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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.
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. Below 70 degrees or above 75 degrees
Fencing
Evil Twin
Extreme temperatures
ACL (Access Control List)
2. A ____ means that the application or service assigned to that port is listening for any instructions.
Hash encoding
Open Port
NAT
Mouse Trapping
3. The signal from an ID badge is detected as the owner moves near a ____ - which receives the signal.
Proximity reader
Honeynet
White Hat
Malicious code
4. The time it takes for a key to be pressed and then released.
Rogue
Dwell Time
Client_Hello
Bluesnarfing
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 %.
Spoofing
Hybird
Impersonation
Scatternet
6. Pretending to be another person.
Impersonation
Dwell Time
RADIUS
Stateful packet filtering
7. The breadth of your back-up (what types of files you will back up-media - documents - OS - etc)
Phishing
Web security gateway
Backup scope
TCP/IP
8. A means of managing and presenting computer resources by function without regard to their physical layout or location.
Bluesnarfing
Virtualization
Kerberos
Spimming
9. Wants to cause as much damage as possible - without a particular target or goal.
Human memory
Electronic Vandal
Hacker
Amart card
10. A ____ encrypts all data that is transmitted between the remote device and the network.
Cyberbullying
VPN
Word Splitting
DNS Hijacking
11. Can be accidental or intentional - internal or external. (ex. back-hoe operator performing legitimate construction cuts cables leading into a facility.)
Private
Man-made Threat
Password
Ciphertext
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.
Account expiration
Backup scope
Roller barrier
Stateful packet filtering
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.
Backup scope
Tailgate sensors
Distributed storage
Distributed
14. A technique for crashing by sending too much data to the buffer in a comuter's memory
Natural Threat
Buffer Overflow
Impersonation
Cyberstalking/Harassment
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.
Replay Attack
Protocol analyzer
What is asymmetic encryption?
Rainbow Tables
16. The ____ model is the least restrictive.
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
War Driving
DAC
Packet filtering
17. The most common protocol suite used today for local area networks (LANs) as well as the Internet is ____.
Prevention and detection
Cybercriminals
TCP/IP
Man-made Threat
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>
Security
Social engineering
Eavesdropping Attack
Physical security
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.
History
EAP
Evil Twin
Spear Phishing
20. If a password is communicated across a network to log on to a remote system - it is vulnerable to ______.
DNS
Electronic eavesdropping
Word Splitting
Server-Side
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
Spyware
War Driving
Geometric variance
Insiders
22. Due to the limitations of online guessing - most password attacks today use ____.
Honeypot
Offline cracking
Bluesnarfing
Word Splitting
23. An attack that intercepts legitimate communication between two victims and captures - analyzes and possibly alters the data packets before sending a fake reply.
Account expiration
PAT
Logic Bomb
Man-in-the-Middle Attack
24. This attack is where every possible combination of letters - numbers - and characters is used to create encrypted passwords.
Protocol analyzer
Brute Force
Identity Theft
Rainbow Tables
25. A firewall capable only of examining packets individually. Stateless firewalls perform more quickly than stateful firewalls - but are not as sophisticated.
Stateless Firewall
Human memory
Authentication
Content-Filtering Firewall
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.
Worm
LEAP
Vishing
CardSpace
27. There are almost ____ different Microsoft Windows file extensions that could contain a virus.
Tailgate sensors
Firewall logs
70
History
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.
Rogue
VPN
Electronic Vandal
Bluejacking
29. How many past backups you keep - what you did on your machine etc.
Buffer Overflow
History
Tailgate sensors
EAP
30. The Chinese government uses _____ to prevent Internet content that it considers unfavorable from reaching its citizenry.
Role
Impersonation
DNS poisoning
Word Splitting
31. Below 40% or above 50%
Geometric variance
Wireless security
Extreme Humidity
Clickjacking
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
Backup frequency
Honeynet
Biometrics
Sniffer
33. Allows a single access point to service different types of users.
OAuth
Wireless VLANs
Fake Antivirus
Fencing
34. How often you perform your backups (cost-benefit analysis of backing up)
Backup frequency
Worm
MPack
computer footprint
35. Using video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific and limited set of receivers is called ____.
Proximity reader
CCTV
Whaling
PAT
36. A technology that can help to evenly distribute work across a network.
Tailgate sensors
Amart card
Load balancing
Clickjacking
37. A feature that controls a device's tolerance for unanswered service requests and helps to prevent a DoS attack.
LDAP injection
Account expiration
Floor Guard
ACL
38. A pay-per-use computing model in which customers pay only for the computing resources they need.
Content inspection
Worm
Brute Force
Cloud computing
39. It accepts spoken words for input as if they had been typed on the keyboard.
Content filtering
Speech recognition
Environmental Threat
VPN
40. A firewall capable of monitoring a data stream from end to end.
Stateful Firewall
Flaming
Spyware
Hacker
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.
Bluesnarfing
Web security gateway
Cyberterrorist
ACL (Access Control List)
42. The most popular attack toolkit - which has almost half of the attacker toolkit market is ____.
ACL
Reverse proxy
Trojan-horse virus
MPack
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.
DAC
Mouse Trapping
Roller barrier
Client_Hello
44. Web application attacks are considered ____ attacks.
Three-Way Handshake
Natural Threat
DAP
Server-Side
45. A ____ virus infects the Master Boot Record of a hard disk drive.
Private
Dwell Time
Environmental Threat
Boot
46. Four interrelated aspects to _________:Access - data - infrastructure - computers
Physical security
Electronic Activist (hacktivist)
Standard biometrics
Cloud computing
47. A form of filtering that blocks only sites specified as harmful.
Amart card
Blacklisting Software
Brute Force Attack
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
48. A method for confirming users' identities
Cyberbullying
Honeynet
Authentication
Electronic eavesdropping
49. A program that is automatically downloaded to your computer without your consent or even your knowledge.
Drive-by Download
Amart card
Cyberterrorist
Dwell Time
50. Sending high volumes of ICMP (usually ping) packets to a target.
Brute Force Attack
Denial of service attack
ICMP Flood
Ciphertext