CS 166 Final Exam Study Guide With
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WPA2 is more secure than WEP - ANSWER True
SSL is implemented at which level of the OSI model? - ANSWER Transport
The layer of the OSI model associated with the actual medium that the data is being
transmitted through. - ANSWER Physical
The Open System Interconnection model has how many layers? - ANSWER 7
Which basic property of the CIA triad is a DoS attack intended to defeat? - ANSWER
Availability
Which hash function is known to be more secure?
SHA512
SHA1
MD5 - ANSWER SHA512
The amount of effort needed to break an encryption (or mount a successful attack) -
, ANSWER Work Factor
A good hash function should be two way in order to quickly generate the input from the
message digest - ANSWER False
A cryptosystem that uses a different key for encryption and decryption is classified as -
ANSWER Asymmetric
In order to make dictionary attacks more difficult, what can be done to passwords? -
ANSWER Salt them
Which of the following best describes element integrity? - ANSWER The data contained
within each element are accurate.
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
Which of the following is not a DBMS?
Apache Tomcat
MySQL
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WPA2 is more secure than WEP - ANSWER True
SSL is implemented at which level of the OSI model? - ANSWER Transport
The layer of the OSI model associated with the actual medium that the data is being
transmitted through. - ANSWER Physical
The Open System Interconnection model has how many layers? - ANSWER 7
Which basic property of the CIA triad is a DoS attack intended to defeat? - ANSWER
Availability
Which hash function is known to be more secure?
SHA512
SHA1
MD5 - ANSWER SHA512
The amount of effort needed to break an encryption (or mount a successful attack) -
, ANSWER Work Factor
A good hash function should be two way in order to quickly generate the input from the
message digest - ANSWER False
A cryptosystem that uses a different key for encryption and decryption is classified as -
ANSWER Asymmetric
In order to make dictionary attacks more difficult, what can be done to passwords? -
ANSWER Salt them
Which of the following best describes element integrity? - ANSWER The data contained
within each element are accurate.
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
Which of the following is not a DBMS?
Apache Tomcat
MySQL
