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Question 1 of 20
1. Question
If you _____ to my advice in the first place, you wouldn’t be in this mess right now.
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Question 2 of 20
2. Question
A company’s profits increased significantly after it implemented a new advertising campaign. Therefore, the advertising campaign caused the increase in profits. Is this a valid conclusion?
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Question 3 of 20
3. Question
Please choose the correct sentence below.
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Question 4 of 20
4. Question
We have rewritten the following sentence omitting “you.”
In a large city, you may have massive traffic jams on your daily commute to work.Please choose the correct sentence.
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Question 5 of 20
5. Question
What is the correct use of the word “their” within the following four options?
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Question 6 of 20
6. Question
He just presents the same hackneyed ideas. In this sentence the italicized word means:
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Question 7 of 20
7. Question
Which of the following words means “constant in application or effort; working diligently at a task”?
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Question 8 of 20
8. Question
Choose the most correct sentence.
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Question 9 of 20
9. Question
Choose the most correct sentence to use.
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Question 10 of 20
10. Question
He was crowing about the group’s latest conquest. As used here, the word “crowing” most nearly means:
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Question 11 of 20
11. Question
“How utterly farcical. How Impossible!” What sentence below cannot be used in place of these sentences?
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Question 12 of 20
12. Question
Bonnie and Clyde were famous criminals known for their daring and ruthlessness. Which choice below is best to replace the italicized word?
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Question 13 of 20
13. Question
Which sentence below is correct?
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Question 14 of 20
14. Question
Which of the following statements does NOT describe the GUI interface?
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Question 15 of 20
15. Question
“The War of the Worlds”, by H. G. Wells
Every moment I expected the fire of some hidden battery to spring upon
him; but the evening calm was unbroken. The figure of the Martian grew
smaller as he receded, and presently the mist and the gathering night
had swallowed him up. By a common impulse we clambered higher. Towards
Sunbury was a dark appearance, as though a conical hill had suddenly
come into being there, hiding our view of the farther country; and
then, remoter across the river, over Walton, we saw another such
summit. These hill-like forms grew lower and broader even as we stared.
What did the narrator and the others see in the distance while watching the Martian?
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Question 16 of 20
16. Question
A recent study found that students who listen to classical music while studying perform better on exams than those who do not. Based on this information, what can we conclude?
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Question 17 of 20
17. Question
Had I known the contractor was going to take a week to show up, I _____ what I needed and done the work myself. It would have been finished by now.
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Question 18 of 20
18. Question
Choose the most correct sentence.
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Question 19 of 20
19. Question
Passage:
In 1980, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared smallpox eradicated. This was a major achievement in the field of medicine as smallpox was a deadly disease that had plagued humanity for centuries. The eradication was made possible by a global effort to vaccinate as many people as possible, particularly in countries where the disease was still prevalent.
Question:
What was the reason for the eradication of smallpox?
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Question 20 of 20
20. Question
Read the following excerpt and answer the question(s) below
Excerpt from NIST Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity
“The development of cybersecurity performance metrics is evolving. Organizations should be thoughtful, creative, and careful about the ways in which they employ measurements to optimize use, while avoiding reliance on artificial indicators of current state and progress in improving cybersecurity risk management. Judging cyber risk requires discipline and should be revisited periodically. Any time measurements are employed as part of the Framework process, organizations are encouraged to clearly identify and know why these measurements are important and how they will contribute to the overall management of cybersecurity risk. They also should be clear about the limitations of measurements that are used.
For example, tracking security measures and business outcomes may provide meaningful insight as to how changes in granular security controls affect the completion of organizational objectives. Verifying achievement of some organizational objectives requires analyzing the data only after that objective was to have been achieved. This type of lagging measure is more absolute. However, it is often more valuable to predict whether a cybersecurity risk may occur, and the impact it might have, using a leading measure.”
NIST states that ‘Organizations should be thoughtful, creative, and careful’ What is one way that the author describes that could be considered thoughtful?