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Information Security

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Below 70 degrees or above 75 degrees






2. A ____ means that the application or service assigned to that port is listening for any instructions.






3. The signal from an ID badge is detected as the owner moves near a ____ - which receives the signal.






4. The time it takes for a key to be pressed and then released.






5. The ____ attack will slightly alter dictionary words by adding numbers to the end of the password - spelling words backward - slightly misspelling words - or including special characters such as @ - $ - ! - or %.






6. Pretending to be another person.






7. The breadth of your back-up (what types of files you will back up-media - documents - OS - etc)






8. A means of managing and presenting computer resources by function without regard to their physical layout or location.






9. Wants to cause as much damage as possible - without a particular target or goal.






10. A ____ encrypts all data that is transmitted between the remote device and the network.






11. Can be accidental or intentional - internal or external. (ex. back-hoe operator performing legitimate construction cuts cables leading into a facility.)






12. 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.






13. Use multiple infrared beams that are aimed across a doorway and positioned so that as a person walks through the doorway some beams are activated.






14. A technique for crashing by sending too much data to the buffer in a comuter's memory






15. 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.






16. The ____ model is the least restrictive.






17. The most common protocol suite used today for local area networks (LANs) as well as the Internet is ____.






18. Using one's social skills to trick people into revealing access credentials or other information valuable to the attacker. <dumpster diving - or looking through people's trash - etc>






19. Email attack that targets only specific users and has familiar information in it - making it more tempting to click the links in the message.






20. If a password is communicated across a network to log on to a remote system - it is vulnerable to ______.






21. 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






22. Due to the limitations of online guessing - most password attacks today use ____.






23. An attack that intercepts legitimate communication between two victims and captures - analyzes and possibly alters the data packets before sending a fake reply.






24. This attack is where every possible combination of letters - numbers - and characters is used to create encrypted passwords.






25. A firewall capable only of examining packets individually. Stateless firewalls perform more quickly than stateful firewalls - but are not as sophisticated.






26. A type of virus that spreads itself - not only from file to file - but also from computer to computer - do not need to attach to anything to spread and can tunnel themselves into computers.






27. There are almost ____ different Microsoft Windows file extensions that could contain a virus.






28. 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.






29. How many past backups you keep - what you did on your machine etc.






30. The Chinese government uses _____ to prevent Internet content that it considers unfavorable from reaching its citizenry.






31. Below 40% or above 50%






32. A program or device that can monitor data traveling over a network. Sniffers can show - all the data being transmitted over a network - including passwords and sensitive information - tends to be a favorite weapon in the hacker's arsenal






33. Allows a single access point to service different types of users.






34. How often you perform your backups (cost-benefit analysis of backing up)






35. Using video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific and limited set of receivers is called ____.






36. A technology that can help to evenly distribute work across a network.






37. A feature that controls a device's tolerance for unanswered service requests and helps to prevent a DoS attack.






38. A pay-per-use computing model in which customers pay only for the computing resources they need.






39. It accepts spoken words for input as if they had been typed on the keyboard.






40. A firewall capable of monitoring a data stream from end to end.






41. A list of statements used by a router to permit or deny the forwarding of traffic on a network based on one or more criteria.






42. The most popular attack toolkit - which has almost half of the attacker toolkit market is ____.






43. An independently rotating large cups affixed to the top of a fence prevent the hands of intruders from gripping the top of a fence to climb over it.






44. Web application attacks are considered ____ attacks.






45. A ____ virus infects the Master Boot Record of a hard disk drive.






46. Four interrelated aspects to _________:Access - data - infrastructure - computers






47. A form of filtering that blocks only sites specified as harmful.






48. A method for confirming users' identities






49. A program that is automatically downloaded to your computer without your consent or even your knowledge.






50. Sending high volumes of ICMP (usually ping) packets to a target.