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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Effective and efficient in large user communities because it controls system access by the roles defined for groups of users. Users are assigned to the various roles and the system controls the access based on those roles.






2. Are expensive - so they have to be used in areas where the risk is at its greatest level. These areas are the ones with high impact and high frequency of occurrence.






3. Can be used to detect an external attack but would not help in authenticating a user attempting to connect.






4. The best indicator of the level of compliance with the service level agreement ( SLA ) data confidentiality clauses.






5. The MOST important component of a privacy policy is: A Privacy policies must contain _______________; they are a high-level management statement of direction. They do not necessarily address warranties - liabilities or geographic coverage - which are






6. To identify known vulnerabilities based on common misconfigurations and missing updates.






7. Computer that has duplicate components so it can continue to operate when one of its main components fail






8. Identification and _______________ of business risk enables project managers to address areas with most significance.






9. Useful but only with regard to specific technical skills.






10. Inject malformed input.






11. Ensures that there are no scalability problems.






12. The data owner is responsible for _______________________.






13. Legal document to be signed by all employees - suppliers etc before they 'touch' the organization - to protect the organization's intellectual property.






14. In assessing the degree to which an organization may be affected by new privacy legislation - information security management should first _____________________.






15. The risk that controls may not prevent/detect an incident with a measure of control effectiveness.






16. Scam in which a perpetrator sends an official looking email message that attempts to obtain your personal and financial information






17. Lists only the vulnerabilities inherent in the information asset that can attract threats. It does not consider the value of the asset and the impact of perceived threats on the value.






18. The MOST useful way to describe the objectives in the information security strategy is through ______________________.

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19. Determined by the business risk - i.e. - the potential impact on the business of the loss - corruption or disclosure of information. It must be applied to information in all forms - both electronic and physical (paper) - and should be applied by the






20. Will associate data access with the role performed by an individual - thus restricting access to data required to perform the individual's tasks.






21. To improve the security governance framework and achieve a higher level of maturity _____________________ is most important.






22. All within the responsibility of the information security manager.






23. The security manager would be most concerned with whether _____________________ than the cost of adding additional controls.






24. When mobile equipment is lost or stolen - the ______________________ matters most in determining the impact of the loss.






25. Should be a standard requirement for the service provider.






26. The most relevant piece of information to include in a cost-benefit analysis of a two-factor authentication system - it would establish a cost baseline and it must be considered for the full life cycle of the control. .






27. Using public key infrastructure (PKI) is currently accepted as the most secure method to _____________.






28. If the firewall allows source routing - any outsider can carry out _________________ by stealing the internal (private) IP addresses of the organization.






29. Warranted in circumstances where compliance may be difficult or impossible and the risk of noncompliance is outweighed by the benefits.






30. Provides strong online authentication.






31. In biometric systems where the possibility of false rejects is a problem - it may be necessary to reduce sensitivity and thereby increase the number of false accepts.






32. Someone who accesses a computer or network illegally






33. May show the performance result of the security related activities; however - the result is interpreted in terms of money and extends to multiple facets of security initiatives.






34. An organization without any formal information security program should start with _______________________ because the implementation should be based on those security requirements.






35. Provide minimum recommended settings and do not prevent introduction of control weaknesses.'






36. Should be determined from the risk assessment results.






37. Reducing risk to a level too small to measure is _______________.






38. When considering the value of assets ______________________ would give the information security manager the MOST objective basis for measurement of value delivery in information security governance






39. Risk assessment is a very important process for the ___________________. Risk assessment provides information on the likelihood of occurrence of security incidence and assists in the selection of countermeasures - but not in the prioritization.






40. Logging as well as monitoring - measuring - auditing - detecting viruses and intrusion.






41. Focuses on identifying vulnerabilities.






42. Occurs when the electrical supply drops






43. Requires a process to verify that the control process worked as intended. Examples such as dual-control or dual-entry bookkeeping provide verification and assurance that the process operated as intended.






44. Senior management commitment and support for information security can BEST be obtained through presentations that ____________________.






45. Will prevent unauthorized access to the laptop even when the laptop is lost or stolen.






46. By definition are not previously known and therefore are undetectable.






47. The job of the information security officer on a management team is to ___________________.






48. The BEST way to justify the implementation of a _____________________ is to use a business case. Return on investment (ROI) would only provide the costs needed to preclude specific risks - and would not provide other indirect benefits such as process






49. A method for analyzing and reducing a relational database to its most streamlined form






50. Someone who uses email as a vehicle for extortion; send company threatening emails indicating they will expose confidential information - exploit security launch - etc.