Provide a brief overview of the most basic job of a firewall.

What will be an ideal response?


Firewalls are devices or software that protect an internal network from unauthorized access by acting as a filter. All a firewall does is filter traffic that flows through its ports. Firewalls are essential tools in the fight against malicious programs on the Internet. The most basic job of the firewall is to look at each packet and decide based on a set of rules whether to block or allow the traffic. This traffic can be either inbound traffic, packets coming from outside the network, or outbound traffic, packets leaving the network.
 

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where Emp21 is stored at site B and Emp22 is stored at site C. A query at site A wants the names of all managers in the accounting department whose salary is greater than their age. Design a plan for this query, using the assumptions on page 704 for table and attribute sizes. Assume that the items in the Age column are two bytes long.

Suppose that we have a relation Employee2 (SSnum, Name, Salary, Age, Title, Location) which is partitioned as Emp21 (SSnum, Name, Salary) Emp22 (SSnum, Title, Age, Location) What will be an ideal response?

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[This question is for UNIX/Linux users.] Use functions fork and exec to emulate function system. The parent should use the wait function to wait for a child process to finish be- fore continuing. Run the command "cat ex18_03.py".

What will be an ideal response?

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Machines that use the simplified approach to designing instruction sets are known as ____________________ machines.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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The ____ encoding scheme has a voltage change at the beginning of a 1 and no voltage change at the beginning of a 0.?

A. ?nonreturn to zero inverted (NRZI) B. ?nonreturn to zero-level (NRZ-L) C. ?Manchester D. ?Differential Manchester

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