CISCO Cybersecurity Essentials v1.1 - Final Quiz, Part A

A user has a large amount of data that needs to be kept confidential. Which algorithm would best meet this requirement? 1. 3DES 2. ECC 3. RSA 4. Diffie-Hellman

1. 3DES

What Windows utility should be used to configure password rules and account lockout policies on a system that is not part of a domain? 1. Local Security Policy tool 2. Event Viewer security log 3. Computer Management 4. Active Directory Security tool

1. Local Security Policy tool

Which three protocols can use Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)? (Choose three.) 1. WPA 2. TKIP 3. WPA2 4. 802.11i 5. 802.11q 6. WEP

1. WPA 3. WPA2 4. 802.11i

What type of application attack occurs when data goes beyond the memory areas allocated to the application? 1. buffer overflow 2. RAM Injection 3. SQL injection 4. RAM spoofing

1. buffer overflow

What are two incident response phases? (Choose two.) 1. detection and analysis 2. confidentiality and eradication 3. prevention and containment 4. mitigation and acceptance 5. containment and recovery 6. risk analysis and high availability

1. detection and analysis 5. containment and recovery

The team is in the process of performing a risk analysis on the database services. The information collected includes the initial value of these assets, the threats to the assets and the impact of the threats. What type of risk analysis is the team performing by calculating the annual loss expectancy? 1. quantitative analysis 2. qualitative analysis 3. loss analysis 4. protection analysis

1. quantitative analysis

An organization has implemented antivirus software. What type of security control did the company implement? 1. recovery control 2. deterrent control 3. compensative control 4. detective control

1. recovery control

What type of attack has an organization experienced when an employee installs an unauthorized device on the network to view network traffic? 1. sniffing 2. spoofing 3. phishing 4. spamming

1. sniffing

Which data state is maintained in NAS and SAN services? 1. stored data 2. data-in-transit 3. encrypted data 4. data in-process

1. stored data

Which threat is mitigated through user awareness training and tying security awareness to performance reviews? 1. user-related threats 2. device-related threats 3. cloud-related threats 4. physical threats

1. user-related threats

Which statement describes a distributed denial-of-service attack? 1. An attacker views network traffic to learn authentication credentials. 2. An attacker builds a botnet comprised of zombies. 3. An attacker sends an enormous quantity of data that a server cannot handle. 4. One computer accepts data packets based on the MAC address of another computer.

2. An attacker builds a botnet comprised of zombies.

A VPN will be used within the organization to give remote users secure access to the corporate network. What does IPsec use to authenticate the origin of every packet to provide data integrity checking? 1. salting 2. HMAC 3. CRC 4. password

2. HMAC

Which utility uses the Internet Control Messaging Protocol (ICMP)? 1. NTP 2. Ping 3. RIP 4. DNS

2. Ping

Which hashing algorithm is recommended for the protection of sensitive, unclassified information? 1. MD5 2. SHA-256 3. 3DES 4. AES-256

2. SHA-256

Which protocol would be used to provide security for employees that access systems remotely from home? 1. WPA 2. SSH 3. SCP 4. Telnet

2. SSH

Which website offers guidance on putting together a checklist to provide guidance on configuring and hardening operating systems? 1. CERT 2. The National Vulnerability Database website 3. The Advanced Cyber Security Center 4. Internet Storm Center

2. The National Vulnerability Database website

What is a feature of a cryptographic hash function? 1. Hashing requires a public and a private key. 2. The hash function is a one-way mathematical function. 3. The output has a variable length. 4. The hash input can be calculated given the output value.

2. The hash function is a one-way mathematical function.

A cybersecurity specialist is working with the IT staff to establish an effective information security plan. Which combination of security principles forms the foundation of a security plan? 1. secrecy, identify, and nonrepudiation 2. confidentiality, integrity, and availability 3. technologies, policies, and awareness 4. encryption, authentication, and identification

2. confidentiality, integrity, and availability

What technology should be implemented to verify the identity of an organization, to authenticate its website, and to provide an encrypted connection between a client and the website? 1. digital signature 2. digital certificate 3. asymmetric encryption 4. salting

2. digital certificate

Which technology can be used to protect VoIP against eavesdropping? 1. strong authentication 2. encrypted voice messages 3. ARP 4. SSH

2. encrypted voice messages

Keeping data backups offsite is an example of which type of disaster recovery control? 1. management 2. preventive 3. detective 4. corrective

2. preventive

Alice and Bob are using a digital signature to sign a document. What key should Alice use to sign the document so that Bob can make sure that the document came from Alice? 1. private key from Bob 2. private key from Alice 3. username and password from Alice 4. public key from Bob

2. private key from Alice

In a comparison of biometric systems, what is the crossover error rate? 1. rate of false positives and rate of acceptability 2. rate of false negatives and rate of false positives 3. rate of rejection and rate of false negatives 4. rate of acceptability and rate of false negatives

2. rate of false negatives and rate of false positives

What is an impersonation attack that takes advantage of a trusted relationship between two systems? 1. man-in-the-middle 2. spoofing 3. spamming 4. sniffing

2. spoofing

What are three states of data during which data is vulnerable? (Choose three.) 1. purged data 2. stored data 3. data in-process 4. data encrypted 5. data decrypted 6. data-in-transit

2. stored data 3. data in-process 6. data-in-transit

Being able to maintain availability during disruptive events describes which of the principles of high availability? 1. fault tolerance 2. system resiliency 3. single point of failure 4. uninterruptible services

2. system resiliency

There are many environments that require five nines, but a five nines environment may be cost-prohibitive. What is one example of where the five nines environment might be cost prohibitive? 1. department stores at the local mall 2. the New York Stock Exchange 3. the U.S. Department of Education 4. the front office of a major league sports team

2. the New York Stock Exchange

In which situation would a detective control be warranted? 1. when the organization needs to repair damage 2. when the organization needs to look for prohibited activity 3. when the organization cannot use a guard dog, so it is necessary to consider an alternative 4. after the organization has experienced a breach in order to restore everything back to a normal state

2. when the organization needs to look for prohibited activity

Users report that the network access is slow. After questioning the employees, the network administrator learned that one employee downloaded a third-party scanning program for the printer. What type of malware might be introduced that causes slow performance of the network? 1. virus 2. worm 3. spam 4. phishing

2. worm

Which hashing technology requires keys to be exchanged? 1. salting 2. AES 3. HMAC 4. MD5

3. HMAC

What is an example of early warning systems that can be used to thwart cybercriminals? 1. Infragard 2. ISO/IEC 27000 program 3. Honeynet Project 4. CVE database

3. Honeynet Project

A penetration testing service hired by the company has reported that a backdoor was identified on the network. What action should the organization take to find out if systems have been compromised? 1. Look for policy changes in Event Viewer. 2. Scan the systems for viruses. 3. Look for unauthorized accounts. 4. Look for usernames that do not have passwords.

3. Look for unauthorized accounts.

Which technology should be used to enforce the security policy that a computing device must be checked against the latest antivirus update before the device is allowed to connect to the campus network? 1. SAN 2. VPN 3. NAC 4. NAS

3. NAC

What is it called when an organization only installs applications that meet its guidelines, and administrators increase security by eliminating all other applications? 1. asset classification 2. asset availability 3. asset standardization 4. asset identification

3. asset standardization

Which access control should the IT department use to restore a system back to its normal state? 1. compensative 2. preventive 3. corrective 4. detective

3. corrective

Your organization will be handling market trades. You will be required to verify the identify of each customer who is executing a transaction. Which technology should be implemented to authenticate and verify customer electronic transactions? 1. data hashing 2. symmetrical encryption 3. digital certificates 4. asymmetrical encryption

3. digital certificates

Which technology can be used to ensure data confidentiality? 1. hashing 2. identity management 3. encryption 4. RAID

3. encryption

You have been asked to describe data validation to the data entry clerks in accounts receivable. Which of the following are good examples of strings, integers, and decimals? 1. 800-900-4560, 4040-2020-8978-0090, 01/21/2013 2. male, $25.25, veteran 3. female, 9866, $125.50 4. yes/no 345-60-8745, TRF562

3. female, 9866, $125.50

What approach to availability provides the most comprehensive protection because multiple defenses coordinate together to prevent attacks? 1. obscurity 2. limiting 3. layering 4. diversity

3. layering

Smart cards and biometrics are considered to be what type of access control? 1. administrative 2. technological 3. logical 4. physical

3. logical

HVAC, water system, and fire systems fall under which of the cybersecurity domains? 1. device 2. network 3. physical facilities 4. user

3. physical facilities

What happens as the key length increases in an encryption application? 1. Keyspace increases proportionally. 2. Keyspace decreases exponentially. 3. Keyspace decreases proportionally. 4. Keyspace increases exponentially.

4. Keyspace increases exponentially.

Which statement best describes a motivation of hacktivists? 1. They are trying to show off their hacking skills. 2. They are interested in discovering new exploits. 3. They are curious and learning hacking skills. 4. They are part of a protest group behind a political cause.

4. They are part of a protest group behind a political cause.

What are the two most effective ways to defend against malware? (Choose two.) 1. Implement strong passwords. 2. Implement a VPN. 3. Implement RAID. 4. Update the operating system and other application software. 5. Implement network firewalls. 6. Install and update antivirus software.

4. Update the operating system and other application software. 6. Install and update antivirus software.

Alice and Bob use a pre-shared key to exchange a confidential message. If Bob wants to send a confidential message to Carol, what key should he use? 1. the private key of Carol 2. the public key of Bob 3. the same pre-shared key he used with Alice 4. a new pre-shared key

4. a new pre-shared key

The IT department is tasked to implement a system that controls what a user can and cannot do on the corporate network. Which process should be implemented to meet the requirement? 1. user login auditing 2. a biometric fingerprint reader 3. observations to be provided to all employees 4. a set of attributes that describes user access rights

4. a set of attributes that describes user access rights

Mutual authentication can prevent which type of attack? 1. wireless poisoning 2. wireless sniffing 3. wireless IP spoofing 4. man-in-the-middle

4. man-in-the-middle

Your risk manager just distributed a chart that uses three colors to identify the level of threat to key assets in the information security systems. Red represents high level of risk, yellow represents average level of threat and green represents low level of threat. What type of risk analysis does this chart represent? 1. quantitative analysis 2. exposure factor analysis 3. loss analysis 4. qualitative analysis

4. qualitative analysis

Which risk mitigation strategies include outsourcing services and purchasing insurance? 1. reduction 2. avoidance 3. acceptance 4. transfer

4. transfer

A cybersecurity specialist is asked to identify the potential criminals known to attack the organization. Which type of hackers would the cybersecurity specialist be least concerned with? 1. black hat hackers 2. gray hat hackers 3. script kiddies 4. white hat hackers

4. white hat hackers