Quiz Preview 5; Computer Science & Information Technology - Networking And Telecommunications

SYN floods rely on implementations of what protocol to cause denial of service conditions?

Cable modems, ISDN, and DSL are all examples of what type of technology?

When evaluating biometric devices, what is another term used to describe the equal error rate?

Sean suspects that an individual in his company is smuggling out secret information despite his company's careful use of data loss prevention systems. He discovers that the suspect is posting photos, including the one shown here, to public Internet message boards. What type of technique may the individuals be using to hide messages inside this image?

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Roger is concerned that a third-party firm hired to develop code for an internal application will embed a backdoor in the code. The developer retains rights to the intellectual property and will only deliver the software in its final form. Which one of the following languages would be least susceptible to this type of attack because it would provide Roger with code that is human-readable in its final form?

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Which one of the following is a single system designed to attract attackers because it seemingly contains sensitive information or other attractive resources?

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Dave is responsible for password security in his organization and would like to strengthen the security of password files. He would like to defend his organization against the use of rainbow tables. Which one of the following techniques is specifically designed to frustrate the use of rainbow tables?

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What technology is likely to be involved when Ben's organization needs to provide authentication and authorization assertions to their cloud e-commerce application?

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When an attacker calls an organization's help desk and persuades them to reset a password for them due to the help desk employee's trust and willingness to help, what type of attack succeeded?

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If availability of authentication services is the organization's biggest priority, what type of identity platform should Ben recommend?

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If Ben needs to share identity information with the business partner shown, what should he investigate?

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When a user attempts to log into their online account, Google sends a text message with a code to their cell phone. What type of verification is this?

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How should samples be generated when assessing account management practices?

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Alex works for the United States (U.S.) federal government and is required to ensure that the devices and components he acquires are not compromised. What program will he participate in to help ensure this?

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What problem drives the recommendation to physically destroy SSD drives to prevent data leaks when they are retired?

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How many possible keys exist in a cryptographic algorithm that uses 6-bit encryption keys?

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GAD Systems is concerned about the risk of hackers stealing sensitive information stored on a file server. They choose to pursue a risk mitigation strategy. Which one of the following actions would support that strategy?

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Information about an individual like their name, Social Security number, date and place of birth, or their mother's maiden name is an example of what type of protected information?

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Bob is configuring egress filtering on his network, examining traffic destined for the Internet. His organization uses the public address range 12.8.195.0/24. Packets with which one of the following destination addresses should Bob permit to leave the network?

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Frank is the security administrator for a web server that provides news and information to people located around the world. His server received an unusually high volume of traffic that it could not handle and was forced to reject requests. Frank traced the source of the traffic back to a botnet. What type of attack took place?

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Greg would like to implement application control technology in his organization. He would like to limit users to installing only approved software on their systems. What type of application control would be appropriate in this situation?

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Gordon is conducting a risk assessment for his organization and determined the amount of damage that flooding is expected to cause to his facilities each year. What metric has Gordon identified?

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Which one of the following technologies is NOT normally a capability of mobile device management (MDM) solutions?

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Gina recently took the CISSP certification exam and then wrote a blog post that included the text of many of the exam questions that she experienced. What aspect of the (ISC)2 code of ethics is most directly violated in this situation?

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Jim is implementing an IDaaS solution for his organization. What type of technology is he putting in place?

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Kim is the system administrator for a small business network that is experiencing security problems. She is in the office in the evening working on the problem, and nobody else is there. As she is watching, she can see that systems on the other side of the office that were previously behaving normally are now exhibiting signs of infection. What type of malware is Kim likely dealing with?

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Which of the following is an industry standard for data security?

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Which of the following sequences properly describes the TCP three-way handshake?

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