CSCU - Certified Secure Computer User Securing Network Connections Questions and Answers

Question 1

A user is working from a public coffee shop and connects to the establishment's free Wi-Fi.
To protect their data from being intercepted by others on the same network, which of the following is the MOST effective tool to use?

Accepted Answer

A Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Answer

Antivirus software

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A hardware firewall

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Disabling the SSID broadcast

Question 2

Which of the following wireless security protocols is the most recent and offers the strongest protection by using Simultaneous Authentication of Equals (SAE) to prevent offline dictionary attacks?

Accepted Answer

WPA3

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WEP

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WPA

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WPA2

Question 3

An employee brings a personal wireless router from home and connects it to the company's network to get a better signal in their office. This unauthorized device is BEST described as a:

Accepted Answer

Rogue Access Point

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Evil Twin

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Honeypot

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DMZ

Question 4

A network administrator wants to implement a security measure that restricts network access to only devices with specific hardware addresses. Which of the following should be configured?

Accepted Answer

MAC Filtering

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VPN Tunneling

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SSID Cloaking

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Port Forwarding

Question 5

Disabling the SSID broadcast on a wireless router is a security practice often referred to as 'network cloaking'. What is the primary security risk associated with this practice?

Accepted Answer

It causes client devices to actively broadcast the SSID, which can be captured by attackers.

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It significantly slows down the network for all connected users.

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It prevents authorized users from ever connecting to the network.

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It automatically disables all encryption on the network.

Question 6

A user is at an airport and sees two Wi-Fi networks with the same name: 'AIRPORT_FREE_WIFI'. One is the legitimate network, and the other is a malicious network set up by an attacker to intercept data. This type of attack is known as:

Accepted Answer

A Man-in-the-Middle attack

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A Denial-of-Service attack

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A Smurf attack

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A Phishing attack

A user is working from a public coffee shop and connects to the establishment's free Wi-Fi.To protect their data from being intercepted by others on the same network, which of the following is the MOST effective tool to use?

A user is working from a public coffee shop and connects to the establishment's free Wi-Fi.
To protect their data from being intercepted by others on the same network, which of the following is the MOST effective tool to use?