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IBM CYBERSECURITY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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IBM CYBERSECURITY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSWhich of these is the best definition of a security risk - the likelihood of a threat source
exploiting a vulnerability
Fancy bears and anonymous are examples of what - hacking organizations
Which of the following defines a security threat - any potential danger capable of
exploiting a weaknesses in a system
Implement a filter to remove flooded packets before they reach the host is a
countermeasure to which form of attack - a denial of service (dos) attack
In cybersecurity, authenticity is defined as what - the property of being genuine and
verifiable
Which type of access control is based upon the subjects clearance level and the objects
classification - mandatory access control (mac)
The encryption and protocols used to prevent unauthorized access to data are
examples of which type of access control - technical
A windows 10 user has 10 files exactly the same name. Which statement must be true
for these files - the files must be in different directories
Which component of the linux operating system interacts with your computers hardware
- the kernel
If cost is the primary concern, which type of cloud should be considered first - public
cloud
Which security concerns follow your workload even after it is successfully moved to the
cloud - (data security, disaster recovery/business continuity planning, identity and
access management, compliance)
All of the above
Which of the following is a self-regulating standard set up by the credit card industry in
the us - pci-dss
Which 2 of the following attack types target endpoints - spear phishing
Ad network
If an endpoint detection and response (edr) system detects that an endpoint does not
have a required patch installed, which statement best characterizes the actions it is able
, to take automatically - the endpoint can be quarantined from all network resources
except those that allow it to download and install the missing patch
Granting access to a user account only those privileges necessary to perform its
intended functions is known as what - the principle of least privileges
The windows security app available in windows 10 provides uses with which of the
following protections - (virus and threat protection, firewall and network protection,
family options - parental controls)
All of the above
Symmetric key encryption by itself ensures which of the following - confidentiality only
Which of the following practices helps assure the best results when implementing
encryption - chose a reliable and proven published algorithm
Which of these methods ensures the authentication, non-repudiation and integrity of a
digital communication - use of hashing
Why is symmetric key encryption the most common choice of methods to encryptic data
at rest - it is much faster than asymmetric key encryption
Which 3 of these are benefits you can realize from using a nat (network address
translation) router - allows statistic 1-to-1 mapping of local ip addresses to global ip
addresses
Allows internal ip addresses to be hidden from outside observers
Allows dynamic mapping of many local ip addresses to a smaller number of global ip
address only when they are needed
Which statement best describes configuring a nat router to use dynamic mapping -
unregistered ip addresses are mapped to registered ip addresses as they are needed
If a computer needs to send a message to a system that is not part of the local network,
where does it send the message - the networks default gateway address
Which are properties of a highly available system - redundancy, failover and monitoring
Which 3 of these statements about the tcp protocol are true - tcp packets are
reassembled by the receiving system in order in which they are sent
Tcp is connection-oriented
Tcp is more reliable than udp
An email message that is encrypted, uses a digital signature and carries a hash value
would address which aspects of cia triad - confidentiality and integrity
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