312-50V12 Question #287: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

Question

Rebecca, a security professional, wants to authenticate employees who use web services for safe and secure communication. In this process, she employs a component of the Web Service Architecture, which is an extension of SOAP, and it can maintain the integrity and confidentiality of SOAP messages. Which of the following components of the Web Service Architecture is used by Rebecca for securing the communication?

Options

• AWS-Work Processes
• BWS-Security
• CWS-Policy
• DWSDL

Explanation

Rebecca needs a Web Service Architecture component that extends SOAP to ensure integrity and confidentiality for web service communication, and WS-Security fulfills this requirement.

Common mistakes.

• A. WS-Work Processes is not a recognized standard or component within the Web Services Architecture for securing SOAP messages; it is an invented term.
• C. WS-Policy is a specification for describing the capabilities and requirements of a web service, including security policies, but it does not provide the actual mechanisms for message integrity and confidentiality.
• D. WSDL (Web Services Description Language) is an XML-based language used to describe the public interface and functionality of a web service, not to provide security for its messages.

Concept tested. Web Services Security (WS-Security) functionality

Reference. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/tn-archive/bb726978(v=technet.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN

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