Chapter 03
Operational/Organizational Security
Multiple Choice Questions
1. (p. 51) Statements made by management that lays out the organization's position on an issue are called ________. A. policies B. procedures C. standards D. guidelines
Difficulty: ...
1. (p. 1) What is the most common name for the first large-scale attack on the Internet that
occurred in November of 1988?
A. The Code Red Worm
B. The Morris Worm
C. The Slammer Worm
D. The Jester Worm
Difficulty: Easy
2. (p. 1-2) Why is the Morris worm significant?
A. It placed embarrassing text on people's screens.
B. This was the first large-scale attack on the Internet.
C. It was the very first virus on the Internet.
D. It attacked the Windows operating system.
Difficulty: Easy
3. (p. 7) What is the most common threat to information security in an organization?
A. Computer viruses
B. Power surges
C. Forgotten passwords
D. SPAM
Difficulty: Easy
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4. (p. 8) The term "script kiddies" refers to
A. A hacker of low-end technical ability
B. A children's television show
C. A type of video game
D. An Internet site for peer-to-peer music sharing
Difficulty: Easy
5. (p. 8) What is an unstructured threat?
A. An elite hacker who mounts an attack against a specific target
B. A poorly engineered building
C. A type of malicious code that formats the hard drive on a computer.
D. An attack that is uncoordinated, nonspecific, and lasts a short amount of time
Difficulty: Easy
6. (p. 9) What is a structured threat?
A. An attack that uses coordination, insiders, and lasts for a long period of time
B. A type of malicious code that formats the hard drive on a computer
C. An attempt to weaken infrastructure
D. An official threat from a terrorist organization
Difficulty: Easy
7. (p. 9) Information warfare is
A. A video game
B. Warfare conducted against information and information processing equipment
C. A type of malicious code that "declares war" on a network by formatting the hard drives on
computers and copying itself to other computers
D. A weapon that uses microwaves to destroy enemy vehicles
Difficulty: Easy
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8. (p. 11) The term "hacktivist" refers to
A. A hacker who works for the government
B. A hacker with low technical ability
C. A hacker who is motivated by a political agenda
D. A hacker who can write scripts
Difficulty: Easy
9. (p. 12) What is a port scan?
A. Identifies what ports can be used to smuggle information across borders
B. Identifies ports that are open and services that are running
C. Identifies the USB, parallel, and serial ports that can be used to connect to the system
D. Identifies the IP addresses of computers on the network
Difficulty: Easy
10. (p. 12) A ping sweep
A. Is a method of clearing your network
B. Sends ICMP echo requests to the target machine
C. Determines what services are running on a system
D. Is an exploit that creates a denial of service (DoS) using ICMP echo requests
Difficulty: Easy
11. (p. 2) Who is Kevin Mitnick?
A. He used social engineering, sniffers, and cloned cell phones to gain unauthorized access to
networks belonging to Motorola, Novell, Fujitsu, and Sun Microsystems.
B. He made bank transfers from St. Petersburg using the Citibank cash management system.
C. He gained access to a loop carrier system operated by NYNEX and cut off FAA control
tower and emergency services.
D. He developed the "Love Bug" love-letter virus that spread to 45 million people.
Difficulty: Easy
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