WorksheetsCybersecurity Basics Quiz: CCST Cyber Quiz Test #3
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
What is the purpose of a backdoor?
To enable software vendors to update software
For government access
To gain unauthorized access to a system without normal authentication procedures
To allow developers to debug software
An organization’s process of identifying and assessing risk with the goal of reducing these threats to an acceptable level is known as what?
Business continuity
Disaster recovery
Risk management
Vulnerability scanning
An employee is at a restaurant with friends and tells them about an exciting new video game that is under development at the organization they work for. Is this employee’s behavior ethical or unethical?
Ethical
Unethical
What type of attack disrupts services by overwhelming network devices with bogus traffic?
DDoS
Zero-day
Brute force
Port scans
In networking, what name is given to the identifier at both ends of a transmission to ensure that the right data is passed to the correct application?
IP address
Port number
MAC address
Sequence number
A data breach does not impact the reputation of an organization. Is this statement true or false?
True
False
For what purpose would a network administrator use the Nmap tool?
To protect the private IP addresses of internal hosts
To identify specific network anomalies
To detect and identify open ports
To collect and analyze security alerts and logs
What type of attack uses zombies?
Spear phishing
Trojan horse
DDoS
SEO poisoning
A web server administrator is configuring access settings to require users to authenticate first before accessing certain web pages. Which requirement of information security is addressed through the configuration?
availability
integrity
scalability
confidentiality
Several employees have reported that the network access is slow. After investigation, the network administrator has learned that one employee downloaded a third-party scanning program for the printer. What type of malware might have been introduced that is causing slow performance of the network?
Spam
Phishing
Worm
Virus
Which term describes the private browser mode for Google Chrome?
Private tab
Private browsing
Incognito
InPrivate
An employee does something as an organization representative with the knowledge of that organization and this action is deemed illegal. The organization is legally responsible for this action. Is this statement true or false?
True
False
