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ITN-267 Midterm TEST ACTUAL VERIFIED EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
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The separation of duties principle requires which of the
following practices?
a. That two or more employees must split critical task
functions so that no employee knows all of the steps of the
critical task
b. That only one employee exclusively holds the
knowledge about a critical function in an organization
c. That no two systems in an organization may provide
similar services
d. That vendors provide hardware and software patches in
a timely manner - Answer-a. That two or more employees
must split critical task functions so that no employee
knows all of the steps of the critical task
__________________ refers to applying safeguards
designed to lower risks to a level deemed acceptable but
without eliminating such risks.
a. Residual risk
b. Risk avoidance
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c. Risk mitigation
d. Risk transfer - Answer-c. Risk mitigation
A single point of failure is a piece of hardware or
application that is key to ________________________.
a. specifying how long systems may be offline before an
organization starts to lose money
b. the success of safeguards
c. ensuring that individuals with proper permission can use
systems and retrieve data in a dependable manner
d. the functioning of the entire system - Answer-d. the
functioning of the entire system
True or False? Social engineering is any technology that
secretly gathers information about a person or
organization.
a. True
b. False - Answer-b. False
______________ means that only people with the right
permission can access and use information.
a. Availability
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b. Confidentiality
c. Integrity
d. Encryption - Answer-b. Confidentiality
What situation would be an example of an exploit?
a. A major league baseball pitcher takes his daughter to a
carnival and plays a game wherein he can earn prizes if
he can use a beanbag to knock over all of the cans
stacked in a pyramid formation in the game's booth. In
each of the 10 rounds of the carnival game that the pitcher
plays, he knocks down all the cans, and he wins his
daughter the largest stuffed animal prize in the booth.
b. An art thief sneaks into a museum and steals a famous
painting and then sneaks out of the museum without being
caught by security because the thief identified and
traveled through the museum via blind spots of the
museum's security cameras. After the incident, the
museum increases the number of security guards and
cameras guarding the museum at all times.
c. A film reel catches fire in the middle of a crowded
showing of a popular new release film. The film is ruined.
Due to the cinem - Answer-b. An art thief sneaks into a
museum and steals a famous painting and then sneaks
out of the museum without being caught by security
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because the thief identified and traveled through the
museum via blind spots of the museum's security
cameras. After the incident, the museum increases the
number of security guards and cameras guarding the
museum at all times.
Alice is a security professional. While scanning systems,
she encounters malicious code that was set to carry out its
functions when a specific event occurred in the future.
What did Alice detect?
a. Keystroke logger
b. Backdoor
c. Logic bomb
d. Phishing email - Answer-c. Logic bomb
In which of the following types of communication is
phishing least likely to occur?
a. phone calls
b. email
c. instant messages
d. chat rooms - Answer-a. phone calls
ITN-267 Midterm TEST ACTUAL VERIFIED EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
LATEST UPDATE THIS YEAR.pdf||NEWEST EXAM!!
The separation of duties principle requires which of the
following practices?
a. That two or more employees must split critical task
functions so that no employee knows all of the steps of the
critical task
b. That only one employee exclusively holds the
knowledge about a critical function in an organization
c. That no two systems in an organization may provide
similar services
d. That vendors provide hardware and software patches in
a timely manner - Answer-a. That two or more employees
must split critical task functions so that no employee
knows all of the steps of the critical task
__________________ refers to applying safeguards
designed to lower risks to a level deemed acceptable but
without eliminating such risks.
a. Residual risk
b. Risk avoidance
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c. Risk mitigation
d. Risk transfer - Answer-c. Risk mitigation
A single point of failure is a piece of hardware or
application that is key to ________________________.
a. specifying how long systems may be offline before an
organization starts to lose money
b. the success of safeguards
c. ensuring that individuals with proper permission can use
systems and retrieve data in a dependable manner
d. the functioning of the entire system - Answer-d. the
functioning of the entire system
True or False? Social engineering is any technology that
secretly gathers information about a person or
organization.
a. True
b. False - Answer-b. False
______________ means that only people with the right
permission can access and use information.
a. Availability
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b. Confidentiality
c. Integrity
d. Encryption - Answer-b. Confidentiality
What situation would be an example of an exploit?
a. A major league baseball pitcher takes his daughter to a
carnival and plays a game wherein he can earn prizes if
he can use a beanbag to knock over all of the cans
stacked in a pyramid formation in the game's booth. In
each of the 10 rounds of the carnival game that the pitcher
plays, he knocks down all the cans, and he wins his
daughter the largest stuffed animal prize in the booth.
b. An art thief sneaks into a museum and steals a famous
painting and then sneaks out of the museum without being
caught by security because the thief identified and
traveled through the museum via blind spots of the
museum's security cameras. After the incident, the
museum increases the number of security guards and
cameras guarding the museum at all times.
c. A film reel catches fire in the middle of a crowded
showing of a popular new release film. The film is ruined.
Due to the cinem - Answer-b. An art thief sneaks into a
museum and steals a famous painting and then sneaks
out of the museum without being caught by security
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because the thief identified and traveled through the
museum via blind spots of the museum's security
cameras. After the incident, the museum increases the
number of security guards and cameras guarding the
museum at all times.
Alice is a security professional. While scanning systems,
she encounters malicious code that was set to carry out its
functions when a specific event occurred in the future.
What did Alice detect?
a. Keystroke logger
b. Backdoor
c. Logic bomb
d. Phishing email - Answer-c. Logic bomb
In which of the following types of communication is
phishing least likely to occur?
a. phone calls
b. email
c. instant messages
d. chat rooms - Answer-a. phone calls
