cyber security

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quiz on cyber security
Jacqui Breeds
Quiz by Jacqui Breeds, updated more than 1 year ago More Less
Samuel Melendez
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Question 1

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In what areas does cyber security cause problems for society? Choose the best answer
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  • Personally
  • financially,
  • national security
  • all of the above

Question 2

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What specific types of crimes have been committed on the internet in the last few years? Choose the best answer
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  • Credit card numbers stolen
  • SS numbers stolen
  • Health care records compromised
  • Nuclear centrifuges have been hacked
  • Unmanned aerial drones have been hijacked
  • all of these

Question 3

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The army that protects on the internet is referred to as the
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  • geek squad
  • Flying aces
  • cyber army
  • green berets

Question 4

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What could the enemy do in a cyber war?
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  • germ warfare
  • blow up buildings down town
  • kidnap the president
  • Shutdown energy grids

Question 5

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What a computer virus?
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  • An internet base application
  • An executable program that gets installed and harms the user and the computer.
  • A cancer
  • no such thing

Question 6

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How does a virus get on your computer?
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  • Radio waves
  • When you plug in new hardware
  • When you install sa program from the interent

Question 7

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What can a virus do?
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  • slow your metabolism
  • speed up your processor
  • Steal and delete files
  • make you weak

Question 8

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What is a distributed denial of service?
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  • Hackers overwhelm a website with request from many computers.
  • Hackers distribute a virus to many servers
  • Hackers distribute false rewards
  • Hackers distribute false services to patients

Question 9

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What is the purpose of spam email?
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  • Advertise a sale
  • encourage people to vote
  • trick people into winning a prize
  • Trick people into sharing sensitive information

Question 10

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What is a phishing scam?
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  • When hackers send you a series of personal questions pretending to be someone you know.
  • You get what looks like an official email asking you to log into your account. You log into a fake website and the criminals now have your user name and password.
  • When a virus called a phish is installed into you computer.

Question 11

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What is one step we can take to secure ourselves?
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  • use the same password everywhere
  • use a simple password
  • don't install software you don't trust
  • only install free software

Question 12

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Why are software updates important?
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  • They help eliminate security bugs
  • They allow producers to advertise
  • They help us accumulate cookies
  • It speeds our processor

Question 13

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What is encryption?
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  • game code
  • Scrambling or changing a message to hide the original.
  • your password
  • messaging

Question 14

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What is decryption?
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  • emailing
  • web creation
  • Unscrambling the message to make it readable.
  • coding

Question 15

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What was Caesars cipher?
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  • italian entree
  • A middle age weapon
  • Each letter in the message is substituted with a letter a certain number down the alphabet.

Question 16

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What is the key in an encryption?
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  • What allows the receiver the decode the message.
  • What opens a lock to a door
  • the code of the app

Question 17

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How large is the key that is used to encrypt a message today?
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  • 256 bit key
  • 150 bit key
  • 250 bit key

Question 18

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What is symmetric encryption?
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  • When the key is always an even number
  • When the key is publicly known
  • When the same key is used to encrypt and decrypt.

Question 19

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How do you know when your computer is using public key encryption to protect your information?
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  • everybody knows the key
  • The lock or https in the address.
  • the address says lock

Question 20

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The Map block at the bottom of the script.....
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  • Converts numbers into letters
  • converts letters into numbers
  • converts letters into a sentence

Question 21

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The top map block .....
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  • converts numbers into letters
  • converts letters into numbers
  • converts text into a list

Question 22

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Which block converts the message into a list?
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  • map
  • list to sentence
  • split
  • report

Question 23

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Considering that this encrypt block shown adds the key what should the decrypt block do?
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  • add the key as well
  • divide by the key
  • subtract the key
  • multiply

Question 24

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In this script the operation variable must be text
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  • True
  • False

Question 25

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In this script the operation variable would take all the examples below except....
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  • ?+5
  • ?/5
  • (?/5)+5
  • list

Question 26

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.The script is missing a block to convert the numbers back to text. which block will do that.
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