What is the primary purpose of spam email?

To steal a user's identity by impersonating a trusted entity

To deliver unsolicited messages, often for advertising or malicious purposes

To encrypt a user's files and demand payment

To overload a server with requests

What is the primary characteristic of a phishing attack?

It tricks users into revealing sensitive information by impersonating a trusted entity

It exploits a software vulnerability to gain unauthorized access

It uses malicious software to encrypt files and demand a ransom

It floods a network with traffic to make it unavailable

A company with 200 employees wants to centralize user account management so that when an employee leaves, their access to all network resources is removed in one place. Which solution should the administrator implement?

Implement a password manager for each employee

Create local accounts on each server and workstation

Deploy Active Directory and configure all resources to authenticate against it

Use a shared generic account for all employees

Which of the following is an example of the 'something you are' authentication factor?

A one-time code from an authenticator app

A hospital's patient portal transmits lab results between the web server and the user's browser. The IT team wants to ensure that an attacker intercepting the traffic cannot read the results and that the server the user is talking to is genuinely the hospital's server. Which combination of measures directly addresses both requirements?

Apply a strong password policy to all portal accounts

Use a VPN tunnel between the user's device and the hospital's firewall

Enable HTTPS with a certificate from a trusted public CA

Install an antivirus agent on the web server

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What is the primary purpose of spam email?
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What is the primary characteristic of a phishing attack?
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43application · medium
A company with 200 employees wants to centralize user account management so that when an employee leaves, their access to all network resources is removed in one place. Which solution should the administrator implement?
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44foundation · easy
Which of the following is an example of the 'something you are' authentication factor?
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45application · medium
A hospital's patient portal transmits lab results between the web server and the user's browser. The IT team wants to ensure that an attacker intercepting the traffic cannot read the results and that the server the user is talking to is genuinely the hospital's server. Which combination of measures directly addresses both requirements?
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