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1. Hermione is a 21 year-old college student. She loves spending time on Facebook. However, with
her final exams approaching, she feels that spending time on Facebook will harm her exam
results. Hence, she enables a particular Facebook feature, with the help of which, she will not get
any emails or notifications from Facebook. Which Facebook feature did Hermione use?

 Deactivate account
 Who can look me up
 Login alerts
 Where you’re logged in

2. Ellie, an 18 year-old student, shares her Windows computer with her younger brother, Adam. Adam is
very mischievous and whenever he is on the computer, he ruins Ellie’s college assignments. Ellie, who is
fed up of this decides to encrypt the drive that contains her assignments. She uses inbuilt Windows
software to encrypt the drive so that Adam cannot access the drive. Which software did Ellie use?

 Adobe
 Skype
 SPAMfighter
 BitLocker

3. As part of his security implementation plan, Glenn was updating his firewall. Which aspect of the
security implementation plan was Glenn working on?

 Reaction
 Maintenance
 Nonrepudiation
 Precaution

4. Which of the following terms refers to a collection of information that defines or describes the user and
his or her interests?

 Facebook group
 Timeline
 Account settings
 Profile

5. Sally is a 16-year-old high school student who is extremely attached to her laptop. She uses it to
download and watch episodes of her favorite sitcom. While watching one of the episodes, her laptop
switched off automatically a couple of times. Suspecting a malware infection, she opened the antivirus
software on her laptop and chose a technique, which examined all files on the memory and hard disk in
order to identify and locate the malware. Which antivirus technique did Sally employ?

 Integrity checking
 Scanning
 Bookmarks method
 Heuristics analysis

6. Amy received an email from an official claiming to be from ABC Parcel Services. The email asked her
to collect a gift parcel sent by her friend three weeks ago. The service claimed that they were unable to
deliver the parcel to Amy, as the address provided was wrong. The service asked her to print out the
attached invoice copy, fill it, and collect the package from the branch office located in her city. . Which
type of email security threat could Amy have faced, if she clicked or downloaded the attachment?

 Malicious email attachment

 Hoax mail
 Phishing
 Malicious user redirection

7. John is an 18 year-old college-going student. He loves to read books and listen to music on his laptop.
He regularly downloads e-books and music from the internet. Lately, whenever John has been spending
time on his laptop, the laptop begins displaying the infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). Upon taking
his laptop to the service center, John was told that his laptop was infected with malware. Which symptom
of malware infection is John’s laptop displaying?

 Hard drive malfunction

 Unexpected crashes
 Laptop screen malfunction
 Slow system

8. Sarah has recently rented a small room on ABC Street, and started a business with seven employees.
She provided every employee with a computer and a common printer which is meant to be shared by
everyone. Which of the following networks would suit Sarah’s business need?

 Ethernet Physical Layer

 Wide Area Network
 Virtual Private Network
 Local Area Network
9. Luke works as an analyst for AS Pvt. Ltd. His job there is to analyze statistics and records obtained
from people to improve the sales of the company. However, recently the statistics and records given to
him have been incorrect, thus leading to gross miscalculations and wrong predictions on his part. Which
of the terms listed below, best describes these statistics and records that are incorrect?

 Data
 Information
 Indicators
 Archives

10. Raymond received an email from an official claiming to be from his bank. The email requested
Raymond to send his personal details since the customer database of the bank was being updated. Upon
confirmation from the bank, Raymond was told that the bank had not sent any emails asking for the
personal details of their customers. Which cyber-attack would Raymond have been a victim of if he had
replied to the email?

 War driver
 Eavesdropping
 Man in the middle attack
 Phishing

11. Which of the following terms refers to malicious software that is specifically built to target mobile
phones
and smartphones systems?

 Phishing
 Mobile malware
 Unmanaged applications
 Broken cryptography

12. A new online service allows people living with roommates to feed in all their house hold expenses in
its ‘share calculator’ program. The program then calculates how much each person is supposed to pay
and sends a detailed report to all those who are listed as roommates for that particular transaction. The
above mentioned service is an example of which of the following?

 Software as a Service
 Network as a Service
 Infrastructure as a Service
  Platform as a Service

13. Which of the following software programs allows you to access and display web pages on your
computer?

 Web browsers
 Search engine
 Extensions
 Email

14. Janine’s parents gave her a smartphone for her birthday. The phone’s operating system intrigued and
delighted Janine at the same time. This was because it was the first time she had seen a smartphone that
had a tile-based setup. In addition, the tiles could be removed and interchanged on the home screen.
Which operating system did Janine’s phone have?

 Windows
 Symbian
 Android
 iOS

15. Which of the following websites can Windows Phone users use to locate their stolen smartphone?

 account.microsoft.com/devices
 http://www.symbianguru.com/tracking-mobile-with-phone-guardian.html
 iCloud.com
 android.com/devicemanager

16. Certain software applications add or modify a particular feature in a browser. A few versions allow
users to block ads, watch online videos, or IM with friends. What is this application called?

 Extensions
 ActiveX
 Java
 Cookies

17. Duke is taking some of the best pictures he has yet as an amateur photographer in a pen drive to get
his work assessed by an expert. On the subway an unknown person picks his pocket. Along with his
wallet Duke also lost the pen drive with his pictures. Since he had not made any more copies of those
pictures, he lost them forever. What type of data loss is this?
  Malware attack
 Hardware theft
 Software theft
 Natural disaster

18. Which privacy issue of clouds exposes users to the risk of their data being accessed by the cloud
service provider without the user’s consent?

 Data ownership
 Data migration
 Data location
 Data permanency

19. Fred, a 14 year-old boy, is an only child. Fred loves spending time on his Mac OS X browsing the
internet. When his parents are not at home, he spends hours at a stretch on the computer. Once, when
Fred’s parents come home late from work and find him on the Mac, they decided to limit his computer
time. Enabling an inbuilt feature in the Mac, Fred’s parents limit his computer time to two hours daily.
Which MAC OS X feature did Fred’s parents enable?

 Jump lists
 UAC slider bar
 FileVault
 Parental control

20. Tom, a 14 year-old boy has been chatting online with Adam, whom Tom assumes is 14 years old as
well. Over the months, they built up a great ‘online’ friendship, playing online games, checking out EDM
websites, continuing with their friendly rivalry over football, and just talking about ‘guy’ stuff. When Adam
invited Tom over to meet him, Tom was obviously excited. However, when Tom met Adam, he was
shocked, as Adam turned out to be a 35 years old man. Despite this shock, Tom entered Adam’s house,
as he trusted him. Tom was having a great time playing PS3 with Adam, until the time Adam touched him
inappropriately. Tom ran away from Adam’s house and did not know what to do. Which form of cyber-
attack was Tom a victim of?

 Social engineering
 Phishing
 Pornography
 Grooming
21. A newly established ITES company plans to launch a website which enables its users to share
pictures and videos with each other. Apart from this, users can also comment on these pictures and share
them further. Under which of the following cloud categories will the company’s product come?

 Community cloud
 Private Cloud
 Public Cloud
 Hybrid Cloud

22. XYZ Infra Solutions, a startup company is looking for a cloud service provider who can provide virtual
machines, virtual local area network, customized software applications, on demand storage, IP
addresses, and firewalls to meet its business needs. Which of the following cloud computing services can
meet the business needs of the company?

 Application as a Service
 Infrastructure as a Service
 Software as a Service
 Platform as a Service

23. Which of the following refers to the periodic patching of system files to fix any issues in the previous
version of the Windows OS?

 Windows Firewall
 Task manager
 FileVault
 Windows Updates

24. What does a lock icon symbolize besides a website name?

 The website is not accessible at the moment

 The website needs a password to be accessed
 The website is a secure website
 The website cannot be accessed without the site admin’s permission

25. Which of the following terms refers to the process of protecting information, and the infrastructure that
stores it?

 Availability
 Keystroke logging
  Data security
 Maintenance

26. Which of the following antivirus techniques refers to the process of comparing the current state of
stored programs to a previously recorded state, which is known to be free of malware?

 Scanning
 Heuristics analysis
 Bookmarks method
 Integrity checking

27. Harry, a 21 year-old college-going student, was working on his dissertation when suddenly a
message flashed on his screen, “All files on your computer have been encrypted. You must pay $1000
within 72 hours to regain access to your data.”Even after Harry paid the money, he was not able to
access his data, and all the documents on his dissertation were lost. Which malware attack was Harry a
victim of?

 Botnet
 Adware
 Virus
 Ransomware

28. Andrew lost his iPhone on the way home from college. He anxiously wanted to recover it, as it was a
gift from his late grandfather. The iPhone also contained pictures that he had taken for a national
photography contest. Using which iOS feature, can Andrew locate his phone?

 SIM lock
 System updates
 iCloud backup
 Find my iPhone

29. Which of the following helps to backup data on a Mac?

 App Store
 Extensions
 Time Machine
 Internet Accounts
30. Which of the following fundamental concepts of security refers to an action taken in advance to
protect the system against threats or dangers?

 Precaution
 Maintenance
 Nonrepudiation
 Reaction

31. InfraTech Inc. is an international IT company with offices in Dubai, Singapore, and Australia. To have
continuity of business practice, it is imperative that all the branch offices be able to communicate amongst
themselves. Which of the following network systems would be suitable for data communication between
the employees of all branches of InfraTech Inc.?

 Ethernet
 Virtual Private Network
 Wide Area Network
 Local Area Network

32. Ruth Cole is a sales manager and travels extensively on business. She regularly updates and stores
clients’ data on a remote data storage device via the Internet, so that in case she loses her laptop or it
crashes for some reason, she does not lose the data which is essential to carrying out her work. Which
type of data backup is Emma using to carry out her daily work?

 Full system backup

 Incremental backup
 Online data backup
 Differential backup

33. Which of the following terms refers to the process that ensures accuracy of the sender and receiver of
a message?

 Nonrepudiation
 Availability
 Data
 Authenticity
34. Susan downloaded a software from the Internet and installed it on her computer for watching movies
online. After installing the software, she noticed that her PC was slowing down and was taking more time
to open webpages. What could Susan do to solve this problem?

 Install a latest antivirus software and scan her computer

 Stop using wireless internet connection
 Choose a suitable encryption method
 Start using Ethernet

35. Lucy, a 55 year-old woman, was not a technically savvy person. She did not install or enable any
applications on her computer, and only used it for looking up recipes and knitting patterns. After some
time, Lucy’s computer started giving her problems. It often displayed the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
and unwanted windows kept popping up whenever she went online. When a computer technician
checked Lucy’s computer, it was discovered that her computer was infected with malware. Which inbuilt
Windows software should Lucy have enabled to prevent malware infection in her computer?

 Jump lists
 Simple file sharing
 Windows Defender
 Task manager

36. Alex, the coach of Manchester United, called up Wayne, the captain of the team, to discuss the tactics
they would employ in the upcoming Champions League Final. The following day, Alex received an email
with the transcript of the conversation he had with Wayne. The sender of the email threatened to make
Alex’s tactics public, if he did not pay him $5000. Which form of mobile device attack was Alex a victim
of?

 Social engineering
 Man in the middle attack
 Eavesdropping
 Phishing

37. This part of an email informs you about the address from where it came, time of the message, date
sent, and the subject line. Identify the email part?

 Header
 Footer
 Signature
 Body
38. Susan, a 15-year-old girl, loves spending her free time baking and cycling. However, recently she has
been spending all of her free time glued to the computer. She shows no interest in her hobbies anymore
and looks depressed most of the time. Her parents also noticed that whenever they enter her room, she
quickly changes the computer screen. Understandably, Susan’s parents are worried about her. What
could be the reason for her behavior?

 Unsolicited emails
 Victim of online child abuse
 Too much pressure at school
 Social engineering

39. Which of the following is an encryption program in Mac that helps users to protect their data?

 SPAMfighter
 FileVault
 Safari
 Lockbin

40. Daniel, a bank officer, communicates with his clients through emails on a daily basis. Recently, he
noticed that his Gmail inbox was filled with unsolicited emails. The cluttered inbox annoyed him, as it was
difficult to filter the important emails. Hence, he decided to find a solution for it. Upon inquiry, a service
provider told him that he could use software which automatically filters out the unsolicited emails. This
software would not only protect his Gmail account, but also protect all the email accounts configured on
his email client. Which of the following tools did Daniel probably enquire about?

 Avast Pro
 SPAMfighter
 Norton
 Kaspersky

41. Which of the following is the strongest password?

 donnamike92
 Pa#72tLe
 Domike*
 Donna1992
42. Samuel, a network admin in an IT firm, has just discovered a phishing site known for targeting
corporate entities. Several employees have received emails with the domain name, which is the same as
that of this site. In order to prevent the company’s network from being corrupted, Samuel decides to block
all incoming and outgoing traffic from that site. Which of the following defense mechanisms can Samuel
use to implement this?

 Virus
 Disk encryption
 Firewall
 Encryption

43. Harold, an associate at AQ Corporation, received a phone call from a person claiming to be Bob from
the IT department. Bob told Harold that he had noticed that Harold’s computer was running slow, and
could help him fix it. Harold, not having much knowledge regarding computers, readily agreed. Following
Bob’s instructions, Harold typed in some commands on his computer, and gave remote access to Bob to
have his computer fixed. Later on, Harold noticed that confidential information concerning his clients was
missing from his computer. Which attack was Harold a victim of?

 Bluesnarfing
 War driver
 Social engineering
 Evil twin

44. Isaac is transferring all the data from his computer to an external drive as he wants to format his
laptop. While moving the data, he accidentally hits delete instead of cut on one of the files and without
realizing, hit the enter key when the computer prompted to confirm his action. As the file was a huge one,
it did not go to the recycle bin and got permanently deleted. What type of data loss is this?

 Computer virus
 Software failure
 Hardware theft
 Human error

45. Sam uses his work laptop to watch pirated movies at home sometimes. When he tried to watch the
latest movie he downloaded, the movie file did not play even after trying on several different players.
Within a day of this, Sam noticed that many of his files were vanishing one after the other from his laptop
even though neither he nor anyone else deleted them. The network administrator of his company, after
taking a look at his computer told him that the movie files, which did not play, definitely had something to
do with this peculiar behavior. What type of data loss could this be?

 Natural disaster
 Software failure
 Human error
 Computer virus

46. ABC Info Ltd. has a part of its business already on a cloud computing platform. However, its new
product suite would need a cloud service which runs on a totally different technology. The company
should be able to make its legacy products and new products communicate with each other as the new
products are just an upgrade of the old ones and much of the required data still resides on the old cloud.
Which of the following cloud computing platforms will be suitable for ABC Info’s future needs?

 Public cloud
 Community cloud
 Hybrid cloud
 Private cloud

47. You received the following email from an official claiming to be from your bank. Dear ABC Bank User,
Since we will be updating our customer database shortly, you are kindly requested to send the following
information. • Name • Bank login id • Password • Branch • Date of birth • Alternate email Please click the
below link to update your details. Proceed to update your account details Please contact the ABC Bank
customer team in case of any queries. Thank you for your cooperation. Which type of email security
threat is this?

 Nigerian scam
 Phishing
 Spy-phishing
 Malicious email attachment

48. Imagine getting a letter from the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) demanding that you
pay $5,700 in taxes. This is what happened to Rick. He received a letter informing him that he owed the
government unpaid income tax on wages he never earned. The IRAS letter said that Rick had worked at
several places. However, Rick is only 15 years old and his only job was working at his uncle’s grocery
store during the summer. He had never even visited some of the places where the letter said he worked.
Rick was not sure what to do next. After all, he has never even had a “real” job like those listed in the
letter. What is going on in this scenario?
  Nigerian scam
 Social engineering
 Identity Theft
 Phishing

49. Which of the following terms refers to software that attackers create to install on a victim’s computer in
order to compromise its security?

 Lockbin
 Bitlocker
 Dropbox
 Malware

50. Horace is a 64 year-old man who worked as an accountant for SN Associates before his retirement.
The company gifted him a laptop at the time of his retirement. Since Horace was not a technically savvy
person, he did not install any applications on his laptop, and only used it for checking his email and
playing poker online. After some time, Horace’s laptop started giving him problems. It crashed frequently,
often displayed the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), and unwanted windows kept popping up whenever he
went online. When Horace took his laptop to the service center, he was told that his laptop was infected
with malware. Which software should Horace have installed to prevent malware infection in his laptop?

 Skype
 One Drive
 Adobe Reader
 Antivirus software

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