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Ultimate Security Quiz

Test your knowledge on various aspects of security with our comprehensive quiz! This quiz covers key topics like vulnerabilities, threats, attacks, social engineering, and much more, making it perfect for anyone interested in enhancing their understanding of security protocols.

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What are Tangible Assets ?

IP addresses

Protocols

Physical Objects

Data

What is the Main difference Of data being in transit and At Rest

Vulnerability is :

Being Protected in a Network or System

Assurance of Transmission Medium

Flaws in a System or Network

Mention an example of Confidentiality:

Choose the Correct characteristics Of Integrity:

Trustworthiness of data over its entire life cycle

Data can be modified by everyone

Data must not be modified unauthorized

It Doesn't maintain Consistency

Availability is :

Ensures that the sender of a message cannot deny having sent it also it also implies that the receiver of the message cannot deny having received it

Free Software

To make the software / system / network / applications available to people with authorized access to these above at all times

To make the software / system / network / applications available to people with unauthorized access to these above at all times

Give a Detailed Description Of what is Non-repudiation :

When Using Protocols in a Private network , Confidential information and Credentials can be Easily read and taken ?

Yes

Packet Analyzer Job is to : (choose 2)

Intercept data as it is transmitted over a network and creates a backup

Intercept data as it is transmitted over a network

Encrypts data

Hash Data

Decodes Encrypted Data

Decodes the Data into a readable format for humans

Explain The operation of what happens when a Nic card is set to Promiscuous mode in a network And Differentiate what is different, When a nic card is set to non-promiscuous mode

Switch only send data to the device that should receive it even when nics are set in promiscuous mode they only see data intended for them

True

False

Mention a Protocol Analyzer software :

Give a detailed Description of Packet injection

Mention a simple way packet injection can be prevented

What is the meaning of IP spoofing?

Which of the following statements about threats to the Layer 2 switching infrastructure are true? (Choose all that apply.)

ARP spoofing attacks are attempts to redirect traffic to an attacking host by sending an ARP message with a forged identity to a transmitting host.

MAC address flooding is an attempt to redirect traffic to a single port by associating that port with all MAC addresses in the VLAN.

ARP spoofing attacks are attempts to redirect traffic to an attacking host by sending an ARP packet that contains the forged address of the next hop router.

MAC address flooding is an attempt to force a switch to send all information out every port by overloading the MAC address table

ARP spoofing attacks are attempts to redirect traffic to an attacking host by encapsulating a false 802.1Q header on a frame and causing traffic to be delivered to the wrong VLAN.

What design element would mitigate the ARP spoofing attacks? (choose 2)

ARP spoofing attacks are often used to facilitate other attacks such as: (choose more than one)

ARP spoofing attacks can only occur on -

Local area networks that utilize the Address Resolution Protocol.

Wireless local area networks that utilize the Address Resolution Protocol.

Mobile Phones

Tablets

Describe How ARP Spoofing attacks are Done :

Man in the Middle Is when an attacker ................

Describe What Happens in a Syn flood DDos

The Lowest type of an attacker can do damage to a company by making a script

True

False

Passive attacks main objective can be described as a beginning to an orchestrated attack can be described as the first stealthy attack to a network or a company

True

False

Passive attacks are for collecting information and Hack an admin

True

False

Mention a simple method of how Passive attack is done

Give a detailed description of what a an active attack is and Give an example

Social Engineering Works in certain scenario because certain techniques are used :

Innocent Talking

natural charisma

Authority

Urgency

What is social engineering ?

Phishing is

Spoofing which you are literlay hiding or disguising one computer resource as another

Spoofing which you are literlay not hiding or not disguising one computer resource as another

Fishing with bait

One of the Main critical attack a victim can fall in phishing is in

banked spoof website

Shopping Spoof Website

Information spoof website

Describe what is exactly Spear phishing

Password cracking is : (choose 2 or more )

The process of decoding a password which is encrypted

He process of guessing or recovering a password from being at rest or being authenticated over the network meaning in transit.

Password cracking can be done by having every possible combination of words and if login was successful it means the password was cracked.

Password cracking is by entering the username and password

What is a brute force attack :

Brute force attacks are similar to a dictionary attack

True

False

Give a detailed Description of a virus :

Malware are harmful software which includes viruses, worms, trojans and spyware. These are programed through lines of code which become programs which do a certain of threatful functions including stealing, encrypting deleting or modifying sensitive data, altering or hijacking core computing functions and spying on users.

True

False

Most viruses are here to cause damage, modifying data, corruption on the target.

True

False

Explain and make a difference between a virus and a worm

Worms spread fast acrosss a network therefore causing a wide spread infection which then can lead a crash on a machine or in worst cases is the flooding of a network connection.

True

False

Spyware a software that monitors users' activity only.

True

False

Trojan Characteristics are (multiple Choice)

Masquerade themselves in claiming to be an important

Trojans replicate themselves

Their main purpose is collecting information or setting up vulnerabilities through a computer security.

They will kill any process

Give the process of how a key logger works :

A backdoor is a means to access a computer system or encrypted data that bypasses the system's customary security mechanisms.

True

False

A developer may create a backdoor so that an application or operating system can be accessed for troubleshooting or other purposes. However, attackers often use backdoors that they detect or install themselves as part of an exploit. In some cases, a worm or virus is designed to take advantage of a backdoor created by an earlier attack.

True

False

Explain what is a rootkit :

Explain the Process of Ransomware

Give a few Examples of prevention of malware :

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