ITN 262 Midterm Test Questions
and Answers All Correct
What is SCADA associated with? - Answer- Utilities
What does CIA stand for? - Answer- confidentiality, Integrity, availibity
What is an example of reasoned paranoia? - Answer- locking your car door
What is a security architecture study? - Answer- a security plan that focuses on security
requirements and implimentaion
What is an example of a rule-based decision? - Answer- car ignition locks
What are threat agents - Answer- method used to breach the system
An algorithm is a - Answer- procedure
Gilbert vernam's bit combination operation for encrypting digital teletype transfer is now
referred to as - Answer- exclusive or XOR
What is a ceaser cipher - Answer- earliest know substitution cipher
While no encrypting or decrypting, the processing state operates only on - Answer-
plaintext
Polish cryptanalyst developed strategies to attack the rotor machine ciphers in the
1930's William Friedman and his colleagues improved on these techniques - Answer-
Blechley UK
DES was unveiled in what year - Answer- 1975
What is a cryptonet - Answer- two or more people that share an encryption key
A fully punctuated passphrase should have a minimum of _____ characters - Answer-
20
NIST recommends rekeying how often - Answer- every two years or less
An attack in which someone tries to trick a system administrator into divulging a
password is called - Answer- social engineering
and Answers All Correct
What is SCADA associated with? - Answer- Utilities
What does CIA stand for? - Answer- confidentiality, Integrity, availibity
What is an example of reasoned paranoia? - Answer- locking your car door
What is a security architecture study? - Answer- a security plan that focuses on security
requirements and implimentaion
What is an example of a rule-based decision? - Answer- car ignition locks
What are threat agents - Answer- method used to breach the system
An algorithm is a - Answer- procedure
Gilbert vernam's bit combination operation for encrypting digital teletype transfer is now
referred to as - Answer- exclusive or XOR
What is a ceaser cipher - Answer- earliest know substitution cipher
While no encrypting or decrypting, the processing state operates only on - Answer-
plaintext
Polish cryptanalyst developed strategies to attack the rotor machine ciphers in the
1930's William Friedman and his colleagues improved on these techniques - Answer-
Blechley UK
DES was unveiled in what year - Answer- 1975
What is a cryptonet - Answer- two or more people that share an encryption key
A fully punctuated passphrase should have a minimum of _____ characters - Answer-
20
NIST recommends rekeying how often - Answer- every two years or less
An attack in which someone tries to trick a system administrator into divulging a
password is called - Answer- social engineering
