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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

Which of the following security standards does not mandate a policy for establishing trust rather each user is free to decide how much to trust each key received?

  1. Pretty good privacy

  2. Certificate scheme

  3. Proc-Type

  4. Transport layer security

  5. Stateful inspection firewall
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

This security standard does not mandate a policy for establishing trust rather each user is free to decide how much to trust each key received.

Multiple choice

A university wants to allow its students to use e-mail up to a limit of so many messages, this activity is achieved by using which of the following security techniques?

  1. Transport layer security

  2. Sender authentication

  3. Guard

  4. Stateful inspection firewall

  5. Message integrity check

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

A university wants to allow its students to use e-mail up to a limit of so many messages, this activity is achieved by this security standard.

Multiple choice

Which of the following security mechanisms is a collection of security protocols and format allowing consumers secure usage the present credit card payment infrastructure?

  1. Message authentication code

  2. Transport layer security

  3. Non repudiation

  4. Stateful inspection firewall

  5. Secure electronic transaction

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

This security mechanism is a collection of security protocols and format allowing consumers secure usage the present credit card payment infrastructure.

Multiple choice

By using which of the following security techniques may the user decide that certain sites such as computers on the company network are highly trustworthy but most other sites are not?

  1. Stateful inspection firewall

  2. Personal firewalls

  3. Transport layer security

  4. Sender authentication

  5. Message integrity check
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

By using this security technique, the user may decide that certain sites such as computers on the company network are highly trustworthy but most other sites are not.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is/are correct about Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks?

  1. This attack is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users.

  2. This attack is done by overloading the resource.

  3. It allows attackers to inject code into web pages viewed by other users.

  4. It does not allow attackers to inject code into web pages viewed by other users.

  5. Both (1) and (2)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

These are the correct statements about the DoS attack in web applications.