Appendix: Information Security

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Measuring the Success of Strategic Initiatives
Organizational Structures That Support Strategic Initiatives
Valuing Organizational Information
Storing Organizational Information-Databases
Accessing Organizational Information-Data Warehouse
Enabling the Organization-Decision Making
Extending the Organization-Supply Chain Management
Building a Customer-Centric Organization-Customer Relationship Management
Integrating the Organization From End to End-Enterprise Resource Planning
Creating Innovative Organizations
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Integrating Wireless Technology in Business
Developing Software to Streamline Operations
Methodologies for Supporting Agile Organizations
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Developing a 21st-Century Organization
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Appendix: Networks and Telecommunications
Appendix: Information Security
Appendix: Ethics
Appendix: Operations Management
Appendix: Sustainable Mis Infrastructures
Appendix: Business Intelligence
Appendix: Global Information Systems
Appendix: Global Trends

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Question 1

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What is the recommended way to implement information security lines of defense?

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People first, technology second

Technology first, people second

None of these

All of these

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Question 2

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Which term describes legitimate users who purposely or accidentally misuse their access to the environment and cause some kind of business-affecting incident?

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Hactivist

Social engineering

Insiders

Virus

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Question 3

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What identifies the rules required to maintain information security?

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Information security plan

Information security policies

Authentication

Biometrics

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Question 4

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Which of the following is not one of the five steps for creating an information security plan?

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Develop the information security policies

Communicate the information security policies

Revise and test the information security policies

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Question 5

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What is social engineering?

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Using one's social skills to trick people into revealing access credentials or other information valuable to the attacker

Legitimate users who purposely or accidentally misuse their access to the environment and cause some kind of business-affecting incident

Small electronic devices that change user passwords automatically

A method for confirming user's identities

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Question 6

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Which of the following is not one of the three primary information security areas?

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Authentication and authorization

Prevention and resistance

Detection and resistance

None of these

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Question 7

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What is a method for confirming users' identities?

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Authentication

Prevention

Detection

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Question 8

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What is the most secure type of authentication?

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Something the user knows such as a user ID and password

Something the user has such as a smart card or token

Something that is part of the user such as a fingerprint or voice signature

All of these

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Question 9

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What is a device that is around the same size as a credit card,containing embedded technologies that can store information and small amounts of software to perform some limited processing?

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Token

Password

Smart card

Biometrics

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Question 10

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What is the identification of a user based on a physical characteristic,such as a fingerprint,iris,face,voice,or handwriting?

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Smart card

Token

Biometrics

Content filtering

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Question 11

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Which of the following is not considered a type of biometrics?

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Voice

Face

Iris

None of these

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Question 12

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What is the most costly and intrusive form of authentication?

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Something the user knows such as a user ID and password

Something the user has such as a smart card or token

Something that is part of the user such as a fingerprint or voice signature

None of these

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Question 13

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Which of the following authentication methods is 100 percent accurate?

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Smart card

Fingerprint authentication

User ID

None of these

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Question 14

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What are the technologies available to help prevent and build resistance to attacks?

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Content filtering, encryption, firewalls

Content filtering, encryption, insiders

Encryption, firewalls, insiders

Firewalls, social engineering, encryption

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Question 15

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What occurs when an organization uses software that filters content to prevent the transmission of unauthorized information?

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Biometrics

Encryption

Firewalls

None of these

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Question 16

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What is spam?

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A type of encryption

A type of content filtering

A form of unsolicited email

None of these

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Question 17

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What is encryption?

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Occurs when an organization uses software that filters content to prevent the transmission of unauthorized information

Scrambles information into an alternative form that requires a key or password to decrypt the information

Hardware and/or software that guards a private network by analyzing the information leaving and entering the network

A form of unsolicited email

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Question 18

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Which of the following can be completed by encryption?

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Switch the order of characters

Replace characters with other characters

Use a mathematical formula to convert the information into some sort of code

All of these

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Question 19

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Where do organizations typically place firewalls?

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Between a personal computer and the server

Between a personal computer and a printer

Between the server and the content filtering software

Between the server and the Internet

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Question 20

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Which of the following does a firewall perform?

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Examines each message that wants entrance to the network

Blocks messages without the correct markings from entering the network

Detects computers communicating with the Internet without approval

All of these

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