Lesson 8-9-10 Review

Your company is about to release a proprietary product. Suddenly a competitor releases a very similar product that uses design data exactly like that from your company's product. You later learn that the proprietary data was leaked to the competitor. What preventive measure would have ensured that your company's proprietary information was protected from this type of action?

• Monitoring employees' messages

• Restricting employees' Internet access

• Destroying all proprietary information

• Uninstalling employees' email clients

You are a network administrator for a medium-sized organization. The receptionist has had several problems with malware recently. The receptionist does not need to access external Websites to perform his job, but he does use his computer for company documentation and internal communication with co-workers. Which of the following will help prevent additional malware from being installed on his computer?

• Examine the cached files from the Internet on this employee's computer.

• Restrict this employee's access to the Internet.

• Audit the contents of this employee's hard drive.

• Monitor the messages this employee sends and receives via email.

Your company has provided you with a desktop computer to use at work. You have configured your email client on this work computer to include your personal email account so that you can conveniently download messages and check your personal email. Which of the following is true?

• The company is required by law to allow you to receive personal email messages at work.

• The company can read your personal email messages.

• The company will block your personal email account.

• The company will ignore your personal email messages out of respect for your privacy.

You avoid adding yourself to unwanted mailing lists, you conduct online transactions through secure Websites, and you are selective when posting on social media. These actions will help you:

• perform the IT job of Website analyst.

• enforce the company's encryption policy for email.

• protect original works of authorship under copyright law.

• minimize the amount of spam you receive.

As part of the IT department, you configure the employee workstations for your company. Your company's IT policies prioritize security over running active content. What should you disable in user's browsers to restrict active content?

• Cookies

• JavaScript

• Pop-up windows

• Pop-under windows

Your computer crashed, and you lost many personal and work-related files. You just got a new computer, but you are now much more concerned about viruses and other security threats. Which strategy can help you protect your computer against virus attacks?

• Open email attachments only from unknown senders.

• Perform regular backups of your hard drive.

• Update the definitions on your anti-virus application frequently.

• Disable your Web browser's automatic security settings so you can manually control the content you download.

Sarah just made a purchase on an online shopping site (such as amazon.com) and completed the checkout process by paying with her credit card. Which protocol was most likely used for the transmission of her information?

• POP3

• FTPS

• HTTPS

• IMAPS

You were replying to email when suddenly your computer started to display random messages, and stopped responding to keyboard and mouse input. You suspect that you have accidentally downloaded a virus. Which of the following actions most likely caused this?

• You opened an email attachment.

• You sent an email message with an attachment to a co-worker.

• You logged in to your company's portal.

• You printed a file that was stored on your hard drive.

Monty has been searching online for a rare wine vintage. He finally finds it on the Rare Vintage Website, which he has recently heard about from friends. The site is well designed and offers some good deals on hard-to-find wines. As Monty navigates through the checkout process, he reaches the checkout page with the following URL, which asks him to enter his credit card and mailing information:

http://www.RareVintage.com/vprod/checkout.html/ref=chk_out_TLS128_1b?ie=UTF8&docId=107931

Monty cancels his online transaction instead of proceeding. Why?

• Because the site uses 128-bit encryption, which is illegal for companies that are located overseas.

• Because the URL uses abbreviations and is not completely readable, so Monty cannot identify the domain name.

• Because the URL uses SSL/TLS encryption, which Monty knows is not compatible with the browser he is using.

• Because the URL does not use SSL/TLS encryption and therefore any information Monty enters would not be secure.

You receive an unexpected email with an attachment from a co-worker. You call the co-worker to ask if she sent you an email message with an attachment. She recalls that she sent several emails with attachments earlier that day. Which of the following is your co-worker's best response to your question?

• She should ask you to forward the email to her so she can open the attachment and check it.

• She should ask you to open the attachment and describe its contents.

• She should ask you to read her the email message including the full name of the attachment and its extension.

• She should ask you to forward the email to your company's management.