Question 1

The three primary information security areas are 1) authentication and authorization, 2) policies and rewards, and 3) detection and response.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

What is forging of someone's identity for the purpose of fraud?

Accepted Answer

A)   Identity crisis
B)   Identity theft
C)   Ediscovery
D)   All of theseE) All of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 3

Using one's social skills to trick people into revealing access credentials or other valuable information is called ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   social engineering
B)   social media
C)   social viruses
D)   social processesE) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 4

What is a form of social engineering in which one individual lies to obtain confidential data about another individual?

Accepted Answer

A)   Dumpster texting
B)   Dumpster diving
C)   Trash retrieval
D)   PretextingE) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 5

What is a phone scam that attempts to defraud people by asking them to call a bogus telephone number to "confirm" their account information?

Accepted Answer

A)   Pharming
B)   Phishing
C)   Phishing expedition
D)   VishingE) A) and C)
F) All of the above

Question 6

What is vishing?

Accepted Answer

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) All of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

What can encryption technology perform?

Accepted Answer

A)   Switch the order of characters
B)   Replace characters with other characters
C)   Insert or remove characters
D)   All of theseE) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 9

Where do organizations typically place firewalls?

Accepted Answer

A)   Between a personal computer and the server
B)   Between a personal computer and a printer
C)   Between the server and the content filtering software
D)   Between the server and the InternetE) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 10

A firewall scrambles information into an alternative form that requires a key or password to decrypt.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

What is single-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 D)
F) None of the above

Question 12

Dumpster diving is another security breach for companies and is where people not associated with the company jump into the company's outside garbage bins and try to gather and steal any valuable company products they can resell on eBay.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Which of the following occurs when organizations use software that filters content, such as email, to prevent the accidental or malicious transmission of unauthorized information?

Accepted Answer

A)   Antivirus software
B)   Content filtering
C)   Encryption
D)   FirewallsE) None of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 14

What scrambles information into an alternative form that requires a key or password to decrypt?

Accepted Answer

A)   Digital certificate
B)   Encryption
C)   Decrypt
D)   CryptographyE) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 15

Biometrics is the identification of a user based on a physical characteristic, such as a fingerprint, iris, face, voice, or handwriting.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

What is a group of computers on which a hacker has planted zombie programs?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 17

What type of encryption technology uses multiple keys, one for public and one for private?

Accepted Answer

A)   Private key encryption
B)   Policy key encryption
C)   Public key encryption
D)   Protective key codeE) None of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 18

What is information secrecy?

Accepted Answer

A)   The category of computer security that addresses the protection of data from unauthorized disclosure and confirmation of data source authenticity.
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 phishing expedition in which the emails are carefully designed to target a particular person or organization.E) B) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

What is the category of computer security that addresses the protection of data from unauthorized disclosure and confirmation of data source authenticity?

Accepted Answer

A)   Information secrecy
B)   Phishing
C)   Phishing expedition
D)   Spear phishingE) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Exam 25: Valuing and Storing Organizational Informationdatabases

Dumpster diving is another security breach for companies and is where people not associated with the company jump into the company's outside garbage bins and try to gather and steal any valuable company products they can resell on eBay.

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Biometrics is the identification of a user based on a physical characteristic, such as a fingerprint, iris, face, voice, or handwriting.

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Where do organizations typically place firewalls?

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What is a group of computers on which a hacker has planted zombie programs?

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What is information secrecy?

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What scrambles information into an alternative form that requires a key or password to decrypt?

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What is a phone scam that attempts to defraud people by asking them to call a bogus telephone number to "confirm" their account information?

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What is vishing?

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A firewall scrambles information into an alternative form that requires a key or password to decrypt.

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The three primary information security areas are 1) authentication and authorization, 2) policies and rewards, and 3) detection and response.

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What can encryption technology perform?

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

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What is a form of social engineering in which one individual lies to obtain confidential data about another individual?

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What is forging of someone's identity for the purpose of fraud?

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What is the category of computer security that addresses the protection of data from unauthorized disclosure and confirmation of data source authenticity?

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

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What type of encryption technology uses multiple keys, one for public and one for private?

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Using one's social skills to trick people into revealing access credentials or other valuable information is called ________.

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What is single-factor authentication?

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Which of the following occurs when organizations use software that filters content, such as email, to prevent the accidental or malicious transmission of unauthorized information?

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