What is the best definition of personally identifiable information (PII)?

• Data that is collected from servers and web browsers using cookies in order to track a customer

• Data that is collected by businesses to track the digital behaviors of customers

• Data that is collected by businesses to distinguish identities of individuals

• Data that is collected from servers and websites for anonymous browsing

Consider the result of the ls -l command in the Linux output below. What are the group file permissions assigned to the analyst.txt file?

   ls –l analyst.txt -rwxrw-r-- sales staff 1028 May 28 15:50 analyst.txt

• read, write, execute

• read only

• full access

• read, write

An author is uploading one chapter document from a personal computer to a file server of a book publisher. What role is the personal computer assuming in this network model?

• server

• intermediary

• client

• secondary

Which protocol provides authentication, integrity, and confidentiality services and is a type of VPN?

• AES

• ESP

• MD5

• IPsec

Which layer of the hierarchical design model is a control boundary between the other layers?

• core

• network

• access

• distribution

Which access control model allows users to control access to data as an owner of that data?

• attribute-based access control

• mandatory access control

• discretionary access control

• nondiscretionary access control

Which requirement of secure communications is ensured by the implementation of MD5 or SHA hash generating algorithms?​

• nonrepudiation

• authentication

• integrity

• confidentiality

According to NIST, which step in the digital forensics process involves identifying potential sources of forensic data, its acquisition, handling, and storage?

• collection

• reporting

• analysis

• examination

A security incident has been filed and an employee believes that someone has been on the computer since the employee left last night. The employee states that the computer was turned off before the employee left for the evening. The computer is running slowly and applications are acting strangely. Which Microsoft Windows tool would be used by the security analyst to determine if and when someone logged on to the computer after working hours?

• Task Manager

• Powershell

• Event Viewer

• Performance monitor

A host is transmitting a broadcast. Which host or hosts will receive it?

• a specifically defined group of hosts

• all hosts on the network

• the closest neighbour on the network

• all hosts in the same network