AP CSP Unit 4 Assessment Review

______ encryption is a method of encryption involving one key for both encryption and decryption

• Symmetric

• Asymmetric

• Public key

• SSL

Which of the following most accurately describes Moore's Law?

• Moore's Law describes a relationship of boolean logic statements involving AND and OR

• Moore's Law is the principle that one should assume that any traffic on the Internet is insecure

• Moore's Law is the observation that computing power tends to double every two years

• Moore's Law explains why cracking modern cryptography is a "computationally hard" problem

In public key cryptography, the sender uses the recipient's public key to encrypt a message. Which of the following is needed to decrypt the message?

• The sender's public key

• The sender's private key

• The recipient's public key

• The recipient's private key

How do Internet packets travel to their destination?

• Router to router based on the Travelling Salesman algorithm

• Along the same path to stay in order

• Timed to arrive at the destination in their correct order

• Along a variety of different paths

What are brute-force attacks?

• Attacks that use frequency analysis to break passwords

• Attacks that check each possible solution to break encrypted data

• Attacks against DNS servers to enable DDOS attacks

• Attacks on firewalls to gain access to a company's sensitive data

What is a symmetric key used for?

• Sending and receiving information from the web

• Encrypting data

• Decrypting data

• Encrypting and decrypting data

What is the definition of bandwidth?

• The frequency that data can be transmitted across the Internet

• The speed that data can be sent through the Internet

• The amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time

• The delay between the request and the receipt of information on the Internet

What is the purpose of DNS? (Domain Name System)

• To translate natural language website names to their IP address.

• To create a new IP address for a website each time it is requested.

• To position the packets in the correct order.

• To route the Internet request on the way to its destination.

What is the most common way computer viruses are spread?

• By people clicking on an infected file

• From pop up ads

• Through network worms

• From random botnet attacks

The protocol used for transmitting web pages over the Internet is called ...

• HTML.

• HTTP.

• DNS.

• TCP/IP.