Multiple choice technology security

Given url – http://www.abc.com/viewpage.jsp?page=catalog&productid=12345 where page parameter indicate a unique page and the productid retrieves pages for a particular product. How would you optimally configure appscan to test this application? Choose 2 answers

  1. Track the page parameter

  2. Set the link limit to 2

  3. Set the redundant path limit to 5

  4. Ignore the productid parameter
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A,D Correct answer
Explanation

Tracking the page parameter allows AppScan to recognize different page types (catalog, checkout, etc.) while ignoring productid prevents redundant crawling of thousands of product URLs that share the same underlying page structure. This optimizes scan coverage without wasting resources on duplicate page patterns.

AI explanation

Since page identifies a distinct, meaningfully different page of the application, AppScan should track it so each page type gets tested as its own entity. Since productid just selects different data for the same page template, treating every value as a new page would cause massive redundant crawling, so it should be ignored (deduplicated) rather than tracked. Setting link/path limits doesn't address the specific problem of a data-selecting parameter blowing up the crawl.

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