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Management Information Systems (MIS) Practice Test: Securing Information Systems
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Management Information Systems (MIS) Practice Test: Securing Information Systems
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1. Phishing is a form of:
2. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act:
3. Pharming involves:
4. Large amounts of data stored in electronic form are ________ than the same data in manual form.
5. Redirecting a Web link to a different address is a form of:
6. A digital certificate system:
7. ________ use scanning software to look for known problems such as bad passwords, the removal of important files, security attacks in progress, and system administration errors.
8. Statements ranking information risks and identifying security goals are included in a(n):
9. The HIPAA Act of 1997:
10. Specific security challenges that threaten clients in a client/server environment include:
11. An analysis of the firm’s most critical systems and the impact a system’s outage would have on the business is included in a(n):
12. Most antivirus software is effective against:
13. In which method of encryption is a single encryption key sent to the receiver so both sender and receiver share the same key?
14. In controlling network traffic to minimize slow-downs, a technology called ________ is used to examine data files and sort low-priority data from high-priority data.
15. Downtime refers to periods of time in which a:
16. You have been hired as a security consultant for a law firm. Which of the following constitutes the greatest source of security threats to the firm?
17. How do software vendors correct flaws in their software after it has been distributed?
18. Hackers create a botnet by:
19. In 2004, ICQ users were enticed by a sales message from a supposed anti-virus vendor. On the vendor’s site, a small program called Mitglieder was downloaded to the user’s machine. The program enabled outsiders to infiltrate the user’s machine. What type of malware is this an example of?
20. Analysis of an information system that rates the likelihood of a security incident occurring and its cost is included in a(n)
21. The Internet poses specific security problems because:
22. Which of the following is not an example of a computer used as a target of crime?
23. In which technique are network communications are analyzed to see whether packets are part of an ongoing dialogue between a sender and a receiver?
24. Electronic evidence on computer storage media that is not visible to the average user is called ________ data.
25. ________ controls ensure that valuable business data files on either disk or tape are not subject to unauthorized access, change, or destruction while they are in use or in storage.

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