TG05

Information System, Third Canadian Edition Rainer
Tech Guide 5
Protecting your information assets
Question Type: True/False
1) As businesses improve their information security, organized crime is turning its attention to
consumers.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: Explain why it is critical that you protect your information assets.
Section Reference: TG 5.1 Introduction
Difficulty: Easy
2) Social engineering attacks are a threat at work but typically not at home.
Answer: False
Learning Objective: Identify the various behavioral actions you can take to protect your information
assets.
Section Reference: TG 5.2 Behavioral Actions to Protect Your Information Assets
Difficulty: Easy
3) You should ask whether your Social Security number is necessary for identification or if any
combination of nine numbers and letters will do just as well.
Answer: True
assets.
Difficulty: Easy
4) Using credit cards with your face on them will decrease your information security because clerks will
look for your signature.
Answer: False
assets.
Difficulty: Easy
5) Virtual credit cards cannot be used for in-store purchases that require a traditional plastic card.
Answer: True
assets.
Difficulty: Easy
6) You should keep close track of your credit card billing cycles.
Answer: True
assets.
Difficulty: Easy
7) You should use debit cards because they are directly linked to your bank account and, therefore, you
cannot overspend.
Answer: False
assets.
Difficulty: Easy
8) Your credit card company bears the liability for fraudulent charges, regardless of when you notify
them.
Answer: False
assets.
Difficulty: Easy
9) You should use a Post Office box for your personal mail.
Answer: True
assets.
Difficulty: Easy
10) A single-cut shredder is sufficient to shred your documents at home, whereas a cross-cut (confetti)
shredder is necessary at work because your work documents are more sensitive.
Answer: False
assets.
Difficulty: Easy
11) Companies that provide proactive protection of your personal information allow customers to lock
their credit files.
Answer: True
assets.
Difficulty: Easy
12) It is possible for criminals to gain information about many people from social networking sites.
Answer: True
Learning Objective: Identify the various computer-based actions you can take to protect your
information assets.
Section Reference: TG 5.3 Computer-Based Actions to Protect Your Information Assets
Difficulty: Easy
13) It is OK to open an e-mail attachment as long as you know and trust the person who sent the e-mail.
Answer: False
information assets.
Difficulty: Easy
14) You should update your definitions before scanning your system with anti-malware software.
Answer: True
information assets.
Difficulty: Easy
15) One strategy for controlling spam is to set up multiple free e-mail accounts.
Answer: True
information assets.
Difficulty: Easy
16) It is best to use a straight-line shredder to protect your unused documents.
Answer: False
assets.
Section Reference: Behavioral Actions to Protect Your Information Assets
Difficulty: Easy
17) Credit card companies bear the liability for fraudulent charges, provided that they are notified within
60 days of the theft.
Answer: True
assets.
Difficulty: Easy
Question Type: Multiple Choice
18) A _____ offers you the option of shopping online with a disposable credit card number.
a) Credit card
b) Debit card
c) Driver’s license
d) Virtual credit card

e) Bank card
Answer: d
assets.
Difficulty: Easy
19) Which of the following statements is not correct?
a) You should use credit cards with your picture on them.

b) You may use virtual credit cards for additional security.
c) You should use debit cards whenever possible for additional security.
d) You cannot use virtual credit cards for in-store purchases.
e) Signatures on credit cards are often impossible to read.
Answer: c
assets.
Difficulty: Medium
20) Your liability with credit cards is typically _____, whereas your liability with debit cards is _____.
a) The amount in your bank account, your credit limit

b) Your credit limit, the amount in your bank account
c) The amount in your bank account, zero
d) Your credit limit, zero
e) Zero, the amount in your bank account
Answer: e
assets.
Difficulty: Medium
21) Which of the following statements about companies that provide proactive protection of your
information assets is not correct?
a) These companies allow their customers to lock their credit files.

b) These companies ensure that new lines of credit cannot be opened unless their clients unlock their
credit files.
c) These companies operate independently of the three major credit reporting agencies.
d) Signing up with these companies means that merchants and banks must have verbal or written
permission from their customers before opening new credit in their names.
e) These companies will proactively monitor their clients’ credit files at the three credit reporting
agencies.
Answer: c
assets.
Difficulty: Hard
22) If your identity is stolen, what is the first thing you should do?
a) Change all of your credit cards.

b) Get a lawyer.
c) Open a file with all of your paperwork.
d) File a detailed police report.
e) Notify the three major credit-reporting agencies.
Answer: b
assets.
Difficulty: Medium
23) A(n) ___________ refers to software installed on your computer that controls communications to
and from your computer by permitting or denying communications based on your security settings.
a) Proactive monitoring package

b) Anti-spyware package
c) Content-filtering package
d) Anti-malware package
e) Personal firewall
Answer: e
information assets.
Difficulty: Medium
24) Personal firewalls perform all of the following functions except:
a) They should not respond to Internet requests to ports that are not used for common Internet use.
b) They should seek out the origin of malware in an attempt to block it in the future.
c) They should alert you to suspicious behavior.
d) They should block outbound connections that you do not initiate.
e) They should tell you when a program or connection is attempting to do something that you do not
want.
Answer: b
information assets.
Difficulty: Medium
25) _____ software logs keystrokes, e-mails, applications, windows, Web sites, Internet connection,
passwords, chat conversations, Web cams, and screenshots.
a) Firewall
b) Anti-malware
c) Monitoring
d) Content-filtering
e) Anti-spyware
Answer: c
information assets.
Difficulty: Easy
26) Content-filtering software performs all of the following functions except:
a) Blocking access to undesirable Web sites.

b) Recording all Web sites visited.
c) Proactively monitoring computers to protect against malware attacks.
d) Recording both sides of chat conversations.
e) Enabling users to selectively filter content.
Answer: c
information assets.
Difficulty: Medium
27) Which of the following is not a reason to install proactive intrusion detection and prevention
software on your computer?
a) Anti-malware software is reactive.

b) This software reduces your vulnerability to zero-day attacks.
c) Anti-malware software requires you to update malware signatures on a regular basis.
d) This software reduces your vulnerability to distributed denial-of-service attacks.
e) None of these
Answer: d
information assets.
Difficulty: Hard
28) Which of the following attacks is most closely associated with downloading and installing patches
immediately?
a) Denial-of-service
b) Zero-day attacks
c) Distributed denial-of-service
d) Viruses
e) Worms
Answer: b
information assets.
Difficulty: Hard
29) Methods you should use to protect your portable devices and information include all of the
following except:
a) Using two-factor authentication.

b) Making certain not to leave your portable devices in plain view in a car.
c) Keeping your portable devices in an inconspicuous container.
d) Encrypting the hard drive of your laptop.
e) All of these are legitimate protection methods.
Answer: e
information assets.
Difficulty: Medium
30) A(n) _____ is a computer to which you connect, that in turn connects to the Web site you wish to
visit.
a) Proxy server
b) Internet server
c) Intermediate server
d) Backbone server
e) E-mail server
Answer: a
information assets.
Difficulty: Easy
31) A _____ cookie either originates on, or is sent to, the Web site that you are currently viewing.
a) Tracking
b) Monitoring
c) Second-party
d) Third-party
e) First-party
Answer: e
information assets.
Difficulty: Easy
32) A _____ cookie either originates on, or is sent to, a different Web site than the one you are currently
viewing.
a) Tracking cookie
b) Monitoring cookie
c) Second-party cookie
d) Third-party cookie
e) First-party cookie
Answer: d
information assets.
Difficulty: Easy
33) For security in your wireless computing, you should use the _____ encryption standard, rather than
the older _____ encryption standard.
a) WPA, WEP
b) WPA2, WPA
c) WEP, WPA
d) WPA2, WEP
e) WEP, WPB
Answer: d
information assets.
Difficulty: Easy
34) Which of the following is a good password?
a) Your last name

b) Your birth date
c) Your mother’s name and her birth date
d) Your driver’s license number
e) Your social security number
Answer: c
assets.
Difficulty: Easy
35) Your little brother came for a visit and used your laptop. You didn’t think anything of it at the time,
but now your laptop is running really slow. Which of the following statements is false?
a) It can’t be a worm because your anti-malware software would have blocked it.
b) It can’t be a Trojan horse because your anti-spam software would have blocked it.
c) It can’t be your brother’s fault because he only visited Web sites, and he didn’t open any files.
d) Your brother admits to opening a joke file on his e-mail, but the file was from a good friend, so it can’t
be your brother’s fault.
e) All of these statements are false.
Answer: e
information assets.
Difficulty: Medium
36) You got careless and left your laptop in a taxi back from the airport. However, you aren’t too worried
about your information. Which of the following should not a reason for your attitude?
a) You back up all your files every Monday night.

b) You encrypt all of your personal information.
c) Your operating system requires a password at start-up.
d) You have trace software on your laptop.
e) You named the file that contains your list of passwords BirthdaysToRemember.
Answer: e
information assets.
Difficulty: Hard
37) _____________ is an example of a behavioral action you can take to protect your information
assets.
a) Having your picture on your credit card

b) Opening e-mails only from people you know and trust
c) Running security checks
d) Installing antivirus software
Answer: a
assets.
Section: Behavioral Actions to Protect Your Information Assets
Difficulty: Medium
38) _____________ is an example of a behavioral action you can take to protect your information
assets.
a) Don’t download files/software from web sites you don’t know or trust
b) Limit your use of debit cards
c) Never post personal information about yourself on social networking sites
d) Update your privacy settings on Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Answer: b
assets.
Difficulty: Medium
39) The first step to recover from identity theft is ____________.
a) call your credit card company

b) change all your credit cards
c) get a lawyer
d) fill out fraud affidavits for creditors
Answer: c
assets.
Difficulty: Medium
40) _____________ is an example of a computer-based action you can take to protect your information
assets.
a) Having your picture on your credit card

b) Limiting your use of debit cards
c) Knowing your credit card billing cycles
d) Installing antivirus software
Answer: d
assets.
Difficulty: Medium
41) ________________ is an example of a computer-based action you can take to protect your
information assets.
a) Never posting personal information about yourself on social networking sites

b) Frequently getting new credit card numbers

c) Not using your “snail-mail” mailbox at home
d) Shredding your documents
Answer: a
assets.
Difficulty: Medium
42) Which of the following is a computer action you can take to prevent malware infections?
a) Install a security suite on your computer

b) Install a firewall on your computer
c) Install monitoring software on your computer
d) All of the above
Answer: d
assets.
Difficulty: Medium
43) The worst browser to use to protect yourself from malware infections is ________.
a) Chrome
b) Firefox
c) Internet Explorer
d) Opera
Answer: C
assets.
Difficulty: Easy
44) Using both a token/biometric and your personal password is an example of ________.
a) Two-factor authentication
b) Two-factor authorization
c) Multi-factor authentication
d) Multi-factor authorization
Answer: a
assets.
Difficulty: Easy
Question Type: Essay
45) Describe the functions of anti-malware software on your computer.
information assets.
Difficulty: Medium
46) What functions should a personal firewall provide for you?
information assets.
Difficulty: Medium
47) What functions should you expect from monitoring software on your computer?
information assets.
Difficulty: Medium
48) What functions should you expect from content-filtering software on your computer?
information assets.
Difficulty: Medium
49) Describe the steps you should take to protect yourself when computing wirelessly.
information assets.
Difficulty: Medium
50) It’s hard to remember lots of passwords, so why not use just one?
assets.
Difficulty: Medium
51) Why is it so important to protect your information assets?
Learning Objective: Explain why it is critical that you protect your information assets.
Section Reference: TG 5.1 Introduction
Difficulty: Hard
52) Discuss the pros and cons of using credit cards vs. debit cards.
assets.
Difficulty: Hard
53) Discuss the benefits of using the services of companies that provide proactive protection of your
personal information.
assets.
Difficulty: Hard
54) List and explain the actions you should take if your identity is stolen.
assets.
Difficulty: Hard
55) Discuss the dangers of social networking Web sites.
information assets.

Difficulty: Hard
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Question Type: True/False

16) It is best to use a straight-line shredder to protect your unused documents.

Question Type: Multiple Choice

d) Virtual credit card

19) Which of the following statements is not correct?

a) You should use credit cards with your picture on them.

a) The amount in your bank account, your credit limit

a) These companies allow their customers to lock their credit files.

a) Change all of your credit cards.

a) Proactive monitoring package

24) Personal firewalls perform all of the following functions except:

26) Content-filtering software performs all of the following functions except:

a) Blocking access to undesirable Web sites.

a) Anti-malware software is reactive.

a) Using two-factor authentication.

34) Which of the following is a good password?

a) Your last name

a) You back up all your files every Monday night.

a) Having your picture on your credit card

39) The first step to recover from identity theft is ____________.

a) call your credit card company

a) Having your picture on your credit card

a) Never posting personal information about yourself on social networking sites

b) Frequently getting new credit card numbers

a) Install a security suite on your computer

Question Type: Essay

45) Describe the functions of anti-malware software on your computer.

46) What functions should a personal firewall provide for you?

51) Why is it so important to protect your information assets?

55) Discuss the dangers of social networking Web sites.

Section Reference: TG 5.3 Computer-Based Actions to Protect Your Information Assets

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