1. STRAYER CIS 333 Week 11 Final Exam Set 3 NEW
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Question 1 The world needs people who understand computer-
systems ________ and who can protect computers and networks
from criminals and terrorists.
Question 2 Connecting your computers or devices to the ________
immediately exposes them to attack.
Question 3 The physical part of the LAN Domain includes a
__________, which is an interface between the computer and the
LAN physical media.
Question 4 Which of the following is the definition of
ciphertext?
Question 5 Which of the following describes the Family
Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)?
Question 6 ____________ is the amount of time it takes to recover
and make a system, application, and data available for use after
an outage.
Question 7 A ________ examines the network layer address and
routes packets based on routing protocol path determination
decisions.
2. Question 8 What term is used to describe the amount of time
that an IT system, application, or data is not available to users?
Question 9 What name is given to a U.S. federal law that
requires U.S. government agencies to protect citizens’ private
data and have proper security controls in place?
Question 10 SIP is a ___________ protocol used to support real-
time communications.
Question 11 What term is used to describe a strategy that uses
a device to provide electrical power for IP phones from the RJ-
45 8-pin jacks directly to the workstation outlet?
Question 12 A common DSL service is ________, where the
bandwidth is different for downstream and upstream traffic.
Question 13 ________ is the basis for unified communications and
is the protocol used by real-time applications such as IM chat,
conferencing, and collaboration.
Question 14 What name is given to a software-based
application like WebEx that supports audio conferencing and
sharing of documents (text, spreadsheets, presentations, etc.)
for real-time discussions with team members or colleagues?
Question 15 Medical practices and hospitals realized early on
that ________ provide(s) the ability to provide access to the
necessary information without having to invest in many
computers and network infrastructure.
Question 16 What is meant by digital subscriber line (DSL)?
Question 17 What is meant by application convergence?
3. Question 18 What term is used to describe streamlining
processes with automation or simplified steps?
Question 19 As users upgrade LANs to GigE or 10GigE, switches
must support ________ and data IP traffic.
Question 20 During the late 1980s into the early 1990s, service
providers converted the core switches at their central offices
from ______________ to digital central office (CO) switches.
Question 21 What is meant by firewall?
Question 22 What is meant by promiscuous mode?
Question 23 Malicious software can be hidden in a ________.
Question 24 Another type of attacker is called a ________. This is a
person with little or no skill who simply follows directions or
uses a “cookbook” approach to carrying out a cyberattack
without understanding the meaning of the steps he or she is
performing.
Question 25 Loss of financial assets due to ________ is a worst-
case scenario for all organizations.
Question 26 What term is used to describe an attack in which
the attacker gets between two parties and intercepts messages
before transferring them on to their intended destination?
Question 27 In popular usage and in the media, the term ________
often describes someone who breaks into a computer system
without authorization.
Question 28 What is meant by pharming?
4. Question 29 Black-hat hackers generally poke holes in systems,
but do not attempt to disclose __________ they find to the
administrators of those systems.
Question 30 ________ is a method that black-hat hackers use to
attempt to compromise logon and password access controls,
usually following a specific attack plan, including the use of
social engineering to obtain user information.
Question 31 __________ is rapidly becoming an increasingly
important aspect of enterprise computing.
Question 32 When you accept a __________, you take no further
steps to resolve.
Question 33 The recovery point objective (RPO) identifies the
amount of _________ that is acceptable.
Question 34 What is meant by risk register?
Question 35 A ___________ primarily addresses the processes,
resources, equipment, and devices needed to continue
conducting critical business activities when an interruption
occurs that affects the business’s viability.
Question 36 What name is given to any risk that exists but has a
defined response?
Question 37 How often should an organization perform a risk
management plan?
Question 38 What is the difference between a BCP and a DRP?
Question 39 Your _________ plan shows that you have examined
risks to your organization and have developed plans to address
each risk.
5. Question 40 Which of the following best describes quantitative
risk analysis?
Question 41 A communication protocol that is connectionless
and is popular for exchanging small amounts of data or
messages is called ________.
Question 42 ________ is an authorization method in which access
to resources is decided by the user’s formal status.
Question 43 ________ is used to describe a property that indicates
that a specific subject needs access to a specific object. This is
necessary to access the object in addition to possessing the
proper clearance for the object’s classification.
Question 44 What is meant by physically constrained user
interface?
Question 45 A method of restricting resource access to specific
periods of time is called ________.
Question 46 An organization’s facilities manager might give you
a security card programmed with your employee ID number,
also known as a ________.
Question 47 Which of the following adequately defines
continuous authentication?
Question 48 What name is given to an access control method
that bases access control approvals on the jobs the user is
assigned?
Question 49 _____________is the process of dividing a task into a
series of unique activities performed by different people, each
of whom is allowed to execute only one part of the overall task.
6. Question 50 Which of these biometric authentication methods
is not as accurate as the rest?
Question 51 One of the most popular types of attacks on
computer systems involves ___________. These attacks deceive or
use people to get around security controls. The best way to
avoid this risk is to ensure that employees know how to handle
such attacks.
Question 52 What is meant by certification?
Question 53 Your organization’s __________ sets the tone for how
you approach related activities.
Question 54 The primary task of an organization’s __________
team is to control access to systems or resources.
Question 55 What is meant by standard?
Question 56 Enacting changes in response to reported
problems are called ________.
Question 57 From the perspective of a _________ professional,
configuration management evaluates the impact a modification
might have on security.
Question 58 ___________ are the benchmarks that help make sure
a minimum level of security exists across multiple applications
of systems and across different products.
Question 59 ________ is the process of managing changes to
computer/device configuration or application software.
Question 60 What term is used to describe a set of step-by-step
actions to be performed to accomplish a security requirement,
process, or objective?
7. Question 61 One of the best ways to avoid wasting your
organization’s resources is to ensure that you follow the ________
review cycle.
Question 62 Which of the following is the definition of
hardened configuration?
Question 63 As your organization evolves and as threats
mature, it is important to make sure your __________ still meet(s)
the risks you face today.
Question 64 Security audits help ensure that your rules and
__________ are up to date, documented, and subject to change
control procedures.
Question 65 ________ provides information on what is happening
as it happens.
Question 66 What is a Security Information and Event
Management (SIEM) system?
Question 67 ________ gives you the opportunity to review your
risk-management program and to confirm that the program
has correctly identified and reduced (or otherwise addressed)
the risks to your organization.
Question 68 Which of the following defines network mapping?
Question 69 Audits also often look at the current configuration
of a system as a snapshot in time to verify that it complies with
________.
Question 70 Which of the following is the definition of anomaly-
based IDS?
8. Question 71 An attacker or event that might exploit a
vulnerability is a(n) ____________.
Question 72 You must consider many factors when evaluating
countermeasures. Countermeasures might generate more calls
to the help desk, slower response times for users, and so on.
This is referred to as ________.
Question 73 An organization knows that a risk exists and has
decided that the cost of reducing it is higher than the loss would
be. This can include self-insuring or using a deductible. This is
categorized as ________.
Question 74 ________ allows an organization to transfer risk to
another entity. Insurance is a common way to reduce risk.
Question 75 A(n) ________ is an intent and method to exploit a
vulnerability.
Question 76 It is necessary to create and/or maintain a plan
that makes sure your company continues to operate in the face
of disaster. This is known as a ________.
Question 77 ___________ is the likelihood that a particular threat
exposes a vulnerability that could damage your organization.
Question 78 An intrusion detection system (IDS) is an example
of ___________ controls.
Question 79 A _____________ is a flaw or weakness in a system’s
security procedures, design, implementation, or internal
controls.
Question 80 Forensics and incident response are examples of
___________ controls.
9. Question 81 What name is given to an encryption cipher that is
a product cipher with a 56-bit key consisting of 16 iterations of
substitution and transformation?
Question 82 What name is given to an encryption cipher that
uniquely maps any letter to any other letter?
Question 83 Without any knowledge of the key, an attacker
with access to an encrypted message and the decryption cipher
could try every possible key to decode the message. This is
referred to as ________.
Question 84 In a ________, the cryptanalyst possesses certain
pieces of information before and after encryption.
Question 85 Cryptography accomplishes four security goals:
nonrepudiation, integrity, authentication, and ________________.
Question 86 _______________ enables you to prevent a party from
denying a previous statement or action.
Question 87 Cryptography accomplishes four security goals:
confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and ________________.
Question 88 ________ is the act of unscrambling ciphertext into
plaintext.
Question 89 A ________ is an encryption key used to encrypt other
keys before transmitting them.
Question 90 What is meant by key distribution?
Question 91 A _____________ contains rules that define the types of
traffic that can come and go through a network.
10. Question 92 ________ is a suite of protocols designed to connect
sites securely using IP networks.
Question 93 Which OSI Reference Model layer creates,
maintains, and disconnects communications that take place
between processes over the network?
Question 94 What name is given to a protocol to implement a
VPN connection between two computers?
Question 95 A firewall that examines each packet it receives
and compares the packet to a list of rules configured by the
network administrator is the definition of ________.
Question 96 Network ________ is gathering information about a
network for use in a future attack.
Question 97 Which OSI Reference Model layer is responsible for
the coding of data?
Question 98 Which OSI Reference Model layer must translate
the binary ones and zeros of computer language into the
language of the transport medium?
Question 99 A ___________ controls the flow of traffic by
preventing unauthorized network traffic from entering or
leaving a particular portion of the network.
Question 100 Which OSI Reference Model layer is responsible
for transmitting information on computers connected to the
same local area network (LAN)?
Question 101 _____________ are the main source of distributed
denial of service (DDoS) attacks and spam.
11. Question 102 A ________ is a virus that attacks and modifies
executable programs (like COM, EXE, SYS, and DLL files).
Question 103 ________ include a separate encryption engine that
stores the virus body in encrypted format while duplicating the
main body of the virus.
Question 104 ________ attack countermeasures such as antivirus
signature files or integrity databases.
Question 105 A ____________ tricks users into providing logon
information on what appears to be a legitimate Web site but is
in fact a Web site set up by an attacker to obtain this
information.
Question 106 The ________ is a U.S. standards organization whose
goal is to empower its members and constituents to strengthen
the U.S. marketplace position in the global economy, while
helping to ensure the safety and health of consumers and the
protection of the environment.
Question 107 Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Common Gateway
Interface (CGI), and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) are
standards developed or endorsed by the ____________.
Question 108 The ____________ is a network of centers around the
United States that offers technical and business assistance to
small- and medium-sized manufacturers.
Question 109 The ________ is the main United Nations agency
responsible for managing and promoting information and
technology issues.
Question 110 The ________ is an organization formed in 1994 to
develop and publish standards for the World Wide Web.
12. Question 111 What name is given to educational institutions
that meet specific federal information assurance educational
guidelines?
Question 112 The standard bachelor’s degree is a __________
program.
Question 113 The purpose of ________ is to provide formal
training courses that lead to a certificate or professional
certification and not a degree.
Question 114 With university doctoral programs, completing
the degree requirements takes ________.
Question 115 “There are so many demands on your time, it is
often difficult to justify setting aside time to study. Also, you
may find that self-study takes more time than you planned.”
This is a disadvantage to choosing the self-study option that can
be labeled ________.
Question 116 The best fits for (ISC)2’s _____________ are personnel
responsible for developing and implementing processes used
to assess risk and for establishing security requirements.
Question 117 CompTIA’s Security+ certification provides
________.
Question 118 (ISC)2 offers the ________________ credential, which is
one of the few credentials that address developing secure
software. It evaluates professionals for the knowledge and
skills necessary to develop and deploy secure applications.
Question 119 The ____________ concentration from (ISC)2 contains
deeper managerial elements such as project management, risk
management, setting up and delivering a security awareness
13. program, and managing a business continuity planning
program.
Question 120 The four main credentials of the ________ are
Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP®), Certified
Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP®), Certified
Authorization Professional (CAP®), and Certified Secure
Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP®).
Question 121 The regulating agency for the Family Educational
Rights and Privacy Act is the ________.
Question 122 The ________________ ,enacted as part of the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was
designed to promote the widespread adoption and
standardization of health information technology.
Question 123 The regulating agency for the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
is the ________.
Question 124 Social Security numbers, financial account
numbers, credit card numbers, and date of birth are examples
of __________ as stipulated under GLBA.
Question 125 What name is given to patient health information
that is computer based?