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The Lab assessment

8 questions on the episodes in The Lab. Pass with 7 or more correct (80%). Your answers are checked by the site’s server. Once you pass, every question shows the right answer and why. Until then, you’ll see which questions you missed and the episode that covers each one.

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  1. Question 1 of 8 · L01The Hardware Lab's readiness assessment runs twelve checks. What do those checks look at?
  2. Question 2 of 8 · L02Why does the build push the phone's first tower contact and account creation as late as possible?
  3. Question 3 of 8 · L02After the full build, the lab shows "Kit ready" and 12 of 12 checks passing. What does that tell you?
  4. Question 4 of 8 · L03In the hotel drill, you've accepted the portal's terms, but the laptop still reads "Exposed · portal exception." What should you do next?
  5. Question 5 of 8 · L04In the recovery drill, you restore everything you can from the vault backup. What stays lost, and why?
  6. Question 6 of 8 · L05In a failure drill, the laptop's VPN is down and the laptop reads "Blocked · endpoint policy." Which statement is true?
  7. Question 7 of 8 · L06The lab won't let you install Debian on an unencrypted disk. What would that mistake cost you on a real laptop?
  8. Question 8 of 8 · L07The suite built a test network like a hostile hotel and put the kit behind it. Which conclusion do the results support?

Episodes in The Lab

  1. L01Tour: The Hardware Lab and the Reference Library
  2. L02The Whole Privacy Kit Build in One Sitting: All 36 Milestones in the Hardware Lab
  3. L03Beat the Captive Portal: Hotel Arrival Drill in Practice Mode
  4. L04Drill: Recover Your Accounts From the Vault (Hardware Lab)
  5. L05Failure Drills: Break the VPN 4 Ways, Watch It Fail Closed
  6. L0610 Privacy-Kit Mistakes the Simulator Won't Let You Make
  7. L07We Attacked Our Own Privacy Kit in a Fake Hostile Hotel