Practice Questions

Objective 3.1: Analyze and differentiate among types of malware.

1. Which of the following is the most common result of a buffer overflow?

•  A. Privilege escalation

•  B. Disguised malicious programs

•  C. Code replication

•  D. Collection of personal data

2. Which of the following best describes a virus?

•  A. An action that exceeds the storage-space allocation of an application

•  B. A program disguised as a useful application

•  C. A program designed to attach itself to other code and replicate

•  D. Software that communicates information from a user’s system without notifying the user

3. Which of the following is best describes a Trojan?

•  A. It infects other systems only after a user executes the application that it is buried in.