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Information Security

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Information security involves protecting computer systems and data from unauthorized access, cyber threats, and damage. It is a core part of the computer knowledge section in various banking and government exams. Practicing these concepts helps in understanding digital signatures, network security, and access control effectively.

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Information Security Questions

Multiple choice

What makes a password strong and secure?

  1. 12 characters long, a mix of numbers, letters and symbols

  2. 6 characters long, only numbers

  3. 8 characters long, mix of numbers and letters

  4. Symbols, symbols, symbols
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

A strong password should be long and contain a diverse set of characters, including uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols, to prevent brute-force attacks.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is a strong and secure password?

  1. abcdefg123456

  2. AbCdEfG123456
  3. SiTbTiTw2018$$
  4. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Option C is the strongest password because it uses a mix of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and special symbols, making it resistant to guessing.

Multiple choice

What is identity theft?

  1. When someone steals your private information

  2. When someone gives you candy

  3. When someone steals your lunch money

  4. When someone steals your socks
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Identity theft occurs when someone wrongfully obtains and uses another person's personal data, typically for financial gain or fraud.

Multiple choice business mathematics and statistics sampling methods population and sampling basic concepts of sampling sampling techniques and statistical inference

A security checkpoint that cheks every vehicle entering into the mall is an example of which of the following?

  1. Census inquiry

  2. Stratified random sampling

  3. Systematic sampling

  4. Simple random sampling
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

A census inquiry involves examining every single unit in the population. Checking every vehicle is a census of the vehicles.

Multiple choice business organisation and correspondence bank 1 - definition, kinds, functions and importance other services and modern trends in banking sector types of banks diversified banking functions

What is OTP in credit card transactions?

  1. Odd Transaction Password

  2. Owner's Trading Passcode

  3. One Time Password

  4. One Time Pincode
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
C.
An OTP or one-time password or one-time pin, is a password that is valid for only one login session or transaction, on a computer system or other digital device. It avoids a number of shortcomings that were associated with traditional password-based authentications.The most important advantage of OTP is that it is not vulnerable to replay attacks. This implies that a intruder who records an OTP that was already used to conduct a transaction will not be able to abuse it, as it will be no longer valid.
Multiple choice organization of commerce and management emerging modes of services e-advertising, e-marketing and e-security structure of business introduction to internet and e-commerce

Essential requirement(s) of e-commerce transactions is/are ________.

  1. confidentiality

  2. integrity

  3. encryption

  4. all of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

E-commerce stands for electronic commerce where the information or trade between two parties are done through electronic transmission of data which includes text, images etc. 

The biggest disadvantage of e-commerce is lack of confidentiality of the information shared between different business units. Therefore, the essential requirements of e-commerce are confidentiality, integrity and encryption of private information. 

Multiple choice organization of commerce and management emerging modes of services e-advertising, e-marketing and e-security structure of business introduction to internet and e-commerce

______ refers to the art of protecting information by transforming it (encrypting it) into an unreadable format.

  1. Cryptography

  2. Autography

  3. Encryption

  4. Transformation
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Cryptography refers to the art of protecting all the confidential information from the competitors by transforming such information into some unreadable form through the way of encrypting them into certain languages.

Multiple choice wireless connections parts of computer physics

Data are send by email for security purpose in which form

  1. encrypted

  2. binary

  3. decrypted

  4. All of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Data are sending by email for security purpose in encrypted form.

End-to-end email encryption is a method of transmitting data where only the sender and receiver can read email messages. With end-to-end email encryption, the data is encrypted on the sender's system. Only the intended recipient will be able to decrypt and read it.

Email encryption involves encrypting, or disguising, the content of email messages in order to protect potentially sensitive information from being read by anyone other than intended recipients. Email encryption often includes authentication.


Multiple choice wireless connections parts of computer physics

________ is a personal security code for GSM subscribers 

  1. SMS

  2. Advice of change

  3. Voice mails

  4. All of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Voicemails is a personal security code for GSM (global system for mobile communication) subscribers.

GSM (global system for mobile communication) services are a standard collection of applications and features available to mobile phone subscribers all over the world. The GSM standards are defined by the 3GPP collaboration and implemented in hardware and software by equipment manufacturers and mobile phone operators. 

GSM provides recommendations, not requirements. The GSM specifications define the functions and interface requirements in detail but do not address the hardware.

A voicemail system is a computer-based system that allows users and subscribers to exchange personal voice messages; to select and deliver voice information; and to process transactions relating to individuals, organizations, products and services, using an ordinary telephone. The term is also used more broadly to denote any system of conveying a stored telecommunications voice messages, including using an answering machine.


Multiple choice organization of commerce and management emerging modes of services e-commerce and mobile commerce recent trends of business introduction to internet and e-commerce

The acronym of vital information under siege is __________.

  1. Malware

  2. IP Address

  3. VIRUS

  4. GPS
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

VIRUS refers to vital information under siege. A computer virus is a malicious software that is loaded onto a users software without the user's knowledge and performs malicious functions. But not all viruses are destructive though.

Multiple choice organization of commerce and management recent trends of business e-commerce and mobile commerce introduction to internet and e-commerce emerging modes of services

What is OTP in credit card transactions?

  1. Odd Transaction Password

  2. Owner's Transaction Password

  3. One Time Password

  4. One Time Pincode
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

A one time password ( OTP ) is an automatically generated numeric or alphanumeric string of characters that authenticates a user for single transaction or session. OTP is necessary in credit card transactions so that it cannot be used by any unauthorised person.