AP style questions for Unit 4

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Which of the following is a true statement about digital certificates in Web browsers? Digital certificates are used to verify the IP addresses of Web sites, Digital certificates are used to verify the ownership of public keys used in secure communication, Digital certificates are used to verify that the connection to a Web site is fault tolerant, Digital certificates are used to verify that every packet sent in a transmission made it to the final destination

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Digital certificates are used to verify the ownership of public keys used in secure communication.

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Which of the following activities poses the greatest personal cybersecurity risk?
- Entering your password to login to a Web site encrypted over HTTPS
- Emailing your bank account number to an online vendor to purchase a product from them
- Providing your email address when taking an online survey
- Downloading a free text editor program on the Internet

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Emailing your bank account number to an online vendor to purchase a product from them

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Which of the following activities poses the LEAST potential cybersecurity risk?
- Clicking on a link in an email from an unknown sender
- Sharing your device’s private key used for encryption
- Sharing your device’s public key used for encryption
- Using a credit card to make an online purchase on a website that does not use encryption

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Sharing your device’s public key used for encryption

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Which of the following are true statements about phishing attacks? I - Phishing attacks are characterized by communication from one person trying to trick another person into divulging personal information II - Phishing attacks can be defended against using data compression

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I only

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Which of the following activities has the greatest potential for compromising your personal privacy? Sharing your device’s IP address, Switching a device from IPv4 to IPv6, Sharing your email address, Sharing the cookies stored in your Web browser

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Sharing the cookies stored in your Web browser

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Which of the following are true statements about Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks? I - DDoS attacks compromise a target website by flooding it with requests from multiple systems II - DDoS attacks are carried out using a large group of computers III - DDoS attacks can be prevented using encryption

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I and II only

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A user’s computer is communicating with a Web site securely using asymmetric encryption. The user’s computer is encrypting and sending a message to the Web site. Which key will be used to encrypt the message?

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The Web site’s public key

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A user’s computer is communicating with a Web site securely using asymmetric encryption. The user’s computer is encrypting and sending a message to the Web site. Which key will be used to decrypt the message?

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The Web site’s private key

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Computer A is communicating with Computer B securely using symmetric encryption. Computer A is encrypting and sending a message to Computer B. Which key will be used to encrypt the message?

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A private key that both computers share

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A user’s computer is communicating with a Web site securely using asymmetric encryption. The Web site is encrypting and sending a message to the user’s computer. Which key will be used to decrypt the message?

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The user computer’s private key