Tech+ Pre-Assessment

A technician walks into the office with a UPS. What sort of threat will this device prepare a system for?

• Denial-of-service
• Data Redundancy
• Power Outage
• Wiretapping

Mark received an email from a software company claiming his account will be disabled soon. The email contains several spelling errors, an attachment, and states he should open the attachment for further instructions. What should Mark do?

• Forward the email to a friend and ask for advice.
• Reply to the sender and ask if the attachment is safe.
• Delete the email without opening the attachment.
• Open the attachment because he has anti-virus software installed.

Your friend Charles has confirmed that someone has been using his password to log in to his social media account. He believes that two bank accounts may also have been compromised. Which of the following password best practices has Andrew MOST likely violated?

• Password length
• Password age
• Password reuse
• Multi-factor authentication

Which kind of online attack involves pretending to be a legitimate company to get sensitive information?

• Dumpster Diving
• Virus
• Spyware
• Phishing

Which of the following encoding schemes would MOST likely be used to represent an emoji?

• Unicode
• ASCII
• Binary
• Hexadecimal

As a software developer, you need to create a variable to street addresses. Which data type would you MOST likely use?

• Float
• String
• Integer
• Boolean

Which of the following lists the basic computing and processing steps in order?

• Input, processing, output, and storage
• Input, retrieval, processing, and storage
• Input/output, processing, and storage
• Input, retrieval, output, and storage

What is the collective name for creations that are not the intellectual property of anybody?

• Royalty Free
• Unclaimed Works
• Public Domain
• Federal Reserve

What is the number of instructions a CPU can perform per second measured in?

• Ohms
• Bits
• Hertz
• Bytes

The basic (and smallest) unit of computer information is the bit (binary digit). Memory and file sizes are commonly measured in multiples of bits. What is the first multiple of a bit called?

• Kbps
• Kilobyte
• Decimal
• Byte