Question 1

Smoking areas are targeted by hackers as they regularly use smoking entrances to gain building access where they pose as employees to gain access to the company network.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

What is a method for confirming users' identities?

Accepted Answer

A)   Phishing
B)   Authentication
C)   Authorization
D)   ProgrammingE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 3

Cyberterrorists seek to cause harm to people or to destroy critical systems or information and use the Internet as a weapon of mass destruction.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

What is pretexting?

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 machinesE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 5

What is a special class of adware that collects data about the user and transmits it over the Internet without the user's knowledge or permission?

Accepted Answer

A)   Spyware
B)   Hacker
C)   Drive-by hacking
D)   AdwareE) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 6

What is an antispamming approach where the receiving computer launches a return attack against the spammer,sending email messages back to the computer that originated the suspected spam?

Accepted Answer

A)   Typosquatting
B)   Website name stealing
C)   Internet censorship
D)   TeergrubingE) All of the above
F) B) and D)

Question 7

What is a small file deposited on a hard drive by a website containing information about customers and their Web activities?

Accepted Answer

A)   Key logger
B)   Hardware key logger
C)   Cookie
D)   AdwareE) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 8

Cryptography is the science that studies encryption,which is the hiding of messages so that only the sender and receiver can read them.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

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 10

Which of the following clauses is typically contained in an acceptable use policy?

Accepted Answer

A)   A nonrepudiation clause
B)   A repudiation clause
C)   A confidentiality clause
D)   An employee use clauseE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 11

Which of the following governs the ethical and moral issues arising from the development and use of information technologies,and the creation,collection,duplication,distribution,and processing of information?

Accepted Answer

A)   Ethical information
B)   Information technology
C)   Information policies
D)   Information ethicsE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 12

What is an insider?

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 machinesE) A) and B)
F) All of the above

Question 13

Which of the following is not an example of unplanned downtime?

Accepted Answer

A)   Power outages
B)   Tornados
C)   A system upgrade
D)   Network failureE) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

Question 14

What is the legal protection afforded an expression of an idea,such as a song,book,or video game?

Accepted Answer

A)   Privacy
B)   Confidentiality
C)   Intellectual property
D)   CopyrightE) B) and D)
F) C) and D)

Question 15

What is the forging of the return address on an email so that the email message appears to come from someone other than the actual sender?

Accepted Answer

A)   Malicious code
B)   Hoaxes
C)   Spoofing
D)   SnifferE) B) and C)
F) All of the above

Question 16

A company should be able to calculate the cost of downtime by which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A)   Per hour,per day,and per week
B)   Per employee,per computer,and per company
C)   Per stock,per stockholder,and per investment capital
D)   None of these choicesE) C) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 17

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 18

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 19

What refers to the ability of a company to identify,search,gather,seize,or export digital information in responding to a litigation,audit,investigation,or information inquiry?

Accepted Answer

A)   Ediscovery
B)   Child Online Protection Act
C)   Digital rights management
D)   Pirated softwareE) A) and B)
F) All of the above

Question 20

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 informationE) None of the above
F) All of the above

Exam 4: Ethics Information Security: MIS Business Concerns

Smoking areas are targeted by hackers as they regularly use smoking entrances to gain building access where they pose as employees to gain access to the company network.

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What is a method for confirming users' identities?

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What is a small file deposited on a hard drive by a website containing information about customers and their Web activities?

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What is an antispamming approach where the receiving computer launches a return attack against the spammer,sending email messages back to the computer that originated the suspected spam?

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What is pretexting?

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What is an insider?

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What is the legal protection afforded an expression of an idea,such as a song,book,or video game?

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What is a special class of adware that collects data about the user and transmits it over the Internet without the user's knowledge or permission?

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Which of the following governs the ethical and moral issues arising from the development and use of information technologies,and the creation,collection,duplication,distribution,and processing of information?

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Cyberterrorists seek to cause harm to people or to destroy critical systems or information and use the Internet as a weapon of mass destruction.

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Cryptography is the science that studies encryption,which is the hiding of messages so that only the sender and receiver can read them.

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Which of the following clauses is typically contained in an acceptable use policy?

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What is vishing?

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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 refers to the ability of a company to identify,search,gather,seize,or export digital information in responding to a litigation,audit,investigation,or information inquiry?

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Which of the following is not an example of unplanned downtime?

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What is the forging of the return address on an email so that the email message appears to come from someone other than the actual sender?

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A company should be able to calculate the cost of downtime by which of the following?

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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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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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