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1In what areas does cyber security cause problems for society? Choose the best answer
- APersonally
- Bfinancially,
- Cnational security
- Dall of the above
2What specific types of crimes have been committed on the internet in the last few years? Choose the best answer
- ACredit card numbers stolen
- BSS numbers stolen
- CHealth care records compromised
- DNuclear centrifuges have been hacked
- EUnmanned aerial drones have been hijacked
- Fall of these
3The army that protects on the internet is referred to as the
- Ageek squad
- BFlying aces
- Ccyber army
- Dgreen berets
4What could the enemy do in a cyber war?
- Agerm warfare
- Bblow up buildings down town
- Ckidnap the president
- DShutdown energy grids
5What a computer virus?
- AAn internet base application
- BAn executable program that gets installed and harms the user and the computer.
- CA cancer
- Dno such thing
6 How does a virus get on your computer?
- ARadio waves
- BWhen you plug in new hardware
- CWhen you install sa program from the interent
7What can a virus do?
- Aslow your metabolism
- Bspeed up your processor
- CSteal and delete files
- Dmake you weak
8What is a distributed denial of service?
- AHackers overwhelm a website with request from many computers.
- BHackers distribute a virus to many servers
- CHackers distribute false rewards
- DHackers distribute false services to patients
9What is the purpose of spam email?
- AAdvertise a sale
- Bencourage people to vote
- Ctrick people into winning a prize
- DTrick people into sharing sensitive information
10What is a phishing scam?
- AWhen hackers send you a series of personal questions pretending to be someone you know.
- BYou 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.
- CWhen a virus called a phish is installed into you computer.
11What is one step we can take to secure ourselves?
- Ause the same password everywhere
- Buse a simple password
- Cdon't install software you don't trust
- Donly install free software
12Why are software updates important?
- AThey help eliminate security bugs
- BThey allow producers to advertise
- CThey help us accumulate cookies
- DIt speeds our processor
13What is encryption?
- Agame code
- BScrambling or changing a message to hide the original.
- Cyour password
- Dmessaging
14What is decryption?
- Aemailing
- Bweb creation
- CUnscrambling the message to make it readable.
- Dcoding
15What was Caesars cipher?
- Aitalian entree
- BA middle age weapon
- CEach letter in the message is substituted with a letter a certain number down the alphabet.
16What is the key in an encryption?
- AWhat allows the receiver the decode the message.
- BWhat opens a lock to a door
- Cthe code of the app
17How large is the key that is used to encrypt a message today?
- A256 bit key
- B150 bit key
- C250 bit key
18What is symmetric encryption?
- AWhen the key is always an even number
- BWhen the key is publicly known
- CWhen the same key is used to encrypt and decrypt.
19How do you know when your computer is using public key encryption to protect your information?
- Aeverybody knows the key
- BThe lock or https in the address.
- Cthe address says lock
20The Map block at the bottom of the script.....
- AConverts numbers into letters
- Bconverts letters into numbers
- Cconverts letters into a sentence
21The top map block .....
- Aconverts numbers into letters
- Bconverts letters into numbers
- Cconverts text into a list
22Which block converts the message into a list?
- Amap
- Blist to sentence
- Csplit
- Dreport
23Considering that this encrypt block shown adds the key what should the decrypt block do?
- Aadd the key as well
- Bdivide by the key
- Csubtract the key
- Dmultiply
24In this script the operation variable must be text
- ATrue
- BFalse
25In this script the operation variable would take all the examples below except....
- A?+5
- B?/5
- C(?/5)+5
- Dlist
26.The script is missing a block to convert the numbers back to text. which block will do that.
- AJoin
- Bsplit
- Cunicode of as letter
- Dunicode of a
- AJoin
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- Samuel Melendez
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