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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. Focuses on identifying vulnerabilities.






2. Responsible for securing the information.






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






4. Should PRIMARILY be based on regulatory and legal requirements.






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






6. Lists only the threats that the information asset is exposed to. It does not consider the value of the asset and impact of the threat on the value.






7. A trusted third party that attests to the identity of the signatory - and reliance will be a function of the level of trust afforded the CA.






8. Used to understand the flow of one process into another.






9. Carries out the technical administration.






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






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






12. btaining senior management support for establishing a warm site can BEST be accomplished by ____________________ - including a cost-benefit analysis - will be most persuasive to management. A risk assessment may be included in the business case - but






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






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






15. It is important to achieve ____________________ - and obtain inputs from various organizational entities since security needs to be aligned to the needs of the organization.






16. The best measure for preventing the unauthorized disclosure of confidential information.






17. n a _________________________ - the annual cost of safeguards is compared with the expected cost of loss. This can then be used to justify a specific control measure.






18. When reporting an incident to senior management - the initial information to be communicated should include an explanation of _____________________ A summary of security logs would be too technical to report to senior management. An analysis of the i






19. Needs to define the access rules - which is troublesome and error prone in large organizations.






20. Can be a standalone driver for an information security governance measure. No further analysis nor justification is required since the entity has no choice in the regulatory requirements.






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






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






23. Whenever personal data are transferred across national boundaries; ________________________ are required.






24. 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.






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






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






27. 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






28. Adherence to local regulations must always be the priority. _______________________ is the most effective compromise in this situation.






29. Attackers who exploit weak application authentication controls can ___________________ and this has little to do with cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.






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






31. Applications cannot access data associated with other apps






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






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






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






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






36. 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.






37. When defining the information classification policy - the ___________________ need to be identified.






38. Information security architecture should always be _______________________. Alignment with IT plans or industry and security best practices is secondary by comparison.






39. A repository of historical data organized by subject to support decision makers in the org






40. Occurs after the risk assessment process - it does not measure it.






41. It is more efficient to establish a ___________________for locations that must meet specific requirements.






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






43. A process that helps organizations manipulate important knowledge that is part of the orgs. memory






44. The MOST important element of the request for proposal (RFP) ro assess the maturity level of the organization's information security management is _______________________.






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






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






47. Uses security metrics to measure the performance of the information security program.






48. 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.






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






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