1. What does a lock icon symbolize besides a website name?

The website needs a password to be accessed

The website cannot be accessed without the site admin’s permission
The website is a secure website
The website is not accessible at the moment

2. 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?
Adobe Reader
Antivirus software
One Drive
Skype

3. 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?
War driver
Evil twin
Social engineering
Bluesnarfing

4. 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?
Differential backup
Incremental backup
Online data backup
Full system backup

5. 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?
Network as a Service
Software as a Service
Infrastructure as a Service
Platform as a Service

6. 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?
Laptop screen malfunction
Hard drive malfunction
Unexpected crashes
Slow system

7. Which of the following is the strongest password?

Domike*
Donna1992
donnamike92
Pa#72tLe

8. Which of the following terms refers to the process of protecting information, and the
infrastructure that stores it?
Keystroke logging
Maintenance
Availability
Data security

9. 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?
Information
Data
Archives
Indicators

10. 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?
Hardware theft
 Malware attack
Natural disaster
Software theft

11. 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?
iCloud backup
SIM lock
Find my iPhone
System updates

12. Which of the following fundamental concepts of security refers to an action taken in advance to
protect the system against threats or dangers?
Maintenance
Nonrepudiation
Precaution
Reaction

13. Which of the following software programs runs on the internet and allows users to find, access,
and display web pages?
Email
Web browsers
Extensions
Search engine

14. 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?
Public Cloud
Private Cloud
Community cloud
Hybrid Cloud

15. 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
Local Area Network
Virtual Private Network?
Wide Area Network

16. Which of the following terms refers to the process that ensures accuracy of the sender and
receiver of a message?
 Nonrepudiation
Data
Authenticity
Availability

17. Which of the following terms refers to a collection of information that defines or describes the
user and his or her interests?
Facebook group
Account settings
Timeline
Profile

18. 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?
Software failure
Computer virus
Human error
Natural disaster

19. 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

20. 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?
Man in the middle attack
War driver
Eavesdropping
Phishing

21. 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 Updates
Windows Firewall
 FileVault
Task manager

22. 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? YANGTIDAK
BitLocker
Adobe
Skype
SPAMfighter

23. 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?
FileVault
Parental control
Jump lists
UAC slider bar

24. 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?
Bookmarks method
Integrity checking
Scanning
Heuristics analysis

25. 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?
Pornography
Social engineering
Grooming
Phishing

26. 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?
Phishing
Malicious email attachment
Nigerian scam
Spy-phishing

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

Extensions
App Store
Internet Accounts
Time Machine

28. 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?
Signature
Header
Footer
Body

29. 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?
Task manager
Jump lists
Simple file sharing
Windows Defender

30. 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?
Bookmarks method
Integrity checking
Heuristics analysis
Scanning

31. Which of the following terms refers to malicious software that is specifically built to target mobile
phones and smartphones systems?
Unmanaged applications
Broken cryptography
Mobile malware ...............
Phishing

32. 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 migration
Data ownership
Data location
Data permanency

33. 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
Malware
Dropbox
Bitlocker

34. Which of the following websites can Windows Phone users use to locate their stolen smartphone?
http://www.symbianguru.com/tracking-mobile-with-phone-guardian.html
account.microsoft.com/devices
iCloud.com
android.com/devicemanager

35. 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?
Phishing
Hoax mail
Malicious user redirection
Malicious email attachment
36. 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?
Hybrid cloud
Private cloud
Community cloud
Public cloud

37. 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?
Norton
Kaspersky
Avast Pro
SPAMfighter

38. 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?
Software failure
Computer virus
Human error
Hardware theft

39. 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
iOS
Android

40. 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?
Wide Area Network
 Virtual Private Network
Ethernet Physical Layer ?
Local Area Network

41. 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?
Who can look me up ?
Deactivate account
Login alerts
Where you’re logged in

42. 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?
ActiveX
Extensions
Cookies
Java

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

44. 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?
Encryption
Virus
Firewall
Disk encryption

45. 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?
Start using Ethernet
Install a latest antivirus software and scan her computer
Stop using wireless internet connection
Choose a suitable encryption method
46. 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
Virus
Ransomware
Adware

47. 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?
Social engineering
Too much pressure at school
Victim of online child abuse>?
Unsolicited emails

48. 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?
Social engineering
Identity Theft
Nigerian scam
Phishing

49. 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?
Platform as a Service
Software as a Service
Infrastructure as a Service
Application as a Service

50. Which of the following is an encryption program in Mac that helps users to protect their data?
Safari
SPAMfighter
FileVault
Lockbin