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Remember, every one of us is learning and a question is easy for you doesn’t mean it’s the same for everyone. However, it depends upon the role, and expectations set by the hiring manager and the interviewer.  \nThe question might look straightforward but your answer speaks more about your experience and hands-on in this domain. Try to analyze the question and answer honestly.  \nMany questions might not for your experience or role as I am sharing mixed questions asked for various role in Application Security domain.  \nAlso, I am not sharing questions on any programming language specific or even programming based security questions. That can be possibly another series of questions in my next release.  \nIf you are looking for career guidance or learning trending technologies, please  \ncontact Flexmind  \nAuthor: Sanjeev Jaiswal  Linkedin | Twitter | Medium | github  1  \nInterview Questions Series by Flexmind  \nFirst thing first  \nThis interview question set is mostly for defensive roles as compared to offensive roles which are mainly called “Penetration Testing or Web Security (sometimes it's used interchangeably) ”. I will concentrate more on how an application is developed, maintained, and deployed and how as a security engineer you would help an engineering team to overcome security challenges.  \nI will focus more on below topics:  \n1. Threat Modeling  \n2. Secure Code Review  \n3. Secure Coding  \n4. Secure Development (SDL)  \n5. And anything defensive in nature and developer-centric.  \nNote: For API security and offensive security, I will share a separate set of interview questions soon!  \nSecond important note  \nI am listing questions based on a few criteria:  \n1. Common to everyone who is in this domain or trying to enter this domain  \n2. Some questions would be theoretical and you can consider those questions as a starting point to check the candidate’s overall knowledge  \n3. Some questions are for senior professionals  \n4. Some questions may have different answers depending on seniority level  \n5. Some questions can be to check your domain and leadership skills in this domain  \nOne more thing  \nIf you are ne to this domain or planning to make a career in cybersecurity. You should see below study plan before delving into interview questions. They are:  \n1. Common Skills Study Plan that you can finish within 3 months  \n2. 20 Essential books that you should read from security world  \n3. Application Security Study Plan (You must go through it before trying for appsec interviews)  \n4. You can’t ignore API security at present. So, here is your API Security Study Plan  \nAuthor: Sanjeev Jaiswal  Linkedin | Twitter | Medium | github  2  \nInterview Questions Series by Flexmind  \n5. Knowledge of Pentest will be an added advantage for you. Check this out:  \nWeb Pentest Study Plan  \n6. You can star or bookmark Security Study Plan which will give you an insight of what to study for various security domains  \nList of Application Security Questions  \nThe question might look straightforward but your answer speaks more about your experience and hands-on in this domain. Try to analyze the question and answer honestly.  \nApplication Security Basics Questions  \n1. Explain your top 3 favorite OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities and why  \n2. How does TCP 3-way handshake work?  \n3. Why TLS is important in cybersecurity and can you explain the use of TLS in detail for a website?  \n4. How SSL/TLS makes my content secured over the internet  \n5. What happens when you type [google.com](google.com) in your browser?  \n6. What’s the difference between SAST and SCA?  \n7. What is SQLi and how would you prevent/mitigate it?  \n8. Explain XSS with a few exampl","cbCaijkbnZ5QLQEk","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijkbnZ5QLQEk","pdf",337567,"English","# Interview Questions Series by Flexmind\n## First thing first\n## Second important note\n## One more thing\n## List of Application Security Questions\n# Application Security Basics Questions\n# Application Security Role based questions\n# Overall Application Security Assessment-based Questions","[{\"question\":\"What types of AppSec roles and topics does this interview question set focus on?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses mainly on defensive roles rather than offensive roles like penetration testing. 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