Question 1

What is a data file that identifies individuals or organizations online and is comparable to a digital signature?

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A)   Digital code
B)   Digital sign
C)   Digital certificate
D)   Digital cardE) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 2

Which of the following is not considered a form of biometrics?

Accepted Answer

A)   Iris scan
B)   Password
C)   Fingerprint
D)   HandwritingE) A) and B)
F) All of the above

Question 3

Through social engineering, hackers use their social skills to trick people into revealing access credentials or other valuable information.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

What is pharming?

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A)   Reroutes requests for legitimate websites to false websites.
B)   A technique to gain personal information for the purpose of identity theft, usually by means of fraudulent emails that look as though they came from legitimate businesses.
C)   A masquerading attack that combines spam with spoofing.
D)   A phone scam that attempts to defraud people by asking them to call a bogus telephone number to "confirm" their account information.E) B) and C)
F) B) and D)

Question 5

A zombie farm is a group of computers on which a hacker has planted zombie programs.

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A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 6

Decrypt information is to decode it and is the opposite of encrypt.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Multifactor authentication is the traditional security process, which requires a username and password.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

What are computer viruses that wait for a specific date before executing their instructions?

Accepted Answer

A)   Zombie
B)   Zombie farm
C)   Pharming attack
D)   Time bombE) B) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 9

What is multifactor authentication?

Accepted Answer

A)   The traditional security process, which requires a username and password.
B)   Requires the user to provide two means of authentication, what the user knows (password)  and what the user has (security token) .
C)   Requires more than two means of authentication such as what the user knows (password) , what the user has (security token) , and what the user is (biometric verification) .
D)   The identification of a user based on physical characteristic such as a fingerprint, iris, face, voice or handwriting.E) All of the above
F) None of the above

Question 10

Janet is a financial aid counselor at a local community college and she shares an office with her three coworkers. Janet feels safe in her office environment and frequently leaves her username and password on a sticky note next to her computer. Without realizing it Janet is creating the potential for which type of information security breach to occur?

Accepted Answer

A)   Insiders to hack into the college system
B)   Dumpster diving to find usernames and passwords
C)   Viruses and worms to spread through the college system
D)   All of theseE) C) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 11

What is a destructive agent?

Accepted Answer

A)   A form of social engineering in which one individual lies to obtain confidential data about another individual.
B)   A hacker looks through your trash to find personal information.
C)   Legitimate users who purposely or accidentally misuse their access to the environment and cause some kind of business-affecting incident.
D)   Malicious agents designed by spammers and other Internet attackers to farm email addresses off websites or deposit spyware on machines.E) B) and C)
F) A) and B) D

Question 12

Spear phishing is a phishing expedition in which the emails are carefully designed to target a particular person or organization.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Which of the following systems is designed with full-time monitoring tools that search for patterns in network traffic to identify intruders and to protect against suspicious network traffic which attempts to access files and data?

Accepted Answer

A)   Interconnected data software (IDS) 
B)   Intrusion detection software (IDS) 
C)   Security Information system (SIS) 
D)   Internet detection scanner (IDS) E) B) and C)
F) None of the above B

Question 14

Multifactor authentication requires more than two means of authentication such as what the user knows (password), what the user has (security token), and what the user is (biometric verification).

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

What is the most secure type of authentication?

Accepted Answer

A)   Something the user knows such as a user ID and password
B)   Something the user has such as a smart card or token
C)   Something that is part of the user such as a fingerprint or voice signature
D)   Combination of all of theseE) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 16

The goal of multifactor authentication is to make it difficult for an unauthorized person to gain access to a system because, if one security level is broken, the attacker will still have to break through additional levels.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

A certificate authority is a data file that identifies individuals or organizations online and is comparable to a digital signature.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Identity theft is the forging of someone's identity for the purpose of fraud.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

Single-factor authentication requires more than two means of authentication such as what the user knows (password), what the user has (security token), and what the user is (biometric verification).

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

What is two-factor authentication?

Accepted Answer

A)   The traditional security process, which requires a username and password.
B)   Requires the user to provide two means of authentication, what the user knows (password)  and what the user has (security token) .
C)   Requires more than two means of authentication such as what the user knows (password) , what the user has (security token) , and what the user is (biometric verification) .
D)   The identification of a user based on physical characteristic such as a fingerprint, iris, face, voice or handwriting.E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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Which of the following is not considered a form of biometrics?

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Through social engineering, hackers use their social skills to trick people into revealing access credentials or other valuable information.

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What is pharming?

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A zombie farm is a group of computers on which a hacker has planted zombie programs.

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Decrypt information is to decode it and is the opposite of encrypt.

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Multifactor authentication is the traditional security process, which requires a username and password.

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What are computer viruses that wait for a specific date before executing their instructions?

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Multifactor authentication requires more than two means of authentication such as what the user knows (password), what the user has (security token), and what the user is (biometric verification).

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The goal of multifactor authentication is to make it difficult for an unauthorized person to gain access to a system because, if one security level is broken, the attacker will still have to break through additional levels.

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A certificate authority is a data file that identifies individuals or organizations online and is comparable to a digital signature.

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Identity theft is the forging of someone's identity for the purpose of fraud.

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Single-factor authentication requires more than two means of authentication such as what the user knows (password), what the user has (security token), and what the user is (biometric verification).

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