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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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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. An attacker motivated by the ideology to attack computer or infrastructure networks.
Physical security
Cyberterrorist
Adware
Account expiration
2. Software attack using special monitoring software to gain access to private communications on the network wire or across a wireless network. (aka sniffing attack)
VPN
Eavesdropping Attack
Bluejacking
Resident
3. The action that is taken by the subject over the object is called a ____.
Logic Bomb
Client_Hello
Operation
DNS Log
4. 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
Token
Digital Certificate
Symmetric encryption
Locking Cabinets
5. Securing a restricted area by erecting a barrier is called ____.
Cognitive biometrics
Mantrap
Fencing
Eavesdropping Attack
6. Requires mutual authentication used for WLAN encryption using Cisco client software.
Standard biometrics
Firewalls
LEAP
Adware
7. Broadcast storms can be prevented with ____.
ARP Poisoning
Loop Protection
Electronic Activist (hacktivist)
Virtualization
8. Fire - extreme weather - flooding - extreme temperatures - extreme humidity.
Spoofing
Environmental Threat
Router
Macro
9. 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.
Load balancing
Session hijacking
ACL (Access Control List)
Scatternet
10. Hides inside other software - usually as an attachment or a downloadable file
Black Hat
Man-in-the-Middle Attack
Trojan-horse virus
Challenge
11. If a user typically accesses his bank's Web site from his home computer on nights and weekends - then this information can be used to establish a ____ of typical access.
Resident
Speech recognition
Cognitive biometrics
computer footprint
12. If a password is communicated across a network to log on to a remote system - it is vulnerable to ______.
Packet tampering
Electronic eavesdropping
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
EAP
13. Small electronic devices that change user passwords automatically
ARP Poisoning
Geometric variance
Physical security access control measures
Token
14. A key encryption technique for wireless networks that uses keys both to authenticate network clients and to encrypt data in transit.
Role Based Access Control
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy)
CCTV
Distributed
15. Magnetic tape drives - hard drives - optical media (CD or DVD) - solid-state media (flash drives or SD)
Bluejacking
Media for backups
PAT
ICMP Flood
16. A commonly used technique by pornography sites where a user gets "locked" in a web site.
Mouse Trapping
Proximity reader
Trojan-horse virus
Two factor security
17. A person who uses his knowledge of operating systems and utilities to intentionally damage or destroy data or systems.
White box
Ciphertext
Cracker
Roller barrier
18. During RADIUS authentication the AP - serving as the authenticator that will accept or reject the wireless device - creates a data packet from this information called the ____.
Access Control
Sniffer
Man-in-the-Middle Attack
Authentication request
19. Sifting through a company's garbage to find information to help break into their computers
White box
Eavesdropping Attack
Dumpster Diving
ARP Poisoning
20. Provides a greater degree of security by implementing port-based authentication.
IEEE 802.1x
DNS
Encryption
Mouse Trapping
21. A set of permissions that are attached to an object.
Bluejacking
Mantrap
RADIUS
ACL
22. 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
DNS Log
Token
Bluejacking
Amart card
23. An attack that accesses unauthorized information from a wireless device through a Bluetooth connection - often between cell phones and laptop computers.
Cybercriminals
Evil Twin
Media for backups
Bluesnarfing
24. Set of rules that allow or deny traffic
Packet filtering
Cyberstalking/Harassment
Wireless security
Dumpster Diving
25. A ____ virus infects the Master Boot Record of a hard disk drive.
White box
Boot
Content inspection
EAP
26. An attack that accesses unauthorized information from a wireless device through a Bluetooth connection - often between cell phones and laptop computers.
Bluesnarfing
Tailgate sensors
External Threat
Cognitive biometrics
27. The set of letters - symbols - and characters that make up the password are known as a ____ set.
Backup scope
Character
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
Offline cracking
28. It accepts spoken words for input as if they had been typed on the keyboard.
Geometric variance
Speech recognition
CCTV
Character
29. Due to the limitations of online guessing - most password attacks today use ____.
Distributed
DNS Log
Content-Filtering Firewall
Offline cracking
30. 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.
Rule Based Access Control
Stateful packet filtering
Information security
Separation of duties
31. A technique that allows private IP addresses to be used on the public Internet.
Wireless VLANs
Flaming
NAT
Malicious Insiders
32. Typically used on home routers that allow multiple users to share one IP address received from an Internet service provider (ISP).
PAT
Trusted OS
Brute Force
Two factor security
33. Windows Live ID was originally designed as a ____ system that would be used by a wide variety of Web servers.
Black Hat
Federated identity management
LDAP injection
Extreme temperatures
34. A firewall capable of monitoring a data stream from end to end.
Encryption
Stateful Firewall
Spyware
Bluejacking
35. Web application attacks are considered ____ attacks.
Fake Antivirus
Tailgating
Kerberos
Server-Side
36. How many past backups you keep - what you did on your machine etc.
Biometrics
CCTV
Identity Theft
History
37. Password and BioMetric
Spimming
Subject
Distributed
Two factor security
38. 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>
Social engineering
Vishing
DNS Log
Sniffer
39. ____ attacks are responsible for half of all malware delivered by Web advertising.
Word Splitting
SSO
Fake Antivirus
Firewall logs
40. An authentication protocol that operates over PPP and that requires the authenticator to take the first step by offering the other computer a challenge. The requestor responds by combining the challenge with its password - encrypting the new string o
Boot
TCP/IP
CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol)
Electronic Activist (hacktivist)
41. A form of filtering that blocks only sites specified as harmful.
Dumpster Diving
Information security
Blacklisting Software
Flaming
42. ____ is a software program that delivers advertising content in a manner that is unexpected and unwanted by the user.
Extreme Humidity
Word Splitting
Spyware
Adware
43. Scrambles information into an alternative form that requires a key or password to decrypt the information
Environmental Threat
Cracker
Encryption
Flashing
44. Hurricanes - tornadoes - flooding and earthquakes are all examples of this.
NAT
White box
Natural Threat
White Hat
45. These accounts are user accounts that remain active after an employee has left an organization.
Brute Force
Mandatory Access Control
Orphaned
Natural Threat
46. 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.
Spoofing
History
Cyber Theft
Encryption
47. The process of verifying that your backups actually work
Testing
Man-made Threat
Role
Rainbow Tables
48. An attack that intercepts legitimate communication between two victims and captures - analyzes and possibly alters the data packets before sending a fake reply.
Stateless Firewall
Man-in-the-Middle Attack
DNS Log
computer footprint
49. The most common protocol suite used today for local area networks (LANs) as well as the Internet is ____.
TCP/IP
GIF Layering
Hoaxes
Honeypot
50. The most popular attack toolkit - which has almost half of the attacker toolkit market is ____.
Macro
Geometric variance
MPack
OAuth