2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
◉ asymmetric key pair
Answer: An entity seeking to obtain a digital certificate must first
generate a _____ for themselves.
A. secret key
B. asymmetric key pair
C. registration authority
◉ 128
Answer: WPA uses _____-bit RC4.
A. 40
B. 128
C. 256
◉ AES
Answer: Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) uses 128-bit _____.
A. RC4
B. AES
,C. ECC
◉ Mono-alphabetic
Answer: _____ substitution is where a single mapping from our
alphabet to a cipher alphabet is created.
A. Mono-alphabetic
B. Polyalphabetic
C. Pseudo-random
◉ Sign the certificate with the CA's own private key
Answer: What step will a certificate authority (CA) take after
generating a digital certificate for a requester, but before issuing the
certificate to that requester?
A. Sign the certificate with the CA's own private key
B. Sign the certificate with the CA's own public key
C. Sign the certificate with the requester's private key
◉ Polyalphabetic
Answer: _______ refers to the mapping of our alphabet to a number of
cipher alphabets.
A. Mono-alphabetic
B. Polyalphabetic
C. Pseudo-random
,◉ One-time pad
Answer: _____ is considered to be unbreakable since it only uses its
cipher code once.
◉ ASCII
Answer: _____ encoding involves 8-bit values and supports up to 256
characters.
◉ collision
Answer: A _____ occurs when two different input values produce the
same hash signature.
A. collision
B. rainbow
C. tunnel
◉ UTF-16
Answer: _____ is an encoding method with 16-bit values and supports
up to 65,536 characters.
◉ 80; 80
, Answer: The light-weight symmetric stream cipher Trivium operates
with a key size of ______ bits and an initialization vector (IV) of _____
bits.
A. 80; 80
B. 64; 128
C. 128; 64
◉ hardware security module (HSM)
Answer: A _____ is a tamper-evident and intrusion-resistant physical
device that safeguards and manages cryptographic keys and
provides cryptographic processing.
A. TPM
B. HSM
C. DES
◉ trusted platform module (TPM)
Answer: A _____ is a dedicated processor that handles hardware-level
encryption; allows the use of full disk encryption on a hard drive in a
manner that minimizes the impact on system performance.
A. TPM
B. HSM
C. PRNG