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Considering the CIA triad and the Parkerian hexad, which of the following is true? Parkerian is more complete but not as widely known Salting a password makes it hard to guess by brute force Cybersecurity countermeasure are the tools and techniques we use to reduce risk Which of the following was not stolen in the OPM breach? money In the Maroochy Shire, the actual threat was a disgruntled former employee What do we call the process in which the client aut...

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3 pages

Written in 2022/2023

Grade A+

GUARANTEEDSUCCESS

What is access control? A security technique that regulates who or what can view or use resources in a computing environment It enables administrators to manage access at a more granular level Authentication Authentication is the step after identification It is to determine whether the claim of the identity is true Because access control is typically based on the identity of the user who requests access to a resource, authentication is essential to effective security. Wh...

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73 pages

Written in 2022/2023

Grade A+

GUARANTEEDSUCCESS

FULL STUDY GUIDE FOR CYSE 101 UPDATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Confidentiality - CORRECT ANSWEREnsuring data is accessible only to authorized users

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7 pages

Written in 2025/2026

Grade A+

STANGRADES

Cyse 101 Midterm Questions And Answers

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4 pages

Written in 2024/2025

Grade A+

GEEKA

Cyse 101 Final Review Questions

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10 pages

Written in 2024/2025

Grade A+

GEEKA

What are we trying to protect in CYSE? - answer-Confidentiality, integrity and availability (of information, systems resources etc.) What is confidentiality? - answer-unauthorized users cannot access sensitive information What is integrity? - answer-Information is complete and uncorrupted What is availability? - answer-Authorized users can get to the information or resources What is vulnerability? - answer-a flaw, weakness or hole in a system or component What is a threat? - answe...

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9 pages

Written in 2024/2025

Grade A+

TOPDOCTOR

CYSE 101 Final | questions and answers | Updated 2024/25

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9 pages

Written in 2023/2024

Grade A+

STUVEX

In a data breach (such as the OPM case) which security characteristic of data has been violated? - Answer- Confidentiality Which of the following about vulnerabilities and threats is *not* true? - Answer- A vulnerability or a threat, but not both, are required to create risk Considering the CIA triad and the Parkerian hexad, which of the following is true? - Answer- Parkerian is more complete but not as widely known Which of the following is *not* true about complex and automatically ge...

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4 pages

Written in 2023/2024

Grade A+

GEEKA

How does the principle of least privilege apply to operating system hardening? - Answer- prevents attack actions that require administrator or root privilege What is the difference between a port scanner and a vulnerability assessment tool? - Answer- port scanners discover listening ports; vulnerability assessment tools report known vulnerabilities on listening ports What does applying a vendor OS update (patch) usually do? - Answer- What does executable space protection do for us and ...

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5 pages

Written in 2023/2024

Grade A+

GEEKA

Cybersecurity countermeasures are: - Answer- the tools and techniques we use to reduce risk One vulnerability in air traffic control system case was - Answer- unauthenticated messages What does non-repudiation mean? - Answer- suffuncent evidence exists such taht a user cannot deny an action What is the Parkerian hexad compared to the CIA triad - Answer- Parkenian has 6 elements including the 3 from the CIA but is not as widely known Why does access control based on the Media Access C...

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10 pages

Written in 2023/2024

Grade A+

GEEKA

Which of the following would *not* be part of a solution in the Polycom case study? - Answer- d. Off site backups Which of the following is *not* true about complex and automatically generated passwords that are unique to each system and are a minimum of 30 characters in length, such as !Hs4(j0qO$&zn1%2SK38cn^!Ks620! ? - Answer- b. Brute force password crackers will break them as quickly as a 4-digit PIN Which of the following is true regarding the history of cybersecurity as presented in ...

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10 pages

Written in 2023/2024

Grade A+

GEEKA

CYSE 101 questions with correct answers

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10 pages

Written in 2023/2024

Grade A+

BillRanker

CYSE 101 midterm |96 questions| with correct answers

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13 pages

Written in 2023/2024

Grade A+

BillRanker

For what might we use the tool Kismet? You use the kismet tool in order to find and detect wireless devices. Explain the concept of segmentation and why it might be done. We divide a network into multiple smaller networks each acting as its own small network called a subnet. Here we can control the flow of traffic. We may do this to prevent unauthorized network traffic or attacks from reaching portions of the network we would prefer to prevent access. What risks might be present ...

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5 pages

Written in 2022/2023

Grade A+

YANCHY

Which of the following is true regarding the history of cybersecurity as presented in class and the associated document? Advances (firewalls, intrusion detection, encryption algorithms, etc.) often followed attacks or apparent weaknesses How do we know at what point we can consider our environment to be secure? Never; perfect security does not exist Considering the CIA triad and the Parkerian hexad, which of the following is true? Parkerian is more complete but not as widely kno...

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11 pages

Written in 2022/2023

Grade A+

YANCHY

Which of the following is not a reason to use a honeypot? alert us to an attacker's presence release classified or PII data detect, monitor, and sometimes tamper with the activities of an attacker attract the attention of attackers in order to study them and their tools release classified or PII data What is the purpose of a network DMZ? Encrypt the traffic to and from sensitive systems Provide external access to systems that need to be exposed to external networks suc...

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29 pages

Written in 2022/2023

Grade A+

YANCHY

How does a spear phishing attack differ from a general phishing attack? whether message has embedded javascript or not size of the message number of targets and custom messages whether message has malware attached or not number of targets and custom messages Is it OK to use the same password for all of our accounts? yes because using different passwords is hard to remember no because a compromise of one account leads to a compromise of all accounts using the same passwo...

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19 pages

Written in 2022/2023

Grade A+

YANCHY

Vulnerability vs. Threat A vulnerability is a weakness that can be use to harm us, meanwhile a threat is an entity that seeks to exploit a weakness and harm us. Logical Controls • Passwords • Encrptions • Firewalls • Intrusion Detection Systems • Logical Access Controls Utility usefulness of data Interception attack against confidentiality Concept of defense in depth for layers of confidentiality Data Layers Encryption Access Controls Vulnerabili...

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9 pages

Written in 2022/2023

Grade A+

YANCHY

What Kismet used for? Finding wireless access points even when attempts have made it difficult to do so. What is the concept of network segmentation and why do it? Divide networks into subnets. Do this for controlling network traffic. Boost Performance. Troubleshooting network issues. Why is a BYOD policy bad for an enterprise network? Potential for malware to be brought into the network from outside sources is high. Rogue access points. Three main protocols of wire en...

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7 pages

Written in 2022/2023

Grade A+

YANCHY

In a data breach (such as the OPM case) which security characteristic of data has been violated? Confidentiality Which of the following about vulnerabilities and threats is not true? A vulnerability or a threat, but not both, are required to create risk Considering the CIA triad and the Parkerian hexad, which of the following is true? Parkerian is more complete but not as widely known Which of the following is not true about complex and automatically generated passwords t...

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5 pages

Written in 2022/2023

Grade A+

YANCHY

How does the principle of least privilege apply to operating system hardening? prevents attack actions that require administrator or root privilege What is the difference between a port scanner and a vulnerability assessment tool? port scanners discover listening ports; vulnerability assessment tools report known vulnerabilities on listening ports What does applying a vendor OS update (patch) usually do? ... What does executable space protection do for us and how? preven...

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6 pages

Written in 2022/2023

Grade A+

YANCHY

What is access control? A security technique that regulates who or what can view or use resources in a computing environment It enables administrators to manage access at a more granular level Authentication Authentication is the step after identification It is to determine whether the claim of the identity is true Because access control is typically based on the identity of the user who requests access to a resource, authentication is essential to effective security. Wh...

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74 pages

Written in 2022/2023

Grade A+

YANCHY