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Which are considered functional workplace documents? Select four responses.
safety guides
internal policies
safety manuals
employees' contracts
Read the excerpt from The Code Book.
The Trojan horse, another software trick, involves Eve designing a program that appears to act like a genuine encryption product, but which actually betrays the user.
What part of speech is the underlined word?
adjective
Read the excerpt from The Dark Game: True Spy Stories from Invisible Ink to CIA Moles.
[T]he Germans committed some blunders in the way they sent their secret radio messages, giving the British help in their task. The first mistake of German intelligence was the error of arrogance, believing that the British were not up to the challenge of deciphering their messages. Another mistake they made was sending duplicates and even triplicates of some of their messages, with each one using a different cipher key.
Which word best describes the tone of the passage?
critical
A good summary of an informational text must
state, in the student's own words, only the most important ideas.
Read this paragraph from The Dark Game.
To assure that the intelligence reached the commanders as quickly as possible—the postal services having become slow and unreliable—Van Lew created a system of couriers that moved the intelligence on its way without burdening one operative with the responsibility (and danger) of making the entire trip. She also created a credible cover story for each of her couriers, should they be stopped and questioned along the way.
The central idea of this paragraph is that
Van Lew used multiple messengers to get her information across.
Read the excerpt from The Code Book.
Despite the enormous strength of RSA and other modern ciphers, cryptanalysts are still able to play a valuable role in intelligence gathering. Their success is demonstrated by the fact that cryptanalysts are in greater demand than ever before—the NSA is still the world's largest employer of mathematicians.
What is the central idea of this paragraph?
Skilled people are still important national security workers.
Read the excerpt from The Dark Game: True Spy Stories from Invisible Ink to CIA Moles.
Armed with invisible ink, a cipher system, and a passion to end the war and preserve the Union, Elizabeth Van Lew became Butler's eyes and ears in the Confederate capital city. Truth be told, however, she became much more than that. She became a spymaster, the person responsible for running a network of agents, couriers, and safe houses that was very active during the war.
Which word best describes the tone of the passage?
respectful
A central idea in The Code Book is the concern that much of the world's information is not secure. Which lines from the passage best support this central idea? Check all that apply.
only a small fraction of the information flowing around the world is securely encrypted
few of these people take adequate precautions in terms of privacy
law enforcers and anybody else with a curious mind can get their hands on more information
How does the first paragraph of The Dark Game best support the central idea that the Civil War was a long war?
It shares the detail that the war lasted four years.
Fortify is a verb that means "to protect and strengthen." A fortification is a -____________ that means "something that protects."
noun
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