System Security and Cryptography

Comprehensive quiz covering network security, firewalls, and .NET cryptographic classes for encryption and key management

15 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following .NET cryptographic classes represents the abstract base class from which all asymmetric key exchange formatters derive?

  1. AsymmetricKeyExchangeDeformatter
  2. AsymmetricKeyExchangeFormatter
  3. AsymmetricSignatureFormatter
  4. AsnEncodedData
  5. RandomNumberGenerator
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following technologies offers a substitute to the standard security implemented TCP/IP socket API?

  1. Secure electronic transaction
  2. Message authentication code
  3. Secure socket layer
  4. Cryptographic hashes
  5. ProtectedData
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following security techniques can complement the work of a conventional firewall by screening the kind of data a single host will accept?

  1. Personal firewall
  2. Packet filter gateway
  3. Secure electronic transaction
  4. The certificate scheme
  5. Proc-Type
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following .NET cryptographic classes represents the base class from which all implementations of asymmetric signature deformatters derive?

  1. AsymmetricSignatureFormatter
  2. AsymmetricKeyExchangeDeformatter
  3. AesManaged
  4. ProtectedMemory
  5. AsymmetricSignatureDeformatter
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following .NET cryptographic classes encapsulates the name of an encryption algorithm?

  1. CngAlgorithm
  2. CngAlgorithmGroup
  3. CngKeyBlobFormat
  4. AsnEncodedDataCollection
  5. RandomNumberGenerator
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which of the following security techniques, the handshake protocol messages especially the certificate verify message and finished message have been changed?

  1. Secure electronic transaction
  2. Transport layer security
  3. Packet filtering gateway
  4. Message integrity check
  5. Sender authenticity
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following .NET cryptographic classes defines the core functionality for keys that are used with CNG objects?

  1. CngKeyBlobFormat
  2. CngPropertyCollection
  3. CngKey
  4. ProtectedMemory
  5. AsnEncodedDataEnumerator
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following security mechanisms decides what services to perform on the user's behalf in accordance with its available knowledge?

  1. Packet filtering gateway
  2. Message authentication code
  3. Secure electronic transaction
  4. Guard
  5. Proc-Type
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following security standards handles all sorts of attachments such as spreadsheets, graphics, etc?

  1. Message integrity check
  2. Key-Info
  3. Secure multipurpose mail extension
  4. Secure electronic transaction
  5. The certificate scheme
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following .NET cryptographic classes contains advanced properties for key creation?

  1. CngPropertyCollection
  2. CngKeyBlobFormat
  3. AsnEncodedData
  4. ProtectedData
  5. CngKeyCreationParameters
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following .NET cryptographic classes encapsulates the name of a KSP for use with CNG objects?

  1. CngPropertyCollection
  2. CngProvider
  3. CngKeyBlobFormat
  4. Aesmanaged
  5. RandomNumberGenerator
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following security techniques looks to the inside as if it is the outside connection, while to the outside it responds just as the insider would?

  1. Application proxy gateway
  2. Packet filtering gateway
  3. Secure electronic transaction
  4. Message authentication code
  5. DEK-Info
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following .NET cryptographic classes encapsulates optional configuration attributes for the UI that CNG displays when you access a protected key?

  1. CngProperyCollection
  2. ECDsaCng
  3. CngKeyBlobFormat
  4. CngAlgorithmGroup
  5. ProtectedData
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following security mechanisms maintains state information from one packet to another in the input stream?

  1. Stateful inspection firewall
  2. Packet filtering gateway
  3. Message integrity check
  4. Secure electronic transaction
  5. Sender authenticity
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following security mechanisms generates a session key at random depending on whether confidentiality, integrity, etc?

  1. The certificate scheme
  2. DEK-Info
  3. Packet filter gateway
  4. Pretty good privacy processing
  5. ProtectedData