Fortinet Getting Started in Cybersecurity WAF Quiz Answers

Lesson 04: WAF Quiz Answers

Question: Which three features are characteristics of the latest generation WAF? (Choose three.)

• IP reputation

• DDoS defense

• SPU

• Network segmentation

• DLP

Question: Which firewall is positioned between a web application and the Internet?

• Edge firewall

• Segmentation firewall

• Packet filter firewall

• Web application firewall

Question: Which new feature characterized second-generation WAFs?

• Packet analysis

• Machine learning without human supervision

• Heuristics

• Port and protocol blocking

Question: Which action can a modern WAF do?

• Survey the network and calculate a value to represent the security posture

• Segment the network based on device type and user role

• Connect all tools in the security stack into defined workflows

• Stop any user action should it exceed their network permissions

Question: Which event was the motivation for web application firewall (WAFs)?

• The development of the hypertext transfer protocol

• ARPANET was brought online

• The debut of the World Wide Web

• The first wide area network (WAN)

Question: Which protocol traffic does a web application firewall (WAF) monitor?

• CLNP

• IP

• TCP

• HTTP

Question 1: When considering web application firewalls, what two factors make a signature-based approach to defense, obsolete? (Choose two.)

• Signature-based detection is too slow to identify threats.

• Signature-based detection is not effective against zero-day exploits.

• Signature-based detection, when used alone, can generate many false positives.

• Signatures cannot stop SQL injection attacks.

Question 2: Which was the predecessor to a web application firewall?

• Antivirus software

• Application firewall

• Web firewall

• Internet filter

Question 3: What do web application firewalls do that traditional edge firewalls do not?

• Block port numbers

• Block protocols

• Block MAC addresses

• Block SQL injection attacks

Question 4: What does a web application firewall do?

• It allows applications to access online content.

• It prevents applications from accessing the web at certain times of the day.

• It monitors and blocks malicious HTTP/HTTPS traffic to and from a web application.

• It provides a means for businesses to monitor which web applications their users are accessing.

Question 5: Which statement about integrating FortiGuard Labs with FortiWeb is true?

• FortiGuard Labs must be integrated with FortiGate first, before integrating with FortiWeb.

• FortiGuard Labs is an optional feature that does not provide any benefits to FortiWeb.

• FortiGuard Labs provides vital updates to FortiWeb about new threats.

• FortiGuard Labs provides machine learning features to FortiWeb.

Question 6: In which two ways does machine learning help make modern web application firewalls more effective? (Choose two.)

• It allows them to return search results quicker than using traditional filtering methods.

• It allows them to adapt to the ever-changing attributes of threats.

• It allows them to choose the most appropriate web application for a given task.

• It allows them to perform behavior analysis at machine speed.

Question 7: Which two products can be integrated with FortiWeb? (Choose two.)

• FortiPhone

• FortiConnect

• FortiGate

• FortiFax

• FortiSandbox