CS 166 FINAL EXAM STUDY UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. WPA2 is more secure than WEP
Answer:
True
Question:
2. SSL is implemented at which level of the OSI model?
Answer:
Transport
Question:
3. The layer of the OSI model associated with the actual medium that the data is being transmitted through.
Answer:
Physical
Question:
4. The Open System Interconnection model has how many layers?
Answer:
7
Question:
5. Which basic property of the CIA triad is a DoS attack intended to defeat?
Answer:
Availability
Question:
6. Which hash function is known to be more secure?
SHA512 SHA1 MD5
Answer:
SHA512
Question:
7. The amount of effort needed to break an encryption (or mount a successful attack)
Answer:
Work Factor
Question:
8. A good hash function should be two way in order to quickly generate the input from the message digest
Answer:
False
, Question:
9. A cryptosystem that uses a different key for encryption and decryption is classified as
Answer:
Asymmetric
Question:
10. In order to make dictionary attacks more difficult, what can be done to passwords?
Answer:
Salt them
Question:
11. Which of the following best describes element integrity?
Answer:
The data contained within each element are accurate.
Question:
12. Which of the following best describes physical database integrity?
Answer:
The data in the database are immune from physical problems, such as power failures, and someone could
reconstruct the database if necessary
Question:
13. Which of the following is not a DBMS?
Apache Tomcat
MySQL
IBM DB2
Microsoft SQL Server
Answer:
Apache Tomcat
Question:
14. Which of the following best describes logical integrity?
Answer:
The structure of a database is preserved, modification to one field does not affect other fields
Question:
15. Which of the following SQL queries returns all of the records stored in a table called 'CUS- TOMERS'
?
Answer:
SELECT * FROM CUSTOMERS
Question:
16. MAMP is:
an attacker referred to as "most attacked malicious person"
a coordinated server attack, typically orchestrated by nation states.
a local Apache web server capable of running PHP and MySQL databases
a mobile app development environment hijacked by attackers
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. WPA2 is more secure than WEP
Answer:
True
Question:
2. SSL is implemented at which level of the OSI model?
Answer:
Transport
Question:
3. The layer of the OSI model associated with the actual medium that the data is being transmitted through.
Answer:
Physical
Question:
4. The Open System Interconnection model has how many layers?
Answer:
7
Question:
5. Which basic property of the CIA triad is a DoS attack intended to defeat?
Answer:
Availability
Question:
6. Which hash function is known to be more secure?
SHA512 SHA1 MD5
Answer:
SHA512
Question:
7. The amount of effort needed to break an encryption (or mount a successful attack)
Answer:
Work Factor
Question:
8. A good hash function should be two way in order to quickly generate the input from the message digest
Answer:
False
, Question:
9. A cryptosystem that uses a different key for encryption and decryption is classified as
Answer:
Asymmetric
Question:
10. In order to make dictionary attacks more difficult, what can be done to passwords?
Answer:
Salt them
Question:
11. Which of the following best describes element integrity?
Answer:
The data contained within each element are accurate.
Question:
12. Which of the following best describes physical database integrity?
Answer:
The data in the database are immune from physical problems, such as power failures, and someone could
reconstruct the database if necessary
Question:
13. Which of the following is not a DBMS?
Apache Tomcat
MySQL
IBM DB2
Microsoft SQL Server
Answer:
Apache Tomcat
Question:
14. Which of the following best describes logical integrity?
Answer:
The structure of a database is preserved, modification to one field does not affect other fields
Question:
15. Which of the following SQL queries returns all of the records stored in a table called 'CUS- TOMERS'
?
Answer:
SELECT * FROM CUSTOMERS
Question:
16. MAMP is:
an attacker referred to as "most attacked malicious person"
a coordinated server attack, typically orchestrated by nation states.
a local Apache web server capable of running PHP and MySQL databases
a mobile app development environment hijacked by attackers
