Hermione is a 21 year-old college student. She loves spending time on Facebook.

However,
with her final exams approaching, she feels that spending time on Facebook will harm her
exam results. Hence, she enables a particular Facebook feature, with the help of which, she will
not get any emails or notifications from Facebook.
Which Facebook feature did Hermione use?
Deactivate account

Who can look me up

Login alerts

Where you’re logged in

Ellie, an 18 year-old student, shares her Windows computer with her younger brother, Adam.
Adam is very mischievous and whenever he is on the computer, he ruins Ellie’s college
assignments. Ellie, who is fed up of this decides to encrypt the drive that contains her
assignments. She uses inbuilt Windows software to encrypt the drive so that Adam cannot
access the drive.
Which software did Ellie use?
Adobe

Skype

SPAMfighter

BitLocker

As part of his security implementation plan, Glenn was updating his firewall. Which aspect of the
security implementation plan was Glenn working on?
 Reaction

Maintenance

Nonrepudiation

Precaution

Which of the following terms refers to a collection of information that defines or describes the user and
his or her interests?

Facebook group

Timeline

Account settings

Profile

Sally is a 16-year-old high school student who is extremely attached to her laptop. She uses it
to download and watch episodes of her favorite sitcom. While watching one of the episodes,
her laptop switched off automatically a couple of times. Suspecting a malware infection, she
opened the antivirus software on her laptop and chose a technique, which examined all files on
the memory and hard disk in order to identify and locate the malware.
Which antivirus technique did Sally employ?
Integrity checking

Scanning

Bookmarks method

Heuristics analysis

Amy received an email from an official claiming to be from ABC Parcel Services. The email
asked her to collect a gift parcel sent by her friend three weeks ago. The service claimed that
they were unable to deliver the parcel to Amy, as the address provided was wrong. The service
asked her to print out the attached invoice copy, fill it, and collect the package from the branch
office located in her city. .
Which type of email security threat could Amy have faced, if she clicked or downloaded the
attachment?
Malicious email attachment

Hoax mail

Phishing

Malicious user redirection

John is an 18 year-old college-going student. He loves to read books and listen to music on his
laptop. He regularly downloads e-books and music from the internet. Lately, whenever John
has been spending time on his laptop, the laptop begins displaying the infamous Blue Screen of
Death (BSOD). Upon taking his laptop to the service center, John was told that his laptop was
infected with malware.
Which symptom of malware infection is John’s laptop displaying?
Hard drive malfunction

Unexpected crashes

Laptop screen malfunction

Slow system
Sarah has recently rented a small room on ABC Street, and started a business with seven employees. She
provided every employee with a computer and a common printer which is meant to be shared by
everyone.
Which of the following networks would suit Sarah’s business need?

Ethernet Physical Layer

Wide Area Network
Virtual Private Network
Local Area Network
Luke works as an analyst for AS Pvt. Ltd. His job there is to analyze statistics and records obtained from
people to improve the sales of the company. However, recently the statistics and records given to him
have been incorrect, thus leading to gross miscalculations and wrong predictions on his part. Which of
the terms listed below, best describes these statistics and records that are incorrect?

Data

Information

Indicators

Archives

Raymond received an email from an official claiming to be from his bank. The email requested
Raymond to send his personal details since the customer database of the bank was being
updated. Upon confirmation from the bank, Raymond was told that the bank had not sent any
emails asking for the personal details of their customers.
Which cyber-attack would Raymond have been a victim of if he had replied to the email?
War driver

Eavesdropping

Man in the middle attack

 Phishing

Which of the following terms refers to malicious software that is specifically built to target mobile
phones and smartphones systems?

Phishing

Mobile malware

Unmanaged applications

Broken cryptography

A new online service allows people living with roommates to feed in all their house hold
expenses in its ‘share calculator’ program. The program then calculates how much each person
is supposed to pay and sends a detailed report to all those who are listed as roommates for that
particular transaction.
The above mentioned service is an example of which of the following?
Software as a Service

Network as a Service

Infrastructure as a Service

Platform as a Service

Which of the following software programs allows you to access and display web pages on your
computer?
Web browsers

Search engine

Extensions

Email

Janine’s parents gave her a smartphone for her birthday. The phone’s operating system
intrigued and delighted Janine at the same time. This was because it was the first time she had
seen a smartphone that had a tile-based setup. In addition, the tiles could be removed and
interchanged on the home screen.
Which operating system did Janine’s phone have?
Windows

Symbian

Android
 iOS

Which of the following websites can Windows Phone users use to locate their stolen smartphone?

account.microsoft.com/devices

http://www.symbianguru.com/tracking-mobile-with-phone-guardian.html

iCloud.com

android.com/devicemanager

Certain software applications add or modify a particular feature in a browser. A few versions
allow users to block ads, watch online videos, or IM with friends.
What is this application called?
Extensions

ActiveX

Java

Cookies

Duke is taking some of the best pictures he has yet as an amateur photographer in a pen drive to
get his work assessed by an expert. On the subway an unknown person picks his pocket. Along
with his wallet Duke also lost the pen drive with his pictures. Since he had not made any more
copies of those pictures, he lost them forever.
What type of data loss is this?
Malware attack

Hardware theft

Software theft

Natural disaster

Which privacy issue of clouds exposes users to the risk of their data being accessed by the cloud service
provider without the user’s consent?

Data ownership

Data migration

Data location

Data permanency

Fred, a 14 year-old boy, is an only child. Fred loves spending time on his Mac OS X browsing
the internet. When his parents are not at home, he spends hours at a stretch on the computer.
Once, when Fred’s parents come home late from work and find him on the Mac, they decided
to limit his computer time. Enabling an inbuilt feature in the Mac, Fred’s parents limit his
computer time to two hours daily.
Which MAC OS X feature did Fred’s parents enable?
Jump lists

UAC slider bar

FileVault

Parental control

Tom, a 14 year-old boy has been chatting online with Adam, whom Tom assumes is 14 years
old as well. Over the months, they built up a great ‘online’ friendship, playing online games,
checking out EDM websites, continuing with their friendly rivalry over football, and just
talking about ‘guy’ stuff. When Adam invited Tom over to meet him, Tom was obviously
excited. However, when Tom met Adam, he was shocked, as Adam turned out to be a 35 years
old man. Despite this shock, Tom entered Adam’s house, as he trusted him. Tom was having a
great time playing PS3 with Adam, until the time Adam touched him inappropriately. Tom ran
away from Adam’s house and did not know what to do.
Which form of cyber-attack was Tom a victim of?
Social engineering

Phishing

Pornography

Grooming

A newly established ITES company plans to launch a website which enables its users to share
pictures and videos with each other. Apart from this, users can also comment on these pictures
and share them further.
Under which of the following cloud categories will the company’s product come?
Community cloud

Private Cloud

Public Cloud

Hybrid Cloud

XYZ Infra Solutions, a startup company is looking for a cloud service provider who can
provide virtual machines, virtual local area network, customized software applications, on
demand storage, IP addresses, and firewalls to meet its business needs.
Which of the following cloud computing services can meet the business needs of the company?
 Application as a Service

Infrastructure as a Service

Software as a Service

Platform as a Service

Which of the following refers to the periodic patching of system files to fix any issues in the previous
version of the Windows OS?

Windows Firewall

Task manager

FileVault

Windows Updates

What does a lock icon symbolize besides a website name?

The website is not accessible at the moment

The website needs a password to be accessed

The website is a secure website

The website cannot be accessed without the site admin’s permission

Which of the following terms refers to the process of protecting information, and the infrastructure that
stores it?

Availability

Keystroke logging

Data security

Maintenance

Which of the following antivirus techniques refers to the process of comparing the current state of
stored programs to a previously recorded state, which is known to be free of malware?

Scanning

Heuristics analysis

Bookmarks method

Integrity checking

Harry, a 21 year-old college-going student, was working on his dissertation when suddenly a
message flashed on his screen, “All files on your computer have been encrypted. You must pay
$1000 within 72 hours to regain access to your data.”Even after Harry paid the money, he was
not able to access his data, and all the documents on his dissertation were lost.
Which malware attack was Harry a victim of?
Botnet

Adware

Virus

Ransomware

Andrew lost his iPhone on the way home from college. He anxiously wanted to recover it, as it
was a gift from his late grandfather. The iPhone also contained pictures that he had taken for a
national photography contest.
Using which iOS feature, can Andrew locate his phone?
SIM lock

System updates

iCloud backup

Find my iPhone

Which of the following helps to backup data on a Mac?

App Store

Extensions

Time Machine

Internet Accounts

Which of the following fundamental concepts of security refers to an action taken in advance to protect
the system against threats or dangers?

Precaution

Maintenance

Nonrepudiation

Reaction

InfraTech Inc. is an international IT company with offices in Dubai, Singapore, and Australia.
To have continuity of business practice, it is imperative that all the branch offices be able to
communicate amongst themselves.
Which of the following network systems would be suitable for data communication between
the employees of all branches of InfraTech Inc.?
Ethernet

Virtual Private Network

Wide Area Network

Local Area Network

Ruth Cole is a sales manager and travels extensively on business. She regularly updates and
stores clients’ data on a remote data storage device via the Internet, so that in case she loses her
laptop or it crashes for some reason, she does not lose the data which is essential to carrying out
her work.
Which type of data backup is Emma using to carry out her daily work?
Full system backup

Incremental backup

Online data backup

Differential backup

Which of the following terms refers to the process that ensures accuracy of the sender and receiver of a
message?

Nonrepudiation

Availability

Data

Authenticity

Susan downloaded a software from the Internet and installed it on her computer for watching
movies online. After installing the software, she noticed that her PC was slowing down and was
taking more time to open webpages.
What could Susan do to solve this problem?
Install a latest antivirus software and scan her computer

Stop using wireless internet connection

Choose a suitable encryption method

Start using Ethernet

Lucy, a 55 year-old woman, was not a technically savvy person. She did not install or enable
any applications on her computer, and only used it for looking up recipes and knitting patterns.
After some time, Lucy’s computer started giving her problems. It often displayed the Blue
Screen of Death (BSOD) and unwanted windows kept popping up whenever she went online.
When a computer technician checked Lucy’s computer, it was discovered that her computer
was infected with malware.
Which inbuilt Windows software should Lucy have enabled to prevent malware infection in her
computer?
Jump lists

Simple file sharing

Windows Defender

Task manager

Alex, the coach of Manchester United, called up Wayne, the captain of the team, to discuss the
tactics they would employ in the upcoming Champions League Final. The following day, Alex
received an email with the transcript of the conversation he had with Wayne. The sender of the
email threatened to make Alex’s tactics public, if he did not pay him $5000.
Which form of mobile device attack was Alex a victim of?
Social engineering

Man in the middle attack

Eavesdropping

Phishing

This part of an email informs you about the address from where it came, time of the message,
date sent, and the subject line.
Identify the email part?
Header

Footer

Signature

Body

Susan, a 15-year-old girl, loves spending her free time baking and cycling. However, recently
she has been spending all of her free time glued to the computer. She shows no interest in her
hobbies anymore and looks depressed most of the time. Her parents also noticed that whenever
they enter her room, she quickly changes the computer screen. Understandably, Susan’s parents
are worried about her.
What could be the reason for her behavior?
Unsolicited emails
 Victim of online child abuse

Too much pressure at school

Social engineering

Which of the following is an encryption program in Mac that helps users to protect their data?

SPAMfighter

FileVault

Safari

Lockbin

Daniel, a bank officer, communicates with his clients through emails on a daily basis.
Recently, he noticed that his Gmail inbox was filled with unsolicited emails. The cluttered
inbox annoyed him, as it was difficult to filter the important emails. Hence, he decided to find a
solution for it. Upon inquiry, a service provider told him that he could use software which
automatically filters out the unsolicited emails. This software would not only protect his Gmail
account, but also protect all the email accounts configured on his email client.
Which of the following tools did Daniel probably enquire about?

Avast Pro

SPAMfighter

Norton

Kaspersky

Which of the following is the strongest password?

donnamike92

Pa#72tLe

Domike*

Donna1992

Samuel, a network admin in an IT firm, has just discovered a phishing site known for targeting
corporate entities. Several employees have received emails with the domain name, which is the
same as that of this site. In order to prevent the company’s network from being corrupted,
Samuel decides to block all incoming and outgoing traffic from that site.
Which of the following defense mechanisms can Samuel use to implement this?
Virus
 Disk encryption

Firewall

Encryption

Harold, an associate at AQ Corporation, received a phone call from a person claiming to be

Bob from the IT department. Bob told Harold that he had noticed that Harold’s computer was
running slow, and could help him fix it. Harold, not having much knowledge regarding
computers, readily agreed. Following Bob’s instructions, Harold typed in some commands on
his computer, and gave remote access to Bob to have his computer fixed. Later on, Harold
noticed that confidential information concerning his clients was missing from his computer.
Which attack was Harold a victim of?
Bluesnarfing

War driver

Social engineering

Evil twin

Isaac is transferring all the data from his computer to an external drive as he wants to format his
laptop. While moving the data, he accidentally hits delete instead of cut on one of the files and
without realizing, hit the enter key when the computer prompted to confirm his action. As the
file was a huge one, it did not go to the recycle bin and got permanently deleted.
What type of data loss is this?
Computer virus

Software failure

Hardware theft

Human error

Sam uses his work laptop to watch pirated movies at home sometimes. When he tried to watch
the latest movie he downloaded, the movie file did not play even after trying on several
different players. Within a day of this, Sam noticed that many of his files were vanishing one
after the other from his laptop even though neither he nor anyone else deleted them. The
network administrator of his company, after taking a look at his computer told him that the
movie files, which did not play, definitely had something to do with this peculiar behavior.
What type of data loss could this be?
Natural disaster

Software failure

Human error
 Computer virus

ABC Info Ltd. has a part of its business already on a cloud computing platform. However, its
new product suite would need a cloud service which runs on a totally different technology. The
company should be able to make its legacy products and new products communicate with each
other as the new products are just an upgrade of the old ones and much of the required data still
resides on the old cloud.
Which of the following cloud computing platforms will be suitable for ABC Info’s future
needs?
Public cloud

Community cloud

Hybrid cloud

Private cloud

You received the following email from an official claiming to be from your bank.
Dear ABC Bank User,
Since we will be updating our customer database shortly, you are kindly requested to send the
following information.
• Name
• Bank login id
• Password
• Branch
• Date of birth
• Alternate email
Please click the below link to update your details.
Proceed to update your account details
Please contact the ABC Bank customer team in case of any queries. Thank you for your
cooperation.
Which type of email security threat is this?
Nigerian scam

1 Phishing

Spy-phishing

Malicious email attachment

Imagine getting a letter from the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) demanding
that you pay $5,700 in taxes. This is what happened to Rick. He received a letter informing him
that he owed the government unpaid income tax on wages he never earned. The IRAS letter
said that Rick had worked at several places. However, Rick is only 15 years old and his only
job was working at his uncle’s grocery store during the summer. He had never even visited
some of the places where the letter said he worked. Rick was not sure what to do next. After
all, he has never even had a “real” job like those listed in the letter.
What is going on in this scenario?
Nigerian scam

Social engineering

Identity Theft

Phishing

Which of the following terms refers to software that attackers create to install on a victim’s computer in
order to compromise its security?

Lockbin

Bitlocker

Dropbox

Malware

Horace is a 64 year-old man who worked as an accountant for SN Associates before his
retirement. The company gifted him a laptop at the time of his retirement. Since Horace was
not a technically savvy person, he did not install any applications on his laptop, and only used it
for checking his email and playing poker online. After some time, Horace’s laptop started
giving him problems. It crashed frequently, often displayed the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD),
and unwanted windows kept popping up whenever he went online. When Horace took his
laptop to the service center, he was told that his laptop was infected with malware.
Which software should Horace have installed to prevent malware infection in his laptop?
Skype

One Drive

Adobe Reader

Antivirus software