Firewalls MCQ Quiz | Network Security Quiz - 2

1. A hardware firewall is a physical device that attaches between a computer network and a gateway and it is sometimes referred to which other name?

Host Firewall
Appliance Firewall
Switch Firewall
Router Firewall

2. Which types of firewalls typically operate at the session-level of the OSI model by verifying TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) connections and sessions and are designed to ensure that the established sessions are protected?

Host Firewall
Appliance Firewall
Circuit-level Gateways
Packet Filtering Firewalls

3. Which type of firewalls transfer requests from clients pretending to be original clients on the web-server?

Proxy Firewall
Host Firewalls
Circuit-level Gateways
Packet Filtering Firewalls

4. Which firewall include both packet inspection technology and TCP handshake verification?

Stateful Multi-layer Inspection (SMLI) Firewall
NGFW
WAF
Circuit-level Gateways

5. When multiple devices are used to connect to the Internet, which type of firewalls create a unique IP address and hide individual devices' IP addresses and a single IP address is used for all devices?

Stateful Multi-layer Inspection (SMLI) Firewall
NGFW
Network Address Translation (NAT) Firewalls
WAF

6. A firewall designed using a cloud solution is known as a cloud firewall or ___________.

CFaaS (Cloud firewall-as-a-service)
Cloud as service
Cloud Level Gateways
FaaS (firewall-as-a-service)

7. A firewall can be implemented as a

Hardware
Software
Both of the above
None of the above

8. Which type of firewall increases the load and puts more pressure on computing resources and further can give rise to a slower transfer rate for data packets than other solutions?

Stateless Firewalls
Stateful Firewalls
Both of the above
None of the above

9. Which firewall distinguishes between safe and unsafe packets at the application level through deep packet inspection (DPI)?

NGFW
WAF
Proxy Firewall
Packet Filtering Firewalls

10. Since proxy firewalls operate at the application layer as an intermediate device to filter incoming traffic between two end systems (e.g., network and traffic systems), so these firewalls are also known as?

Application Firewalls
Bi-focal Firewalls
Host Firewall
Application-level Gateways

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