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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.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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.






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)






3. The action that is taken by the subject over the object is called a ____.






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






5. Securing a restricted area by erecting a barrier is called ____.






6. Requires mutual authentication used for WLAN encryption using Cisco client software.






7. Broadcast storms can be prevented with ____.






8. Fire - extreme weather - flooding - extreme temperatures - extreme humidity.






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.






10. Hides inside other software - usually as an attachment or a downloadable file






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.






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






13. Small electronic devices that change user passwords automatically






14. A key encryption technique for wireless networks that uses keys both to authenticate network clients and to encrypt data in transit.






15. Magnetic tape drives - hard drives - optical media (CD or DVD) - solid-state media (flash drives or SD)






16. A commonly used technique by pornography sites where a user gets "locked" in a web site.






17. A person who uses his knowledge of operating systems and utilities to intentionally damage or destroy data or systems.






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 ____.






19. Sifting through a company's garbage to find information to help break into their computers






20. Provides a greater degree of security by implementing port-based authentication.






21. A set of permissions that are attached to an object.






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






23. An attack that accesses unauthorized information from a wireless device through a Bluetooth connection - often between cell phones and laptop computers.






24. Set of rules that allow or deny traffic






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






26. An attack that accesses unauthorized information from a wireless device through a Bluetooth connection - often between cell phones and laptop computers.






27. The set of letters - symbols - and characters that make up the password are known as a ____ set.






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






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






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.






31. A technique that allows private IP addresses to be used on the public Internet.






32. Typically used on home routers that allow multiple users to share one IP address received from an Internet service provider (ISP).






33. Windows Live ID was originally designed as a ____ system that would be used by a wide variety of Web servers.






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






35. Web application attacks are considered ____ attacks.






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






37. Password and BioMetric






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>






39. ____ attacks are responsible for half of all malware delivered by Web advertising.






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






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






42. ____ is a software program that delivers advertising content in a manner that is unexpected and unwanted by the user.






43. Scrambles information into an alternative form that requires a key or password to decrypt the information






44. Hurricanes - tornadoes - flooding and earthquakes are all examples of this.






45. These accounts are user accounts that remain active after an employee has left an organization.






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.






47. The process of verifying that your backups actually work






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






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






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