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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. An attack that targets a computer's physical components and peripherals. (ie. hard disk - motherboard - cabling - etc.)






2. Can be used to determine whether new IP addresses are attempting to probe the network.






3. A method for confirming users' identities






4. ____ are combination locks that use buttons which must be pushed in the proper sequence to open the door.






5. When DNS servers exchange information among themselves it is known as a ____.






6. An attacker slips through a secure area following a legitimate employee.






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






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






9. 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.






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






11. Small electronic devices that change user passwords automatically






12. An operating system that has been reengineered so that it is designed to be secure from the ground up is known as a ____.






13. Hardware and/or software that guards a private network by analyzing the information leaving and entering the network






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






15. Web application attacks are considered ____ attacks.






16. A database - organized as a hierarchy or tree - of the name of each site on the Internet and its corresponding IP number.






17. Terms that can refer to the online enticement of children; rude or threatening messages; slanderous information; or repeated - unwanted messages






18. Viruses and worms are said to be self-____.






19. ____ IP addresses are IP addresses that are not assigned to any specific user or organization.






20. 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.






21. Floods a Web site with so many requests for service that it slows down or crashes the site






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






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. 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






25. A group of piconets in which connections exist between different piconets is called a ____.






26. An attacker motivated by the ideology to attack computer or infrastructure networks.






27. The perimeter of a protected - internal network where users - both authorized and unauthorized - from external networks can attempt to access it. Firewalls and IDS/IPS systems are typically placed in the DMZ.






28. The ____ model is the least restrictive.






29. ____ involves stealing another person's personal information - such as a Social Security number - and then using the information to impersonate the victim - generally for financial gain.






30. A secret combination of letters - numbers - and/or characters that only the user should know.






31. 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>






32. A feature of Windows that is intended to provide users with control of their digital identities while helping them to manage privacy.






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






34. Sending or posting harmful or cruel text or images using the internet or other digital communication devices.






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






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






37. A ____ attack is similar to a passive man-in-the-middle attack.






38. Permits users to share resources stored on one site with a second site without forwarding their authentication credentials to the other site.






39. A security analysis of the transaction within its approved context.






40. The process of giving someone permission to do or have something






41. Form of phishing that targets wealthy individuals.






42. A ____ virus is loaded into random access memory (RAM) each time the computer is turned on and infects files that are opened by the user or the operating system.






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






44. Sending extremely critcal - derogatory - and oftern vulgar email messages or newsgroup postings to other user on the internet or online services






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






46. Lock - conduit - card key - video equipment - secured guard






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






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






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






50. 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