Cloud Computing IDaaS MCQs
This section focuses on "IDaaS" in Cloud Computing. These Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) should be practiced to improve the Cloud Computing skills required for various interviews (campus interview, walk-in interview, company interview), placements, entrance exams and other competitive examinations.
1. IDaaS stands for?
A. ID-as-a-Service
B. Identity-as-a-Service
C. Intranet-as-a-service
D. Interoperability-as-a-Service
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Ans : B
Explanation: To solve above problems, a new technique emerged which is known as Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS).
2. _____ has single authentication server, managing multiple accesses to other systems
A. SSO
B. IDaaS
C. SOAP
D. SOA
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Ans : A
Explanation: SSO has single authentication server, managing multiple accesses to other systems
3. What is true about SSO?
A. SSO has multiple authentication server
B. SSO managing single accesses to other systems
C. In SSO, User sends the ticket to intranet server.
D. All of the above
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Ans : C
Explanation: SSO has single authentication server, managing multiple accesses to other systems and user sends the ticket to intranet server.
4. It offers users to login into multiple websites with single account.
A. FIDM
B. OpenID
C. SSO
D. Identity
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Ans : B
Explanation: OpenID : It offers users to login into multiple websites with single account. Google, Yahoo!, Flickr, MySpace, WordPress.com are some of the companies that support OpenID.
5. What is true about FIDM?
A. FIDM describes the technologies and protocols
B. It uses Security Markup Language (SAML) to package a user's security credentials
C. SAML has access control
D. All of the above
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Ans : D
Explanation: FIDM describes the technologies and protocols that enable a user to package security credentials across security domains. It uses Security Markup Language (SAML) to package a user's security credentials
6. Which of the following group is dedicated to support technologies that implement enterprise mashups?
A. Open Alliance Apache
B. Open Mashup Alliance
C. Open Tech Alliance
D. None of the above
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Ans : B
Explanation: This group predicts that the use of mashups will grow by a factor of 10 within just a few years.
7. More secure authentication requires the use of at least?
A. two-factor authentication.
B. three-factor authentication.
C. four-factor authentication.
D. None of the above
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Ans : A
Explanation: More secure authentication requires the use of at least two-factor authentication.
8. _______ is an XML request/response language that is used to integrate and interoperate service provisioning requests.
A. XACML
B. FIDM
C. SPML
D. SSP
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Ans : C
Explanation: SPML is an XML request/response language that is used to integrate and interoperate service provisioning requests.
9. The _________ Open Source Identity Framework uses an i-Card metaphor.
A. Hughes
B. Higgins
C. Hinges
D. XACML
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Ans : B
Explanation: Higgins Open Source Identity Framework is used to create a vendor-neutral cloud-based authentication service.
10. Point out the wrong statement.
A. Distributed transaction systems such as internetworks or cloud computing systems magnify the difficulties faced by identity management systems
B. The Distributed Audit Service provides accountability for users accessing a system
C. The OpenID and CardSpace specifications support the authentication type of data object
D. All of the above
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Ans : C
Explanation: OpenID is a developing industry standard for authenticating "end users" by storing their digital identity in a common format.
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