THM - Putting it all together - Walkthrough

This series of walkthroughs aims to help out complete beginners with finishing the Pre Security Path on the TryHackMe (thm)¹ website.

It is based on the learning content provided in the Putting it all together room.

Task 1 - Putting It All Together

Read the short intro before moving to the next task.

Question 1: I’ve read this…

No answer needed

Task 2 - Other Components

One after the other, Load Balancers, CDNs, Databases and WAFs are introduced here.

Question 1: What can be used to host static files and speed up a clients visit to a website?

CDN

Question 2: What does a load balancer perform to make sure a host is still alive?

health check

Question 3: What can be used to help against the hacking of a website?

WAF

Task 3 - How Web Servers Work

Learn about web servers and how they work. Check out the differences between static and dynamic content before proceeding with the next task.

Question 1: What does web server software use to host multiple sites?

Virtual Hosts

Question 2: What is the name for the type of content that can change?

Dynamic

Question 3: Does the client see the backend code? Yay/Nay

Nay

Task 4 - Quiz

Grab the flag by dragging and dropping the tiles on the right, into the correct order of how a request to a website works.

After placing the last tile on to it’s rightful place, you will be rewarded with a nice pop-up window, displaying the flag.

Question 1: Flag

flag

Here, we arrived at the end of the current room, and with this, the whole module is completed. But as they say, three down, two to go.