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WorksheetsMTA Security Fundamentals Practice 1
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 13mins
To which part of the CIA triangle does "Encrypt a nonvolatile storage unit" apply?
Authority
Availability
Integrity
Confidentiality
Which two types of attacks are at least some what thwarted with the use of the account lockout policy?
Dictionary attack
Brute Force attack
Denial-of-Service attack
Buffer Overflow
What is a benefit of the SmartScreen Filter built into the Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge?
Firewall protection
Protection from sniffers
Perimeter network protection
Phishing protection
Which protocol should be allowed only on email servers used to send email and should be blocked on all other servers and client machines?
POP3
FTP
SMTP
IMAP
Digital certificates are electronic documents that contain an identity as a user name or organization, along with ________________
Anti-spam verification
A public key
Validating that the computer has malware protection
A primary key
Several users have called the help desk to complain that they are being redirected to websites different from the addresses they entered. Which type of attack is taking place?
IP spoofing
ARP spoofing
DNS spoofing
Man-in-the-middle
Once it has been determined what will be audited and where the audit files will be stored, what should be taken into consideration next?
How large the log files will be
When syslog will be used
Who has access to the logs
What ticketing system will be used for the logs
What provides secure access to a network over the Internet?
NAT
VPN
NIP
NAP
Which area of Group Policy can be used to control apps that can be run of devices?
Windows Installer Rules
AppLocker
Executable Rules
Packaged App Rules
Which Windows app is used to help protect a device against malware?
Malicious Software Removal Tool
Windows Defender
Unified Threat Manager
Forefront Gateway
Your email program is blocking emails from a certain sender. What is the best option?
Create a rule i the email client
Add contacts to a list
Reconfigure the Gateway
Add the sender to a whitelist
BitLocker, when possible, stores the encryption key on a computer's _______________
BitLocker
TPM
BitLocker To Go
EFS
What is an authentication method that identifies individuals based on physical characteristics such as fingerprints, facial recognition, retina scans, or voice patterns?
RADIUS
Dictionary attack
Biometrics
Brute Force Attack
Malware that steals and encrypts data and demand money for the return of the data is known as what type of malware?
Cookie
Ransomware
Spyware
Adware
A department head wants to control the types of permissions and the recipient of permissions on a set of folders for the department. The department head is not in the Administrator's group. What should the department head do in order to be able to control permissions?
Become an Administrator
Gain Modify permissions on the folder
Gain Full Control permissions on the folder
Take ownership of the folder
Which three characteristics describe Worms?
Uses system resources like bandwidth, memory, and processor time, which makes the computer run slow
Contained in most music and videos
Typically does not corrupt or modify files
A self-replacing program that copies itself to other computers without user intervention
Only passed by email
Which password policy prohibits reusing the same password?
Lockout policy
History policy
Length policy
Complexity policy
A digital signature included in an email is used to do what?
Encrypt message
Validate the recipient
Decrypt the message
Validate the sender
The IEEE 802.11 standard defines the name for a WLAN as the ___________
SSID
WAP
WLAN
WEP
In the I.T. field, impersonation, such as a person impersonating a help desk agent and asking for a password, is a type of what kind of attack?
Threat modeling
Administrative control
Attack service analysis
Social engineering
Which Windows tool is used to encrypt removable drives?
EFS
TPM
BitLocker
BitLocker To Go
