computer security Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Question : 11

__________ are often delivered to a PC through an email attachment and are often designed to do harm.

a) Viruses

b) Spam

c) Portals

d) Email messages

e) None of these

Question : 12

It is a toolkit for hiding the fact that a computer’s security has been compromised, is a general description of a set of programs which work to subvert control of an operating system from its legitimate (in accordance with established rules) operators.

a) Rootkit

b) Keylogger

c) Worm

d) Cracker

Question : 13 [IBPS Clerk, 2012]

You can protect sensitive data from prying eyes using ______

a) Encryption

b) Passwords

c) File locks

d) File permissions

e) None of these

Question : 14

It is an application that captures TCP/IP data packets, which can maliciously be used to capture passwords and other data while it is in transit either within the computer or over the network.

a) security exploit

b) vulnerability scanner

c) packet sniffer

d) rootkit

Question : 15

A vulnerability scanner is

a) a prepared application that takes advantage of a known weakness.

b) a tool used to quickly check computers on a network for known weaknesses.

c) an application that captures TCP/IP data packets, which can maliciously be used to capture passwords and other data while it is in transit either within the computer or over the network.

d) a situation in which one person or program successfully masquerades as another by falsifying data and thereby gaining illegitimate access.