Year 7 - Keeping Data Safe

The recommended minimum character length for a password is?

• 6 characters
• 8 characters
• 10 characters
• 12 characters

Identity theft can occur when

• someone steals your passport
• someone steals your mobile phone
• someone uses your personal information to gain access to your account
• All of the above

An email or link used to gather private information illegally is known as..

• Phishing
• Spam mail

In order to keep your password secure you should:

• write it down and keep it in a drawer at home
• choose something memorable like your name so you don’t need to write it down
• use your date of birth
• choose something memorable only to yourself

the best form of a secure password are combinations containing..

• letters and numbers
• uppercase & lowercase letters and numbers
• uppercase & lowercase letters and numbers, as well as special characters

Which of the following is unlikely to damage or delete data?

• a virus
• a system crash
• backing up data

Which would be the best method of backing up your school work?

• printing out paper copies and filing them away
• keep a second copy of the data on your hard disk
• make a copy on a removable storage device, eg USB stick

In order to restrict access to secure data, a system of what should be used?

• Virus Checker
• Password
• multi-user operating system

Encryption is a method of..

• scrambling data
• deleting data
• backing up data

a person who breaks codes and passwords to gain unauthorised access into computer system is known as a..

• Hacker
• System Analyst
• ICT Technician
• System Engineer