OBA 340 Quiz 6 Questions And Answers With Complete Updates
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OBA 340 Quiz 6 Questions And Answers With Complete Updates
Which of the following could be one of the ways firms lockdown personnel hardware?
A) Regularly reimage the hard-drives of end user PCs
B) Dispose of used hardware after annual audits
C) Implement frequent overhaul of hardware
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OBA 340 Quiz 6 Questions And Answers With
Complete Updates
Which of the following could be one of the ways firms lockdown personnel hardware?
A) Regularly reimage the hard-drives of end user PCs
B) Dispose of used hardware after annual audits
C) Implement frequent overhaul of hardware
D) Mandate the use of industry-standard software alone on company hardware
E) Regularly initiate software auditing ANS A) Regularly reimage the hard-drives of end user PCs
Viruses are programs that infect other software or files and require: ANS an executable program to spread.
A system that monitors network use for potential hacking attempts and takes preventative action to block, isolate,
or identify attempted infiltration, and raise further alarms to warn security personnel is known as a(n): ANS
intrusion detection system.
Which weakness of Web sites to launch attacks does an SQL injection technique exploit?
A) Irregular auditing of Web site content
B) Lack of in-built anti-virus features
C) Non-employment of encryption techniques
D) Ease of infiltrating the Web site
E) Sloppy programming practices where software developers do not validate user input ANS E) Sloppy
programming practices where software developers do not validate user input
What type of tool enforces access privileges and helps verify that systems are not being accessed by the
unauthorized, or in suspicious ways? ANS Access control tools
A bank customer receives a message, ostensibly from the bank's Web site, asking her to provide her login
information. Assuming the message is intended to defraud the customer, what type of infiltration technique is
being used here? ANS Phishing
, The e-mail password of a senior employee in an organization was compromised by someone looking over as the
employee accessed his account. This is most likely a case of: ANS shoulder surfing.
Which of the following best represents a method a social engineer might use to infiltrate a system?
A) Posting rumors about an individual on a popular social networking site
B) Making prank calls to individuals
C) Stealing an individual's credit card information
D) Flooding an individual's mailbox with junkmail
E) Baiting someone to add, deny, or clarify information that can help an attacker ANS E) Baiting someone to
add, deny, or clarify information that can help an attacker
A(n) _____ is someone who uncovers computer weaknesses without exploiting them. ANS white hat hacker
An organization's partner firms that should be regularly audited to ensure that they are compliant with security
frameworks include: ANS technology providers and contract firms.
One of the reasons organizations delay patches to plug holes in their security applications is: ANS the fear that
the new technology contains a change that will cause problems down the road.
Computer systems are often infected with malware by means of exploits that sneak in masquerading as something
they are not. These exploits are called: ANS trojans.
Technologies that measure and analyze human body characteristics for identification or authentication are known
as _____. ANS biometrics
What security risk could be posed by a botnet large enough to hold a few million zombie computers? ANS
Sending spam mail from thousands of difficult-to-shut-down accounts
Updates that plug existing holes in a software are called: ANS patches.
A domain name service is a collection of software that: ANS maps an Internet address to an IP address.
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