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Cybersecurity Basics Quiz: CCST Cyber Quiz Test #3

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the purpose of a backdoor?

a)

To enable software vendors to update software

b)

For government access

c)

To gain unauthorized access to a system without normal authentication procedures

d)

To allow developers to debug software

2.

An organization’s process of identifying and assessing risk with the goal of reducing these threats to an acceptable level is known as what?

a)

Business continuity

b)

Disaster recovery

c)

Risk management

d)

Vulnerability scanning

3.

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?

a)

Ethical

b)

Unethical

4.

What type of attack disrupts services by overwhelming network devices with bogus traffic?

a)

DDoS

b)

Zero-day

c)

Brute force

d)

Port scans

5.

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?

a)

IP address

b)

Port number

c)

MAC address

d)

Sequence number

6.

A data breach does not impact the reputation of an organization. Is this statement true or false?

a)

True

b)

False

7.

For what purpose would a network administrator use the Nmap tool?

a)

To protect the private IP addresses of internal hosts

b)

To identify specific network anomalies

c)

To detect and identify open ports

d)

To collect and analyze security alerts and logs

8.

What type of attack uses zombies?

a)

Spear phishing

b)

Trojan horse

c)

DDoS

d)

SEO poisoning

9.

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?

a)

availability

b)

integrity

c)

scalability

d)

confidentiality

10.

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?

a)

Spam

b)

Phishing

c)

Worm

d)

Virus

11.

Which term describes the private browser mode for Google Chrome?

a)

Private tab

b)

Private browsing

c)

Incognito

d)

InPrivate

12.

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?

a)

True

b)

False