End Point Security and Network Access Control

Test your knowledge of .NET cryptographic classes and network security techniques for endpoint security and access control.

15 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following .NET cryptographic classes the set of valid key sizes for the symmetric cryptographic algorithms?

  1. CngKey
  2. CngKeyBlobFormat
  3. AsymmetricKeyExchangeFormatter
  4. KeySizes
  5. RandomNumberGenerator
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following security standards performs some action such as transmit the message to the recipient depending on whether confidentiality, authenticity, etc?

  1. Pretty good privacy
  2. Message integrity check
  3. Proc-Type
  4. Stateful inspection firewall
  5. Transport layer security
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

We can add functionality to a proxy firewall until it starts to look a lot like, which of the following security techniques?

  1. Non repudiation
  2. Transport layer security
  3. The certificate scheme
  4. Stateful inspection firewall
  5. Guard
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following .NET cryptographic classes computes a MAC using Triple data encryption standard algorithm for the input data CryptoStream?

  1. TripleDES
  2. MACTripleDES
  3. DES
  4. DESCryptoServiceProvider
  5. ProtectedData
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following .NET cryptographic classes computes a HMAC using the secure hash algorithm 1 hash function?

  1. HMACSHA256
  2. HMACSHA384
  3. HMACSHA1
  4. HashAlgorithm
  5. ProtectedData
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which of the following security mechanisms is the data received from the application compressed, signed and encrypted?

  1. The certificate scheme
  2. Message integrity
  3. Secure socket layer
  4. Transport layer security
  5. Stateful inspection firewall
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following security techniques essentially intrudes in the middle of this protocol exchange, seeming like a destination in communication with the sender that is outside the firewall?

  1. Stateful inspection firewall
  2. Application proxy
  3. Message integrity check
  4. DEK-Info
  5. Transport layer security
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following .NET cryptographic classes represents the abstract class from which all implementations of keyed hash algorithms must derive?

  1. KeyedHashAlgorithm
  2. HashAlgorithm
  3. CngKey
  4. CngKeyBlobFormat
  5. ProtectedMemory
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following security techniques can generate logs of accesses, which can be useful to examine in case something harmful does slip through the firewall?

  1. Stateful inspection firewall
  2. Personal firewall
  3. Transport layer security
  4. Message integrity check
  5. Sender authenticity
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following .NET cryptographic classes represents a read-only set of ManifestSignatureInformation objects?

  1. ProtectedMemory
  2. ManifestSignatureInformation
  3. SignatureDescription
  4. ManifestSignatureInformationCollection
  5. AsymmetricSignatureFromatter
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following security mechanisms includes vital attributes required for secure over the internet credit-card transactions such as integrity of data, cardholder account authentication, etc?

  1. Transport layer security
  2. Non repudiation
  3. Message authentication code
  4. Stateful inspection firewall
  5. Secure electronic transaction
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following .NET cryptographic classes represents the abstract class from which all mask generator algorithms must derive?

  1. RandomNumberGenerator
  2. PKCS1MaskGeneration Method
  3. MaskGeneration
  4. CngKey
  5. QueryString parameter
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following .NET cryptographic classes provides a CNG implementation of the (message digest 5) 128-bit hashing algorithm?

  1. MD5Cng
  2. MD5
  3. ECDsaCNG
  4. CngProvider
  5. ProtectedData
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following security techniques uses either source or destination address or specific protocol type to control access to packets?

  1. Stateful inspection firewall
  2. Packet filtering gateway
  3. The certificate scheme
  4. Sender authenticity
  5. Transport layer security
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following .NET cryptographic classes computes the message digest 5 hash value for the input data using the implementation provided by CSP?

  1. MD5CryptoServiceProvider
  2. MD5
  3. DESCryptoServiceProvider
  4. DSACryptoServiceProvider
  5. ProtectedMemory