BUS 250 COMPREHENSIVE ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔BI applications for presenting results. - ✔✔a. Dashboards provide easy access to
timely information.
b. Data visualization presents data in an easy to understand visual format such as text,
graphics and tables.
c. Real-Time BI includes real time data for analysis as it happens versus historical data.
✔✔Two types of actions to protect information assets. - ✔✔a. Behavioral actions.
b. Computer-based actions.
✔✔Behavior to protect information assets. - ✔✔a. Never provide personal info to
strangers.
b. Secure your credit card.
c. Avoid debit card usage.
d. Do not use a personal mailbox at home except for catalogs and magazines.
e. Confetti shred mails and old records.
f. Sign up with a company that protects your personal information.
✔✔Computer-based actions to protect information assets. - ✔✔a. Check your computer
for malware.
b. Never post personal information on social sites.
c. Use the highest privacy settings.
d. Keep a close eye on where other people go on your computer.
e. Test your system.
f. Never open suspicious attachments or unsolicited files.
g. Use a good anti-virus program.
h. Use a browser other than Explorer.
i. Use an operating system other than Windows.
✔✔Protecting your portable devices and information. - ✔✔a. Prevent theft. Keep it close
or keep it alarmed.
b. Use two factor authentication.
c. Encrypt your data.
, d. Put a password on your wi-fi. Make it strong.
e. Limit your use of public hotspots.
✔✔1. Physical controls. - ✔✔a. Identification to get into property (System or biometric).
✔✔2. Access controls. - ✔✔a. Authentication via passwords and/or biometrics.
b. Encryption
c. Identifying software for Denial of Service attacks.
d. Firewalls on both sides of the servers.
✔✔3. Factors increasing vulnerability. - ✔✔a. Today's interconnected, interdependent,
wirelessly network business environment.
b. Smaller, faster, cheaper computer.
c. Decreasing skill level needed to be a hacker. '
d. International organized crime taking over cybercrime.
e. Lack of management support.
✔✔4. Unintentional threats. - ✔✔a. Human errors.
b. Social engineering.
c. Two organizational areas pose greatest risk: Human resources and Information
systems.
d. Janitors and guards frequently overlooked.
e. Human mistakes including carelessness with laptops, internet surfing, poor password
selection and carelessness with access to offices.
✔✔5. Security threats. - ✔✔a. Outside threats: Hackers, man-made threats, natural
disasters.
b. Inside threats: Employees with malicious intent and those who are just careless with
security.
✔✔6. Deliberate threats. - ✔✔a. Espionage or trespass.
b. Information extortion.
c. Sabotage or vandalism.
d. Theft of equipment or information, including dumpster diving.
e. Compromises to intellectual property.
f. Software attacks.
g. Alien software.
h. Supervisory control and data acquisition attacks.
i. Cyber-terrorism and cyber-warfare.
✔✔7. Low-tech hacking. - ✔✔a. Posing.
b. Tailgating
c. Shoulder surfing.
d. Phishing.
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔BI applications for presenting results. - ✔✔a. Dashboards provide easy access to
timely information.
b. Data visualization presents data in an easy to understand visual format such as text,
graphics and tables.
c. Real-Time BI includes real time data for analysis as it happens versus historical data.
✔✔Two types of actions to protect information assets. - ✔✔a. Behavioral actions.
b. Computer-based actions.
✔✔Behavior to protect information assets. - ✔✔a. Never provide personal info to
strangers.
b. Secure your credit card.
c. Avoid debit card usage.
d. Do not use a personal mailbox at home except for catalogs and magazines.
e. Confetti shred mails and old records.
f. Sign up with a company that protects your personal information.
✔✔Computer-based actions to protect information assets. - ✔✔a. Check your computer
for malware.
b. Never post personal information on social sites.
c. Use the highest privacy settings.
d. Keep a close eye on where other people go on your computer.
e. Test your system.
f. Never open suspicious attachments or unsolicited files.
g. Use a good anti-virus program.
h. Use a browser other than Explorer.
i. Use an operating system other than Windows.
✔✔Protecting your portable devices and information. - ✔✔a. Prevent theft. Keep it close
or keep it alarmed.
b. Use two factor authentication.
c. Encrypt your data.
, d. Put a password on your wi-fi. Make it strong.
e. Limit your use of public hotspots.
✔✔1. Physical controls. - ✔✔a. Identification to get into property (System or biometric).
✔✔2. Access controls. - ✔✔a. Authentication via passwords and/or biometrics.
b. Encryption
c. Identifying software for Denial of Service attacks.
d. Firewalls on both sides of the servers.
✔✔3. Factors increasing vulnerability. - ✔✔a. Today's interconnected, interdependent,
wirelessly network business environment.
b. Smaller, faster, cheaper computer.
c. Decreasing skill level needed to be a hacker. '
d. International organized crime taking over cybercrime.
e. Lack of management support.
✔✔4. Unintentional threats. - ✔✔a. Human errors.
b. Social engineering.
c. Two organizational areas pose greatest risk: Human resources and Information
systems.
d. Janitors and guards frequently overlooked.
e. Human mistakes including carelessness with laptops, internet surfing, poor password
selection and carelessness with access to offices.
✔✔5. Security threats. - ✔✔a. Outside threats: Hackers, man-made threats, natural
disasters.
b. Inside threats: Employees with malicious intent and those who are just careless with
security.
✔✔6. Deliberate threats. - ✔✔a. Espionage or trespass.
b. Information extortion.
c. Sabotage or vandalism.
d. Theft of equipment or information, including dumpster diving.
e. Compromises to intellectual property.
f. Software attacks.
g. Alien software.
h. Supervisory control and data acquisition attacks.
i. Cyber-terrorism and cyber-warfare.
✔✔7. Low-tech hacking. - ✔✔a. Posing.
b. Tailgating
c. Shoulder surfing.
d. Phishing.
