Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Accountancy

Chapter

Overview of Computerised Accounting System

Question:

Assertion: Encryption essentially scrambles the information so as to make its interpretation extremely difficult.
Reason: Encryption cannot ensures security of data if it lands in the hands of a forensic expert.

Options:

Both Assertion (A) and reasoning (R) are correct and R is the correct explanation of A.

Both Assertion (A) and reasoning (R) are correct and but R is not the correct explanation of A.

Assertion (A) is true but Reasoning (R) is not correct.

Assertion (A) is not true but Reasoning (R) is correct.

Correct Answer:

Assertion (A) is true but Reasoning (R) is not correct.

Explanation:

Encryption essentially scrambles the information so as to make its interpretation extremely difficult (almost impossible). Thus, Encryption ensures security of data even if it lands in wrong hands, because the receiver of data will not be able to decode and interpret it.