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Information Security
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Subject
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it-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Below 70 degrees or above 75 degrees
Hash encoding
Extreme temperatures
Chain
DAP
2. The act of driving while running a laptop configured to detect and capture wireless data transmissions.
Reverse proxy
War Driving
Rogue
White box
3. Sifting through a company's garbage to find information to help break into their computers
Router
Phishing
Dumpster Diving
UDP Flood
4. Keeps a record of the state of a connection between an internal computer and an external device and then makes decisions based on the connection as well as the conditions.
Black Hat
Stateful packet filtering
Replay
DNS
5. Generally represent disgruntled employees and alike who are seeking to perform vengeful acts against their current or former employer.
Phishing
Clickjacking
Offline cracking
Malicious Insiders
6. A ____ is a computer typically located in an area with limited security and loaded with software and data files that appear to be authentic - yet they are actually imitations of real data files.
NAT
Content filtering
Honeypot
Backup scope
7. A form of filtering that blocks only sites specified as harmful.
Blacklisting Software
External Threat
Challenge
Firewall logs
8. The most popular attack toolkit - which has almost half of the attacker toolkit market is ____.
MPack
Separation of duties
Brute Force Attack
Open Port
9. Broadcast storms can be prevented with ____.
Loop Protection
Smurf Attack
Spyware
Locking Cabinets
10. An attack where the goal is to extract personal - financial or confidential information from the victim by using services such as the telephone or VOIP.
Geometric variance
Separation of duties
Vishing
Prevention and detection
11. Magnetic tape drives - hard drives - optical media (CD or DVD) - solid-state media (flash drives or SD)
DAP
Trojan-horse virus
Media for backups
Password Crackers
12. A feature of Windows that is intended to provide users with control of their digital identities while helping them to manage privacy.
Port Scanner
Encryption
LEAP
CardSpace
13. A hacker who exposes security flaws in applications and operating systems so manufacturers can fix them before they become widespread problems.
White Hat
PAT
War Driving
Distributed
14. Hardware and/or software that guards a private network by analyzing the information leaving and entering the network
Swiss Cheese
Private
Router
Firewalls
15. Hides inside other software - usually as an attachment or a downloadable file
Trojan-horse virus
Honeynet
Electronic Activist (hacktivist)
Electronic Vandal
16. A threat to networked hosts in which the host is flooded with broadcast ping messages. A _____ _____ is a type of denial-of-service attack.
Brute Force
Smurf Attack
Replay Attack
Open Port
17. An attack that sends unsolicited messages to Bluetooth-enabled devices.
CCTV
RADIUS
Tailgate sensors
Bluejacking
18. Forging of the return address on an e-mail so that the e-mail message appears to come from someone other than the actual sender. This is not a virus but rather a way by which virus authors conceal their identities as they send out viruses.
Stateful packet filtering
Spoofing
LDAP injection
Identity management
19. Countless requests for a TCP connection sent to an FTP server - web server - or system attached to the internet.
Physical security
Rogue
SYN Flood
Cipher locks
20. Peering over the shoulder of someone to see the contents on that person's computer or cell phone screen.
Human memory
Mandatory Access Control
DNS Hijacking
Shoulder Surfing
21. Attack computer systems by transmitting a virus hoax - with a real virus attached. By masking the attack in a seemingly legitimate message - unsuspecting users more readily distribute the message and send the attack on to their co-workers and friends
RADIUS
Standard biometrics
Hoaxes
DNS Hijacking
22. Due to the limitations of online guessing - most password attacks today use ____.
Offline cracking
Media for backups
Evil Twin
Impersonation
23. Type of software attack where an attacker captures network traffic and stores it for retransmission at a later time to gain unauthorized access to a network.
Impersonation
Role Based Access Control
Bluejacking
Replay Attack
24. The identification of a user based on a physical characteristic - such as a fingerprint - iris - face - voice - or handwriting
ACL
Distributed storage
Sniffer
Biometrics
25. ____ can be prewired for electrical power as well as wired network connections.
Human memory
Locking Cabinets
Password Crackers
Physical security
26. Suitable for what are called "high-volume service control applications" such as dial-in access to a corporate network.
Cloud computing
EAP
Extreme temperatures
RADIUS
27. An attack that intercepts legitimate communication between two victims and captures - analyzes and possibly alters the data packets before sending a fake reply.
Man-in-the-Middle Attack
UDP Flood
Bluesnarfing
LDAP injection
28. Related to the perception - thought process - and understanding of the user.
Replay
Impersonation
Two factor security
Cognitive biometrics
29. The most common protocol suite used today for local area networks (LANs) as well as the Internet is ____.
TCP/IP
Clickjacking
Tailgate sensors
SSO
30. Attacker sets up a rogue DNS server that responds to legitimate requests with IP addresses for malicious or non-existent websites.
DNS Hijacking
Backup scope
Hardware Attack
Buffer Overflow
31. A ____ is designed to separate a nonsecured area from a secured area.
Identification
Mantrap
Security
Buffer Overflow
32. Fire - extreme weather - flooding - extreme temperatures - extreme humidity.
Identity Theft
Environmental Threat
Replay Attack
Script Kiddie
33. Provides a greater degree of security by implementing port-based authentication.
Cracker
Hardware Attack
IEEE 802.1x
RADIUS
34. Using video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific and limited set of receivers is called ____.
Router
Bluesnarfing
CCTV
Port Scanner
35. Requires that if the fraudulent application of a process could potentially result in a breach of security - then the process should be divided between two or more individuals.
Cognitive biometrics
Separation of duties
Spyware
Scatternet
36. How secure the data in your backups is-can use physical security or encryption
Malicious Insiders
Security
Operation
Firewalls
37. A secret combination of letters - numbers - and/or characters that only the user should know.
Distributed
Cloud computing
Password
Encryption
38. Often used for managing user access to one or more systems.
Mouse Trapping
TACACS
Rule Based Access Control
Federated identity management
39. A ____ virus infects the Master Boot Record of a hard disk drive.
Kerberos
DNS
Firewall logs
Boot
40. Although brute force and dictionary attacks were once the primary tools used by attackers to crack an encrypted password - today attackers usually prefer ____.
Extreme temperatures
Hash encoding
Rainbow Tables
Wireless VLANs
41. An AP that is set up by an attacker.
Symmetric encryption
Evil Twin
UDP Flood
Password
42. These access points are serious threats to network security because they allow attackers to intercept the RF signal and bypass network security to attack the network or capture sensitive data.
Server-Side
Smurf Attack
Electronic Activist (hacktivist)
Rogue
43. An attack that sends unsolicited messages to Bluetooth-enabled devices.
Natural Threat
Cognitive biometrics
Bluejacking
Symmetric encryption
44. To create a rainbow table - each ____ begins with an initial password that is encrypted.
Chain
UDP Flood
Evil Twin
Brute Force Attack
45. An attempt to discover an encryption key or password by trying numerous possible character combinations. usually - a brute force attack is performed rapidly by a program designed for that purpose.
DAP
War Driving
Brute Force Attack
Open Port
46. Software that comes hidden in free downloadable software and tracks online movements - mines the information stored on a computer - or uses a computer's CPU and storage for some task the user knows nothing about - can cause extremely slow performance
Physical security
Spyware
Blacklisting Software
Federated identity management
47. A device that is around the same size as a credit card - containing embedded technologies that can store information and small amounts of software to perform some limited processing
Identity management
Server-Side
Cognitive biometrics
Amart card
48. When organizations use software that filters content to prevent the transmission of unauthorized information
Man-made Threat
Content filtering
Eavesdropping Attack
Association request
49. A feature that controls a device's tolerance for unanswered service requests and helps to prevent a DoS attack.
Spoofing
Floor Guard
Hybird
ARP Poisoning
50. Using a single authentication credential that is shared across multiple networks.
Open Port
Testing
Role Based Access Control
Identity management