Chapter 9 ■ Practice Test 1 205
- During a log review, Danielle discovers a series of logs that show login failures:
Jan 31 11:39:12 ip-10-0-0-2 sshd[29092]: Invalid user admin from remotehost
passwd=aaaaaaaa
Jan 31 11:39:20 ip-10-0-0-2 sshd[29098]: Invalid user admin from remotehost
passwd=aaaaaaab
Jan 31 11:39:23 ip-10-0-0-2 sshd[29100]: Invalid user admin from remotehost
passwd=aaaaaaac
Jan 31 11:39:31 ip-10-0-0-2 sshd[29106]: Invalid user admin from remotehost
passwd=aaaaaaad
Jan 31 20:40:53 ip-10-0-0-254 sshd[30520]: Invalid user admin from
remotehost passwd=aaaaaaaeWhat type of attack has Danielle discovered?
A. A pass-the-hash attack
B. A brute-force attack
C. A man-in-the-middle attack
D. A dictionary attack- What property of a relational database ensures that two executing transactions do not
affect each other by storing interim results in the database?
A. Atomicity
B. Isolation
C. Consistency
D. Durability - Kim is the system administrator for a small business network that is experiencing security
problems. She is in the office in the evening working on the problem, and nobody else is
there. As she is watching, she can see that systems on the other side of the office that were
previously behaving normally are now exhibiting signs of infection. What type of malware
is Kim likely dealing with?
A. Virus
B. Worm
C. Trojan horse
D. Logic bomb - Which of the following is an industry standard for data security?
A. F ER PA
B. H I PA A
C. SOX
D. PCI DSS