UGCNET Questions

Data privacy requires both organisational policies and technical safeguards. Access control ensures that only staff with legitimate roles can view or modify sensitive records. Strong authentication mechanisms and encryption prevent unauthorised disclosure during storage and transmission. Together, these measures align with ethical and sometimes legal responsibilities in educational ICT use.

Option A:
Option A correctly combines the ideas of “need to know” access and technological protection. It reflects best practices recommended for student information systems and learning platforms.

Option B:
Option B openly exposes credentials, which is a serious security breach and violates privacy principles.

Option C:
Option C allows unrestricted access to grades, undermining confidentiality and trust in the institution.

Option D:
Option D sends sensitive data without protection and to unknown parties, greatly increasing the risk of misuse or leakage.

HTTPS uses TLS/SSL to encrypt the data sent between browser and server, helping protect sensitive information from eavesdropping and alteration. This is why it is essential for banking, logins and e-commerce.

Option A:
Compression may sometimes be used but is not the fundamental security feature; encryption is the key advantage.

Option B:
This option correctly states that HTTPS provides an encrypted channel, improving confidentiality and integrity of web traffic.

Option C:
Network speed is limited by bandwidth and latency; HTTPS cannot magically remove those limits.

Option D:
Backups are a separate storage/administration function; HTTPS merely secures data in transit.