xxxviii Answers to Assessment Test
- B. Passwords are the simplest form of authentication and are commonly used. They fall
under first-factor authentication and are referred to as something you know. - A. An IP address is a logical address assigned at layer 3 and can be assigned to an IP-based
system. The same IP address can be assigned to different systems, albeit at different times
unlike MAC addresses. - C. An IPv6 address has 128 bits as opposed to IPv4, which only has 32 bits. This increased
amount of bits allows for the generation of many more IP addresses than is possible with
IPv4.
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