Question

John, the network administrator of XYZ Corporation, is interested in changing the format of text from the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) to Extended Binary Code Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC). In addition, his IT manager requested that all sensitive and confidential information on their servers should be protected by applying the appropriate encryption. What OSI reference model layer is responsible for data formats such as encryption?

Answer 1

Answer:

Presentation layer (Layer 6).

Explanation:

Such user from such Company's network admin, is keen to change the document layout from ASCII to EBCDIC. Additionally, that user's IT boss called for those delicate and private data on the servers to be secured by implementing the suitable authentication. So the following reference model layer of the Presentation layer (Layer 6) is accountable for the information formats including such encryption.