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2nd 9 Weeks Assessment - Cybersecurity

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 2hrs 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is cybersecurity?

a)

The process of designing and building an executable computer program to accomplish a specific computing result or to perform a specific task.

b)

The protection of computer systems and networks from the theft of or damage to their hardware, software, or electronic data, as well as from the disruption or misdirection of the services they provide.

c)

A programming language we use in class

d)

None of the Above

2.

What is a component in cybersecurity? Select Only One.

a)

Protection from Threats

b)

Security in the computer that only cyber experts can do

c)

None of the answers

d)

No security with software on the computer

3.

What is Malware?

a)

All information processed by computer systems, including programs and data.

b)

A collection of instructions and data that tell the computer how to work

c)

Any software intentionally designed to cause damage to a computer, server, client, or computer network

d)

Computer hardware and software require each other and neither can be realistically used on its own.

4.

Which Cybersecurity Career would you choose?

a)

Cryptographer

b)

System Analyst

c)

Chief Information Security Officer

d)

Cybersecurity Specialist

5.

Ransomware is

a)

Something you buy at the store that is plastic and you can put it in the microwave.

b)

A type of malware from crypto virology that threatens to publish the victim's data or perpetually block access to it unless a ransom is paid.

c)

A typing person who types all day for another person.

d)

A ransom for your shoes so that they can get them and put them on.

6.

Spyware is

a)

A type of malware from cryptovirology that threatens to publish the victim's data or perpetually block access to it unless a ransom is paid

b)

A type of threat to publish the victim's data or perpetually block access to it unless a ransom is paid and the ransom must come from that computer and no other computer.

c)

a type of malware from that threatens to delete the victim's data or perpetually block access to it unless a ransom is paid

d)

Software that enables a user to obtain covert information about another's computer activities by transmitting data covertly from their hard drive.

7.

A Trojan is

a)

Computer activities that are transmitting data covertly from their hard drive to the tape player in an off line environment for online use.

b)

Any malware which misleads users of its true intent.

c)

A software that enables a user to obtain covert information about another's computer activities by transmitting data covertly from their hard drive.

d)

A drive that enables a user to obtain information about another's computer activities by transmitting data from the USB drive

8.

The following were my favorite activities in Cybersecurity Class.

a)

PowerPoints

b)

Hour of Code

c)

Creating the Collage

d)

Writing the Essay

e)

Creating the Flyer

9.

If I was a Malware I would be:

a)

Trojan

b)

Worm

c)

Ransomware

d)

Adware

e)

Virus

10.

Write down what you have learned in cybersecurity class such as Malware, and Careers:

4 lines
11.

What does Cyber mean?

a)

The organism protected against the criminal or unauthorized use of electronic data, that stores functions or enhances abilities in s device with errors or the measures taken to achieve this.

b)

Applies to an organism that has restored function or enhanced abilities due to the integration of some artificial component or technology that relies on some sort of feedback.

c)

The state of being protected against the criminal or unauthorized use of electronic data, or the measures taken to achieve this.

d)

Relating to or characteristic of the culture of computers, information technology, and virtual reality.

12.

What is a Virus?

a)

A type of computer program that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code

b)

A type of computer robot that, when executed deletes itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code onto the computer robot.

c)

A type of computer threat program that, when not executed, replicates once then by modifying other computer programs will insert its own code.

d)

A type of computer ransomware program that, when executed, replicates itself ten times by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code.

13.

What is a Cryptographer?

a)

Writes for cybersecurity and helps with threats.

b)

Helps with keeping codes in a box in the cybersecurity community.

c)

A person who writes and solves codes, can encipher and decipher messages.

d)

A person who runs a company with the usernames and passwords.

14.

A Security Architect is

a)

one who puts coding inside of your computer.

b)

the one who designs and oversees the roll out of a system.

c)

a person who enciphers and deciphers messages.

d)

a person who does not write code for any program.

15.

A Security Auditor is

a)

the person who writes code for the computer system.

b)

the one who designs the computer system.

c)

the one who physically implements the roll out of a security system.

d)

the robot who implements the design and writes code without the system.

16.

What word can go after Cyber to make a complete word?

(a)  

17.

Computer (a)   is the study of algorithmic processes, computational machines and computation itself.

18.

(a)   (is/are) how individuals work in the Computer Science or Cybersecurity Field. (Hint: Starts with the letter C)

19.

Which career would you help lead others in the Cybersecurity field?

a)

Incident Responder

b)

Chief Information Security Officer

c)

Cryptographer

d)

Security Auditor

20.

A Security Specialist is

a)

person responsible for the overall safety of your employer's data.

b)

person responsible for writing and solving codes.

c)

person responsible for implementing the rollout of a virus.

d)

person responsible for implementing the rollout of a worm on your computer.