Lesson 4.2
4.2 The impacts of a cyber-security attack on individuals and/or organisations Quiz: OCR IT, Unit 1
20 questions
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Lesson 4.2, The impacts of a cyber-security attack on individuals and/or organisations: 20 multiple choice questions for the OCR IT (J836), Unit 1: IT in the digital world, written with Revision Ninja.
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The 20 questions
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Which impact occurs when data is permanently erased or made unusable?
- Data destruction
- Identity theft
- Denial of Service
- Data theft
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What term describes the stealing of data while it is moving across a network?
- Data theft in transit
- Data theft at rest
- Data manipulation
- Denial of Service
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What term describes copying data from a server while it is stored?
- Data modification
- Data theft at rest
- Identity theft
- Data theft in transit
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Which cyber-security impact involves misusing another person's personal details to commit fraud?
- Data destruction
- Identity theft
- Data theft at rest
- Denial of Service
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What is the primary effect of a Denial of Service attack on authorised users?
- Identity theft
- Data theft in transit
- Loss of system access
- Data modification
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Which impact is most likely when a person's details are misused to open a loan in their name?
- Data destruction
- Identity theft
- Data modification
- Denial of Service
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Why can data manipulation harm an organisation?
- Systems become faster
- Backups are restored
- Decisions become flawed
- Networks are encrypted
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A hacker alters prices in an online shop database. What impact is this?
- Identity theft
- Denial of Service
- Data manipulation
- Data theft in transit
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A hospital's records are wiped in a cyber-attack and cannot be recovered. Which impact is this?
- Data theft
- Data destruction
- Data modification
- Denial of Service
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An attacker floods a website so customers cannot log in. What impact is this?
- Data theft at rest
- Identity theft
- Data modification
- Denial of service
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Card details are intercepted while an online order travels over the internet. What impact is this?
- Data theft in transit
- Identity theft
- Data theft at rest
- Data destruction
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Which characteristic applies to the impacts of cyber-attacks?
- Attacks have single effects
- Impacts can overlap
- Damage is always physical
- Impacts occur in isolation
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Using a staff member's login to alter pay records is an example of what?
- Data destruction
- Data manipulation
- Hardware theft
- Denial of service
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A former employee keeps a client list copy on a personal drive. What impact is this?
- Data theft at rest
- Denial of service
- Data destruction
- Data theft in transit
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What cyber-security impact completely ruins or deletes files so they are unusable?
- Data interception
- Data destruction
- Data modification
- Identity theft
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A school's exam results are secretly changed by an intruder. Which impact is this?
- Data modification
- Data destruction
- Denial of service
- Data theft at rest
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Why does data theft at rest cause serious concern even if files are ignored?
- Networks stop functioning
- Confidentiality is lost
- Hardware is physically broken
- Power supplies fail
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Which impact prevents customers from paying bills via a bank website?
- Data theft in transit
- Data manipulation
- Identity theft
- Denial of service
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Which cyber-security attack impact is typically the hardest for an organisation to detect quickly?
- Total outage
- Data modification
- Hardware theft
- File deletion
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Why is total data destruction especially serious for an organisation without backups?
- Costs drop
- Speeds increase
- Files update
- Operations stop
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