Security Awareness Quiz

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1. What type of attack relies on the trusting nature of employees and the art of deception?

Fraud
Social Engineering
Phishing
Dumpster Diving

2. Who is the most likely target of a Social Engineer?

Regular staff
Management
Executives
Technical staff

3. You may give someone your password if:

It is never OK to give out your password
Your Boss asks you for your password
The helpdesk asks you for your password
Your Boss says it is OK to give someone your password

4. What can a firewall protect against?

Viruses
Unauthenticated interactive logins from the outside world
Fire
Connecting to and from the outside world

5. What information is appropriate to post on social networks?

Personal vacation schedule
Email addresses of co-workers
Both are OK to post
Neither are OK to post

6. In comparison to the illegal drug trade, Cyber crime generates:

Less Money
It is mainly done by computer geeks for kicks instead of money
More Money

7. This is a document that states in writing how a company plans to protect the company's physical and IT assets.

Data Encryption Standard
Security policy
Public key certificate
Access control list

8. This is a program or file that is specifically developed for the purpose of doing harm:

Buffer overflow
Bastion host
Malware
Ping sweep

9. This is a program in which malicious or harmful code is contained inside apparently harmless programming or data.

War dialer
Spam trap
Trojan horse
Email

10. What are the three most important things you can do to secure desktop PCs?

Turn on Automatic Updates
Turn on Windows Firewall
Install anti-virus software
Remove the hard drive
a, c, and d
a, b, and c

11. Which of the following is the strongest password?

j0hnnySm1th
J()hnn%S^^1+h
JohnSmith1970

12. True of false: If you set your anti-virus software to auto-update then you don't need Windows Automatic Updates.

True
False

13. What is "phishing?"

"Spoofed" e-mails and fraudulent websites designed to fool recipients into divulging personal financial data such as credit card numbers, account usernames and passwords
A type of computer virus
An example of a strong password
None of the above

14. You receive an e-mail message from a deposed Prince of Nigeria. What do you do?

Forward it to all of your friends
Follow all his instructions to the letter and wait for your check in the mail
Highlight the message and hit "Control + Shift + Delete" to completely remove the message

15. You are using e-mail to send and receive private information (e.g. medical data, salary information, social security numbers, passwords). What do you do?

Put all of the information in one large message before sending it to reduce the chance that it will fall into the wrong hands
Encrypt the information before sending it through e-mail
Put the information in many small messages so that only a small information will be exposed if it falls into the wrong hands.

16. You are constantly receiving bothersome or suspicious e-mail messages. What do you do?

Mark the messages as "Junk Mail" and report the problem to your supervisor
Ignore the messages and delete them
Forward the messages to your supervisor along with an alert they may be dangerous

17. You are unexpectedly forwarded an email attachment from someone outside of the office. What do you do?

Download the attachment to a folder on the main network.
Download the attachment to a folder and scan it for viruses before opening it.
Go ahead and open the attachment...the email filter blocks all unsafe attachments.
Verify the sender actually sent the message before downloading the attachment.

18. The easiest way to lock my computer is to:

Turn off the monitor.
Hit the CONTROL, ALT & DELETE keys at the same time.
Hit the CONTROL, ALT & DELETE keys at the same time...then press the "K" key.

19. According to the FBI and the Computer Security Institute, most information security breaches occur due to what?

External Hackers
Poor Programming
Internal Employees
Bad Firewall Settings

20. Which of the following is the most important to install and keep up to date on your computer?

Anti-virus and anti-spyware software
Anti-spam software
A Firewall
Operating system updates
All of the above must be installed and kept up to date

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