Security Awareness Month Quiz
Happy Security Awareness Month! There’s no better time to educate yourself – or reassure your existing knowledge, as the case may be – about the dos and don’ts of security and being safe with computers. Let’s see how much you know!
- 1.It's safe to open e-mail attachments and click on e-mail links, even if the message is from someone you don't know.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.It's ok to share your work password with others.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.The following are characteristics of a good work password:
- A.
The password is the same as another online account
- B.
The password is at least 4 characters long
- C.
The password uses a combination of lowercase, uppercase, and special characters
- D.
The password contains part of a family members birthday
- E.
All of the above
- 4.If you received a message that you suspect may be spam or a phishing attempt, what should you do with the message?
- A.
Open it up and click any links or attachments in the message
- B.
Delete the message
- C.
Forward it to a co-worker to see if they can open it
- 5.Which of the following should you not do with your password?
- A.
Say it out loud
- B.
Email it to an associate
- C.
Provide it to your manager
- D.
All of the above
- 6.Where should keep your password in case you forget it?
- A.
Someplace easily seen from your computer
- B.
Someplace out of sight like in a drawer or under your keyboard
- C.
If you have to write down your password, it should be stored in a password keeper or vault.
- 7.Password challenge questions, used for resetting passwords on some Internet sites, should not be used if they contain publicly available information.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.It is safe to connect a USB drive that you found in the parking lot to your work computer.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.If someone calls you and requests information about where you work, the employees, your work account, passwords, or personal information about yourself you should:
- A.
Answer them as truthfully as possible
- B.
Give them your work e-mail address so they can email you the information they need
- C.
Deny their request and contact Security about the call.
- 10.It's ok to setup a rule to auto-forward all of your work e-mail to an external e-mail account like Gmail or Hotmail.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 11.It's not OK to accept 3rd party/customer data without permissions from Information Security.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 12.An 8 character password containing a mix of uppercase, lowercase and special characters can be cracked in under a day.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 13.If you set your anti-virus software to auto-update then you don't need Windows Automatic Updates.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 14.According to the FBI and the Computer Security Institute, most information security breaches occur due to what?
- A.
External Hackers
- B.
Poor Programming Techniques
- C.
Internal Employees
- D.
Bad Firewall Settings
- 15.It is not safe to e-mail business documents to your home computer to work on them.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 16.If you are browsing the Internet and suddenly you get a prompt asking you to download a file and run it, what should you do?
- A.
Download the file and run it.
- B.
Cancel the download and close your browser.
- C.
Download the file and e-mail it to a co-worker to see if it is legitimate.
- 17.What type of attack relies on the trusting nature of employees and the art of deception?
- A.
Fraud
- B.
Phishing
- C.
Social Engineering
- D.
Dumpster Diving
- 18.You receive an e-mail message from a deposed Prince of Nigeria. What do you do?
- A.
Forward it to all of your friends
- B.
Follow all his instructions to the letter and wait for your check in the mail
- C.
Highlight the message and hit "Control + Shift + Delete" to completely remove the message
- 19.You are using e-mail to send and receive private information (e.g. medical data, salary information, social security numbers, passwords) for an approved, business need. What should you do?
- A.
Encrypt the information before sending it through e-mail
- B.
Put the information in many small messages so that only a small information will be exposed if it falls into the wrong hands
- C.
Put all of the information in one large message before sending it to reduce the chance that it will fall into the wrong hands
- 20.It's OK to post personal information about yourself on Twitter or Facebook.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 21.It's OK to click website links in e-mails, from other untrusted websites, or in IM messages that go to sites that I trust (Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc).
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 22.When entering personal data such as credit card information into a website, it is important to look for the lock symbol or verify the url starts with 'https" to insure the transaction is protected by SSL encryption.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 23.Which of the following is the best protection technique for a home wireless network
- A.
MAC address filtering
- B.
Hidden SSID
- C.
WEP encryption
- D.
WPA2 encryption
- 24.If you receive an e-mail plea from a family member asking for money, it's OK to repond and wire them money since they sent the message from their e-mail account.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 25.If you've spoken to your kids about being safe on the Internet, then there is no need to filter web content for them.
- A.
True
- B.
False
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