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Information Security

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Information security involves protecting computer systems and data from unauthorized access, cyber threats, and damage. It is a core part of the computer knowledge section in various banking and government exams. Practicing these concepts helps in understanding digital signatures, network security, and access control effectively.

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Information Security Questions

Multiple choice

In which of the following security features of a trusted operating system, the owner can determine who should have access rights to an object and what those rights should be?

  1. Mandatory access control

  2. Complete mediation

  3. Input validation control

  4. Discretionary access control

  5. Output reconciliation control
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

In this security feature of trusted operating system, the owner can determine who should have access rights to an object and what those rights should be.

Multiple choice

In which of the following security features of the operating system, access to the general objects must be controlled so that one user does not have a negative effect on other users?

  1. Authentication of users

  2. Allocation and access control

  3. Protection of memory

  4. Output reconciliation control

  5. Change management control
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

In this security feature of the operating system, access to the general objects must be controlled so that one user does not have a negative effect on other users.

Multiple choice

Which of the following security mechanisms enables cardholders to verify that a merchant has a relationship with a financial institution allowing it to accept payment cards?

  1. Military security policy

  2. Transport layer security

  3. Secure electronic transaction

  4. Personal firewall

  5. Proc-type
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

This security mechanism enables cardholders to verify that a merchant has a relationship with a financial institution allowing it to accept payment cards.

Multiple choice

Which of the following security features of the operating system builds pattern of normal system usage and triggers an alarm any time the usage seems abnormal?

  1. Intrusion detection

  2. Object reuse protection

  3. Complete meditation

  4. Mandatory access control

  5. Protection of memory
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

This security feature of the operating system builds patterns of normal system usage and triggers an alarm any time the usage seems abnormal.

Multiple choice

In which of the following security techniques, a company wants to allow dial-in access by its employees, without exposing its company resources to login attacks from remote non-employees?

  1. Personal firewall

  2. Transport layer security

  3. Message integrity check

  4. Military security policy

  5. Application proxy
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

In this security technique, a company wants to allow dial-in access by its employees, without exposing its company resources to login attacks from remote non-employees.

Multiple choice

In which of the following security features of the operating system, a security-relevant action may be as simple as an individual access to an object such as file?

  1. Object reuse protection

  2. Complete mediation

  3. Accountability and audit

  4. Mandatory access control

  5. Ease of use
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

In this security feature of the operating system, a security-relevant action may be as simple as an individual access to an object such as a file.

Multiple choice

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

  1. Message authentication code

  2. Secure electronic transaction

  3. Transport layer security

  4. Sender authentication

  5. Packet filtering gateway
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

This security mechanism includes vital attributes required for secure over the internet credit-card transactions such as merchant authentication, integrity of data etc.

Multiple choice

Which of the following security standards performs the actions such as uses the session key to encrypt the message, encrypt the session key under the recipient's public key etc.?

  1. Pretty good privacy

  2. Certificate scheme

  3. Message confidentiality

  4. Packet filtering gateway

  5. Transport layer security
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

This security standard performs the actions such as uses the session key to encrypt the message, encrypt the session key under the recipient's public key etc.