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PNETSEC Final Examination (II-BINS)

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is frequently used to describe the tasks of securing information that is in a digital format?

a)

network security

b)

information security

c)

data security

d)

security guard

2.

It ensures that data is accessible to authorized users.

a)

Confidentiality

b)

Integrity

c)

Availability

d)

Authentication

3.

It ensures that the information is correct and no unauthorized person or malicious software has altered the data.

a)

Confidentiality

b)

Integrity

c)

Availability

d)

Authentication

4.

individuals who want to attack computers yet they lack the knowledge of computers and networks needed to do so.

a)

script kiddies

b)

identity theft

c)

cyber terrorism.

d)

malicious program

5.

Locks up files until the user pays a “ransom” to have them released

a)

script kiddies

b)

identity theft

c)

cyber terrorism.

d)

malicious program

6.

Type of of defense against attack which approach has the advantage of creating a barrier of multiple defenses that can be coordinated to thwart a variety of attacks.

a)

Limiting

b)

Layering

c)

Diversity

d)

Obscurity

7.

What is another server-side web application attack that manipulates user responses?

a)

XML Injection

b)

Cross-Site Scripting

c)

SQL Injection

d)

Directory Traversal

8.

What is results in a user’s computer becoming compromised just by viewing a webpage and not even clicking on any content?

a)

client-side attack

b)

Cross-Site Scripting

c)

SQL Injection

d)

Directory Traversal

9.

It uses the web server as a platform to launch attacks on other computers that access it

a)

client-side attack

b)

Cross-Site Scripting

c)

SQL Injection

d)

Directory Traversal

10.

Defined as a relation with a property so that if a relation exists between A and B, and there is also a relation between B and C, then there is a relation between A and C.

a)

Access rights

b)

Horizontal privilege escalation

c)

Transitive Access

d)

Directory Traversal

11.

What are the privileges to access hardware and software resources that are granted to users?

a)

Access rights

b)

Horizontal privilege escalation

c)

Transitive Access

d)

Directory Traversal

12.

What is targeted and inserts data only in certain parts of memory?

a)

remote code execution

b)

integer overflow

c)

transitive Access

d)

heap spray

13.

It ensures that the individual is who she claims to be (the authentic or genuine person) and not an imposter.

a)

Confidentiality

b)

Integrity

c)

Availability

d)

Authentication

14.

What is the condition that occurs when the result of an arithmetic operation—like addition or multiplication—exceeds the maximum size of the integer type used to store it?

a)

remote code execution

b)

integer overflow

c)

transitive Access

d)

heap spray

15.

What is the is the science of concealing

messages with a secret code?

a)

Cipher

b)

Encryption

c)

Cryptography

d)

Algorithms

16.

What is a type of cipher that uses a table in which

allows someone to translate

letters into numbers?

a)

Pigpen Cipher

b)

Polybius Square

c)

Keyword Cipher

d)

Caesar cipher

17.

What is a type of cipher that is a classic example of ancient cryptography that involves shifting each letter of the plaintext message by a certain number of letters?

a)

Pigpen Cipher

b)

Polybius Square

c)

Keyword Cipher

d)

Caesar cipher

18.

It descrive as important that only approved individuals are able to access important information.

a)

Confidentiality

b)

Integrity

c)

Availability

d)

Authentication

19.

What is a type of cipher that instead of replaces

each letter with another letter, the letters are

replaced by symbols?

a)

Pigpen Cipher

b)

Polybius Square

c)

Keyword Cipher

d)

Caesar cipher

20.

Type of cipher that uses the same substitution

across the entire message. For example, if you know that the

letter A is enciphered as the letter K, this will hold true for the

entire message.

a)

Plygraphic Cipher

b)

Polyalphabetic cipher

c)

Keyword Cipher

d)

Monoalphabetic cipher

21.

It is a type of cipher that is a form of monoalphabetic

substitution. A keyword is used to determine the letter mapping

from plain to ciphertext. First, the repeated letters in the keyword

are removed, and then the cipher alphabet is generated.

a)

Pigpen Cipher

b)

Polybius Square

c)

Keyword Cipher

d)

Caesar cipher

22.

Attacker can bypass this security by modifying the referer  field to hide the fact that it came from another site.

a)

SQL Injection

b)

HTTP Header Attacks

c)

Directory Traversal

d)

Script kiddies

23.

It converts the original message, called plaintext, into ciphertext

using a key to determine how it is done.

a)

Cipher

b)

Encryption

c)

Algorithms

d)

Ciphertext

24.

In Caesar's cipher, if the secret key is 7, what is the ciphertext of ABC?

a)

Cipher

b)

GHI

c)

HIJ

d)

GHF

25.

In Atbash Cipher, what is the plaintext of XYZ?

a)

CBA

b)

ABC

c)

BAC

d)

ACB

26.

In Pigpen Cipher, waht id the ciphetext of T and U?

a)

< & <

b)

V & L

c)

< & >

d)

.> & <.

27.

In Polybius Square cipher, What is the ciphertext of IT?

a)

14 24

b)

24 44

c)

32 42

d)

43 41

28.

In Polybius Square cipher, what are the letters that combined to fit the 25 letters of the alpabhet?

a)

X and Y

b)

U and W

c)

I and J

d)

K and L

29.

What is the other term described the Pigpen Cipher?

a)

Ciphetext

b)

Promasons Cipher

c)

Caesar Cipher

d)

Freemasons Cipher

30.

What is the oldest cipher algorithm used?

a)

Keyword Cipher

b)

Polybius Square

c)

Caesar Cipher

d)

Freemasons Cipher

31.

What is the discipline of using codes

and ciphers to encrypt a message and make it

unreadable unless the recipient knows the

secret to decrypt it?

a)

Keyword Cipher

b)

Cryptography

c)

Encryption

d)

Freemasons Cipher

32.

It targets SQL servers by introducing malicious commands into them.

a)

SQL Injection

b)

XML Injection

c)

Script kiddies

d)

Directory Traversal

33.

What is a software that enters a computer system without the user’s knowledge or consent?

a)

Worm

b)

Virus

c)

Tojan

d)

Walware

34.

What is an executable program that masquerades as performing a benign activity but also does something malicious?

a)

Worm

b)

Virus

c)

Tojan

d)

Walware

35.

What is an executable program that masquerades as performing a benign activity but also does something malicious?

a)

Worm

b)

Virus

c)

Tojan

d)

Walware

36.

It contain a variety of information based on the user’s preferences when visiting a website. 

a)

Cookie

b)

Attachments

c)

Temp Files

d)

History

37.

It is a type of  network security attack in which the attacker takes control of a communication. 

a)

Script kiddies

b)

SQL Injection

c)

XML Injection

d)

Hijacking

38.

What is a malicious program that uses a computer network to replicate and designed to enter a computer through the network and then take advantage of vulnerability in an application or an operating system on the host computer? 

a)

Walware

b)

Worms

c)

Viruses

d)

Trojans

39.

It delivers advertising content in a manner that is unexpected and unwanted by the user.

a)

Rootkit

b)

Cookie

c)

Ransomware

d)

Adware

40.

Hackers identifies web application with insufficient filtering or validation of browser inputs from users.

a)

Directory Traversal

b)

XML Injection

c)

SQL Injection

d)

Adware

41.

It is a type of file that are coupled to email messages. 

a)

Root Folder

b)

History

c)

Attachments

d)

Cookie

42.

Attakers who do their work by downloading automated attack software  from websites and using it to perform malicious acts. 

a)

Script kiddies

b)

Hackers

c)

Attachments

d)

Cookie

43.

Attacks use the web server as a platform to launch attacks on other computers that access it. 

a)

Script kiddies

b)

SQL Injection

c)

XML Injection

d)

Cross-site Scripting

44.

It is sending an email or displaying a web announcement that falsely claims to be from a legitimate enterprise in an attempt to trick the user into surrendering private information.

a)

Phishing

b)

Pharming

c)

Rootkit

d)

Vishing

45.

It allows an attacker to run programs and execute commands on a different computer and gaining control of the victim’s computer to execute the attacker’s commands, the attacker turns it into his own remote computer. 

a)

Arbitrary Attack

b)

Session hijacking

c)

Integer Overflow Attack

d)

Buffer Overflow Attack

46.

This type of attack that sending an email or displaying a web announcement that falsely claims to be from a legitimate enterprise in an attempt to trick the user into surrendering private information. 

a)

Whaling

b)

Pharming

c)

Vishing

d)

Phishing

47.

Malware code that completely changes from its original form whenever it is executed. 

a)

Oligomorphic

b)

Metamorphic

c)

Polymorphic

d)

Phishing

48.

What is a malicious computer code that, like its biological counterpart, reproduces itself on the same computer?

a)

Viruses

b)

Walware

c)

Worms

d)

Phishing

49.

What is a set of software tools used to hide the actions or presence of other types of software?

a)

Viruses

b)

Cookie

c)

Rootkit

d)

Attachment

50.

What is one of the newest and fastest-growing types of malware that prevents a user’s device from properly operating until a fee is paid?

a)

Viruses

b)

Cookie

c)

Rootkit

d)

Ransomware