SEC 280 - Quiz - Week - 6A+

Question 1.

Question :

(TCO 3) A _____ is a software or hardware device used to observe traffic as it passes through a network on shared broadcast media.

Student Answer:

logic bomb

network sniffer

backdoor

trapdoor

Instructor Explanation:

Page 396

Points Received:

3 of 3

Comments:

Question 2.

Question :

(TCO 3) In a _____ attack, the attacker sends a spoofed packet to the broadcast address for a network, which distributes the packet to all the systems on that network.

Student Answer:

smurf

denial-of-service

viral

worm

Instructor Explanation:

Page 397

Points Received:

3 of 3

Comments:

Question 3.

Question :

(TCO 3) The art of "secret writing" is called _____.

Student Answer:

spoofing

smurfing

cryptography

cryptanalysis

Instructor Explanation:

Page 402

Points Received:

3 of 3

Comments:

Question 4.

Question :

(TCO 5) Securing e-mail is something that must be done by _____.

Student Answer:

networking administrators

security administrators

outlook express

users

Instructor Explanation:

Page 422

Points Received:

3 of 3

Comments:

Question 5.

Question :

(TCO 5) A worm is a type of virus that _____.

Student Answer:

is scripted to send itself to other systems

is designed to crawl in under a firewall

buries itself between the kernel and the Application Layer of the operating system

is passed through e-mails with a subject heading that has the word "worm" in it

Instructor Explanation: