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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

Instructions:
  • 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. To identify known vulnerabilities based on common misconfigurations and missing updates.






2. Ensure that transmitted information can be attributed to the named sender.






3. The _____________________ should be the person with the decision-making power in the department deriving the most benefit from the asset.






4. Residual risk is unmanaged - i.e. - inherent risk which remains uncontrolled. This is key to the organization's _____________ and is the amount of residual risk that a business is living with that affects its viability.






5. Someone who uses the internet or network to destroy or damage computers for political reasons






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






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






8. Culture has a significant impact on how information security will be implemented in a ______________________.






9. Potentially damaging computer program that affects - or infects a computer negatively by altering the way the computer works






10. 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






11. provides the most effective protection of data on mobile devices.






12. Provides an additional security mechanism over and above that provided by passwords alone. This is frequently used by mobile users needing to establish connectivity to a corporate network.






13. Program that copies itself repeatedly - using up resources and possibly shutting down the computer or network






14. Same intent as a cracker but does not have the technical skills and knowledge






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






16. Company or person you believe will not send a virus-infect file knowingly






17. An effective tool but primarily focuses on malicious code from external sources - and only for those applications that are online.






18. Ultimately responsible for all that happens in the organization. The others are not individually liable for failures of security in the organization.






19. The most fundamental evaluation criteria for the appropriate selection of any security technology is ________________________.






20. Ensures that there are no scalability problems.






21. Provide metrics to which outsourcing firms can be held accountable.






22. A Successful risk management should lead to a ________________.






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






24. While useful for identifying the difference between the current state and the desired future state - e.g. organization has to comply with recently published industry regulatory requirements compliance that potentially has high implementation costs -






25. Change management controls the _____________________. This is often the point at which a weakness will be introduced.






26. Provides process needs but not impact.






27. Should be determined from the risk assessment results.






28. Program that hides within or looks like a legit program






29. The MAIN reason why _______________ is important to a successful information security program is because classification determines the appropriate level of protection to the asset.






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






31. Information security governance models are highly dependent on the _____________________.






32. Allows you to use field security personnel as security missionaries or ambassadors to spread the security awareness message. It allows security administrators to be more responsive.






33. Primarily reduce risk and are most effective for the protection of information assets.






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






35. Provides strong online authentication.






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






37. Would reduce the possibility of an individual accidentally pressing the power button on a device - thereby turning off the device.






38. Occurs when the electrical supply drops






39. BEST option to improve accountability for a system administrator is to _____________________.






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






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






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






43. Most effective in providing reasonable assurance of physical access compliance to an unmanned server room controlled with biometric devices.






44. Attackers who exploit flawed ___________________________________ can sniff network traffic and crack keys to gain unauthorized access to information.






45. __________________________ is of utmost importance. Understanding business objectives is critical in determining the security needs of the organization.






46. 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






47. Involves the correction of software weaknesses and would necessarily follow change management procedures.






48. Only valid if assets have first been identified and appropriately valued.






49. 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






50. The risk that has been assumed by a third party and may not necessarily be equal to the minimal form of residual risk.