Final Exam Study Guide
The final exam consists of 8 questions which relate to material presented during the entire course including assigned reading from the text, lectures, tutorials, and threaded discussions. The exam questions are randomly selected for each student from question pools so that the questions you get will be different from those another student gets. For each of the 8 Terminal Course Objectives covered in the course there will be one question. You should expect 7 essay questions and 1 multiple choice question.
Please be sure to read each question carefully and check your answer to be sure you addressed exactly what was asked for in the question. Often students lose points needlessly because they did not answer the question asked. Perhaps they read the question too quickly and made assumptions in their haste. There is no need great haste. You will have 3.5 hours to complete the exam which, when divided evenly, comes out to over 26 minutes per question. An extra 15 seconds to read the question carefully will be time well spent.
Please use the TCO Guide posted in Doc Sharing to help you. It will help you find where in our course the various TCOs were covered.
In preparing for the exam you should be familiar with:
How organizations can be damaged by loss of data confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Methods of maintaining the integrity of database content.
Operating system security evaluation.
Determining threats and vulnerabilities in networked environments.
How networking protocols can comply with fundamental security concepts.
Functional and implementation aspects of VPNs.
Functional uses of cryptography.
Deciphering simple cryptographic messages.
The current major laws related to computer crime and issues related to the enforcement of these laws.
Security controls as they relate to data confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Security controls as they affect business