Describe the importance of the bastion host's performance.

What will be an ideal response?


The bastion host, although it may not be the only hardware component in a firewall architecture, is of central importance to the operation of the firewall software that it hosts. If the host machine runs too slowly or doesn't have enough memory to handle the large number of packet-filtering decisions, proxy service requests, and other traffic, the entire organization's productivity can be adversely affected. That's because the bastion host resides on the perimeter of the network and, unless other bastion hosts and firewalls have been set up to provide load balancing, is the only gateway through which inbound  and outbound traffic can pass. Scalability and security are important not only to the firewall, but to its bastion host machine as well. The bastion host needs sufficient memory to support every instance of every program necessary to service the load placed on the machine.

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Write a statement that sets bit bitNumber of bitset flags “off.”

What will be an ideal response?

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Which of the following statements about Lamport’s Bakery Algorithm is false?

a) Lamport’s algorithm allows multiple threads to obtain the same ticket number. b) The thread possessing the ticket with the highest numerical value can enter its critical section. c) Lamport’s algorithm enforces mutual exclusion. d) A thread’s ticket number is reset when the thread exits its critical section.

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A(n) ________ is a field that is assigned a row orientation in a PivotTable report

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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The balance factor of a tree is defined as the height of the left subtree minus the height of the right subtree.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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