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Comptia Security +: Assessment And Risk Mgmt
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. CobiT
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology
planning horizon
integrity
security officer
2. Plan and Organize - Implement - Operate and Maintain - Monitor and Evaluate
security program
penetration
CISO
qualitative
3. The following tools (Nessus - Qualys - Retina) are ______________ scanners
SP 800-30
vulnerability
security program
fault tree analysis
4. Percentage of an asset's value that would be lost in a single incident - (EF)
integrity
administrative
L0phtCrack
exposure factor
5. Process of ID and assessing risk - reducing to acceptable level - implementing mechanisms to maintain.
firewall
IRM
ISO/IEC 27005
security officer
6. Security policy - map business objectives to security - Security infrastructure - security officer - reviews - Assest classification/control - inventory - Personnel security - screening - training - roles - Physical security - Communication/operation
usage
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
ISO 17799
vulnerability
7. Focus on service level agreements between IT dept and internal customers
usage
ISO/IEC 27004
confidentiality
ITIL
8. ____________ can discover network devices / application - check password strength - measure internal / external access - analyze vulnerabilities in NOS - test response to DOS attacks
protocol analyzer
administrative
ISO/IEC 27799
network mapping
9. Type of audit that checks that accounts - groups and roles are correctly assigned
risk
chief information security officer
privilege
security program
10. Made up of ten domains - a mechanism to describe security processes
usage
qualitative
ISO 17799
FMEA
11. Type of audit that checks that network resources - systems and software are used appropriately
countermeasure
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
usage
COSO
12. OCTAVE
IRM
tactical
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
performance monitor
13. __________ loss has a negative effect after a vulnerability is initially exploited
delayed
john the ripper
exposure factor
planning horizon
14. Controls that include policies - standards - procedures -risk management - personnel screening - training - change control
ISO/IEC 27001
FMEA
administrative
risk mitigation
15. This tool scans network devices listening for open ports - (i.e. Nmap - scanmetender - superscan - NHS nohack scanner)
OVAL
privilege
port scanner
firewall
16. Physical damage - human interaction - equip malfunction - misuse of data - loss of data - application error
corporate security officer
tactical
risk catagories
security governanace
17. Port scanners - vulnerability scanners - protocol analyzers - password crackers - network mappers - open vulnerability and assessment language (OVAL) are all tool used in a ___________________ assessment
No events - Errors only - Errors and warnings - All events
blueprints
corporate security officer
vulnerability
18. A weakness (software - hardware - procedural - human) that can be exploited
vulnerability
risk catagories
CISO
No events - Errors only - Errors and warnings - All events
19. Risk mgmt method created by Carnegie Mellon University - people manage/direct the risk evaluation for IT security in a company
OCTAVE
CobiT
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
performance baseline
20. Type of audit that checks information classification and change control procedures
elcomsoft
administrative
BS7799
planning horizon
21. De facto standard of best practices for IT service mgmt
ITIL
ISO/IEC 27002
vulnerability
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
22. Legal term used to determine liability - acting responsibly - have lower risk of liability due to security breach
due care
single loss expectancy
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
privilege
23. A tool that monitors network traffic - shows data and protocols in use - also known as a packet sniffer (i.e wireshark - TCPDump - Microsoft Network Monitor - Carnivore)
risk mitigation
annualized rate of occurrence
vulnerability
protocol analyzer
24. An open language from mitre.org for determining vulnerabilities and problems on computer systems
qualitative
integrity
tactical
OVAL
25. A commercial password cracker that can test password strength and recover passwords; and perform dictionary and brute force attacks
ISO 17799
elcomsoft
tactical
performance baseline
26. A tool that maps weaknesses of systems / networks by scanning for ports - checking for applications - determining OS and patch level - and attempting exploits
FMEA
vulnerability
risk mitigation
vulnerability scanner
27. Type of audit that checks procedures and policies for escalating issues to management
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
escalation
port scanner
blueprints
28. Event levels available for logging in a MS DNS server
due care
No events - Errors only - Errors and warnings - All events
confidentiality
john the ripper
29. IT governance at the operational level
risk anlysis
ITIL
CobiT
planning horizon
30. Guide to illustrate how to protect personal health information
FMEA
administrative
vulnerability
ISO/IEC 27799
31. A process to ID assests and their value - ID vulnerabilities and threats - quantify probability and impact of threats - provide balance between impact and cost
risk anlysis
CobiT
single loss expectancy
ITIL
32. Risk mgmt method with much broader focus than IT security
risk catagories
ISO 17799
COSO
AS/NZS 4360
33. IRM
Information risk management
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
risk
mappers
34. Developed by the Treadway Commission in 1985 to deal with fraudulent financial activities and reporting
COSO
security officer
firewall
CobiT
35. Ensures managment security directives are fulfilled
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
performance baseline
ISO/IEC 27002
security officer
36. A method of ID vulnerabililties and threats and assessing possible impacts to determine where to implement security safeguards
risk analysis
elcomsoft
vulnerability scanner
data owner
37. Collection of controls an organization must have in place
CobiT
security program
risk catagories
due care
38. Provides good practice advice on ISMS (ISO 17799)(based on BS7799 Part 1)
penetration
usage
ISO/IEC 27002
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
39. Information security managment measurements
ISO/IEC 27004
single loss expectancy
FRAP
chief information security officer
40. Daily goals focused on productivity and task-oriented activities
L0phtCrack
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
operational
security governanace
41. Number of time the incident might occur annually - (ARO)
annualized rate of occurrence
port scanner
elcomsoft
FRAP
42. Used in assurance risk mgmt - methodical way to ID major failure modes (not useful for complex failure modes)
FMEA
COSO
ISO 17799
due care
43. Mitigates a potential risk
exposure factor
risk mitigation
countermeasure
performance monitor
44. Corporate governance at the strategic level
OCTAVE
COSO
CobiT
ISO/IEC 27002
45. Controls that manage facility access - locking systems - media sanitation - intrusion monitoring - environmental
physical
security program
risk analysis
CISO
46. Used to ID failures in a complex systems to understand underlying causes of threats
fault tree analysis
vulnerability
AS/NZS 4360
OVAL
47. Risk assessment that is scenario based - ranks threats and countermeasures - uses experience - judgment - intuition and opinion
SP 800-30
COSO
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
qualitative
48. Method of ID functions and their failures - causes of failures their effect - originally designed for systems engineering
FMEA
annualized loss expectancy
escalation
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
49. SLE x ARO - (ALE)
L0phtCrack
FRAP
FMEA
annualized loss expectancy
50. An password cracker that uses dictionary and brute force attacks - rainbow tables - can test password strength and recover passwords - was originally free - but now a commercial product
risk
OVAL
L0phtCrack
ISO/IEC 27799