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NETWORK SECURITY

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

An example of social engineering.

a)

Viruses

b)

Trojan Horses

c)

Telephone IVR phising

d)

Worms

2.

A network policy

a)

Acceptable use policy

b)

Data theft

c)

Virus

d)

Phishing

3.

Malware.....

a)

Are different types of threats to computer systems.

b)

Is a manufacturer of computer parts

c)

Hard to find on the internet

d)

Distribution is completely legal.

4.

What can virus affect?

a)

Keyboard

b)

Hard drive

c)

RAM

d)

All of the above

5.

Sending requests to a single server using hijacked machines

a)

Phishing

b)

DoS

c)

Worms

d)

Virus

6.

Software that performs a ‘barrier’ between a potential attacker and the computer system.

a)

Antivirus

b)

Firewall

c)

Windows update

d)

Disk defragmenter

7.

These define access permissions for a user

a)

Group permissions

b)

User Access levels

c)

User Maintenance

d)

Group and user settings

8.

What is encryption?

a)

Where only the sender and recipient can read the message.

b)

A method of bypassing viruses

c)

A form of anti-virus

d)

Where data is translated into code so that only authorised users, or users with the key can decrypt it.

9.

What must a user need to decrypt a file?

a)

Coin

b)

Key

c)

Token

d)

Graph

10.

Typically, what level of access would a student in a school have on the network?

a)

Access to all folders on the network.

b)

Full access

c)

Access to own documents and the internet

d)

Access to all printers

11.

Trojan Horses

a)

Does not need to attach to a program

b)

Can only occur when a computer is not connected to a network

c)

A type of social engineering

d)

Designed to access a computer by misleading users of its’ intent by prompting to download a program

12.

Worms

a)

Do not need to attach to a program

b)

Need to attach to a program

c)

A type of social engineering

d)

Designed to access a computer by misleading users of its’ intent by prompting to download a program

13.

How do hackers use viruses?

a)

To make a computer unusable

b)

To get someone’s personal information

c)

To find out card details

d)

All of the above

14.

Data travels across networks in

a)

Nibbles

b)

Parts

c)

Bytes

d)

Packets

15.

Uses a number of computers over a network of infected machines which send req uests to a website which would bring it offline

a)

SQL

b)

DoS

c)

WLAN

d)

USB