IT Security - Chapter 12
National Bureau of Standards
NBS
IAB (Internet Architecture Board)
What serves as an advisory body to the Internet Society (ISOC)
ITU-T (International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Sector)
Which standards organization divides its recommendations into 26 separate series, each bearing a unique letter of the alphabet?
IEC
Which standards organization formed in 1906 and handles standards for batteries?
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Which standards organization has the largest number of members of any technical professional organization in the world?
ITU-T (International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Sector)
Which standards organization is a UN agency responsible for managing and promoting information and technology issues?
NIST
Which standards organization maintains the atomic clock that keeps the United States' official time?
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
Which standards organization produces standards that affect nearly all aspects of IT, but primarily software development and computer system operation?
ANSI
Which standards organization publishes American Standard Fortran?
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
Which standards organization publishes standards such as CGI, HTML, and XML?
IEEE
Which standards organization publishes the 802.11g standard?
ISO (International Organization for Standardization)
Which standards organization's name derives from the Greek word for equal?
ITU (International Telecommunication Union)
What organization promotes technology issues as an agency of the United Nations?
IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)
Which standards organization is a collection of working groups (WGs), with each group addressing a specific topic?
NIST
Which standards organization is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce?
ISO (International Organization for Standardization)
Which standards organization is a network of 161 national standards institutes?
IAB (Internet Architecture Board)
Which standards organization is a subcommittee of the IETF?
change
RFCs never ___.
Proposed Standard (PS), Draft Standard (DS), Standard (STD), and Best Current Practice (BCP)
RFCs that define formal standards have four stages: ___
Power generation Semiconductors Telecommunications Physical computer and networking hardware
What are the four areas that IEC standards address?
ISO/IEC 27002
Which standard Supersedes ISO 17799?
TCP/IP
The IETF primarily focuses on standard of the ___ Internet protocol suite.
RFC (Request for Comments)
The IETF produces documents called ___.
OSI model
What is the best known ISO standard?
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
What is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web?
OSI Reference Model
What is the most well-known ISO standard?
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
What is the world's largest professional association for the advancement of technology?
ANSI (American National Standards Institute)
Which organization created a standard version of the widely used C programming language in 1989?
ISO (International Organization for Standardization)
Which standards organization serves as a bridge between the public and private sectors?
IAB (Internet Architecture Board)
Which standards organization serves as an advisory body to the Internet Society (ISOC)?
IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)
Which standards organization works closely with the W3C and ISO/IEC?
ISO (International Organization for Standardization)
ISBN is a standard of which standards organization?