Cybersecurity and Digital Safety

Track: Computer Awareness for Banking and Recruitment Examinations
Level: Beginner
Coverage: Eight lessons (CA-09-01 to CA-09-08)
Practice: 96 original exam-style MCQs, with individual answer explanations

Digital banking depends on secure devices, trusted communications, verified users and recoverable records. This module teaches the foundational security vocabulary that appears in competitive exams, explains why familiar digital traps work, and gives practical ways to verify requests without exposing credentials or account information.

It is an educational awareness resource, not a guarantee against fraud or a replacement for an organization's incident-response procedures. All practice questions are original exam-style items, not claimed previous-year exam questions. Examples use invented scenarios; no actual customer secrets or payment credentials appear.

Module learning outcomes

After studying this module, you should be able to:

1. Recognize virus, worm, Trojan, spyware and ransomware behavior.
2. Distinguish phishing, smishing, vishing, spoofing and social engineering.
3. Explain the different roles of antivirus, firewalls, updates and access controls.
4. Identify password, OTP, authentication, authorization and MFA concepts.
5. Distinguish encryption, hashing and digital signatures by purpose.
6. Compare full/incremental/differential backup and basic recovery planning.
7. Apply sensible browser, privacy and device-security practices.
8. Recognize common online-payment fraud and safer reporting practices.