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WorksheetsCybersecurity Exam 2 Review
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
What is a NAT?
A small insect
a National Archive Transmission
A Native Accounting Transaction
A Network Address Translation
Firewall rules are followed according to what process?
The characteristic that most closely matches will be applied
The characteristic that matches first will be applied followed by the second that matches.
The characteristic that matches first will be applied and that is the only one.
The characteristic that is last will be applied and that is the only one.
What is an ACL?
Access Control List
Applied Cyber Language
A Controller Library
Application Control Lesson
What does the first D in DDoS stand for?
Denial
Devious
Distributed
Detached
Other
Packet Filtering Firewalls can be stateful or stateless - what is the difference?
Stateless spans several areas of the country.
Stateless firewalls transfer between states in the OSI model easily.
Stateful allows packets from machines with known connections.
Stateful firewalls access other parts of the packet.
In a packet firewall - what is the standard "default rule"
Reject or Deny
Return for additional information
pass to the next level to make a decision
examine the port numbers to see if they match
What is the difference between when a firewall drops a packet vs rejects a packet?
A dropped packet can only be done inside the NAT while reject can be anywhere.
A rejected packet has a message sent back to the sender while a dropped packet does not.
A dropped packet is logged while a rejected packet is not.
A rejected packet is logged while a dropped packet is not.
How is "spear phishing" different from the standard phishing?
Spear phishing is going after a larger target
Spear phishing is from further away and therefore more abstract
Spear phishing is more destructive
Spear phishing is more directly targeted and requires more knowledge about the target
What is the DOS attach that sends fraudulent 3-way handshake requests?
TCP/IP overload
SYN Flood
buffer overflow
none of the above
What is IP spoofing?
Using the internet protocol for something it was not intended to do
Transferring packets faster than the Internet Protocol allows
Making the packet header indicate it is coming from a machine other than the one it actually came from
none of the above
What would you have to do to your firewall to make sure you are not causing a DOS attack on another machine?
Limit the quantity of outgoing traffic
Limit the quantity of incoming traffic from an individual IP address
Limit the quantity of outgoing traffic to a specific machine over a long period of time
Limit the number of HTTP requests coming into your computer
What is a dictionary attack of a password?
software runs through all dictionary words using them both as login IDs and passwords
software runs through all dictionary words on an individual login id
software runs through all dictionary words using them as the login id with standard passwords
none of the above
What is social engineering?
related to civil engineering in that it is about how and why people gather
using technology methods to bring people together in social settings
designing on-line social environments
none of the above
Approximate loss of corporate income globally due to malware in 2021 was
between 2 and 3 billion dollars
around a trillion dollars
between 5 and 7 trillion dollars
none of the above
How is whale phishing different from other types of phishing?
Uses the information received from emails
Is only done over the phone
Is only done in emails
none of the above
Can a malware attack be prosecuted as a felony?
Yes, but only if there was sufficient loss
Yes, but only if it happened in a certain state
Yes, but only if there was loss of life
No - not if it was only malware
In what year was a password first used to protect a system
1955-1959
1960-1964
1964-1969
1970-1979
What is your best defense against phishing?
Think before you click, type or talk
Do not accept any emails from people you don't know
Do not accept any phone calls from people you don't know
Do not send any emails to people you don't know
How is a NGFW different from a stateful packet firewall?
The level of the OSI model where it operates
The types of information that can be used to identify good and bad packets
The amount runtime cost
more than one of them (a, b and c, but not all)
a b and c
are all true
Did phishing attacks increase or decrease in 2021
Decreased
Stayed the same
Increased
No way to know
When setting a firewall setting using the command line on a macintosh you need to use the sudo command - what is that
Not a real command but a pseudo one
A command that sets firewalls
A command that sets passwords
none of the above
One benefit of using a cloud-based firewall
accessible from all of your machines
configurable from outside the machine
both of these
neither of these
