MSIS 2103 EXAMINATION SET QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Domain Name System (DNS) - ✔✔the system responsible for translating domain
names like example.com into IP addresses
✔✔Uniform Resource Locator (URL) - ✔✔The set of letters that identifies the address of
a specific resource on the Web.
✔✔hyperlinks - ✔✔Clickable connections that link text or images to other pages of the
website, out to external websites, or to files posted on a website
✔✔Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) - ✔✔Standard Web page description language
HTML tags (tags) indicate how to format textor graphic
✔✔Extensible Markup Language (XML) - ✔✔Markup language for Web documents
XML does not have a predefined tag set
✔✔Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - ✔✔Markup language for defining the visual
designof a Web page or group of pages
✔✔search engine - ✔✔Enables a user to find information on the Web Specify keywords
related to a topic of interest
✔✔Intranet - ✔✔Internal corporate network Uses Internet and WWW standards and
products
✔✔Extranet - ✔✔Built using Web technologies• Links selected company intranet
resources withcustomers, suppliers, or other business partners
✔✔Virtual Private Network (VPN) - ✔✔A private data network that creates secure
connections, or "tunnels," over regular Internet lines
, ✔✔careless insider - ✔✔The perpetrator most likely to be the cause of a cyberattack is
the
✔✔Malicious employees - ✔✔An insider who deliberately attempts to gain access to
and/or disrupt a company's information systems and business operations
✔✔Cybercriminals - ✔✔Someone who attacks a computer system or network for
financial gain
✔✔Hacktivist - ✔✔An attacker who launches attacks as part of an activist movement or
to further a cause.
✔✔Lone wolf attacker - ✔✔someone who violates computer or internet security
maliciously or for illegal personal gain
✔✔Cyberterrorist - ✔✔Someone who uses the Internet or network to destroy or damage
computers for political reasons.
✔✔Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) - ✔✔a sophisticated, possibly long-running
computer hack that is perpetrated by large, well-funded organizations such as
governments
✔✔blended threat - ✔✔A sophisticated threat that combines the features of a virus,
worm, Trojan horse, and other malicious code into a single payload.
✔✔Phising - ✔✔an online con game used to attempt to gain access to personal
information
✔✔rootkit - ✔✔program that hides in a computer and allows someone from a remote
location to take full control of the computer
✔✔Smishing - ✔✔Phishing attacks committed using text messages (SMS).
✔✔Social Engineering - ✔✔hackers use their social skills to trick people into revealing
access credentials or other valuable information
✔✔spam - ✔✔The use of email systems to send unsolicited email to largenumbers of
people
✔✔trojan horse - ✔✔A seemingly harmless program in which malicious code ishidden.
✔✔worm - ✔✔A harmful program that resides in the active memory of thecomputer and
duplicates itself.
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Domain Name System (DNS) - ✔✔the system responsible for translating domain
names like example.com into IP addresses
✔✔Uniform Resource Locator (URL) - ✔✔The set of letters that identifies the address of
a specific resource on the Web.
✔✔hyperlinks - ✔✔Clickable connections that link text or images to other pages of the
website, out to external websites, or to files posted on a website
✔✔Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) - ✔✔Standard Web page description language
HTML tags (tags) indicate how to format textor graphic
✔✔Extensible Markup Language (XML) - ✔✔Markup language for Web documents
XML does not have a predefined tag set
✔✔Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - ✔✔Markup language for defining the visual
designof a Web page or group of pages
✔✔search engine - ✔✔Enables a user to find information on the Web Specify keywords
related to a topic of interest
✔✔Intranet - ✔✔Internal corporate network Uses Internet and WWW standards and
products
✔✔Extranet - ✔✔Built using Web technologies• Links selected company intranet
resources withcustomers, suppliers, or other business partners
✔✔Virtual Private Network (VPN) - ✔✔A private data network that creates secure
connections, or "tunnels," over regular Internet lines
, ✔✔careless insider - ✔✔The perpetrator most likely to be the cause of a cyberattack is
the
✔✔Malicious employees - ✔✔An insider who deliberately attempts to gain access to
and/or disrupt a company's information systems and business operations
✔✔Cybercriminals - ✔✔Someone who attacks a computer system or network for
financial gain
✔✔Hacktivist - ✔✔An attacker who launches attacks as part of an activist movement or
to further a cause.
✔✔Lone wolf attacker - ✔✔someone who violates computer or internet security
maliciously or for illegal personal gain
✔✔Cyberterrorist - ✔✔Someone who uses the Internet or network to destroy or damage
computers for political reasons.
✔✔Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) - ✔✔a sophisticated, possibly long-running
computer hack that is perpetrated by large, well-funded organizations such as
governments
✔✔blended threat - ✔✔A sophisticated threat that combines the features of a virus,
worm, Trojan horse, and other malicious code into a single payload.
✔✔Phising - ✔✔an online con game used to attempt to gain access to personal
information
✔✔rootkit - ✔✔program that hides in a computer and allows someone from a remote
location to take full control of the computer
✔✔Smishing - ✔✔Phishing attacks committed using text messages (SMS).
✔✔Social Engineering - ✔✔hackers use their social skills to trick people into revealing
access credentials or other valuable information
✔✔spam - ✔✔The use of email systems to send unsolicited email to largenumbers of
people
✔✔trojan horse - ✔✔A seemingly harmless program in which malicious code ishidden.
✔✔worm - ✔✔A harmful program that resides in the active memory of thecomputer and
duplicates itself.
