Pd-3 Unit 2 Key Terms Quiz

What is the term for information about an individual that is unique to the person?

• Data breach

• Cookies

• Personally identifiable information

• Cryptography

What is the unauthorized access or retrieval of confidential or otherwise protected data called?

• Encryption

• Data breach

• Binary

• Pixel

What are small text-based bits of information about your browser that a web server saves?

• Cookies

• ASCII

• Byte

• Abstraction

What is the science and art of delivering a message securely and confidentially?

• Decrypt

• Cryptography

• Brute force

• Public key encryption

What is the process of encoding data to prevent unauthorized access, such as converting plaintext to ciphertext?

• Decrypt

• Abstraction

• Encryption

• Asymmetric Encryption

What is the process of decoding the data, the reverse of the encryption process, making the data human-readable again?

• Binary

• Decrypt

• Pixel

• Byte

What is a base 2 numeral system that represents all numbers, using only the two digits 0 and 1?

• ASCII

• Byte

• Binary

• Cookies

What is eight bits, able to represent 256 distinct values?

• Pixel

• Byte

• Abstraction

• Brute force

What does ASCII stand for?

• American Standard Code for Information Interchange

• Asymmetric Standard Code for Internet Interchange

• American System Code for Information Integration

• Asymmetric System Code for Internet Integration

What is the detail of a system or a process is hidden called?

• Abstraction

• Encryption

• Decrypt

• Public key encryption