35. Cloud Security Quiz

Why is it important to secure cloud-based applications and their data?

• To comply with company policies

• To reduce costs

• To ensure data privacy and integrity

• To increase application speed

What percentage of organizations are not using multi-factor authentication for their cloud systems?

• 63%

• 85%

• 76%

• 50%

What is a significant concern with unpatched code in the cloud?

• It increases storage costs

• It can lead to performance issues

• It can cause data redundancy

• It poses serious security risks

What is a potential risk of having an application in the public cloud?

• Limited scalability

• Denial of service attacks

• High maintenance costs

• Increased latency

What is directory traversal?

• A way to improve application performance

• A process to update cloud configurations

• A technique to navigate through web server directories

• A method to enhance cloud storage

What can an attacker achieve with remote code execution?

• Reduce storage costs

• Increase application speed

• Improve data redundancy

• Run any application on the cloud system

What is a common vulnerability found in recent years that is easy to exploit?

• SQL Injection

• Cross-site scripting

• Log4J

• Buffer overflow

What is the consequence of not providing proper input validation in an application?

• Reduced storage costs

• Improved data redundancy

• Cross-site scripting attacks

• Increased application speed

What is an out-of-bounds write?

• Encrypting data in authorized memory

• Deleting data from authorized memory

• Reading data from unauthorized memory

• Writing data to unauthorized memory

What type of attack involves injecting malicious code to access data in a database?

• Buffer overflow

• SQL injection

• Cross-site scripting

• Denial of service