What is authentication?  Provide some examples.

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Authentication is the process by which a control establishes whether a user (or system) has the identity it claims to have. Examples include the use of cryptographic certificates to establish Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connections as well as the use of cryptographic hardware devices-for example, hardware tokens such as RSA's SecurID. Individual users may disclose a personal identification number (PIN) or a password to authenticate their identities to a computer system.

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For entity classes in JPA, an NamedQueries annotation specifies a collection of ________ annotations that declare various named queries.

a. Entity—Specifies that the class is an entity class. b. Table—Specifies the entity class’s corresponding database table. c. NamedQuery d. None of the above.

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A query that prompts you for criteria before running

a. Aggregate query b. Update query c. Parameter query

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Which of the following is a virtual machine manager for Mac OS X?

A. VirtualPC B. Parallels C. Hyper-V D. ESX

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A(n) ____ is a temporary return-value passed to a function.

A. dummy B. placeholder C. stub D. sentinel

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