Module 2 Graded Quiz: Cybersecurity Skills :Introduction to Cybersecurity Careers (IBM Cybersecurity Analyst Professional Certificate) Answers 2025
1. Question 1
What stores information like user data, transactions, or product records?
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✅ Database
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❌ Program
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❌ Cloud
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❌ Network
2. Question 2
Skill involving firewalls, IDS, secure network architectures
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❌ Hardware
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❌ Programming basics
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✅ Networking
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❌ Operating system
3. Question 3
Simulating hacker activities to discover weaknesses
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❌ Vulnerability assessment
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❌ Authentication
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❌ Risk management
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✅ Threat assessment (expected answer: penetration-like simulation of threats)
4. Question 4
Skill responsible for maintaining security infrastructure + incident response
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❌ Threat management
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❌ Risk management
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❌ Information security & assurance
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✅ Security operations
5. Question 5
Purpose of information security & assurance
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❌ Ensuring compliance
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❌ Verifying identity
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❌ Maintaining infrastructure
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❌ Penetration testing
Correct answer:
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Ensuring compliance with security policies + protecting information assets
👉 Expected selection: Ensuring compliance with policies
6. Question 6
Soft skill for prioritizing tasks & mitigating breaches
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❌ Research
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❌ Documentation
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✅ Time management
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❌ Teamwork
7. Question 7
Soft skill for innovative threat-countering strategies
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❌ Attention to detail
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✅ Creative thinking
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❌ Problem solving
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❌ Critical thinking
8. Question 8
Role of problem-solving in cybersecurity
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✅ Rapid identification & analysis of incident causes + developing solutions
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❌ Thinking from different angles (creative thinking)
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❌ Spotting fine details (attention to detail)
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❌ Threat landscape analysis (critical thinking)
9. Question 9
Top skill for a Cybercrime analyst
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❌ Risk Management
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❌ Auditing
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✅ Digital forensics
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❌ Accounting
10. Question 10
Soft skill involving ethics, accountability, respect
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❌ Critical thinking
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❌ Problem solving
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✅ Professionalism
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❌ Time management
🧾 Summary Table
| Q# | Correct Answer |
|---|---|
| 1 | Database |
| 2 | Networking |
| 3 | Threat assessment |
| 4 | Security operations |
| 5 | Ensuring compliance |
| 6 | Time management |
| 7 | Creative thinking |
| 8 | Incident cause analysis & solution |
| 9 | Digital forensics |
| 10 | Professionalism |