.NET Cryptography and Security Standards
Questions covering .NET Framework cryptographic classes, APIs, and general security mechanisms including SSL, PGP, S/MIME, firewalls, and secure electronic transactions.
Questions
Which of the following security techniques can generate logs of accesses?
- Stateful inspection firewall
- Personal firewall
- Message integrity check
- Transport layer security
- Sender authenticity
Which of the following .NET cryptographic classes converts a CryptoStream from base sixty four?
- ToBase64Transform
- CryptoAPITransform
- CryptoStream
- FromBase64Transform
- ProtectedMemory
Which of the following .NET cryptographic classes provides a base class that ECDH algorithm implementations can be derived from?
- ECDiffieHellman
- ECDiffieHellmanPublicKey
- ECDiffieHellmanCng
- ECDSA
- ProtectedData
Which of the following security mechanisms is designed to provide security and compression services to data generated from the application layer?
- Transport layer security
- Message authentication code
- Non repudiation
- Stateful inspection firewall
- Secure socket layer
Which of the following security standards handles all sorts of attachments, such as presentation, movies, etc?
- Key info
- Secure multipurpose internet mail extension
- Message integrity check
- Non repudiation
- Transport layer security
Which of the following security techniques receives protocol data units, interprets them and passes the same protocol data units that archieves the same result?
- Transport layer security
- Sender authenticity
- Message integrity check
- Stateful inspection firewall
- Guard
Which of the following .NET cryptographic classes contains information about the properties of a digital signature?
- RandomNumberGenerator
- DSASignatureDeformatter
- SignatureDescription
- AsymmetricSignatureFromatter
- AsymmetricSignatureDeformatter
Which of the following .NET cryptographic classes represents the super class from which all implementations of cryptographic hash algorithms must derive?
- HashAlgorithm
- KeyedHashAlgorithm
- CngAlgorithm
- CngKey
- ProtectedData
Which of the following security standards generates a message digest or hash of the message depending on whether authenticity, integrity, etc?
- Stateful inspection firewall
- The certificate scheme
- Pretty good privacy
- DEK-Info
- Transport layer security
Which of the following .NET cryptographic classes creates a DSA signature?
- DSASignatureFormatter
- DSASignatureDeformatter
- DSACryptoServiceProvider
- AsymmetricSignatureFormatter
- ProtectedMemory
Which of the following .NET cryptographic classes provides a CNG implementation of the ECDSA?
- RandomNumberGenerator
- ECDsa
- ECDiffieHellmanCng
- ECDsaCng
- CngKey
Which of the following .NET cryptographic classes computes a HMAC using the message digest 5 hash function?
- HMACMD5
- HMAC
- KeyedHashAlgorithm
- MD5
- ProtectedMemory
Which of the following security techniques blocks access from or to addresses, in the network?
- Stateful inspection firewall
- Packet filtering gateway
- The certificate scheme
- Non repudiation
- Transport layer security
Which of the following .NET cryptographic classes specifies an ECDH public key for use with the ECDiffieHellmanCng class?
- ECDiffieHellmanPublicKey
- ECDiffieHellmanCngPublicKey
- ECDiffieHellmanCng
- ECDsa
- ProtectedData
Which of the following security mechanisms encompasses the dealing between the credit card holders, payment processing establishments, the public key certificate authorities, etc?
- Secure electronic transaction
- Transport layer security
- Message authentication code
- Proc-Type
- Stateful inspection firewall