Computer Security Test Online MCQs

Test Name	Computer Security Test
Subject	Computer
Test Type	MCQs
Total Question	20
Total Marks	40
Total Time	20 Mints
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Computer Security Test Online MCQs

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1. This hacker is a hacker of ambiguous ethics and/or borderline legality, often frankly admitted.

White hat

Grey hat

None of these

Blue hat

Question 1 of 20

2. Grey hat is:

Hacker breaks security for altruistic or at least non-malicious reasons.

Hacker of ambiguous ethics and/or borderline legality, often frankly admitted.

None of these

Someone outside computer security consulting firms that are used to bug test a system prior to its launch, looking for exploits so they can be closed.

Question 2 of 20

3. These hacker breaks security for altruistic or at least non-malicious reasons.

White hat

Blue hat

None of these

Grey hat

Question 3 of 20

4. A packet sniffer is:

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

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

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 prepared application that takes advantage of a known weakness.

Question 4 of 20

5. Packet Sniffer is:

None of these

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

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 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.

Question 5 of 20

6. Like a virus, it is also a self-replicating program. The difference between a virus and it is that a worm does not create copies of itself on one system: it propagates through computer networks.

Cracker

Worm

Keylogger

None of these

Question 6 of 20

7. These are program designed as to seem to being or be doing one thing, but actually being or doing another.

Worm

Keylogger

Cracker

Trojan horses

Question 7 of 20

8. Rootkit is:

None of these

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

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.

Question 8 of 20

9. White hat is:

Someone outside computer security consulting firms that are used to bug test a system prior to its launch, looking for exploits so they can be closed.

None of these

Hacker breaks security for altruistic or at least non-malicious reasons.

Hacker of ambiguous ethics and/or borderline legality, often frankly admitted.

Question 9 of 20

10. Blue hat is:

Someone outside computer security consulting firms that are used to bug test a system prior to its launch, looking for exploits so they can be closed.

Hacker breaks security for altruistic or at least non-malicious reasons.

None of these

Hacker of ambiguous ethics and/or borderline legality, often frankly admitted.

Question 10 of 20

11. Script kiddie is:

A person, usually not an expert in computer security, who breaks into computer systems by using prepackaged automated tools written by others.

Someone who subverts computer security without authorization or who uses technology (usually a computer or the Internet) for terrorism, vandalism (malicious destruction), credit card raud, identity theft, intellectual property theft, or many other types of crime.

None of these

Hacker who utilizes technology to announce a political message.

Question 11 of 20

12. Black hat is:

A person, usually not an expert in computer security, who breaks into computer systems by using prepackaged automated tools written by others.

None of these

Someone who subverts computer security without authorization or who uses technology (usually a computer or the Internet) for terrorism, vandalism (malicious destruction), credit card fraud, identity theft, intellectual property theft, or many other types of crime.

Hacker who utilizes technology to announce a political message.

Question 12 of 20

13. It is a self-replicating program that infects computer and spreads by inserting copies of itself into other executable code or documents.

Virus

Cracker

Worm

Keylogger

Question 13 of 20

14. It is a software program designed to record (‘log’) every keystroke on the machine on which it runs

Cracker

Virus

Keylogger

Worm

Question 14 of 20

15. Viruses that fool a user into downloading and/or executing them by pretending to be useful applications are also sometimes called?

Cracker

Trojan horses

Keylogger

Worm

Question 15 of 20

16. 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.

Worm

Keylogger

Rootkit

Cracker

Question 16 of 20

17. A vulnerability scanner is:

A prepared application that takes advantage of a known weakness.

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

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

Question 17 of 20

18. Security exploit is:

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

A prepared application that takes advantage of a known weakness.

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

Question 18 of 20

19. Spoofing attack 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.

Situation in which one person or program successfully masquerades as another by falsifying data and thereby gaining illegitimate access.

None of these

Question 19 of 20

20. This hacker is someone outside computer security consulting firms that are used to bug test a system prior to its launch, looking for exploits so they can be closed.

None of these

Blue hat

White hat

Grey hat

Question 20 of 20

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