Network Security

Questions about network security concepts including access control methods, digital signatures, and types of security attacks.

5 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following accesses is based on the position that user have within the system and on rules stating what access are allowed to users in given positions?

  1. Mandatory access control
  2. Role based access control
  3. Asymmetric key cryptography
  4. Symmetric key cryptography
  5. Identification system
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is a data string that associates a message with some originating entity?

  1. Identification step
  2. Verification step
  3. Digital signature
  4. Open design
  5. Efficient
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which attack, an unauthorized party inserts counterfeit objects into the system?

  1. Fabrication
  2. Interruption
  3. Modification
  4. Cipher
  5. Symmetric key cryptography
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What happens when an unauthorized entity pretends to be another entity?

  1. Reply attack
  2. Masquerade
  3. Alteration of message
  4. Identification step
  5. Fail safe defaults
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following accesses is based on the identity of the requestor and on access rules stating what requestors are allowed to do?

  1. Discretionary access control
  2. Mandatory access control
  3. Least privilege
  4. Open design
  5. Check for current authority