Deck 9: Securing Your System: Protecting Your Digital Data and Devices

Question 1

All of the following activities may infect your computer with a virus except ________.

A) sharing flash drives
B) downloading video files from peer-to-peer sites
C) downloading or running an e-mail attachment file
D) printing a document

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Government impersonation scams involve ________.

A) people pretending to represent official organizations such as the Dept. of Homeland Security or IRS
B) running auctions that do not exist
C) convincing people to send money as a "good faith" gesture
D) collecting funds and not delivering the goods

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Viruses, adware, and spyware are referred to collectively as ________.

A) bloatware
B) grayware
C) alertware
D) firmware

Answer 3

B

Question 4

________ hackers break into systems legally for non-malicious reasons such as to test system security vulnerabilities.

A) Black-hat
B) Gray-hat
C) White-hat
D) Green-hat

Question 5

Which of the following is formally defined as any criminal action perpetrated primarily using a computer?

A) Social networking
B) Cybercrime
C) Phishing
D) Hacking

Question 6

A(n) ________ takes advantage of file transport methods, such as e-mail, to spread on its own.

A) worm
B) script virus
C) encryption virus
D) macro virus

Question 7

A ________ is a virus that is attached to documents.

A) script virus
B) macro virus
C) polymorphic virus
D) Trojan horse

Question 8

Which of the following is not a computer virus category?

A) Worm
B) Logic bomb
C) Macro
D) Pharming

Question 9

________ is a program that gathers information about your surfing habits without your knowledge.

A) Adware
B) Ghostware
C) Shareware
D) Spyware

Question 10

Which of the following classifications of viruses can change its own code to avoid detection?

A) Stealth
B) Multipartite
C) Polymorphic
D) Worm

Question 11

________ floods a computer with requests until it shuts down and refuses to answer any requests for information.

A) A Trojan horse
B) A polymorphic virus
C) A DDoS attack
D) Pretexting

Question 12

A packet analyzer is a program that can enable a hacker to do all of the following except ________.

A) use your debit card information to purchase items illegally
B) gather information to assume your identity
C) steal your logons and passwords for various accounts
D) launch a denial of service (DoS) attack on your computer

Question 13

The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is a partnership between the ________.

A) FBI and the IRS
B) FBI and the CIA
C) FBI and National White Collar Crime Center
D) NRA and the U.S. Department of Defense

Question 14

Which of the following statements about cookies is not true?

A) Cookies obtain your personal information by searching your hard drive.
B) Cookies are text files.
C) Cookies help companies determine the traffic flow through their website.
D) Some companies sell the personal information found in cookies to other companies.

Question 15

You can block logical ports from invaders and make your computer virtually invisible to others on the Internet by installing ________.

A) a packet sniffer
B) a firewall
C) a packet filter
D) antivirus software

Question 16

Which type of virus was the famous Michelangelo virus?

A) A worm
B) A time bomb
C) A script virus
D) An e-mail virus

Question 17

Creating and distributing ________ is one of the most widespread types of cybercrimes.

A) spam
B) computer viruses
C) cookies
D) zombies

Question 18

All of the following are top cybercrimes reported to the IC3 except ________.

A) identity theft
B) non-auction scams
C) advance fee fraud
D) malware fraud

Question 19

A ________ allows a hacker to gain access to your computer and take almost complete control of it without your knowledge.

A) denial of service (DoS)
B) zombie
C) logic bomb
D) rootkit

Question 20

A ________ is a virus that is triggered on a certain date.

A) worm
B) macro
C) logic bomb
D) time bomb

Question 21

Computer ________ involves identifying, extracting, preserving, and documenting computer evidence.

A) forensics
B) hacking
C) inoculation
D) multi-factor authentication

Question 22

Which is not one of the four key pieces of personal information you should protect from identity thieves?

A) Social Security number
B) Anniversary
C) Date of birth
D) Street address

Question 23

When malicious code is planted on your computer and alters your browser's ability to find web addresses, it is known as ________.

A) phishing
B) pharming
C) pretexting
D) polymorphing

Question 24

A(n) ________ is the portion of virus code that is unique to a particular computer virus.

A) virus signature
B) encryption code
C) compression code
D) virus pattern

Question 25

Ethical hackers are also known as white-hat hackers.

Question 26

A whole-house surge protector is installed ________.

A) at the breaker panel
B) at the power line from the street
C) on each device and appliance
D) on computers

Question 27

Using your computer for non-work activities while you are being paid to work is known as ________.

A) cyberloafing
B) cybersleeping
C) cyberlazing
D) cyberbreaking

Question 28

In computing, a ________ is named after a housing construction feature that slows the spread of fires from house to house.

A) firehouse
B) firebreak
C) firewall
D) fire extinguisher

Question 29

Regarding computer protection, quarantining is defined as ________.

A) updating your antivirus software
B) placing a found virus in a secure area on the hard drive
C) repairing an infected file
D) deleting an infected file

Question 30

Which of the following viruses is designed to infect multiple file types in an effort to fool the antivirus software that is looking for it?

A) multi-partite
B) polymorphic
C) stealth
D) encryption

Question 31

Social ________ is any technique that uses social skills to generate human interaction that entices individuals to reveal sensitive information.

A) engineering
B) theft
C) pretexting
D) pharming

Question 32

Which type of hackers break into systems for the thrill or to show off their skills.

A) Gray-hat
B) White-hat
C) Black-hat
D) Blue-hat

Question 33

A(n) ________ backup makes a copy of all changes since the last backup.

A) incremental
B) full
C) image
D) data

Question 34

Which type of backup ensures you capture a complete snapshot of everything that makes your computer run?

A) Image
B) Full
C) Incremental
D) Complete

Question 35

Creating and spreading online viruses is a cybercrime.

Question 36

Which of the following is not an example of a factor used in multi-factor authentication?

A) A captcha
B) A password
C) An ID card
D) A fingerprint

Question 37

A denial-of-service attack can be used to deny hackers access to a computer system.

Question 38

A(n) ____virus replicates itself onto a hard drive's master boot record.

A) boot-sector
B) macro
C) multi-partite
D) encryption

Question 39

One type of CAPTCHA is ________.

A) antivirus software
B) a password method
C) the wavy hard-to-read letter and number sequence that you type to prove that you are human to a website
D) a rootkit virus

Question 40

Configuring a firewall to ignore all incoming packets that request access to a specific port is known as ________.

A) packet filtering
B) packet switching
C) static addressing
D) logical port blocking

Question 41

A worm does not require human interaction to spread to other computers.

Question 42

The terms virus and worm mean the same thing.

Question 43

A stealth virus is designed to infect multiple file types to fool the antivirus software.

Question 44

A time bomb virus can be triggered on a certain date.

Question 45

A virus signature is a portion of virus code that is unique to a particular computer virus.

Question 46

Virtual private networks (VPNs) are secure networks that are established without using the public Internet infrastructure.

Question 47

Data breaches are always intentional.

Question 48

To create a secure password, you should use a mixture of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols.

Question 49

Currently, there are no antivirus programs for mobile devices.

Question 50

Gray-hat hackers are not doing anything illegal.

Question 51

Full backups back up all your data, but not your applications.

Question 52

All viruses cause serious destruction of computer data.

Question 53

Computer forensics is used to collect evidence for use in courtrooms.

Question 54

You should use the same password for each system or website you need to access.

Question 55

A full backup and an image backup are the same thing.

Question 56

Using a backdoor program, you can use your computer while you are away from the office.

Question 57

An encryption virus replicates itself onto a hard drive's master boot record.

Question 58

An image backup is the same as a system backup.

Question 59

Since you can always redownload program files, you do not need to include them in backups.

Question 60

A macro virus is a virus that is attached to a file.

Question 61

A(n) ________-hat hacker illegally penetrates a system simply to demonstrate the hacker's expertise to the system administrator.

Question 62

Another name for a sniffer is a(n) ________ analyzer.

Question 63

VPN's allow data to be transmitted on a public network just as securely as on a private network.

Question 64

A(n) ________ virus is a series of commands that is executed without your knowledge.

Question 65

Social ________ is any technique that uses social skills to generate human interaction that entices individuals to reveal sensitive information.

Question 66

A(n) ________ virus runs a program that searches for common types of data files, compresses them, and makes them unusable.

Question 67

A(n) ________ virus temporarily erases its code from the files where it resides, and then hides in the active memory of the computer.

Question 68

The most common kind of pretexting in cyberspace is ________.

Question 69

A(n) ________ virus is designed to infect multiple file types in an effort to fool antivirus software.

Question 70

Personal firewalls can close open logical ports and make your computer invisible to other computers on the Internet.

Question 71

________ is the act of tricking people into revealing sensitive information and is often associated with credit card fraud.

Question 72

Unwanted, unsolicited e-mail is referred to as ________.

Question 73

During the process of ________, antivirus software records key attributes about the files on your computer and keeps these statistics in a safe place on your hard drive.

Question 74

For security reasons, you should be extremely wary of opening e-mail ________ such as Word files.

Question 75

A botnet is a group of applications running on ________ computers in a DDoS attack.

Question 76

________ is malware that tries to convince you that your computer is infected with a virus.

Question 77

Victims of ________ can spend months, or even years, trying to repair their credit and eliminate fraudulent debts.

Question 78

Multi-factor authentication requires three of four possible authentication factors.

Question 79

A(n) ________ can help block unwanted, unsolicited e-mail.

Question 80

The best defense against viruses is to install ________ software, which is specifically designed to detect viruses and protect your computer and files from harm.