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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. 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.
Cyberstalking/Harassment
Vishing
DMS (Demilitarized Zone)
Cognitive biometrics
2. An attack that forces a user to unintentionally click a link.
Swiss Cheese
Clickjacking
Roller barrier
TCP/IP
3. Motivated by a desire to cause social change - trying to get media attention by disrupting services - or promoting a message by changing information on public websites.
Electronic Activist (hacktivist)
Ciphertext
Environmental Threat
Web security gateway
4. A firewall capable only of examining packets individually. Stateless firewalls perform more quickly than stateful firewalls - but are not as sophisticated.
Hardware Attack
Social engineering
Stateless Firewall
Electronic Activist (hacktivist)
5. Small electronic devices that change user passwords automatically
DNS poisoning
Cracker
Token
Smurf Attack
6. The act of driving while running a laptop configured to detect and capture wireless data transmissions.
Electronic eavesdropping
War Driving
Character
Cloud computing
7. Sifting through a company's garbage to find information to help break into their computers
Adware
Cyber Theft
IEEE 802.1x
Dumpster Diving
8. 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.
Natural Threat
Rogue
Black Hat
Bluejacking
9. It accepts spoken words for input as if they had been typed on the keyboard.
Cipher locks
Spimming
Vishing
Speech recognition
10. The time it takes for a key to be pressed and then released.
DLP
Dwell Time
Challenge
Denial of service attack
11. A ____ attack is similar to a passive man-in-the-middle attack.
Replay
Hoaxes
Symmetric encryption
Password Crackers
12. An authentication system developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and used to verify the identity of networked users.
Word Splitting
Drive-by Download
Kerberos
Data
13. A ____ is a set of software tools used by an attacker to hide the actions or presence of other types of malicious software - such as Trojans - viruses - or worms.
Cognitive biometrics
Content filtering
Rootkit
Vishing
14. Sending high volumes of UDP requests to a target.
UDP Flood
Spoofing
Identity Theft
Character
15. 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.
Proximity reader
Brute Force Attack
Bluejacking
Packet filtering
16. Broadcast storms can be prevented with ____.
Subject
Mandatory Access Control
Loop Protection
Content-Filtering Firewall
17. A key encryption technique for wireless networks that uses keys both to authenticate network clients and to encrypt data in transit.
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy)
What is asymmetic encryption?
Testing
Kerberos
18. Windows Live ID was originally designed as a ____ system that would be used by a wide variety of Web servers.
Bluejacking
Flaming
Tailgate sensors
Federated identity management
19. A secret combination of letters - numbers - and/or characters that only the user should know.
Token
Password
Fencing
Brute Force
20. Sending or posting harmful or cruel text or images using the internet or other digital communication devices.
Firewalls
Hardware Attack
Loop Protection
Cyberbullying
21. Hardware and/or software that guards a private network by analyzing the information leaving and entering the network
Operation
Firewalls
Phishing
IEEE 802.1x
22. Below 40% or above 50%
Extreme Humidity
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
Hash encoding
Role Based Access Control
23. To create a rainbow table - each ____ begins with an initial password that is encrypted.
EAP
Hacker
Chain
Testing
24. An authentication service commonly used on UNIX devices that communicates by forwarding user authentication information to a centralized server.
PAT
Man-made Threat
Loop Protection
TACACS
25. Set of rules that allow or deny traffic
Packet filtering
Role Based Access Control
Flaming
Spoofing
26. A program that is automatically downloaded to your computer without your consent or even your knowledge.
DMS (Demilitarized Zone)
Replay
Drive-by Download
Cipher locks
27. Forwards packets across computer networks.
SYN Flood
VPN
Router
Environmental Threat
28. Content filtering - encryption - firewalls
Macro
Replay Attack
SSO
Prevention and detection
29. ____ IP addresses are IP addresses that are not assigned to any specific user or organization.
Cyberterrorist
Private
Flashing
Brute Force
30. A standard that provides a predefined framework for hardware and software developers who need to implement access control in their devices or applications.
Content-Filtering Firewall
Proximity reader
Blacklisting Software
Access Control
31. An attack that targets a computer's physical components and peripherals. (ie. hard disk - motherboard - cabling - etc.)
Hardware Attack
Character
EAP
Security
32. The breadth of your back-up (what types of files you will back up-media - documents - OS - etc)
Password
Impersonation
Digital Certificate
Backup scope
33. A ____ virus infects the Master Boot Record of a hard disk drive.
Private
Evil Twin
Boot
Client_Hello
34. Software attack using special monitoring software to gain access to private communications on the network wire or across a wireless network. (aka sniffing attack)
Drive-by Download
Chain
Eavesdropping Attack
BioMetric devices
35. In a ____ infection - a virus injects itself into the program's executable code instead of at the end of the file.
Cyberterrorist
Federated identity management
Swiss Cheese
Packet tampering
36. 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
Amart card
Script Kiddie
Cyberstalking/Harassment
Chain
37. 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.
Locking Cabinets
CCTV
70
Tailgate sensors
38. These attacks may allow an attacker to construct LDAP statements based on user input statements.
LDAP injection
Bluesnarfing
Biometrics
VPN
39. Indicates when an account is no longer active.
Roller barrier
Account expiration
Extreme temperatures
Cognitive biometrics
40. Can be accidental or intentional - internal or external. (ex. back-hoe operator performing legitimate construction cuts cables leading into a facility.)
Replay
Wireless security
Shoulder Surfing
Man-made Threat
41. When DNS servers exchange information among themselves it is known as a ____.
Data
Vishing
Zone transfer
Boot
42. If a password is communicated across a network to log on to a remote system - it is vulnerable to ______.
Separation of duties
OAuth
Cyberterrorist
Electronic eavesdropping
43. When organizations use software that filters content to prevent the transmission of unauthorized information
Flaming
Distributed storage
Content filtering
Smurf Attack
44. Mass mailings sent as Instant Messages to users. Often these can feature links to explicit porn sites.
Spimming
Flashing
Evil Twin
Fencing
45. ____ can be prewired for electrical power as well as wired network connections.
Script Kiddie
Locking Cabinets
What is asymmetic encryption?
Authentication request
46. 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.
Standard biometrics
Roller barrier
Mantrap
Phishing
47. Sending extremely critcal - derogatory - and oftern vulgar email messages or newsgroup postings to other user on the internet or online services
Ciphertext
Flaming
What is asymmetic encryption?
Distributed
48. A ____ does not serve clients - but instead routes incoming requests to the correct server.
Reverse proxy
Challenge
Biometrics
Environmental Threat
49. A password-protected and encrypted file that holds an individual's identification information - including a public key and a private key. The individual's public key is used to verify the sender's digital signature - and the private key allows the in
Evil Twin
Cyberstalking/Harassment
Word Splitting
Digital Certificate
50. There are almost ____ different Microsoft Windows file extensions that could contain a virus.
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Authentication
TCP/IP
Stateless Firewall