Reference no: EM13924209
Part 1: True (T) or False (F).
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS ONLY
T F Your Professor's last name is Douglas. Answer: ___F___ (it is Kelly)
T F This course is INFO610. Answer: ___T___
1. T F Deep packet inspection firewalls protect networks by blocking packets based on the packets' header information at the network (IP) layer.
Answer: _____ If F, why? Employers have the right (and in some cases the obligation) to see any information stored, transmitted, or communicated within the employer's environment.
This legal right is the basis for monitoring (or at least explicitly stating the right to monitor) email, network traffic, voice, wireless, and other communications. Answer: _____
2. T F Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) provide no protection from internal threats.
Answer: _____
3. T F A Denial-of-Service attack does not require the attacker to penetrate the target's security defenses.
Answer: _____
4. T F Security awareness, training, and education programs are key components of organizational risk management strategies.
Answer: _____
Part 2:
1. Match the following TCP/IP protocol layer with its function (select a., b., c., or d. below):
A. Network 1. Coordinates communication between applications.
B. Physical 2. Supports useful functions over the transport layer such identity/location of applications.
C. Application 3. Moves information between hosts that are not directly connected.
D. Transport 4. Moves bits between the nodes in the network.
1. A--->3; B--->4; C--->2; D--->1
2. A--->2; B--->4; C--->1; D--->4
3. A--->2; B--->3; C--->4; D--->1
4. A--->3; B--->4; C--->1; D--->2
Answer: _____________
2. Protection of a software program that uses a unique, novel algorithm could legally be protected by:
1. A patent
2. A copyright
3. A trademark
4. Ethical standards
Answer: _____
3. Security threats include which of the following:
1. Unlocked doors
2. Disgruntled employees
3. Hurricanes
4. Un-patched software programs
5. All of the above
Answer: _____
4. Denial of service attacks include (select one or more):
1. Buffer overflow attack
2. Smurf attack
3. Ping flood attack
4. SYN flood attack
5. All of the above
Answer: _____
5. A disgruntled employee creates a utility for purging old emails from the server.
Inside the utility is code that that will erase the server's hard drive contents on January 1st, 2016.
This is an example of which of the following attacks?
1. Virus
2. Logic Bomb
3. Spoofing
4. Trojan horse
5. Botnet
6. Rootkit
7. Backdoor
Answer: _____
6. Mary is the cofounder of Acme Widgets, a manufacturing firm.
Together with her partner, Joe, she has developed a special oil that will dramatically improve the widget manufacturing process.
Mary and Joe plan to make large quantities of the oil by themselves in the plant after the other workers have left to keep the formula secret.
They would like to protect this formula for as long as possible.
What type of intellectual property protection best suits their needs?
1. Copyright
2. Trademark
3. Patent
4. Trade Secre
Answer: _______
7. You should clear cookies in your browser periodically because:
1. They (Cookies) can be used to track your web browsing behavior and invade your privacy.
2. They can facilitate impersonation attacks.
3. They can be used to spread viruses.
4. a. & b.
5. b. & c.
6. a., b. & c.
Answer: _________
8. A TCP/IP session hijacking can be best described as:
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a.
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Providing false identity information to gain unauthorized access
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b.
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Establishing a connection without specifying a username or password
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c.
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An attacker takes control of a session between the server and a client
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d.
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Flooding the connection with too many requests
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Answer: _________
9. Tracker attacks in databases get around:
1. Anonymization
2. Data transformation
3. Query size restriction
4. Data partitioning
Answer: _________
10. A race condition attack can result in:
1. A symbolic link
2. Object orientation
3. A deadlock
4. Access to low address memory locations
Answer: __________
11. __________ is when the data in the SDB can be modified so as to produce statistics that cannot be used to infer values for individual record resource.
1. Data perturbation
2. Database access control
3. Inference channeling
4. Output perturbation
Answer: _________
12. With __________ the records in the database are clustered into a number of mutually exclusive groups and the user may only query the statistical properties of each group as a whole.
1. compromise
2. inference
3. partitioning
4. query restriction
Answer: ________
13. A web session (i.e., a session between a web browser and a web server) can be protected against the risk of eavesdropping in an economical and convenient manner through the use of which of the following?
1. A firewall system at the connection point to the Internet
2. An improved RBAC-based access control system for the application servers
3. File-level encryption
4. Kerberos authentication
Answer: _______
14. What specific policy might most likely recommend removing a server from the network and re-installing all software and data?
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a.
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A privacy policy
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b.
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An authentication policy
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c.
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An incident response policy
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d.
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Wireless network access policy
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Answer: ________
15. The security risk of allowing dynamic content ( to execute) on a target machine is:
1. The time delay from when it is downloaded and executed could make the browser experience not very satisfying.
2. Malware may be included in the downloaded code and infect the target machine.
3. The mobile code author may never be known.
4. None of the above.
Answer: _______
16. Encrypting a message with a private key (of the sender) in an asymmetric system provides:
1. Proof of receipt
2. Confidentiality
3. Proof of origin
4. Message availability
Answer:_______
17. The correct ordering of the upper layers of the OSI model are
1. Session, application, presentation
2. Session, presentation, application
3. Session, application, presentation, physical
4. Application, presentation, session, network
Answer: _______
18. In relational database parlance, the basic building block is a __________, which is a flat table.
1. attribute
2. tuple
3. primary key
4. relation
5. field
Answer: _______
19. Gateways operate at the _____________ of the OSI stack?
1. Transport
2. Application
3. Session
4. Network
5. Data Link
Answer: _____
20. Which e-mail security protocol(s) depend(s) upon a "Web of Trust"?
1. Kerberos
2. Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
3. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
4. Transport Layer Security (TLS)
5. Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
6. Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME)
7. Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM)
8. Data Link
Answer: _____