WGU D487 SECURE SOFTWARE DESIGN |OA| OBJECTIVE
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ASSESSMENT| ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
WGU D487 Secure Software Design |OA| Objective Assessment|
Actual Questions and Answers, Exams of Software Design
What are the two common best principles of software applications in the development process? Choose
2 answers.
Quality code
Secure code
Information security
Integrity
Availability
Quality code
Secure code
"Quality code" is correct. Quality code is efficient code that is easy to maintain and reusable.
"Secure code" is correct. Secure code authorizes and authenticates every user transaction, logs the
transaction, and denies all unauthorized requisitions.
What ensures that the user has the appropriate role and privilege to view data?
Authentication
Multi-factor authentication
Encryption
Information security
Authorization
Authorization
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Authorization ensures a user's information and credentials are approved by the system.
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, WGU D487 SECURE SOFTWARE DESIGN |OA| OBJECTIVE
03/29/2026
ASSESSMENT| ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Which security goal is defined by "guarding against improper information modification or destruction
and ensuring information non-repudiation and authenticity"?
Integrity
Quality
Availability
Reliability
Integrity
The data must remain unchanged by unauthorized users and remain reliable from the data entry point
to the database and back.
Which phase in an SDLC helps to define the problem and scope of any existing systems and determine
the objectives of new systems?
Requirements
Design
Planning
Testing
Planning
The planning stage sets the project schedule and looks at the big picture.
What happens during a dynamic code review?
Programmers monitor system memory, functional behavior, response times, and overall performance.
Customers perform tests to check software meets requirements.
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An analysis of computer programs without executing them is performed.
Input fields are supplied with unexpected input and tested.
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, WGU D487 SECURE SOFTWARE DESIGN |OA| OBJECTIVE
03/29/2026
ASSESSMENT| ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Programmers monitor system memory, functional behavior, response times, and overall performance.
How should you store your application user credentials in your application database?
Use application logic to encrypt credentials
Store credentials as clear text
Store credentials using Base 64 encoded
Store credentials using salted hashes
Store credentials using salted hashes
Hashing is a one-way process that converts a password to ciphertext using hash algorithms. Password
salting adds random characters before or after a password prior to hashing to obfuscate the actual
password.
Which software methodology resembles an assembly-line approach?
V-model
Agile model
Iterative model
Waterfall model
Waterfall model
Waterfall model is a continuous software development model in which the development steps flow
steadily downwards.
Which software methodology approach provides faster time to market and higher business value?
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Iterative model
Waterfall model
3
03/29/2026
ASSESSMENT| ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
WGU D487 Secure Software Design |OA| Objective Assessment|
Actual Questions and Answers, Exams of Software Design
What are the two common best principles of software applications in the development process? Choose
2 answers.
Quality code
Secure code
Information security
Integrity
Availability
Quality code
Secure code
"Quality code" is correct. Quality code is efficient code that is easy to maintain and reusable.
"Secure code" is correct. Secure code authorizes and authenticates every user transaction, logs the
transaction, and denies all unauthorized requisitions.
What ensures that the user has the appropriate role and privilege to view data?
Authentication
Multi-factor authentication
Encryption
Information security
Authorization
Authorization
3/29/2026
Authorization ensures a user's information and credentials are approved by the system.
1
, WGU D487 SECURE SOFTWARE DESIGN |OA| OBJECTIVE
03/29/2026
ASSESSMENT| ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Which security goal is defined by "guarding against improper information modification or destruction
and ensuring information non-repudiation and authenticity"?
Integrity
Quality
Availability
Reliability
Integrity
The data must remain unchanged by unauthorized users and remain reliable from the data entry point
to the database and back.
Which phase in an SDLC helps to define the problem and scope of any existing systems and determine
the objectives of new systems?
Requirements
Design
Planning
Testing
Planning
The planning stage sets the project schedule and looks at the big picture.
What happens during a dynamic code review?
Programmers monitor system memory, functional behavior, response times, and overall performance.
Customers perform tests to check software meets requirements.
3/29/2026
An analysis of computer programs without executing them is performed.
Input fields are supplied with unexpected input and tested.
2
, WGU D487 SECURE SOFTWARE DESIGN |OA| OBJECTIVE
03/29/2026
ASSESSMENT| ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Programmers monitor system memory, functional behavior, response times, and overall performance.
How should you store your application user credentials in your application database?
Use application logic to encrypt credentials
Store credentials as clear text
Store credentials using Base 64 encoded
Store credentials using salted hashes
Store credentials using salted hashes
Hashing is a one-way process that converts a password to ciphertext using hash algorithms. Password
salting adds random characters before or after a password prior to hashing to obfuscate the actual
password.
Which software methodology resembles an assembly-line approach?
V-model
Agile model
Iterative model
Waterfall model
Waterfall model
Waterfall model is a continuous software development model in which the development steps flow
steadily downwards.
Which software methodology approach provides faster time to market and higher business value?
3/29/2026
Iterative model
Waterfall model
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