What is the purpose of a shadow honeypot?

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To flag attacks against known vulnerabilities

To enhance the accuracy of a traditional honeypot

To help reduce false positives in a signature-based IDS

To randomly check suspicious traffic identified by an anomaly detection system

Correct Answer : Option (D) : To randomly check suspicious traffic identified by an anomaly detection system

Explanation : “Shadow honeypots,” as researchers call them, share all the same characteristics of protected applications running on both the server and client side of a network and operate in conjunction with an ADS.

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Q .

EIGRP uses the ____________ algorithm for finding shortest path.

DUAL

SPF

Linkstat

Djikstra’s

Correct Answer : Option (A) : DUAL

Explanation : EIGRP uses the DUAL algorithm for finding shortest path. DUAL stands for diffusing update algorithm and it is used to prevent routing loops by recalculating routes globally.

Q .

Administrative distance for external EIGRP route is _______

100

170

135

190

Correct Answer : Option (B) : 170

Explanation : Routers use the metric of administrative distance to select the best path when there are different routes to the same destination from two different routing protocols as it is a measure of reliability of routing protocols. Administrative distance for external EIGRP is 170.