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1. What is an organisation without Authentication compared to?
Question 1A. A library without a catalogueB. A gold mine without any guardC. A car without a steering wheelD. A hospital without doctorsE. A ship without a compass
2. With which concepts are Authentication and Authorisation each majorly tagged?
Question 2A. Authentication with Privacy; Authorisation with SecurityB. Both with PrivacyC. Both with SecurityD. Authentication with Cost; Authorisation with SpeedE. Authentication with Security; Authorisation with Privacy
3. In the hospital example, the guard at the main gate checks visitors' ID cards and asks why they are there. What does this represent?
Question 3A. AuthenticationB. AuthorisationC. EntitlementD. Data EnrichmentE. Privacy
4. In the hospital example, once visitors have passed the gate and the counter they could walk into any room on any floor. Which process is missing?
Question 4A. AuthenticationB. RegistrationC. AuthorisationD. Data ValidationE. Encryption
5. A hospital staff member is assigned to take visitors only to the exact room of their patient. What does this illustrate?
Question 5A. Authentication protecting securityB. A failure of the guard at the gateC. Data DemocratisationD. Authorisation protecting the privacy of other patientsE. Entitlement to a company car
6. When mapped to data, what does the Authentication process establish before a user accesses an application or database?
Question 6A. Which columns the user may seeB. That the person is a legitimate employee of the companyC. Which rows the user may editD. How much data the user may downloadE. Which reports the user may publish
7. When mapped to data, what does Authorisation restrict a user to?
Question 7A. Only the login pageB. Only read-only access to every tableC. Only data stored in the cloudD. Only data older than one yearE. Only the relevant tables, columns or rows they are entitled to
8. How are Authentication and Authorisation described in relation to each other?
Question 8A. They work hand in hand and are a must-have in any organisation, system or applicationB. They are alternatives; an organisation chooses oneC. Authentication is optional if Authorisation existsD. They are only relevant to hospitalsE. Authorisation is a newer replacement for Authentication
9. Which statement about Authentication and Authorisation is NOT correct?
Question 9A. Authentication is the basic security feature of any organisationB. Authorisation is majorly tagged with PrivacyC. Authorisation alone is sufficient, so Authentication can be skippedD. Authorisation restricts a user to relevant tables, columns or rowsE. Authentication checks that a user is a legitimate employee
10. In the hospital example, the counter checks that the patient's name is in the system before visitors may proceed. Together with the gate check, which process have the visitors passed at that point?
Question 10A. The Authorisation processB. The Data Enrichment processC. The Entitlement processD. The Security (Authentication) processE. The Privacy process