Computer Security Interview Questions
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What is an easy way to configure a network to allow only a single computer to login on a particular jack?

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You are remoted in to a headless system in a remote area. You have no physical access to the hardware and you need to perform an OS installation. What do you do?

1 4088

On a Windows network, why is it easier to break into a local account than an AD account?

1 5750

 What is the difference between an HIDS and a NIDS?

1 6754

What is the CIA triangle?

1 2034

You find out that there is an active problem on your network. You can fix it, but it is out of your jurisdiction. What do you do?

1 3580

You are an employee for a tech department in a non-management position. A high-level executive demands that you break protocol and allow him to use his home laptop at work. What do you do?

1 2515

 What is the difference between a vulnerability and an exploit?

1 2234

 How would you compromise an “Office Workstation” at a hotel?

1 4863

What is worse in Firewall Detection, a false negative or a false positive? And why?

1 7927

What’s better, a red team or a blue team?

1 2155

 What’s the difference between a White Box test and a Black Box test?

2 2290

 What is the difference between Information Protection and Information Assurance?

1 2089

 How would you lock down a mobile device?

1 1907

What is the difference between closed-source and open-source? Which is better?

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I’m the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. I make more in an afternoon than you make in a year. I don’t care about this stupid security stuff, it just costs time and money and slows everything down. Why should I care about this junk?

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What is the difference between a virus and a trojan?

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A phonetic password generator picks two segments randomly for each six-letter password. The form of each segment is CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant), where V= < a, e, i, o, u > and C = (V.) ̅ What is the total password population? What is the probability of an adversary guessing a password correctly?

3831


What is data source in computer?

560


What is a driver in computer?

541






What is a spooler on a computer?

566


1. Assume that passwords are selected from four-character combination of 26 alphabetic characters. Assume that an adversary is able to attempt passwords at a rate of one per second. a. Assuming no feedback to the adversary until each attempt has been completed, what is the expected time to recover the correct password? b. Assuming feedback to the adversary flagging an error as each incorrect character is entered, what is the expected time to discover the correct password?

1682


What is the most commonly used computer application?

543


What is dora process in DHCP and how it works?

2445


What are accessories in computer?

544


What is a table in computer?

550


How would you login to Active Directory from a Linux or Mac box?

1306


 What is Exfiltration?

1422


What is meant by computer application?

550


What are the most common computer applications?

554