Security+ Cert Exam Objectives SYO-601
Exam Questions and Answers
fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information or data, by
disguising oneself as a trustworthy entity in an electronic
communication. - Correct Answer ✅Phishing
When someone tries to trick you into giving them your
private information via a text or SMS message. - Correct
Answer ✅Smishing
Using social engineering over the telephone system to gain
access to private personal and financial information for the
purpose of financial reward - Correct Answer ✅Vishing
irrelevant or unsolicited messages sent to a large number of
Internet users, for illegitimate advertising, and other activities
such as phishing, and spreading malware - Correct Answer
✅Spam
Spam delivered through instant messaging (IM) instead of
through e-mail messaging - Correct Answer ✅SPIM
,Security+ Cert Exam Objectives SYO-601
Exam Questions and Answers
the act of sending emails to specific and well-researched
targets while pretending to be a trusted sender - Correct
Answer ✅Spear Phishing
exploration of a system's trash bin for the purpose of finding
details in order for a hacker to have a successful online
assault. - Correct Answer ✅Dumpster Diving
When someone watches over your shoulder to nab valuable
information as you key it into an electronic device. - Correct
Answer ✅Shoulder Surfing
cyberattack intended to redirect a website's traffic to
another, fake site. - Correct Answer ✅Pharming
Social engineering attempt by cyber threat actors in which
they trick employees into helping them gain unauthorized
access into the company premises. - Correct Answer
✅Tailgating
,Security+ Cert Exam Objectives SYO-601
Exam Questions and Answers
Procedures or techniques involving interacting with and
communicating with others that is designed to gather
knowledge or inform - Correct Answer ✅Eliciting
Information
Spear phishing that focuses on one specific high level
executive or influencer - Correct Answer ✅Whaling
Prepend is a word that means to attach content as a prefix.
For example, a prepend command could be used in a
scripting language that a programmer would enter into a
certain function or code module. It would add certain
characters of text to the beginning of some variable or object.
- Correct Answer ✅Prepending
identity fraud is the use of stolen information such as making
fake ID's and fake bank accounts - Correct Answer
✅Identity Fraud
using fraudulent invoices to steal from a company - Correct
Answer ✅Invoice Scams
, Security+ Cert Exam Objectives SYO-601
Exam Questions and Answers
the use of MITM attacks, DNS poisoning, phishing, etc. to
amass large numbers of credentials (username / password
combinations) for reuse. - Correct Answer ✅Credential
Harvesting
- Information gathering about a target network - Correct
Answer ✅Reconnaissance
Cyber hoax scams are attacks that exploit unsuspecting users
to provide valuable information, such as login credentials or
money. - Correct Answer ✅Hoax
typically involves an email that seems to come from a trusted
source. - Correct Answer ✅Impersonation
security exploit in which the attacker seeks to compromise a
specific group of end users by infecting websites that
members of the group are known to visit. The goal is to infect
a targeted user's computer and gain access to the network at
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