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ITN 260 Questions and Verified Answers
Question: What type of attack is targeted against a smaller group of specific individuals,
such as the major executives working for a manufacturing company?
a. Adware
b. Typo Squatting
c. Spam
d. Watering Hole
Ans: Watering Hole
Question: How many different Microsoft Windows file types can be infected with a virus?
a. 50
b. 70
c. 60
d. 80
Ans: 70
Question: Script kiddies acquire which item below from other attackers to easily craft an
attack:
a. Backdoor
b. Exploit kit
c. Zero day
d. Botnet
Ans: Exploit kit
Question: Because of how a rootkit replaces operating system files, it can be difficult to
remove a rootkit from a system.
a. True
b. False
Ans: True
Question: Of the three types of mutating malware, what type changes its internal code to
one of a set number of predefined mutations whenever it is executed?
a. Statimorphic malware
b. Metamorphic malware
c. Polymorphic malware
d. Oligomorphic malware
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Ans: Oligomorphic malware
Question: One of the armored virus infection techniques utilizes encryption to make virus
code more difficult to detect, in addition to separating virus code into different pieces and
inject these pieces throughout the infected program code. What is the name for this
technique?
a. Swiss cheese
b. split
c. appender
d. stealth
Ans: Swiss cheese
Question: Which of the following is not one of the four methods for classifying the various
types of malware?
a. Concealment
b. Source
c. Circulation
d. Infection
Ans: Source
Question: Today's software attack tools do not require any sophisticated knowledge on the
part of the attacker.
a. True
b. False
Ans:
Question: Under which law are health care enterprises required to guard protected health
information and implement policies and procedures whether it be in paper or electronic
format?
a. HLPDA
b. USHIPA
c. HCPA
d. HIPAA
Ans: HIPAA
Question: Select below the type of malware that appears to have a legitimate use, but
actually contains or does something malicious:
a. virus
b. worm
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c. script
d. Trojan
Ans: Trojan
Question: A security administrator has both technical knowledge and managerial skills.
a. True
b. False
Ans: True
Question: A software program that delivers advertising content in a manner that is
unexpected and unwanted by the user.
a. Adware
b. Logic Bomb
c. Botnet
d. Hoax
e. Vishing
f. Backdoor
g. Macro Virus
h. Keylogger
i. Spear Phishing
j. Computer Virus
Ans: Adware
Question: Computer code that lies dormant until it is triggered by a specific logical event
a. Adware
b. Logic Bomb
c. Botnet
d. Hoax
e. Vishing
f. Backdoor
g. Macro Virus
h. Keylogger
i. Spear Phishing
j. Computer Virus
Ans: Logic Bomb
Question: A logical computer network of zombies under the control of an attacker.
a. Adware
b. Logic Bomb
c. Botnet
ITN 260 Questions and Verified Answers
Question: What type of attack is targeted against a smaller group of specific individuals,
such as the major executives working for a manufacturing company?
a. Adware
b. Typo Squatting
c. Spam
d. Watering Hole
Ans: Watering Hole
Question: How many different Microsoft Windows file types can be infected with a virus?
a. 50
b. 70
c. 60
d. 80
Ans: 70
Question: Script kiddies acquire which item below from other attackers to easily craft an
attack:
a. Backdoor
b. Exploit kit
c. Zero day
d. Botnet
Ans: Exploit kit
Question: Because of how a rootkit replaces operating system files, it can be difficult to
remove a rootkit from a system.
a. True
b. False
Ans: True
Question: Of the three types of mutating malware, what type changes its internal code to
one of a set number of predefined mutations whenever it is executed?
a. Statimorphic malware
b. Metamorphic malware
c. Polymorphic malware
d. Oligomorphic malware
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Ans: Oligomorphic malware
Question: One of the armored virus infection techniques utilizes encryption to make virus
code more difficult to detect, in addition to separating virus code into different pieces and
inject these pieces throughout the infected program code. What is the name for this
technique?
a. Swiss cheese
b. split
c. appender
d. stealth
Ans: Swiss cheese
Question: Which of the following is not one of the four methods for classifying the various
types of malware?
a. Concealment
b. Source
c. Circulation
d. Infection
Ans: Source
Question: Today's software attack tools do not require any sophisticated knowledge on the
part of the attacker.
a. True
b. False
Ans:
Question: Under which law are health care enterprises required to guard protected health
information and implement policies and procedures whether it be in paper or electronic
format?
a. HLPDA
b. USHIPA
c. HCPA
d. HIPAA
Ans: HIPAA
Question: Select below the type of malware that appears to have a legitimate use, but
actually contains or does something malicious:
a. virus
b. worm
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c. script
d. Trojan
Ans: Trojan
Question: A security administrator has both technical knowledge and managerial skills.
a. True
b. False
Ans: True
Question: A software program that delivers advertising content in a manner that is
unexpected and unwanted by the user.
a. Adware
b. Logic Bomb
c. Botnet
d. Hoax
e. Vishing
f. Backdoor
g. Macro Virus
h. Keylogger
i. Spear Phishing
j. Computer Virus
Ans: Adware
Question: Computer code that lies dormant until it is triggered by a specific logical event
a. Adware
b. Logic Bomb
c. Botnet
d. Hoax
e. Vishing
f. Backdoor
g. Macro Virus
h. Keylogger
i. Spear Phishing
j. Computer Virus
Ans: Logic Bomb
Question: A logical computer network of zombies under the control of an attacker.
a. Adware
b. Logic Bomb
c. Botnet
