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CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional
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1. Outputs within a given function are the same result
Business Impact Analysis
Metadata
DR Or BC Coordinator
Collisions
2. Another subject cannot see an ongoing or pending update until it is complete
Hearsay Evidence
Isolation
TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)
Content Dependent Access Control
3. The managerial approval to operate a system based upon knowledge of risk to operate
Accreditation
Control Type
Digital Signature
Access Control Matrix
4. Pertaining to law - lending it self to one side of an argument
Convincing
Keyed-Hashing For Message Authentication
Deletion
Quantitative Risk Analysis
5. Total number of keys available that may be selected by the user of a cryptosystem
Education
Tapping
War Driving
Key Space
6. Attempts to assign real and meaningful numbers to all elements of the risk analysis process.
EMI
Locard's Principle
Secondary Storage
Quantitative Risk Analysis
7. Responsibility of a user for the actions taken by their account which requires unique identification
Denial Of Service
Orange Book B2 Classification
Ring Protection
Accountability
8. Process of planning for and/or implementing procedures for the repair or relocation of the primary site and its contents - and for the restoration of normal operations at the primary site.
Control Type
Redundant Array Of Independent Drives (RAID)
Restoration
Authentic
9. May render the data inaccessible to the application intended to be used in processing the file - but may not actually remove the data
Byte Level Deletion
Event
Embedded
Critical Infrastructure
10. A back up type - where the organization has excess capacity in another location.
Distributed Processing
Dictionary Attack
Hot Site
Full-Interruption test
11. The process of logging changes or updates to a database since the last full backup. Journals can be used to recover previous versions of a file before updates were made - or to facilitate disaster recovery.
Journaling
Initialization Vector
Authorization
Identification
12. Prolonged loss of commercial power
Cryptology
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Blackout
Tactical
13. Individuals and departments responsible for the storage and safeguarding of computerized data.
Cookie
Simulation Test
Data Custodian
Service Bureau
14. Final purpose or result
Business Recovery Team
Payload
Digital Signature
Interference (Noise)
15. The time period between a disaster and a return to normal functions - during which the disaster recovery plan is employed.
Structured Walkthrough
Spam
Deterrent
Recovery Period
16. An access policy that uses a security label system. Users have clearances - and resources have security labels that contain data classifications. MAC compares these two attributes to determine access control capabilies - most commonly used in governm
Mandatory Access Control (MAC)
Isolation
Security Clearance
Faraday Cage/ Shield
17. Copies of the plan are handed out to each functional area to ensure the plan properly deals with the area's needs and vulnerabilities
Key Escrow
Checklist Test
Prevention
Residual Risk
18. A Denial of Service attack that floods the target system with connection requests that are not finalized.
SYN Flooding
Parallel Test
Primary Storage
Durability
19. Notification that a potential disaster situation exists or has occurred; direction for recipient to stand by for possible activation of disaster recovery plan.
Mandatory Vacations
Near Site
Discretionary Access Control (DAC)
Alert
20. Controls deployed to avert unauthorized and/or undesired actions.
Prevention
Collisions
Relocation
Interception
21. The past internationally accepted set of standards and processes for information security products evaluation and assurance - which separates function and assurance requirements
Non-Repudiation
ITSEC
Orange Book D Classification
Firewall
22. A system that enforces an access control policy between two networks.
Cross-Site Scripting
5 Rules Of Evidence
Firewalls
Digital Certificate
23. Of a system without prior knowledge by the tester or the tested
Double Blind Testing
ITSEC
Brute Force
Worm
24. Vehicle or tool that exploits a weakness
Legacy Data
Archival Data
Threats
Emergency Procedures
25. Trading one for another
Relocation
File Extension
Sharing
Substitution
26. Layer 1 network device that is used to connect network segments together - but provides no traffic control (a concentrator).
Steganography
Hub
Threats
Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
27. Subject based description of a system or a collection of resources
Investigation
Capability Tables
Radio Frequency Interference (RFI)
Routers
28. A copy of transaction data - designed for querying and reporting
Data Warehouse
Mobile Recovery
Memory Management
Worm
29. A process state - to be either be unable to run waiting for an external event or terminated
Stopped
Restoration
ITSEC
Honeynet
30. An internal list of contact information used for the communication of incident information - designed in a distributed manor so that no one person is responsible for contacting everyone.
Call Tree
Directive
Virus
Tracking
31. Protection of stored or displayed information by removal/reduction of the magnetic field (demagnetization).
Degauss
Embedded
Full Test (Full Interruption)
Trojan Horse
32. Memory management technique which allows data to be moved from one memory address to another
Forward Recovery
Relocation
Encipher
Checklist Test (desk check)
33. Someone who want to know how something works - typically by taking it apart
Hacker
Time Of Check/Time Of Use
Information Risk Management (IRM)
Checklist Test
34. A group of hard drives working as one storage unit for the purpose of speed and fault tolerance
Shift Cipher (Caesar)
Redundant Array Of Independent Drives (RAID)
Countermeasure
3 Types of harm Addressed in computer crime laws
35. To be admissible in court they have to be made and collected in the normal course of business - not specially generated for a case in court. They can easily be considered hearsay if no firsthand proof of their accuracy and reliability exists
Encipher
Business Records
Authorization
Convincing
36. Renders the file inaccessible to the operating system - available to reuse for data storage.
Coaxial Cable
Embedded Systems
Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
File Level Deletion
37. Process of statistically testing a data set for the likelihood of relevant information.
Threats
Concentrator
Simulation Test
Sampling
38. Pertaining to law - verified as real
Cryptology
Disaster Recovery Plan
On-Site
Authentic
39. A layer 2 device that used to connect two or more network segments and regulate traffic.
Switches
Directive
Access Point
Security Blueprint
40. High degree of visual control
Database Shadowing
Mobile Site
CobiT
Surveillance
41. Regular operations are stopped and where processing is moved to the alternate site.
Information Owner
Full-Interruption test
SYN Flooding
Shadowing (file shadowing)
42. The core of a computer that calculates
Central Processing Unit (CPU)
Infrastructure
Atomicity
ISO/IEC 27002
43. The problems solving state - the opposite of supervisor mode
Mobile Site
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Burn
User Mode (problem or program state)
44. Methodical research of an incident with the purpose of finding the root cause
Due Diligence
Data Leakage
Data Backup Strategies
Investigation
45. A collection of information designed to reduce duplication and increase integrity
UPS
Embedded
Covert Channel
Databases
46. Amount of time for restoring a business process or function to normal operations without major loss
Patent
Pointer
Legacy Data
Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD)
47. What is will remain - persistence
Durability
Containment
Event
File Server
48. A one way - directed graph which indicates confidentiality or integrity flow
Business Impact Analysis
Technical Access Controls
Architecture
Lattice
49. Electronically forwarding backup data to an offsite server or storage facility. Vaulting eliminates the need for tape shipment and therefore significantly shortens the time required to move the data offsite.
Class
Method
System Downtime
Electronic Vaulting
50. A layer 3 device that used to connect two or more network segments and regulate traffic.
Activation
Virtual Memory
Routers
Consistency
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