What Is Social Engineering

question 30

Multiple Choice

What is social engineering?

• A) Using one's social skills to trick people into revealing access credentials or other information valuable to the attacker
• B) Legitimate users who purposely or accidentally misuse their access to the environment and cause some kind of business-affecting incident
• C) Small electronic devices that change user passwords automatically
• D) A method for confirming user's identities

---

Definitions:

Transaction Date

The date on which a trade or a financial transaction is completed or settled.

Debit

An accounting entry that increases asset or expense accounts, or decreases liability, equity, or revenue accounts.

Credit

Credit in finance represents a contractual agreement in which a borrower receives something of value now and agrees to repay the lender at a later date, often with interest.

Transaction

A financial event that changes the balance of two or more accounts.