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CYSE 101 FINAL REVIEW QUESTIONS
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CYSE 101 FINAL REVIEW QUESTIONSWhich of the following would *not* be part of a solution in the Polycom case study? -
Answers-d. Off site backups
Which of the following is *not* true about complex and automatically generated
passwords that are unique to each system and are a minimum of 30 characters in
length, such as !Hs4(j0qO$&zn1%2SK38cn^!Ks620! ? - Answers-b. Brute force
password crackers will break them as quickly as a 4-digit PIN
Which of the following is true regarding the history of cybersecurity as presented in
class and the associated document? - Answers-a. Advances (firewalls, intrusion
detection, encryption algorithms, etc.) often followed attacks or apparent weaknesses
What does the concept of defense in depth mean? - Answers-d. Protect your data and
systems with tools and techniques from different layers
*D.
The primary vulnerability in the Lodz Tram Hack case study was: - Answers-b. Lack of
authentication
Considering the CIA triad and the Parkerian hexad, which of the following is true? -
Answers-b. Parkerian is more complete but not as widely known
In a data breach (such as the OPM case) which security characteristic of data has been
violated? - Answers-d. Confidentiality
What do we call the process in which the client authenticates to the server and the
server authenticates to the client? - Answers-d. Mutual authentication
*D
What do we call the rate at which we fail to authenticate legitimate users in a biometric
system? - Answers-a. False Acceptance Rate (FAR)
If we are using an identity card such as a driver's license as the basis for our
authentication scheme, which of the following additions would *not* represent
multifactor authentication? - Answers-d. A birth certificate
Which of the following is *not* a reason why an identity card alone might not make an
ideal method of authentication? - Answers-d. issued by the government
*D
, Which of the following would *not* be considered a logical (technical) control? -
Answers-a. fences
How do we know at what point we can consider our environment to be secure? -
Answers-d. Never; perfect security does not exist
Which of the following about vulnerabilities and threats is *not* true? - Answers-c.
Vulnerabilities and threats combine to create risk
A physical key (like for a door lock) would be described as which type of authentication
factor? - Answers-b. something you have
Which of the following is *not* true? - Answers-d. Voice authentication requires speech
to text capability
*D
What biometric factor describes how well a characteristic resists change over time? -
Answers-a. permanence
In the fake finger video from class, what was the printed circuit board used for? -
Answers-c. to etch the fingerprint
.
What is the difference between verification and authentication of an identity? - Answers-
d. verification is a weaker confirmation of identity than authentication
*D
If we are using an 4-character password that contains only lowercase English
alphabetic characters (26 different characters), how many *more* possible passwords
are there if we use a 5-character password (still only lowercase English alphabetic
characters? - Answers-a. 11,424,400 more possibilities
The confused deputy problem can allow unauthorized privilege escalation to take place;
how does this happen? - Answers-b. software has greater privilege than the user of the
software
Given a file containing sensitive data and residing in a Linux operating system with
some users who should not have access to the data, would setting the file's permissions
to rw-rw-rw- cause a potential security issue? - Answers-b. yes, because other users
can read and modify the file
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