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Thursday, October 25, 2018

weird questions in azure VM sizes

A Standard_A7 virtual machine would be considered: General Purpose. The Standard_A7 virtual machine is part of the General Purpose series.

A1. A1 is the smallest size recommended for production environments.

Resource Manager template. This is a file that defines one or more resources to deploy to a resource group. It also defines the dependencies between the deployed resources. The template can be used to deploy the resources consistently and repeatedly.

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

a new type of malware attack -- Coin mining attacks

As of early 2018, coin mining attacks are becoming increasingly prevalent due to their lucrative nature. Coin mining malware deployed in attacks is sophisticated enough only to use some, not all, of the host systems resources ................

source - Microsoft

Windows Defender Device Guard is a security feature for Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows Server 2016 designed to use application whitelisting and code integrity policies to protect users' devices from malicious code that could compromise the operating system

Another pattern that represents the way more sophisticated attacks are carried out is referred to by using the acronym OODA, representing four stages in a typical attack – Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act.

Azure AD domain services - interesting

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory-domain-services/

Azure AD Domain Services provides managed domain services such as domain join, group policy, LDAP, Kerberos/NTLM authentication that are fully compatible with Windows Server Active Directory.

but not very flexible
  

Sunday, October 14, 2018

new Microsoft learning portal https://academy.microsoft.com/en-us/dashboard

https://academy.microsoft.com/en-us/dashboard


ARP messages are sent using which Ethertype designation in the frame header?“0x0806.”

ARP messages are sent using which Ethertype designation in the frame header?“0x0806.”
- source cisco

Which one of the following options is a valid field in the UDP header?"checksum."

Which one of the following options describes the three steps in the TCP three-way handshake?
1. SYN; 2. SYN, ACK; 3. ACK."

the following fields are found in a TCP segment?
source port," "window size," and "checksum

Monday, October 8, 2018

Google calendar not showing on my iphone 5 s

Google calendar not showing on my iphone 5 s

delete the original gmail app

re-add mail as google

now Gmail calendar showing in Calendar

See your Google Calendar in Outlook

See your Google Calendar in Outlook

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/see-your-google-calendar-in-outlook-c1dab514-0ad4-4811-824a-7d02c5e77126

this article is a bit outdated, but the idea is still the same