Network Security and Firewalls

Covers network access security concepts including firewall types (personal, stateful inspection, application proxy, packet filter, guard), network traffic filtering, and security protocols like TLS.

5 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following firewalls is an application program that runs on a workstation to block unwanted traffic, usually from the network?

  1. Stateful inspection firewall
  2. Personal firewall
  3. Cryptographic signing
  4. Message integrity check
  5. ProtectedMemory
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following gateways is a two-headed device?

  1. Application proxy gateway
  2. Stateful inspection firewall
  3. Message integrity check
  4. ProtectedData
  5. Cryptographic signing
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following techniques allows HTTP traffic but blocks traffic using the Telnet protocol?

  1. Cryptographic hashes
  2. ProtectedData
  3. Message integrity check
  4. Stateful inspection firewall
  5. Packet filter gateway
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following firewalls receives protocol data units, interprets them and passes through the same or different protocol data units?

  1. Cryptographic hashes
  2. ProtectedData
  3. Guard
  4. Message integrity check
  5. Stateful inspection firewall
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following specifications consists the service of ensuring trust by making use of digital certificates?

  1. Transport layer security
  2. Secure electronic transaction
  3. The certificate scheme
  4. Message authentication code
  5. Sender authenticity