FBLA CYBER SECURITY PROFESSIONAL
CYBERSECURITY PREP QUESTIONS AND
ACCURATE ANSWERS GRADED A+
●● virus
Answer: Self-replicating, malicious code that attaches itself to an
application program or other executable system component and leaves
no obvious signs of its presence
●● rule base
Answer: a set of rules that govern what is and what is not allowed
through the firewall
●● Directory harvest attack
Answer: an attempt to determine the valid e-mail addresses associated
with an e-mail server so that they can be added to a spam database
●● Transport Layer Security
Answer: protocol that ensures privacy between communicating
applications and their users on the Internet
●● BioAPI
,Answer: standard being developed by IBM, Microsoft, Novell and
others that will allow different manufacturers' biometric software to
interact
●● CRAM
Answer: two-level scheme for authenticating network users that
functions as part of the Web's Hypertext Transfer Protocol
●● buffer overflow
Answer: a common type of denial-of-service attack that involves
sending more traffic to a network address than the temporary data
storage area is intended to hold, thereby shutting down the service and
possibly corrupting or overwriting valid data
●● Single Signon
Answer: technology which allows users to register their personal
information once to access multiple applications ex: Microsoft's Passport
●● honeypot
Answer: a computer system on the Internet that is expressly set up to
attract and "trap" intruders
●● WEP
, Answer: (Wired Equivalent Privacy) a security protocol, specified in
802.11b, that is designed to provide a wireless local area network
(WLAN) with a level of security and privacy comparable to what is
usually expected of a wired LAN
●● spam filter
Answer: a program used to detect unsolicited and unwanted e-mail and
prevents those messages from getting to a user's inbox
●● HTTPS
Answer: (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer) a Web
protocol developed by Netscape and built into its browser that encrypts
and decrypts user page requests as well as the pages that are returned by
the Web server
●● SSL
Answer: (Secure Sockets Layer) the standard security technology for
encrypting data as it travels over a network, establishing an encrypted
link between a web server and a browser. This ensures that all data
passed between the web server and browsers remain private and integral
●● Social Engineering
Answer: type of attack that relies on the trusting nature of employees
and the art of deception ex: phishing and pharming
CYBERSECURITY PREP QUESTIONS AND
ACCURATE ANSWERS GRADED A+
●● virus
Answer: Self-replicating, malicious code that attaches itself to an
application program or other executable system component and leaves
no obvious signs of its presence
●● rule base
Answer: a set of rules that govern what is and what is not allowed
through the firewall
●● Directory harvest attack
Answer: an attempt to determine the valid e-mail addresses associated
with an e-mail server so that they can be added to a spam database
●● Transport Layer Security
Answer: protocol that ensures privacy between communicating
applications and their users on the Internet
●● BioAPI
,Answer: standard being developed by IBM, Microsoft, Novell and
others that will allow different manufacturers' biometric software to
interact
●● CRAM
Answer: two-level scheme for authenticating network users that
functions as part of the Web's Hypertext Transfer Protocol
●● buffer overflow
Answer: a common type of denial-of-service attack that involves
sending more traffic to a network address than the temporary data
storage area is intended to hold, thereby shutting down the service and
possibly corrupting or overwriting valid data
●● Single Signon
Answer: technology which allows users to register their personal
information once to access multiple applications ex: Microsoft's Passport
●● honeypot
Answer: a computer system on the Internet that is expressly set up to
attract and "trap" intruders
●● WEP
, Answer: (Wired Equivalent Privacy) a security protocol, specified in
802.11b, that is designed to provide a wireless local area network
(WLAN) with a level of security and privacy comparable to what is
usually expected of a wired LAN
●● spam filter
Answer: a program used to detect unsolicited and unwanted e-mail and
prevents those messages from getting to a user's inbox
●● HTTPS
Answer: (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer) a Web
protocol developed by Netscape and built into its browser that encrypts
and decrypts user page requests as well as the pages that are returned by
the Web server
●● SSL
Answer: (Secure Sockets Layer) the standard security technology for
encrypting data as it travels over a network, establishing an encrypted
link between a web server and a browser. This ensures that all data
passed between the web server and browsers remain private and integral
●● Social Engineering
Answer: type of attack that relies on the trusting nature of employees
and the art of deception ex: phishing and pharming
