Question 14Asked in DSSSB TGT Computer Science (Technical), 12 Sep 2025, Shift 3 (5:00 PM)

Which firewall type acts as an intermediary for requests between a client and a server?

  1. AProxy firewall
  2. BStateful
  3. CPacket-filtering
  4. DCircuit-level gateway
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Correct answer: (A) Proxy firewall

Explanation

A proxy firewall (application-level gateway) sits between client and server: it receives the client's request and makes its own request to the server, so the two never connect directly.

From DSSSB TGT Computer Science PYQ (Technical), 12 Sep 2025, Shift 3 (5:00 PM)

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