AP Computer Science Principles (Final Exam part 1)

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Which of the following is LEAST likely to indicate a phishing attack? An e-mail from your bank asks you to call the number on your card to verify a transaction, An e-mail from a merchant asks that you click on a link to reset your password, An e-mail from a utility company asks you to enter your date of birth and social security number for verification purposes, An e-mail indicates that you have won a large sum of money and asks you to enter your bank account number so that the money can be transferred to you

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An e-mail from your bank asks you to call the number on your card to verify a transaction

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Which of the following best describes a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack? Options: An attempt by a country to deny its citizens access to the Internet, An attempt to deny users access to a Web site's resources by flooding the Web site with requests from multiple systems, An attempt by one user to deny service to another user by posting material on a social network, An attempt by a user of the Internet to get private information from a secure database

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An attempt to deny users access to a Web site's resources by flooding the Web site with requests from multiple systems

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Which of the following statements best describes the properties of public key encryption? Public key encryption is an encryption method which relies on separate keys for encrypting and decrypting information.

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Public key encryption is an encryption method which relies on separate keys for encrypting and decrypting information.

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Which of the following encoded ciphertext strings decodes to an original plaintext message of “secret”? Options: ersecr, wigvix, kwujwl, oaynap

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oaynap

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According to Moore’s Law, increases in technological performance should approximately double every year? If this holds true, how much can performance be expected to increase over 5 years?

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32 times as much

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Convert 37 to binary

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00100101

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Convert 11001100 to decimal

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204

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A bit is

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the smallest unit of data in a computer.

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What is binary?

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The way computers talk to each other

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A computer uses _______________ to help process information

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algorithms