OS Security mid term 2

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OS Security Midterm Quiz

Test your knowledge on Operating System Security with our comprehensive midterm quiz! Dive into various topics, including authentication, access control, security policies, and more.

This quiz covers essential concepts in OS security, such as:

Access Control Lists
Capability and Delegation
Role Hierarchies
Memory Management

45 Questions11 MinutesCreated by StudyingGuard412

System knows who the user is Authentication via name and password, other credential.

True

False

Access requests pass through gatekeeper System must allow monitor to be bypassed.

True

False

Access control list Store column of matrix with the resource.

True

False

Capability variations store row of matrix with user, under OS control.

True

False

Access control lists are widely used, often with single user.

True

False

Some aspects of capability concept are used in Kerberos.

True

False

Access control list associate list with each object.

True

False

Access control list relies on authentication: need to know grops.

True

False

Capability is unforgeable ticket random bit sequence, or managed by operating system.

True

False

Capability is unforgeable ticket can be passed from multi process to another.

True

False

Reference monitor checks ticket need to know identity of user/process.

True

False

Delegation cap process can pass capability at run time.

True

False

Delegation less common let other process act under current user.

True

False

Revocation ACL add user or group from list.

True

False

Revocation possible in some systems of appropriate bookkeeping operating system knows what data is capability.

True

False

Role hierarchy each role gets permissions of roles uper.

True

False

Role hierarchy list only new permissions given to each role.

True

False

Permission hierarchies If user has read access to directory, user has read access to only file in directory.

True

False

General problem in access control complex mechanisms require complex output

True

False

General problem in access control difficult to configure and maintain.

True

False

General problem in access control roles, other organizing ideas try to simplify problem.

True

False

Military security policy classification involves sensitivity levels

True

False

Military security policy let classified information leak to unclassified files.

True

False

Group individuals and resources use some form of hierarchy to organize policy.

True

False

Want both confidentiality and integrity contradiction is partly an illusion.

True

False

Segmented, Virtual memory hardware translates virtual address to real address.

True

False

Shared memory multiprocessor single CPUs share same physical memory

True

False

Security designed to be secure from the beginning.

True

False

Segments each data area or procedure is called a segment.

True

False

Multiple segments segments are dynamically linked.

True

False

Authentication figures out who is accessing.

True

False

Access control ensure multi authorized access are allowed.

True

False

Auditing record what is happening, to identify attacks later and recover.

True

False

Types of groups authentication something you know.

True

False

Types of groups authentication something you have.

True

False

Passphrase a sequence of words or other text used for similar purpose as password.

True

False

Vulnerabilities can exist at client side, server side, or communications channel.

True

False

A user needs to remember passwords for tens, if not hundreds of accounts.

True

False

One can use various ways to increase adversary’s capabilities to test password guesses.

True

False

Mechanisms to defend against dictionary and guessing attacks disable accounts with multiple failed attempts.

True

False

True

False

Spoofing and defenses on the Web defense methods browser filtering of known phishing sites.

True

False

Multiple rings procedure, data segments each in generic ring.

True

False

Capability based system each object resides on server.

True

False

Invoke operation through message to server send message with capability and parameters.

True

False

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