Question 1

A hacker weapon called a splog (spam blog)is a fake blog created solely to raise the search engine rank of affiliated websites.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

What is the difference between pirated and counterfeit software?

Accepted Answer

A)   Counterfeit is fake technology products,where pirated is invisible technological cameras placed online.
B)   Pirated is the unauthorized use,duplication,distribution,or sale of copyrighted software,where counterfeit is software that is manufactured to look like the real thing and sold as such.
C)   Counterfeit is the unauthorized use,duplication,distribution,or sale of copyrighted software,where pirated is software that is manufactured to look like the real thing and sold as such.
D)   Pirated is stolen software used to hack into a company's classified material,where counterfeit is a fake version of firewall software.E) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 3

Which of the following describes workplace MIS monitoring?

Accepted Answer

A)   Tracking people's activities by such measures as number of keystrokes
B)   Tracking people's activities by such measures as error rate
C)   Tracking people's activities by such measures as number of transactions processed
D)   All of these choicesE) A) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 4

Describe the relationship between information security policies and an information security plan.

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Information security policies identify t...

Question 5

What reroutes requests for legitimate websites to false websites?

Accepted Answer

A)   Zombie
B)   Zombie farm
C)   Pharming attack
D)   PharmingE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 6

What is a hacker who breaks into other people's computer systems and may just look around or steal and destroy information?

Accepted Answer

A)   Script kiddies
B)   Black-hat hacker
C)   White-hat hacker
D)   CrackerE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 7

What is a mail bomb?

Accepted Answer

A)   Sending a massive amount of email to a specific person or system resulting in filling up the recipient's disk space
B)   A contractual stipulation to ensure that ebusiness participants do not deny their online actions
C)   Sending a few emails to a specific person or system resulting in filling up the recipient's disk space
D)   A contractual stipulation to ensure that ebusiness participants deny their online actionsE) C) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 8

What is a masquerading attack that combines spam with spoofing?

Accepted Answer

A)   Pharming
B)   Phishing
C)   Phishing expedition
D)   Spear phishingE) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 9

What 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)   Single-factor authentication
B)   Two-factor authentication
C)   Multi-factor authentication
D)   BiometricsE) A) and B)
F) All of the above

Question 10

Charles Mott works for a company called VeriSign that acts a trusted third party to verify information.One of Charles' largest clients is CheckMd,which holds and authenticates customer reviews of doctors and dentists online and having a third party validating the reviews is critical to CheckMd's success.What type of authentication technique is VeriSign providing for CheckMD?

Accepted Answer

A)   Firewall
B)   Certificate authority
C)   Online certificate
D)   Digital content certificateE) All of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 11

Spyware is software that,while purporting to serve some useful function and often fulfilling that functions,also allows Internet advertisers to display advertisements without the consent of the computer user.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

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 these choicesE) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 13

What is the traditional security process,which requires a username and password?

Accepted Answer

A)   Single-factor authentication
B)   Two-factor authentication
C)   Multi-factor authentication
D)   BiometricsE) None of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 14

What is the method or system of government for information management or control?

Accepted Answer

A)   Information management
B)   Information compliance
C)   Information governance
D)   Information secrecyE) All of the above
F) B) and D)

Question 15

What 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)   Digital certificate
B)   Encryption
C)   Decrypt
D)   CryptographyE) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 16

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) A) and B)

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

A)   Encryption
B)   Content filtering
C)   Firewalls
D)   Antivirus softwareE) All of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 18

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) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 19

Simplelocker is a new ransomware program that encrypts your personal files and demands payment for the files' decryption keys.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

What is 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?

Accepted Answer

A)   Pharming
B)   Phishing
C)   Phishing expedition
D)   Spear phishingE) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

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