presentation on a flash card which she always carries
with her.What would you recommend to her to keep the data on the flash
card confidential?

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