ProProf - Cyber Security Quiz Questions

Question 1

What are two types of network layer firewalls?
A. Stateful and stateless
B. Dynamic and static
C. Anomaly and signature
D. Mandatory and discretionary

Answer 1

Stateful and stateless

Question 2

Which attack requires a carrier file to self-replicate?
A. Trojan
B. Virus
C. Worm
D. Spam

Answer 2

Worm

Question 3

Which of the following uses asymmetric key encryption?
A. AES
B. PGP
C. 3DES
D. RC5

Answer 3

PGP

Question 4

Which of the following offers the strongest wireless signal encryption?
A. WEP
B. WAP
C. WIPS
D. WPA

Answer 4

WPA

Question 5

Asymmetric key encryption consists of what two key types?
A. Private signing key and public verification key
B. Sender and receiver must share a key
C. Cannot be used for non-repudiation
D. Cannot be used for sender authentication

Answer 5

Private signing key and public verification key

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT a type of virus?
A. Tunneling
B. Boot sector
C. Macro
D. Wrapper

Answer 6

Wrapper

Question 7

What defines a DoS attack?
A. Listening in on network traffic
B. Continually bombarding a network with fake requests
C. Injecting bogus networking re-configuration commands
D. Forcing reconnection to attacker’s access point

Answer 7

Continually bombarding a targeted network with fake requests

Question 8

What information is needed to set up a wireless access point?
A. SSID
B. MAC address
C. IP address
D. ARP

Answer 8

SSID

Question 9

Which of the following is a password hashing algorithm?
A. AES
B. MD4
C. PGP
D. 3DES

Answer 9

MD4

Question 10

What are two types of intrusion prevention systems?
A. Passive and active
B. Anomaly and signature
C. Host and network
D. Internal and external

Answer 10

Host and network

Question 11

Which test gives little to no information to the penetration tester?
A. Grey Box
B. White Box
C. Blue Box
D. Black Box

Answer 11

Black Box

Question 12

Which of the following is NOT a DoS attack?
A. Server Spoofing
B. Ping Broadcast
C. Ping of Death
D. Smurf

Answer 12

Server Spoofing

Question 13

Someone posing as an IT tech asking for your computer configuration is what type of attack?
A. Insider threat
B. Phishing
C. Social engineering
D. Whaling

Answer 13

Social engineering

Question 14

Which of the following is NOT a password-cracking tool?
A. HoneyMonkey
B. Cain and Abel
C. John the Ripper
D. Hashcat

Answer 14

HoneyMonkey

Question 15

Monitoring software installed without your consent is called what?
A. Malware
B. Adware
C. Spyware
D. Ransomware

Answer 15

Spyware

Question 16

Which of the following is a secure remote access protocol?
A. SSH
B. FTP
C. Telnet
D. SMTP

Answer 16

SSH

Question 17

What is an event where an IDS alarm goes off, but no attack has occurred?
A. False Positive
B. False Negative
C. True Negative
D. True Positive

Answer 17

False Positive

Question 18

Which is the security standard for WPA2?
A. 802.11ad
B. 802.11i
C. 802.11n
D. 802.11a

Answer 18

802.11i

Question 19

A network site that appears valuable but is monitored and isolated is known as what?
A. Pseudo-network
B. Honeypot
C. Virtual Network
D. Canary Trap

Answer 19

Honeypot

Question 20

What are two types of role-based access control lists?
A. Object and permission
B. Filesystem and networking
C. Dynamic and static
D. Mandatory and discretionary

Answer 20

Mandatory and discretionary