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    This document contains two sets of 10 multiple choice questions each about computer security concepts. The first set covers topics like integrity, confidentiality, threats to computer systems, types of malicious programs like viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and logic bombs. The second set asks about denial of service attacks, the phases of virus execution, types of viruses like stealth viruses and polymorphic viruses, and macro viruses. Each question is followed by the correct answer. The document quizzes the reader's knowledge of fundamental computer security terms and malicious software types.

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    MCQ of Computer Security and Network Security

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    This document contains two sets of 10 multiple choice questions each about computer security concepts. The first set covers topics like integrity, confidentiality, threats to computer systems, types of malicious programs like viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and logic bombs. The second set asks about denial of service attacks, the phases of virus execution, types of viruses like stealth viruses and polymorphic viruses, and macro viruses. Each question is followed by the correct answer. The document quizzes the reader's knowledge of fundamental computer security terms and malicious software types.

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    This document contains two sets of 10 multiple choice questions each about computer security concepts. The first set covers topics like integrity, confidentiality, threats to computer systems, types of malicious programs like viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and logic bombs. The second set asks about denial of service attacks, the phases of virus execution, types of viruses like stealth viruses and polymorphic viruses, and macro viruses. Each question is followed by the correct answer. The document quizzes the reader's knowledge of fundamental computer security terms and malicious software types.

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    MCQ of Computer Security and Network Security

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    Solved MCQ of Computer Security set -1

    1. In computer security, . means that computer system assets can be


    modified only by authorized parities.
    A) Confidentiality
    B) Integrity
    C) Availability
    D) Authenticity
    2. In computer security, .. means that the information in a computer
    system only be accessible for reading by authorized parities.
    A) Confidentiality
    B) Integrity
    C) Availability
    D) Authenticity
    3. The type of threats on the security of a computer system or network are
    ..
    i) Interruption
    ii) Interception
    iii) Modification
    iv) Creation
    v) Fabrication
    A) i, ii, iii and iv only
    B) ii, iii, iv and v only
    C) i, ii, iii and v only
    D) All i, ii, iii, iv and v
    4. Which of the following is independent malicious program that need not any host
    program?
    A) Trap doors
    B) Trojan horse
    C) Virus
    D) Worm
    5. The .. is code that recognizes some special sequence of input or is triggered by
    being run from a certain user ID of by unlikely sequence of events.
    A) Trap doors
    B) Trojan horse
    C) Logic Bomb
    D) Virus
    6. The .. is code embedded in some legitimate program that is set to explode
    when certain conditions are met.
    A) Trap doors
    B) Trojan horse
    C) Logic Bomb
    D) Virus
    7. Which of the following malicious program do not replicate automatically?
    A) Trojan Horse

    B) Virus
    C) Worm
    D) Zombie
    8. programs can be used to accomplish functions indirectly that an
    unauthorized user could not accomplish directly.
    A) Zombie
    B) Worm
    C) Trojan Horses
    D) Logic Bomb
    9. State whether true of false.
    i) A worm mails a copy of itself to other systems.
    ii) A worm executes a copy of itself on another system.
    A) True, False
    B) False, True
    C) True, True
    D) False, False
    10. A .. is a program that can infect other programs by modifying them, the
    modification includes a copy of the virus program, which can go on to infect other
    programs.
    A) Worm
    B) Virus
    C) Zombie
    D) Trap doors
    Answers:

    1.
    2.
    3.
    4.
    5.

    B) Integrity
    A) Confidentiality
    C) i, ii, iii and v only
    D) Worm
    A) Trap doors

    C) Logic Bomb
    A) Trojan Horse
    C) Trojan Horses
    C) True, True
    10. B) Virus

    MCQ of Computer Security with answer set 2


    1. .. are used in denial of service attacks, typically against targeted web sites.
    A) Worm
    B) Zombie
    C) Virus
    D) Trojan horse
    2. Select the correct order for the different phases of virus execution.
    i) Propagation phase
    ii) Dormant phase
    iii) Execution phase
    iv) Triggering phase
    A) i, ii, iii, and iv
    B) i, iii, ii and iv
    C) ii, i, iv an iii

    D) ii, iii, iv and i


    3. A attaches itself to executable files and replicates, when the infected
    program is executed, by finding other executable files to infect.
    A) Stealth virus
    B) Polymorphic Virus
    C) Parasitic Virus
    D) Macro Virus
    4. .. is a form of virus explicitly designed to hide itself from detection by
    antivirus software.
    A) Stealth virus
    B) Polymorphic Virus
    C) Parasitic Virus
    D) Macro Virus
    5. A .. creates copies during replication that are functionally equivalent but
    have distinctly different bit patterns.
    A) Boot Sector Virus
    B) Polymorphic Virus
    C) Parasitic Virus
    D) Macro Virus
    6. A portion of the Polymorphic virus, generally called a .. , creates, a
    random encryption, key to encrypt the remainder of the virus.
    A) mutual engine
    B) mutation engine
    C) multiple engine
    D) polymorphic engine
    7. State whether the following statement is true.
    i) A macro virus is platform independent.
    ii) Macro viruses infect documents, not executable portions of code.
    A) i-only
    B) ii-only
    C) Both i and ii
    D) Non i and ii
    8. The type(s) of auto executing macros, in Microsoft word is/are
    A) Auto execute
    B) Auto macro
    C) Command macro
    D) All of the above
    9. In .., the virus places an identical copy of itself into other programs or into
    certain system areas on the disk.
    A) Dormant phase
    B) Propagation phase
    C) Triggering phase

    D) Execution phase
    10. A is a program that secretly takes over another Internet-attached
    computer and then uses that computer to launch attacks.
    A) Worm
    B) Zombie
    C) Virus
    D) Trap doors
    Answers:

    1.
    2.
    3.
    4.
    5.

    B) Zombie
    C) ii, i, iv an iii
    C) Parasitic Virus
    A) Stealth virus
    B) Polymorphic Virus

    B) mutation engine
    C) Both i and ii
    D) All of the above
    B) Propagation phase
    10. B) Zombie

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