Cybersecurity Quiz

A process that establishes participants' identities using the principles of authentication (what you know, what you have, who you are, and where you are).

• encryption

• object

• authentication

• security matrix

A set of protocols developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to support the secure exchange of packets at the IP layer.

• Internet services application programming interface (isapi)

• Protocol Data Unit (pdu)

• Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)

• system snooping

An attack in which a hacker positions himself logically in the middle of a connection to intercept packets.

• information leakage

• denial-of-service (dos) attack

• profiling

• man-in-the-middle attack

A cross-platform programming language that enables users to write custom Common Gateway Interface (CGI) programs, as well as system management programs.

• Bitlocker

• Perl

• Dummy File

• Ciphertext

A security analyst who is asked to test an organization's network and information security measures is known as:

• backdoor

• tripwire

• folksonomy

• white hat cyber-attacker

The hierarchy of protocol levels established according to the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model, which is the portion of the operating system that transmits and receives information on a network, is called:

• Firewall

• Performance management

• Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) protocol stack

• Broadcast domain

The measurement of specific updates given to an operating system, which in the context of Windows Server 2016 refers to system patches, is known as:

• password sniffing

• security matrix

• collective intelligence

• patch level

The action of a cyber-attacker who enters a computer network and begins mapping the contents of the system is referred to as:

• system snooping

• packet trace

• auditing

• kernel

Definition: A Webpage that integrates content and scripts from multiple Websites to create new applications.

• mashup

• kernel

• malware

• web graffiti

Definition: A technique/method for radio transmission in which frequencies or signal patterns are continuously changed.

• collective intelligence

• spread spectrum

• crowdsourcing

• pharming