"Do I Know This Already?" Quiz
The purpose of the "Do I Know This Already?" quiz is to help you decide if you really need to read the entire chapter. If you already intend to read the entire chapter, you do not necessarily need to answer these questions now.The 10-question quiz, derived from the major sections in the "Foundation Topics" portion of the chapter, helps you determine how to spend your limited study time.
1: | What is the purpose of IP spoofing attacks?
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| 2: | What type of IP spoofing attack occurs if the attacker is not concerned with the responses from the target system?
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| 3: | What type of spoofing attack occurs when the attacker controls the routing tables to redirect the response packets back to his IP address?
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| 4: | In what mode must a network interface work to receive all packets on the physical network wire and pass those packets up to an application?
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| 5: | Which of the following protocols are susceptible to passive sniffers?
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| 6: | What type of attack is an attacker executing when she connects to a system and tries various account names and common default passwords?
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| 7: | For what purpose are man-in-the-middle attacks most commonly used?
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| 8: | Port redirection is a specific case of what general category of attack?
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| 9: | Which of the following can be used to execute a port redirection attack?
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| 10: | What is the most common means of propogating viruses and Trojan-horse applications?
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