OmniTec’s new programmer has left several entry points in its new e-commerce shopping cart program for testing and development. Which of the following terms best describes what the programmer has done? A. Back door B. Security flaw C. SQL injection D. Trapdoor Solution D. A trapdoor is a technique used by programmers as a secret entry point into a program. Programmers find these useful during application development; however, they should be removed before the code is finalized. All other answers are incorrect. This is also a security flaw (answer B), but that answer is not as specific as trapdoor. Back doors (answer A) are malicious in nature, and SQL injection (answer C) is targeted against databases .

1. OmniTec’s new programmer has left several entry points in its new e-commerce shopping
cart program for testing and development. Which of the following terms best describes what the
programmer has done?
A. Back door
B. Security flaw
C. SQL injection
D. Trapdoor
Solution
D. A trapdoor is a technique used by programmers as a secret entry point into a program.
Programmers find these useful during application development; however, they should be
removed before the code is finalized. All other answers are incorrect. This is also a security flaw
(answer B), but that answer is not as specific as trapdoor. Back doors (answer A) are malicious
in nature, and SQL injection (answer C) is targeted against databases