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Controls that are intended to ensure that attacks are unsuccessful is analogous to ______________ in dependability engineering?

• (A)  Fault avoidance
• (B)  Fault tolerance
• (C)  Fault detection
• (D)  Fault Recovery

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What are security controls ?

• (A)  Controls that are intended to ensure that attacks are unsuccessful
• (B)  Controls that are intended to detect and repel attacks
• (C)  Controls that are intended to support recovery from problems
• (D)  All of the mentioned

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Which of the following is a layer of protection for Security ?

• (A)  Platform-level protection
• (B)  Application-level protection
• (C)  Record-level protection
• (D)  All of the mentioned

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Which of the following is a bad practice of Dependable programming ?

• (A)  Limit the visibility of information in a program
• (B)  Check array bounds
• (C)  Check all inputs for validity
• (D)  None of the mentioned

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Which of the following is not a Protection system ?

• (A)  System to stop a train if it passes a red light
• (B)  System to indicate not returning of the library book
• (C)  System to shut down a reactor if temperature/pressure are too high
• (D)  None of the mentioned

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What is a Range check ?

• (A)  Check that the input does not exceed some maximum size e.g. 40 characters for a name
• (B)  Check that the input falls within a known range
• (C)  Use information about the input to check if it is reasonable rather than an extreme value
• (D)  None of the mentioned

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What is the term for a system that is designed such that the faults in the delivered software do not result in system failure ?

• (A)  Fault Avoidance
• (B)  Fault detection
• (C)  Fault tolerance
• (D)  None of the mentioned

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Choose the fault class in which the following automated static analysis check would fall:”Variables declared but never used”?

• (A)  Control Faults
• (B)  Data Faults
• (C)  Input/Output Faults
• (D)  Interface faults

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Choose the fault class in which the following automated static analysis check would fall:”Non-usage of the results of functions”?

• (A)  Storage management faults
• (B)  Data Faults
• (C)  Input/Output Faults
• (D)  Interface faults

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Which level of Static Analysis allows specific rules that apply to a program to be checked ?

• (A)  Characteristic error checking
• (B)  User-defined error checking
• (C)  Assertion checking
• (D)  All of the mentioned

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