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WEEK 2: Introduction to Cybersecurity Tools & Cyber Attacks Quiz Answers Coursera

Types of actors and their motives Quiz Answers Coursera

Question 1: What are the four (4) types of actors identified in the video A brief overview of types of actors and their motives?

• Internal
• Hackers
• White Hats
• Black Hats
• Security Analysts
• Hactivists
• Governments

Question 2: Which of these common motivations is often attributed to a hactivist?

• Political action and movements
• Hire me!
• Just playing around
• Money

Question 3: In the video Hacking organizations, which three (3) governments were called out as being active hackers?

• Canada
• Venezuela
• Israel
• United States
• China

Question 4: Which four (4) of the following are known hacking organizations?

• Syrian Electronic Army
• Fancy Bears
• The Ponemon Institute
• Guardians of Peace
• Anonymous

Question 5: Which of these hacks resulted in over 100 million credit card numbers being stolen?

• 2011 Sony Playstation hack
• 2013 Singapore Cyberattacks
• 2014 Ebay hack
• 2015 Target Stores hack
• 2016 US Election hack

An Architect’s perspective on attack classifications Quiz Answers Coursera

Question 1: Which of the following statements is True?

• Passive attacks are hard to detect because the original message is delivered unchanged and can pass an integrity check.
• Passive attacks are hard to detect because the original message is never delivered so the receiving does not know they missed anything.
• Passive attacks are easy to detect because the original message wrapper must be modified by the attacker before it is forwarded on to the intended recipient.
• Passive attacks are easy to detect because of the latency created by the interception and second forwarding.

Question 2: The purpose of security services includes which three (3) of the following?

• Often replicate functions found in physical documents
• Enhance security of data processing systems and information transfer.
• Includes any component of your security infrastructure that has been outsourced to a third-party
• Are intended to counter security attacks.

Question 3: Which statement best describes access control?

• Prevention of unauthorized use of a resource
• Protection against the unauthorized disclosure of data
• Protection against denial by one of the parties in communication
• Assurance that the communicating entity is the one claimed

Question 4: The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) X.800 standard addresses which three (3) of the following topics?

• Data transmission speeds
• Access Control
• Authentication
• Data Confidentiality
• Transmission cost sharing between member countries

Question 5: Protocol suppression, ID and authentication are examples of which?

• Security Mechanism
• Business Policy
• Security Architecture
• Security Policy

Question 6: The motivation for more security in open systems is driven by which three (3) of the following factors?

• Society’s increasing dependance on computers.
• The desire by a number of organizations to use OSI recommendations.
• New requirements from the WTO, World Trade Organization
• The appearence of data protection legislation in several countries.

Question 7: True or False: The accidental disclosure of confidential data by an employee is considered a legitimate organizational threat.

• True
• False

Question 8: True or False: The accidental disclosure of confidential information by an employee is considered an attack.

• True
• False

Question 9: A replay attack and a denial of service attack are examples of which?

• Passive attack
• Security architecture attack
• Masquerade attack
• Origin attack

Malware and an introduction to threat protection Quiz Answers Coursera

Question 1: True or False: An application that runs on your computer without your authorization but does no damage to the system is not considered malware.

• True
• False

Question 2: How would you classify a piece of malicious code designed to cause damage and spreads from one computer to another by attaching itself to files but requires human actions in order to replicate?

• Virus
• Worms
• Trojan Horses
• Spyware
• Adware
• Ransomware

Question 3: How would you classify a piece of malicious code designed collect data about a computer and its users and then report that back to a malicious actor?

• Virus
• Worms
• Spyware
• Adware

Question 4: A large scale Denial of Service attack usually relies upon which of the following?

• A botnet
• A keylogger
• Logic Bombs
• Trojan Horses

Question 5: Antivirus software can be classified as which form of threat control?

• Technical controls
• Administrative controls
• Active controls
• Passive controls

Additional Attack examples today Quiz Answers Coursera

Question 1: Which of the following measures can be used to counter a mapping attack?

• Record traffic entering the network
• Look for suspicious activity like IP addresses or ports being scanned sequentially.
• Use a host scanner and keep an inventory of hosts on your network.
• All of the above.

Question 2: In order for a network card (NIC) to engage in packet sniffing, it must be running in which mode?

• Promiscuous
• Sniffer
• Inspection
• Open

Question 3: Which countermeasure can be helpful in combating an IP Spoofing attack?

• Ingress filtering
• Enable IP Packet Authentication filtering
• Keep your certificates up-to-date
• Enable the IP Spoofing feature available in most commercial antivirus software.
• All of the above.

Question 4: Which two (2) measures can be used to counter a Denial of Service (DOS) attack?

• Use traceback to identify the source of the flooded packets.
• Enable packet filtering on your firewall.
• Implement a filter to remove flooded packets before they reach the host.
• Enable the DOS Filtering option now available on most routers and switches.

Question 5: Which countermeasure should be used agains a host insertion attack?

• Maintain an accurate inventory of of computer hosts by MAC address.
• Use a host scanning tool to match a list of discovered hosts against known hosts.
• Investigate newly discovered hosts.
• All of the above.

Attacks and Cyber resources Quiz Answers Coursera

Question 1: Which is not one of the phases of the intrusion kill chain?

• Command and Control
• Delivery
• Activation
• Installation

Question 2: Which social engineering attack involves a person instead of a system such as an email server?

• Spectra
• Vishing
• Phishing
• Cyberwarfare

Question 3: Which of the following is an example of a social engineering attack?

• Logging in to the Army’s missle command computer and launching a nuclear weapon.
• Setting up a web site offering free games, but infecting the downloads with malware.
• Calling an employee and telling him you are from IT support and must observe him logging into his corporate account.
• Sending someone an email with a Trojan Horse attachment.

Question 4: True or False: While many countries are preparing their military for a future cyberwar, there have been no “cyber battles” to-date.

• False
• True

 A day in the life of a SOC analyst Quiz Answers Coursera

Question 1: Which tool did Javier say was crucial to his work as a SOC analyst?

• SIEM (Security Information and Event Management)
• Packet Sniffers
• Firewalls
• Intrusion detection software

A brief overview of types of actors and their motives Quiz Answers Coursera

Question 1: Which hacker organization hacked into the Democratic National Convension and released Hillery Clinton’s emails?

• Fancy Bears
• Anonymous
• Syrian Electronic Army
• Guardians of the Peace
• All of the above

Question 2: What challenges are expected in the future?

• Enhanced espionage from more countries
• Far more advanced malware
• New consumer technology to exploit
• All of the above

Question 3: Why are cyber attacks using SWIFT so dangerous?

• SWIFT is the protocol used by all banks to transfer money
• SWIFT is the protocol used by all US healthcare providers to encrypt medical records
• SWIFT is the protocol used to transmit all diplomatic telegrams between governments around the world
• SWIFT is the flight plan and routing system used by all cooperating nations for international commercial flights

Question 4: Which statement best describes Authentication?

• Assurance that the communicating entity is the one claimed
• Protection against denial by one of the parties in communication
• Assurance that a resource can be accessed and used
• Prevention of unauthorized use of a resource

Question 5: Trusted functionality, security labels, event detection, security audit trails and security recovery are all examples of which type of security mechanism?

• Contingent security mechanism
• External security mechanism
• Active security mechanism
• Passive security mechanism

Question 6: If an organization responds to an intentional threat, that threat is now classified as what?

• A malicious threat
• An attack
• An active threat
• An open case

Question 7: An attack that is developed particularly for a specific customer and occurs over a long period of time is a form of what type of attack?

• Advanced Persistent Threat
• Water Hole
• Spectra
• Denial of Service (DOS)

Question 8: Which of three (3) these approaches could be used by hackers as part of a Business Email Compromise attack?

• Request to make a payment
• Attorney impersonation
• CEO Fraud, where CEO sends email to an employee
• Account compromise

Question 9: Which type of actor was not one of the four types of actors mentioned in the video A brief overview of types of actors and their motives?

• Hactivists
• Governments
• Hackers
• Internal
• Black Hats

Question 10: A political motivation is often attributed to which type of actor?

• Internal
• Hackers
• Hactivist
• Security Analysts

Question 11: The video Hacking organizations called out several countries with active government sponsored hacking operations in effect. Which one of these was among those named?

• Canada
• Israel
• South Africa
• Egypt

Question 12: Which of these is not a known hacking organization?

• The Ponemon Institute
• Fancy Bears
• Syrian Electronic Army
• Anonymous
• Guardians of the Peace

Question 13: Which type of actor hacked the 2016 US Presidential Elections?

• Hackers
• Government
• Hactivists
• Internal

Question 14: True or False: Passive attacks are easy to detect because the original messages are usually alterned or undelivered.

• False
• True

Question 15: True or False: Authentication, Access Control and Data Confidentiality are all addressed by the ITU X.800 standard.

• True
• False

or

Question 15: Trusted functionality, security labels, event detection and security audit trails are all considered which?

• Business Policy
• Specific security mechanisms
• Pervasive security mechanisms
• Security Policy

Question 16: Cryptography, digital signatures, access controls and routing controls considered which?

• Security Policy
• Specific security mechanisms
• Business Policy
• Pervasive security mechanisms

Question 17: True or False: Only acts performed with intention to do harm can be classified as Organizational Threats

• False
• True

Question 18: Traffic flow analysis is classified as which?

• An origin attack
• A passive attack
• A masquerade attack
• An active attack

Question 19: How would you classify a piece of malicious code designed to cause damage, can self-replicate and spreads from one computer to another by attaching itself to files?

• Spyware
• Adware
• Worm
• Virus
• Trojan Horse
• Ransomware

Question 20: Botnets can be used to orchestrate which form of attack?

• Distribution of Spam
• DDoS attacks
• Phishing attacks
• Distribution of Spyware
• As a Malware launchpad
• All of the above

Question 21: Policies and training can be classified as which form of threat control?

• Active controls
• Technical controls
• Administrative controls
• Passive controls

Question 22: Which type of attack can be addressed using a switched Ethernet gateway and software on every host on your network that makes sure their NICs is not running in promiscuous mode.

• Packet Sniffing
• Host Insertion
• Trojan Horse
• Ransomware
• All of the above

Question 23: A flood of maliciously generated packets swamp a receiver’s network interface preventing it from responding to legitimate traffic. This is characteristic of which form of attack?

• A Denial of Service (DOS) attack
• A Trojan Horse
• A Masquerade attack
• A Ransomware attack

Question 24: A person calls you at work and tells you he is a lawyer for your company and that you need to send him specific confidential company documents right away, or else! Assuming the caller is not really a lawyer for your company but a bad actor, what kind of attack is this?

• A Social Engineering attack
• A Trojan Horse
• A Denial of Service attack
• A Worm attack

Question 25: True or False: An individual hacks into a military computer and uses it to launch an attack on a target he personally dislikes. This is considered an act of cyberwarfare.

• False
• True