Microsoft has responded to a list of concerns regarding its ongoing $68bn attempt to buy Activision Blizzard, as raised by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), and come up with an interesting statistic. Show In response to continued questions over whether Microsoft owning Call of Duty would unfairly hobble PlayStation, Microsoft claimed that every COD player on PlayStation could move over to Xbox, and Sony's playerbase would still remain "significantly larger" than its own. Microsoft does not go into detail on its mental arithmetic here, but does note elswhere in its comments that PlayStation currently has a console install base of 150 million, compared to Xbox's install base of 63.7 million. Watch on YouTube Eurogamer Newscast: Are CD Projekt's Cyberpunk and Witcher plans too ambitious?That claim is part of a range of comments given to Eurogamer sister site GamesIndustry.biz in response to the CMA's latest report, which otherwise mostly repeats many of the same concerns raised by the UK regulator - and others around the world - already. For those following the case, the CMA's latest intervention will not come as a surprise - it is the next step on the regulator's recent roadmap for how and when it will weigh in with its final ruling. This month, we were due the CMA's October "issues statement" - and it seems that this is the document to which Microsoft has now publicly responded. The usual topics are covered - surrounding the potential for the deal to harm competitors should Microsoft gain too much of an advantage owning Activision Blizzard franchises (mainly, Call of Duty) and therefore being able to leverage their brand power to become a dominant market leader in the console market and cloud streaming. Specifically, the CMA sees potential for the deal to harm Sony but also other streaming services such as Google (perhaps a moot point now), Amazon and Nvidia. "Having full control over this powerful catalogue, especially in light of Microsoft's already strong position in gaming consoles, operating systems, and cloud infrastructure, could result in Microsoft harming consumers by impairing Sony's – Microsoft's closest gaming rival – ability to compete," the CMA wrote, "as well as that of other existing rivals and potential new entrants who could otherwise bring healthy competition through innovative multi-game subscriptions and cloud gaming services." In response, Microsoft said such "unsupported theories of harm" were not enough to even warrant the CMA's current Phase 2 investigation - which was triggered on 1st September. "The suggestion that the incumbent market leader, with clear and enduring market power, could be foreclosed by the third largest provider as a result of losing access to one title is not credible," Microsoft told GamesIndustry.biz. "While Sony may not welcome increased competition, it has the ability to adapt and compete. Gamers will ultimately benefit from this increased competition and choice. "Should any consumers decide to switch from a gaming platform that does not give them a choice as to how to pay for new games (PlayStation) to one that does (Xbox), then that is the sort of consumer switching behavior that the CMA should consider welfare enhancing and indeed encourage. It is not something that the CMA should be trying to prevent." The CMA is due to notify Microsoft of its provisional findings in January 2023, at which point it can seek possible remedies to any sticking points raised. The regulator's final report - and overall ruling - will then be published no later than 1st March next year. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsBecome a Eurogamer subscriber and get your first month for £1 Get your first month for £1 (normally £3.99) when you buy a Standard Eurogamer subscription. Enjoy ad-free browsing, merch discounts, our monthly letter from the editor, and show your support with a supporter-exclusive comment flair! Hint: The PDF is way easier to read, just sign up / register to get it free. Code:
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An aviation tracking system maintains flight records for equipment and personnel. The system is a critical command and control system that must maintain a global availability rate of 99%. The entire system is on a cloud platform that guarantees a failover to multiple zones within a region. In addition to the multi-zonal cloud failover, what other solution would provide the best option to restoring data and rebuilding systems if the primary cloud service becomes unavailable?
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CompTIA has changed the answer to this question: An application maintains social security numbers and birth dates in a database to track medical records across multiple offices. To maintain the personally identifiable information (PII), which of the following de-identification methods should the application adopt? A. Data masking (wrong) B. Code obfuscation (wrong) C. Tokenization (correct) D. Hashing (wrong) Identify the command that will output the first 15 lines in a log file called hostnames where the system writes in chronological order starting from the top of the file. tail -n 15 /var/log/hostnames (wrong) cat -n hostnames (wrong) head -n 15 /var/log/hostnames (correct) logger -n 10.1.0.242 `hostnames` 15 (wrong) Identify the command that will output the last 15 lines in the log file called hostnames. tail -n 15 /var/log/hostnames (correct) head -n 15 /var/log/hostnames (wrong) logger -n 10.1.0.242 `hostnames` 15 (wrong) cat -n hostnames (wrong) A lot of changes have been made to the test.. A cloud customer prefers separating storage resources that hold different sets of data in virtual private clouds (VPCs). One of those data sets must comply with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) guidelines for patient data. How should the customer configure these VPCs to ensure the highest degree of network security? A. Use separate VPCs for each network segment. (correct) B. Create multiple security groups. (wrong) C. Monitor the virtual instance usage. (wrong) D. Use third-party next generation firewall. (wrong) Employees have the ability to download certain applications onto their workstations to complete work functions. The CIO enacted a policy to ensure that no modifications to the application have occurred. What method of validation did the CIO implement? A. Input validation (wrong) B. Code signing (correct) C. Race conditions (wrong) D. Code obfuscation (wrong) 82.5% complete Question A network administrator is importing a list of certificates from an online source, so that employees can use a chain of trust and communicate securely with public websites. Which type of certificate is the network administrator currently importing? A. Root (correct) B. SAN (wrong) C. Computer (wrong) D. Wildcard (wrong) A public key infrastructure (PKI) is being set up for a logistics company, utilizing OpenSSL hosted on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Which of the following commands can the team use, when setting up the PKI, to create an encrypted RSA private key? A. openssl genrsa -aes256 -out server.key 1024 (correct) B. openssl rsa -in server.key -pubout (wrong) C. openssl rsa -check -in server.key (wrong) D. openssl x509 -x509toreq -in cert.pem -out server.csr -signkey server.key (wrong) An administrator deploys a basic network intrusion detection system (NIDS) device to identify known attacks. What detection method does this device use? A. Signature-based (correct) B. Anomaly-based (wrong) C. Heuristic-based (wrong) D. Behavioral-based (wrong) A cloud administrator deploys two cloud servers on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform, each in a separately defined virtual network. How does the administrator get both servers to communicate with each other without using an Internet gateway? A. Set up a public subnet. (wrong) B. Configure VPC endpoint interface. (correct) C. Use third-party solutions. (wrong) D. Configure monitoring and track usage. (wrong) Consider the principles of web server hardening and determine which actions a system administrator should take when deploying a new web server in a demilitarized zone (DMZ). (Select all that apply.) A. Establish a guest zone (correct) B. Upload files using SSH (correct) C. Use configuration templates (correct) D. Place the server within the corporate network (wrong)
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HI! Just passed 1.0 and 2.0 today. The below questions answers as noted here are incorrect. I have updated the answers to the questions below. Enjoy! An attacker used an illegal access point (AP) with a very strong signal near a wireless network. If the attacker performed a jamming attack, which of the following would mitigate this type of network disruption? (Select all that apply.) A. Boost the signal of the legitimate equipment. (correct) B. Locate the offending radio source and disable it. (correct) C. Use a spectrum analyzer. (wrong) D. Install a Personal Area Network (PAN). (wrong)
Which command is used in both Linux and Windows CLI to create a new directory?The mkdir (make directory) command in the Unix, DOS, DR FlexOS, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows, and ReactOS operating systems is used to make a new directory.
What Linux command is used to create a new directory?The mkdir command in Linux/Unix allows users to create or make new directories. mkdir stands for “make directory.” With mkdir , you can also set permissions, create multiple directories (folders) at once, and much more.
Which command is used to create a new directory in Windows?Use the mkdir command to create one or more directories specified by the Directory parameter.
Which commands can you use to create a new directory quizlet?The mkdir command stands for "make directory". It takes in a directory name as an argument, and then creates a new directory in the current working directory.
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