computer security Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Question : 6

A time bomb occurs during a particular

a) data or time

b) logic and data

c) only time

d) All of the above

e) None of these

Question : 7

Security exploit 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.

Question : 8

Spoofing attack is

a) 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.

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

c) 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.

d) None of these

Question : 9

____ is a form of virus explicitly designed to hide itself from detection by anti-virus software.

a) Stealth

b) Polymorphic virus

c) Parasitic virus

d) Macro virus

e) None of these

Question : 10

Which one of the following is a cryptographic protocol used to secure http connection ?

a) Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)

b) Transport Layer Security (TLS)

c) Explicit Congestion Notification (FCN)

d) Resource Reservation Protocol (RRP)

e) None of the above