Network Security: Lecture 12

300143 Network Security

12. Review

• From the Learning Guide,

 To pass the unit, a student must attend the mid-session test and the
final examination, and the final overall mark must be greater than
or equal to 50%.
• Student Feedback on Units (SFU) survey
 Please do the SFU survey for this unit.
 Students can access their SFU's via their vUWS account.

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Some Information on Final Exam

• Number of Questions:
 48 multiple choice questions and 8 written questions
 Subject to changes

• Value of Questions:
 Each multiple choice question is worth 1 mark, and each written
question is worth 4 marks, giving a total of 80 marks. The 80 marks
will be scaled back to 55 marks which are the weight of the exam.
• Answer all questions.
 6 multiple choice questions and one written question are from each of
the 8 Lecture topics.
• Time Allowed: 2 hours
• The exam will be online via vUWS and open book.
 The format is more or less the same as the mid-Session Test.

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Multiple Choice Questions

• For the multiple choice questions,

 There may be multiple correct answers.
 The best correct answer must be chosen.

 A “correct” answer may be a wrong answer if it is not the best.

• The multiple choice questions cover lecture topics 4 to 11,
inclusively.
 Each lecture topic should have the same number of multiple choice
questions.
• Note that although Lecture topics 1, 2 and 3 are not directly
included in the examination, these topics are considered to
be assumed knowledge for the examination.
 For both multiple choice questions and written questions

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Exam Topics
• Lecture topics in the exam:
 Lecture 4 Internet Key Exchange (IKE)
 Lecture 5 Firewalls
 Lecture 6 Virtual Networks
 Lecture 7 Malicious Programs and Activities
 Lecture 8 Transport-Layer Security
 Lecture 9 Security in Network Management
 Lecture 10 Mobile Security
 Lecture 11 Secure Electronic Transactions
• All unit materials, corresponding to the above lecture topics
are to be covered, including:
 Lecture slides and tutorial exercises related to the lecture topics
 Other materials delivered during the lectures

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Exam Preparation …

• All materials delivered for the exam lecture topics should

be covered in the preparation for the exam.
 However, students may want to study the review questions and the
written questions given in the tutorial exercises first, and then
lecture slides.
• Note that in the exam, acronyms are often used instead of
the full names of the protocols or other items discussed in
this unit.
 E.g. SSL will be used instead of Secure Socket Layer, USM instead
of User Security Model, etc.
 Students are assumed to be familiar with all these acronyms as no
list of acronyms will be given.
• Unless stated otherwise, e.g., IKE v1 or IKE v2, the term
IKE (without v1 or v2) generally refers to IKE v1.

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… Exam Preparation

• As stated on Page 2 of the Learning Guide, Study Load

 A student is expected to study an hour per credit point a week. For
example a 10 credit point unit would require 10 hours of study per
week. This time includes the time spent within classes during
lectures, tutorials or practicals.
 For example, 8 lecture topics may require 8  10 hours of study.
• The format of the multiple choice questions and written
questions are more or less the same as those in the mid-
Session Test.
• Usually there are no exam materials related to the
practicals.
 However, practical materials which appear in Lecture slides or
Tutorial exercises may be included in the exam.

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Some Information about Written Questions …

• Within a question, do not answer more than the number of

required items or the first answered items will only be
marked.
 For example, if asked to describe two advantages of …, do not
answer more than two advantages, or the first two will only be
marked.
 Gently cross out items exceeding the specified number
• Some questions are divided into parts, e.g., (a), (b), etc.
 It is for presentation reason only.
 The parts may not carry equal weights of marks.

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… Some Information about Written Questions

• When a question asks for “in details”, the details are more
or less the same as those delivered in the lectures and/or
tutorial exercises.
• Unless specified in the question, wrong answers are usually
not penalized, except that they will not be given any marks
 However, if a wrong answer contradicts a correct answered answer,
the two answers cancel each other.
• Note that should there be difference between the
information in these slides from that in any official
document, such the unit outline, the learning guide, or the
actual exam, the latter prevails.

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