Java Secure Application Development Quiz

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Java Secure Application Development Quiz

Test your knowledge on secure application development in Java! This quiz covers essential practices and concepts to improve the security and quality of your web applications.

12 thought-provoking questions
Multiple choice and text responses
Ideal for developers, students, and educators

12 Questions3 MinutesCreated by CodingNinja42

To improve the overall quality of web applications, developers should abide by which of the following rules? Choose the correct option from below list

Clean and validate all user input

Trust user-supplied data

Use GET instead of POST

Allow the use of HIDDEN form fields

Which of the following algorithm/encryption method is the safest to use?

MD5

SHA1

MD4

Bcrypt

A race condition in a web server can cause which of the following?

1) Resources becoming unavailable to legitimate users

2) Cross-site Tracing

3) Server Instability

Both 1 and 3

Which of the following is true about improper error handling?

Attackers can use exposed error messages to craft advanced attacks and gain system access.

Attackers can use error messages to extract specific information from a system

Attackers can use unexpected errors to knock an application offline, creating a denial-of-service attack.

All of the above

Which of the following is the best way to securely store secret keys/variables?

In Source code as plain text

In source code as encrypted text

In AWS Secret Manager

Any of the above

Which of the following is not recommended to secure web applications?

Running the application with least privileges

Client-side data validation

Filtering data with a default deny regular expression

Using parameterized queries to access a database

Which of the following method is used to mitigate Race condition attack?

Sync()

Synchronize()

Synchronized()

Lock()

Which of the following is correct regarding Input validation?

It should be based on Whitelisting

It should be based on Blacklisting

Input validation is not necessary

It should be done on Client side

Java Secure Application Development Quiz

Java Secure Application Development Quiz

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