This is the MCQs in Network Security from book the Data Communications and Networking 4th Edition by Behrouz A. Forouzan. If you are looking for a reviewer in Electronics Systems and Technologies (Communications Engineering) this will definitely help you before taking the Board Exam.
Topic Outline
- SECURITY SERVICES
- Message Confidentiality
- Confidentiality with Symmetric-Key Cryptography
- Confidentiality with Asymmetric-Key Cryptography
- Message Integrity
- Document and Fingerprint
- Message and Message Digest
- Difference
- Creating and Checking the Digest
- Hash Function Criteria
- Hash Algorithms: SHA-1
- MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION
- MAC
- Message Nonrepudiation
- DIGITAL SIGNATURE
- ENTITY AUTHENTICATION
- KEY MANAGEMENT
- Symmetric-Key Distribution
- Public-Key Distribution
Begin and Good luck!
Choose the letter of the best answer in each questions.
1. Message_____ means that the data must arrive at the receiver exactly as sent.
- A) confidentiality
- B) integrity
- C) authentication
- D) none of the above
2. Message _______ means that the receiver is ensured that the message is coming from the intended sender, not an imposter.
- A) confidentiality
- B) integrity
- C) authentication
- D) none of the above
3. A(n) ________function creates a message digest out of a message.
- A) encryption
- B) decryption
- C) hash
- D) none of the above
4. The secret key between members needs to be created as a ______ key when two members contact KDC.
- A) public
- B) session
- C) complimentary
- D) none of the above
5. The ________ criterion ensures that a message cannot easily be forged.
- A) one-wayness
- B) weak-collision-resistance
- C) strong-collision-resistance
- D) none of the above
6. A(n) _____ is a trusted third party that assigns a symmetric key to two parties.
- A) KDC
- B) CA
- C) KDD
- D) none of the above
7. A witness used in entity authentication is ____________.
- A) something known
- B) something possessed
- C) something inherent
- D) all of the above
8. A _______ message digest is used as an MDC.
- A) keyless
- B) keyed
- C) either (a) or (b)
- D) neither (a) nor (b)
9. A(n)______ creates a secret key only between a member and the center.
- A) CA
- B) KDC
- C) KDD
- D) none of the above
10. ________ means to prove the identity of the entity that tries to access the system's resources.
- A) Message authentication
- B) Entity authentication
- C) Message confidentiality
- D) none of the above
11. A ________ signature is included in the document; a _______ signature is a separate entity.
- A) conventional; digital
- B) digital; digital
- C) either (a) or (b)
- D) neither (a) nor (b)
12. If _________ is needed, a cryptosystem must be applied over the scheme.
- A) integrity
- B) confidentiality
- C) nonrepudiation
- D) authentication
13. Digital signature provides ________.
- A) authentication
- B) nonrepudiation
- C) both (a) and (b)
- D) neither (a) nor (b)
14. Digital signature cannot provide ________ for the message.
- A) integrity
- B) confidentiality
- C) nonrepudiation
- D) authentication
15. To authenticate the data origin, one needs a(n) _______.
- A) MDC
- B) MAC
- C) either (a) or (b)
- D) neither (a) nor (b)
16. A(n) _________ can be used to preserve the integrity of a document or a message.
- A) message digest
- B) message summary
- C) encrypted message
- D) none of the above
17. Challenge-response authentication can be done using ________.
- A) symmetric-key ciphers
- B) asymmetric-key ciphers
- C) keyed-hash functions
- D) all of the above
18. The _______criterion ensures that we cannot find two messages that hash to the same digest.
- A) one-wayness
- B) weak-collision-resistance
- C) strong-collision-resistance
- D) none of the above
19. A digital signature needs a(n)_________ system.
- A) symmetric-key
- B) asymmetric-key
- C) either (a) or (b)
- D) neither (a) nor (b)
20. A(n) ________is a federal or state organization that binds a public key to an entity and issues a certificate.
- A) KDC
- B) Kerberos
- C) CA
- D) none of the above
21. Message ________ means that the sender and the receiver expect privacy.
- A) confidentiality
- B) integrity
- C) authentication
- D) none of the above
22. In ________ authentication, the claimant proves that she knows a secret without actually sending it.
- A) password-based
- B) challenge-response
- C) either (a) or (b)
- D) neither (a) nor (b)
23. In _______, a claimant proves her identity to the verifier by using one of the three kinds of witnesses.
- A) message authentication
- B) entity authentication
- C) message confidentiality
- D) message integrity
24. The _______ criterion states that it must be extremely difficult or impossible to create the message if the message digest is given.
- A) one-wayness
- B) weak-collision-resistance
- C) strong-collision-resistance
- D) none of the above
25. A(n) ______ is a hierarchical system that answers queries about key certification.
- A) KDC
- B) PKI
- C) CA
- D) none of the above
26. _________ means that a sender must not be able to deny sending a message that he sent.
- A) Confidentiality
- B) Integrity
- C) Authentication
- D) Nonrepudiation
27. A hash function must meet ________ criteria.
- A) two
- B) three
- C) four
- D) none of the above
28. __________ is a popular session key creator protocol that requires an authentication server and a ticket-granting server.
- A) KDC
- B) Kerberos
- C) CA
- D) none of the above
29. Password-based authentication can be divided into two broad categories: _______ and _______.
- A) fixed; variable
- B) time-stamped; fixed
- C) fixed; one-time
- D) none of the above
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