Cybersecurity Essentials: Chapter 1 Review

Question 1

What is the benefit of technologies like GIS and IoT?

Accepted Answer

Gives us large data sets to work with and analyze, Can save energy, improve efficiencies, and reduce safety risks

Question 2

What does GIS stand for?

Accepted Answer

Geospatial Information Systems

Question 3

What is the term for the ongoing effort to protect networked systems and data from unauthorized access?

Accepted Answer

Cybersecurity

Question 4

What is the GENERAL name for individuals or groups who attempt to exploit vulnerabilities for personal/financial gain?

Accepted Answer

Attackers

Question 5

What data do users need to protect at a personal level?

Accepted Answer

Identities and Computing Devices

Question 6

What is NOT one of the vulnerabilities that can be used by cyber criminals to get access to a system?

Accepted Answer

Network Malfunctions

Question 7

Which workforce framework category includes highly specialized review and evaluation of incoming cybersecurity info?

Accepted Answer

Analyze

Question 8

What is the term for cybercriminals disrupting or intercepting packets by constructing packets of their own?

Accepted Answer

Packet Forgery

Question 9

True or False: The amount of data that large companies collect means people who work there are cybersecurity experts.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

Which type of hacker is most likely to do penetration testing?

Accepted Answer

White Hat Hacker

Question 11

What is the term for an enhancement to electrical distribution that uses info to create automation?

Accepted Answer

Smart Grid

Question 12

What is the term for an attack that disables a computer by forcing it to use memory or by overworking its CPU?

Accepted Answer

Algorithmic Attack

Question 13

What do cybersecurity experts need to follow when protecting data in their countries?

Accepted Answer

The laws of their own country

Question 14

What is the term for a weakness that makes a target open to an attack?

Accepted Answer

Vulnerability

Question 15

What do companies need to do when using federated identity to protect users' data?

Accepted Answer

Review and analyze any identifying information that is shared

Question 16

What is the term for a criminal introducing false data into a domain server's cache?

Accepted Answer

DNS Spoofing

Question 17

What does a cybercriminal use to monitor and record all information over a network?

Accepted Answer

Packet Sniffers

Question 18

Which workforce framework category includes conceptualizing, designing, and building secure systems?

Accepted Answer

Securely Provision

Question 19

Which of the following is NOT a popular cybersecurity certification?

Accepted Answer

Cisco Cybersecurity Essentials

Question 20

What is the result of data sets that are large and complex, making traditional data processing inadequate?

Accepted Answer

Big Data

Question 21

What is NOT one of the classifications of hackers?

Accepted Answer

Blue Hat

Question 22

Why are Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies a vulnerability?

Accepted Answer

Cyber specialists cannot centrally manage personal devices, Cyber specialists cannot update personal devices with latest OSs or patches

Question 23

Which of the following is NOT a type of organized hacker organization?

Accepted Answer

Script Kiddie Klubs

Question 24

What is the organization responsible for intelligence collection and surveillance in the U.S.?

Accepted Answer

National Security Agency (NSA)

Question 25

What is NOT one of the examples of records that cybercriminals might be interested in stealing?

Accepted Answer

Music Records

Question 26

What is the term for the areas that offer networked infrastructure systems such as manufacturing, energy, and transport?

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Key Industry Sectors

Question 27

What is NOT an example of an Internet service that cybercriminals try to target?

Accepted Answer

Ping Ability

Question 28

What is the term for threats that originate from people outside an organization?

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External

Question 29

What data needs to be protected at a business level?

Accepted Answer

Reputation and Customers

Question 30

Why can internal threats cause greater damage than external threats?

Accepted Answer

Internal users are trusted, have direct access, know internal systems

Question 31

What does IoT stand for?

Accepted Answer

Internet of Things

Question 32

What is the term for a continuous computer hack that occurs under the radar against a specific object?

Accepted Answer

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)

Question 33

What is the term for an attack which results in the hijacking of authorized connections or denial of network services?

Accepted Answer

Man-in-the-Middle

Question 34

Which workforce framework category includes providing leadership, management, direction, and development?

Accepted Answer

Oversight and Development

Question 35

What is the term for threats that originate from people that are, or were part of organizations or trusted partners?

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Internal

Question 36

Which of the following is NOT an example of a way to defend against cybercriminals?

Accepted Answer

Working to Hack Cybercriminals Before They Can Hack You

Question 37

What is the term for when multiple companies allow users to use the same ID credentials to access their networks?

Accepted Answer

Federated Identity Management

Question 38

What is another name for amateur cybersecurity criminals?

Accepted Answer

Script Kiddies

Question 39

What does IoE stand for?

Accepted Answer

Internet of Everything

Question 40

What was a result of GIS and IoT technologies becoming more popular and widely distributed?

Accepted Answer

Expanded the amount of data collected, analyzed, and used

Question 41

Which type of hacker commits crimes and does unethical things, but not for personal gain or to cause damage?

Accepted Answer

Gray Hat Hacker

Question 42

What is the term used to describe an area that needs to be protected?

Accepted Answer

Cybersecurity Domain

Question 43

What limits the size of a cybersecurity domain?

Accepted Answer

Logical Boundary, Physical Boundary

Question 44

What is the greatest motivation for most cyber criminals?

Accepted Answer

Financial

Question 45

Which workforce framework category includes specialized denial and deception operations and collection of cyber info?

Accepted Answer

Collect and Operate

Question 46

Which workforce framework category includes investigation of cyber events and/or crimes?

Accepted Answer

Investigate

Question 47

What data needs to be protected at a state level?

Accepted Answer

Citizen's Safety and Well-Being

Question 48

Which workforce framework category includes providing support, administration, and maintenance of systems?

Accepted Answer

Operate and Maintain

Question 49

What is one of the two companies discussed that provide cybersecurity certifications?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft, Cisco

Question 50

Why is the sharing of data by willing users important for cyber domains?

Accepted Answer

They make a domain stronger because the user shares a lot of their data

Question 51

What is the famous worm attack that targeted Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems?

Accepted Answer

Stuxnet

Question 52

What is NOT one of the three levels of cyber criminals?

Accepted Answer

Identity Thief

Question 53

What framework enables companies to identify the major types of responsibilities and workforce skills needed for cyber?

Accepted Answer

National Cybersecurity Workforce Framework

Question 54

What is the term for the possibility that a harmful event, such as an attack, will occur?

Accepted Answer

Threat

Question 55

Which of the following is NOT an example of an international cybersecurity organization?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft

Question 56

What is the security concern with IoT/IoE devices?

Accepted Answer

Increases the number of networks requiring protection, Affects the amount of data that needs protection

Question 57

What is one of the ways an internal user can be a threat?

Accepted Answer

Invite Malware onto the Network Through Malicious E-mails or Websites, Mishandle Confidential Data, Threaten the Operations of Internal Servers or Network Devices, Connect Infected Devices into the Corporate Computer System

Question 58

What is NOT one of the reasons that Big Data poses challenges and opportunities?

Accepted Answer

The need to utilize this data

Question 59

What does the term DDoS stand for?

Accepted Answer

Distributed Denial of Service

Question 60

Which of the following is NOT data that corporations must be careful about protecting?

Accepted Answer

The name of the owner

Question 61

What does the term TDoS stand for?

Accepted Answer

Telephone Denial of Service

Question 62

Which workforce framework category includes identification, analysis, and mitigation of threats to internal systems?

Accepted Answer

Protect and Defend

Question 63

What is the name for groups that hack to make political statements to create awareness of issues important to them?

Accepted Answer

Hacktivists

Question 64

What is the term for acquiring and using a person's confidential information to act like that person?

Accepted Answer

Identity Theft

Cybersecurity Essentials: Chapter 1 Review

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Cybersecurity Essentials: Chapter 1 Review

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